Siskin - bird forest.It's funny how the establishment was chosen by plain pine forests and mountains.You can meet them in the central, northern and eastern parts of Europe, in the East Siberia and in Asia Minor.
Appearance
Male painted in yellow-green color with a dark back, having some mottled brown and lighter breast.Wings - black and green with yellow transverse stripes.On his head emblazoned "cap" in black and dark "beard".The female is not a "cap", it is all gray-green color with brighter spots.Interestingly, young siskin (photo male - in the article) is very similar to the female.These birds are very sharp and strong beak, which they opened with no problems with alder cones and sharp claws help them to stay even on the thinnest branches and extract the seeds, head bowed.
Air "acrobats"
Siskin - bird sociable and extremely mobile.They fly very fast and undulating.They can overcome a huge area at high altitudes.Sometimes hear the canary is much easier than to see.While in flight, they are constantly "were talking" to each other.From this it appears that a swarm of finches incessantly "buzzing".
Rookery
As we said above, siskin - only forest bird.Main place of habitation - it's mixed forests, very rare - deciduous.If you want to find a nest of these birds, you have pretty sweat, because it will be very difficult to do.During nesting siskins behave very carefully.The female chooses the highest place for self-construction of the nest, carefully masking his.The exterior is delicate, intertwined branches.At the same time they must be in a layer of cobwebs and insect cocoons, dry grass and rootlets lichens.Inside the female it quite softly lined with grass, feathers and fur.Sometimes the male is still helping her do nest, bringing the "Materials".After all, but still help!Progeny
spring bird siskin gives his first offspring!Feeding "infants" are involved in both the female and male.After a couple of weeks chizhata young begin to fly in different neighborhoods.When will the second-nest (June-July), has grown up between the siskins and still quite young form mixed flocks, which are sent to roam together. Wintering
Siskin - migratory bird.For example, the Scandinavian winter birds fly south.They can stay in the central part of Europe, and can fly to the Mediterranean.Chizhi who live in mountainous areas, go down into the valley, lingering in places where growing birch and alder.The seeds of these trees is the main food of birds at this time of year.With the onset of March piggy back to his homeland.Interestingly, the courtship begins before the flight - in February.During this period, the males sing in fascinating and trembling flying around the female, and some of them even write out circles with her tail.These birds just love to swim.It happens that in the winter they are so much vymoknut that can not even fly.And: siskins - it songbirds.
