Martin
Swallow a small bird, with a bifurcated tail and long wings; They can often be found over gardens, gardens, parks. The chest and stomach of these birds are light, but the backs and tail are black, with a bluish tint. The adult swallow has a white lobby, but the chicks who only flew out of the nest, it is yellowish. These birds are beautiful builders, and hunt for insects in flight all day.
Singing thrush
Singing thrush is a small bird of olive-brown shade and whitish spots on the wings, which flies to us from hot edges (France, Italy, Africa) to the very beginning of spring. “Phillip, Phillip, go to drink tea!”It is heard in his cry; For this they called the thrush to the singer. The thrush settles in trees and shrubs, and feeds the berry, insects, spiders-beetles. And for the winter again flies to where it is warmer.
Lark
Lark a bird that delights us with summer songs in the meadow or edge of the forest: tender, like overflowing the bell, starting them high above the ground, in flight. The size of a sparrow, this bee of a rather modest color (most often grayish-brown), which allows you to easily disguise yourself. His song can be heard at sunrise, and even a summer short night. He flies away for the winter.
Wagtail
A wagtail is an elegant bird with a remarkable long tail half of the body, which it shakes when walking. The bird is quite bright, elegant, white-gray, with a dark cap. Usually it can be found near reservoirs, even in cities, and a wagtail prefers to eat animal food, but does not disdain the berries. Prefers to winter in warm lands.
Finch
Knight is a bird resembling the size of a familiar sparrow, but possessing a very bright appearance: a reddish breast, a brownish back, a blue-gray-white head and black and white wings. And their sonorous songs can please everyone, especially in the spring of nesting! Prefers to eat plant foods: seeds, kidneys, berries, and sometimes small insects.
Kingfisher
Wintering is a middle bird with a very remarkable appearance, which, despite the winter name, lives in the tropical conditions of Africa, Asia, Australia. Wintering prefers to nest along rivers, because he loves to eat a variety of fish. Their bright blue color with a hoarse-red abdomen and characteristic light spots behind the ears will not allow them to confuse with anyone else!
Zaryanka
A dungeon, which is also called the sweet name of Robin, really has a bright breast, forehead and cheeks of reddish color. Her song from dawn to late at night can make everyone hear, and this bird is not at all afraid of people. Winters in warm parts, but returns home one of the first. Feeds on worms and insects.
Oriole
Ivolga is a fashionable bird dressed in a bright yellow outfit, which, by belief, can predict rain. Lives in temperate latitudes, but for the winter prefers to fly to warmer edges. Loves in light forests with a high tree, and nourishes, for the most part, animal food, beetles and caterpillars, although not averse to enjoy the berries. Her spring songs are very reminiscent of a flute.
Kamyshovka
Kamyshovka is a gray small pichuga of grayish-brown color, which can be surprisingly melodically singing, not silent for a day. It feeds on small beetles, flies and other insects that are extracted from bark, leaves and kidneys. Will not refuse berries or mollusks. Loves heat very much, so he prefers to winter in warm countries and places.
Cuckoo
The cuckoo is almost the only bird that never builds nests, but costs putting eggs in strangers. The cuckoo feeds on furry caterpillars, which other birds avoid, thereby helping nature. Thanks to the possibility of adjusting, the cuckoo can put its eggs in nests of almost 200 species of birds, and then the cuckoo then pushes all rivals from the nest.
Goat
The goat is an inconspicuous bird, often living near the cattle, which is distinguished by a huge beak (supposedly it is the bird and gets goats). Although her diet is represented by beetles that are found in abundance just in livestock manure. This is a night bird with a silent swift flight that is not at all afraid of people. Cosode continues its noticeable marriage songs almost all summer.
Landrail
Korostel can be recognized by a strange crackling song in the fields, meadows, ditches from morning to sunrise, as well as in evening twilight, although it is very difficult to determine the whereabouts of a little singer. A very secretive bird, Korostel can skillfully hide in the grass, practically not taking off, successfully running in the grass and even paving the moves in it. Feeding animal food.
Oatmeal
Ovsyanka the earliest little singunia, pleasing in the spring with its singing. Tiny, with brownish plumage in winter, in the spring this bird acquires a bright lemon color with reddish and black stripes. He builds nests back in March, and with the onset of autumn leads a nomadic life, getting down into flocks and approaching human housing, and in cases of severe frosts, migrations to the south.
Foam
The foam is characterized by a pleasant beautiful color in yellow, brown or greenish tones and small size. Prefers to settle in the forests and feeds on a variety of insects. Her song sounds harmoniously in the choir of the spring forest, and the bird itself during singing can allow a person is quite close. Wintering in warm edges, and in the spring is ready to give concerts.
