Fieldfare Thrush - Bird, referring to passerine, family Drozdov, old space invaders.Biological group - harmful birds.
Females and males have the same color, in which there are white, black, gray-blue and reddish hues.The body length of 25-28 cm, wing length of 15 cm, weight about 100 g Here's a he, Fieldfare Thrush.Photo shows it well.
prefers to dwell on the edges of deciduous and coniferous forests, near the floodplain forest, in city parks, gardens and home gardens.Distributed virtually everywhere.Most of all nepuglivy thrush.
omnivorous bird.In spring and summer it eats mainly insects, worms, snails, winter and fall - berries, fruits, seeds.Feed can both trees, and the ground.
Particular preference in winter thrushes give the mountain ash.Not for nothing did they call it that.With abundant harvest birds can stay long in one place until eaten all the berries.Thrush Fieldfare - the main distributor of the seeds of these plants.Having been in the intestinal tract of poultry, seeds do not lose germination.
flock of flying up to Ryabinovoye tree is dispersed through it.Tearing and swallowing berries, birds are relatively evenly clean the fruit of the tree.Some fruits fall to the ground, and they are not too lazy to go down to pick uronennoe.Then the snow (if it is) well seen their tracks.By the way, Fieldfare biggest of all traces of thrush.
Thrush Fieldfare - migratory bird, nomadic, Stein.Nests colonies, which can be up to 30 pairs.Nests - deep strong cup retinue of thin twigs, grass and clay soil laid down.They are built in forks of branches of thick trees and bushes at different heights.
Sometimes colony ruined crows, jays, magpies.But Fieldfare not idle, they protect their nests, "firing" enemies droppings.This is a serious weapon, as the pollution becomes so strong that the birds with feathers glued to fly can not.People who are in a colony, too, can get.
During the summer, the female lays eggs twice.The clutch is from 4 to 7 eggs interesting coloring - greenish with brown patches.The protection of the nest and the female takes the male.Chicks feed together.The chicks spend the first 12-14 days in the nest, and then depart from it, but for an independent life completely unprepared.Parents continue to care for them, feed, teach flying.
Youngsters get in packs and roam, looking for a place to feed.Later they join the ranks of second broods.By the fall formed large flocks, which include both young and adult birds.
Fieldfare Thrush can damage berry plants, garden strawberries as well.Some part of the berries they eat, but a much larger number be afoot.Disable currants, blueberries, gooseberries, raspberries, sea buckthorn, juniper, cranberry, cranberries, red elder, cherries, pears, apples.Great harm these birds cause nurseries engaged in cultivation of high-value and new varieties of fruit and berry crops.In some states permitted even shoot blackbirds in a certain period of the year.
Singing thrush unpleasant crackling, pulsating.Because of these bird sounds suitable for keeping at home.
