Red-breasted Goose is considered uzkoarealnym views.At the present moment the number of stable, although the form remains in a fairly serious condition as a place for nesting and molting actively explore people.
Bird in appearance - a small goose with a very bright plumage.And if you're wondering how to draw a red-breasted goose, you need to know that the top of the head, neck, forehead and back, tail, belly and wings her black.
head on the sides of a large rusty spots with white contour shade.Field crop and the front of the neck red.Legs black, and the beak of a goose is relatively small.
Distribution
Out of nesting of this species - the Altai Territory.Migrating geese fly along the Lower Ob and Yenisei from the lips to the mouth of the Taimyr district.Irtysh.Reported way along the Tobol.In autumn last goose is often seen as the Baraba reservoirs (in this article, you can see their pictures).Red-breasted Goose sometimes appears in the Altai region, it can be regarded as Vagrants birds departed from its main course of the transit route.These rare Vagrants sometimes occur in migration autumn.
The most common red-breasted goose found on Lake Kulundinskoye.At this point, it was observed three times in September.In the floodplain.Obi data geese hunted in Pavlovsky District in 1961 also marked their presence in the area of the Peter and Paul;Nizhneozerskoe the village on Lake Steppe, which is located in Ust-Pristanskaya;in the lower reaches of the river.Charysh.This goose p.Aley marked Aleisk and Rubtsovsky areas;view top Alley meets periodically in Gilevskom reserve in the autumn.Red-breasted Goose, the stories of hunters, is also Romanovsky district lakes bitter, bitter-Peresheechnoe and the Big Island.
In addition, the bird was recorded in the Swan Reserve in 1993, on Gilevskom Reservoir in 1997, where the notice in October, a flock of 20 birds;the spring of 1997 was met by a single individual in the mouth Chumysh, as well as the flooded meadow near the village Akutiha.Single rare specimens are fixed in Mamontovskoye and Khabarsky District;Steppe on the lake in August 2003, held two individuals;Novichikha near the village in 2003 was observed in the swamp Akininskom 6 red-breasted geese.Rarely noted are in the autumn and spring lakes Lyapuniha and Belenky in Uglovsky area.
Habitats (photo)
Red-breasted Goose nests on the forest-tundra to the turn of the typical tundra, with the most favorable nesting areas of birds associated with the tundra and scrub - there they are placed on ledges or on the edge of steep slopes along the banks of rivers and lakes.During migration kept near water.
number
As mentioned above, the recent positive dynamics of the overall population status of the species.In the Altai region often fly single, mostly with geese in flocks of other species.Sometimes the observed group of 25 individuals or less, although there are swarms of much more numerous.For example, in Lake Kulundinskoye in 1986, was held to 50 individuals, and in 1985 and 1989.- About a hundred.
Features biology
Birds to their places of nesting arrive in the first half of June, already established couples.In the same month in the last week beginning to actively lay eggs.Mostly nest in small colonies of more than 5 pairs, sometimes - in separate pairs.At the age of three comes puberty.Every year in nesting involved no more than 38% of the total population, while in bad years - only 4%.In a normal, full stack can be up to 7 eggs, their female incubates for 27 days, then hatch into chicks, heartwarming pictured.
Red-breasted Goose exclusively herbivorous.Until 1968, the main wintering sites in southern Caspian region were considered, at the moment - a lake in the western part of the Black Sea and the lower reaches of the Danube River.
regularly bred in 1960 in Slimbridge, the International Centre for waterfowl.It also bred in the zoo Walsrode, as well as various private aviary in Europe.Progeny obtained in the Moscow zoo.
security measures
to red-breasted goose does not degenerate, made strict control over the full observance of environmental legislation, in addition, education of the public, including hunters.