Lapwing
The most elegant bird of the forest, a stype with a black head and a crest, are also characterized by a remarkable flight, during which they make characteristic buzzing sound. It flies from warm edges early when there is still snow, and sets along the outskirts of swamps. Chibis’s song is known to many: “Ah, tell me whose you?””. The diet is insects and larvae.
Wintering birds
Sparrow
The sparrow on our planet is very common, and there are at least a billion individuals according to approximate estimates. Sets up almost all continents, adapted to any climate. Flock of flock, which lives saddle. Feeds on seeds, berries, without abandoning insects. These nimble and cocky birds are known to everyone, and probably everything was heard by their tweeters.
Pigeon
The pigeon is common on all continents, except the northernmost ones: these birds have almost three hundred species with one common ancestor (blue wild dove). The pigeon was domesticated 7 thousand years ago, and since then it has been living nearby. Surprisingly, the pigeon chicks are fed thereby by the same “bird’s milk”, which is obtained from the zoba of the parents (both female and male).
Bullfinch
The bullfinch is an amazing bird whose breast is very bright and noteworthy in red tones so that you can’t confuse the bullfigure with any other bird. Moreover, these bird sings well, and not only in the marriage period and not only males. It is common in taiga coniferous forests, but is found almost everywhere, in winter, approaching human housing.
Crow
Raven on city streets is one of the most common birds. A very large bird, black with a bluish metal tint, it is noticeable from afar. It feeds on vegetable and animal foods, and in cities it may even consume garbage. It is considered a very wise bird, but has a squabble and impudent character, which is not afraid to show.
Owl
The owl belongs to sedentary birds of birds, which, however, is capable of wandering if necessary. Usually nesting in pairs, and for a long time feed offspring. It feeds almost always animal food: from rodents to small birds; hunts at night, flying almost silently. The eyes are huge, and are able to see at almost 360 degrees around themselves.
Magpie
Magpie is really a whitesided bird, with a black back, head, and a very long tail that appeared, as legends say, for its talkativeness. This large bird can reach a length of up to half a meter, and feeds on a variety of food. When choosing a place of residence, it is not finished: Magpie can be found in America, and in Europe, and in Africa.
Woodpecker
The woodpecker is a very smart bird that can easily determine the whereabouts of its food under the bark of the tree by the sound of its knocking. And a long tongue helps woodpecker can cope with the extraction of larvae, and other insects. This restless drummer has a variety of coloring (after all, there are more than 220 types!), but they all seek prey precisely under the crust of trees.
Tit
The tit is distinguished by small dimensions, but a very characteristic color: a lemon yellow abdomen and white cheeks. This bird loves to sing in winter, but does not know how to run on the ground, but only jumps like a sparrow. As a rule, sedentary, but sometimes it can wander in search of the best conditions. It feeds mainly animal foods, small beetles and larvae.
Schur
Beautiful raspberry bird with gray-black wings, Schur lives in the northern hemisphere, preferring coniferous forests and taiga. Loves water procedures, so it sets down next to reservoirs. And the hooking beak glued the nickname “Finnish parrot” to the pike. Migrates upon the occurrence of colds in more comfortable conditions. Schur males have a contented melodic voice.
Waxer
Everyone heard the waxwood voice, and her song looks like a gentle game of flour, for which the bird was called. The size of the bird is average, but the color is remarkable, elegant, in pinkish-brown shades, with a fervent crest. The waxhole goes to the north with the spring, bring the chicks, and returns to us for wintering, eating rowan berries, which this beauty is very respectful.
Nuthatch
Active and friendly, crawling is often found in flocks of tits, slapping is used to crawling along trees in search of food, like a woodpecker, but is not at all afraid and approach a person. It spends most of his life on trees, but sometimes he loves to walk in tall grass, especially after rainfall. Loves to make stocks that hide in the recesses of the bark.
Crossbill
An unusual bird, a bitter in size is slightly larger than a sparrow, but has a beautiful raspberry color. Calmly climbs trees, getting to the cones and even hanging on them for convenience upside down. It feeds on cones with a perfectly bent beak. It does not fly to the south, remaining within the distribution of its preferred food, fir trees.
Jay
Bright bird, Jay won her interesting reputation thanks to a absurd and rather noisy character. Likes with indignation to comment on everything that happens, while preferring to hide in the foliage. Soyk are excellent mockingbirds who can copy the voices of other birds. It feeds on both plants and animal foods (up to eggs and chicks), being a stocking bird.
Goldfinch
Beautiful and elegant, dandy stands out against the background of the winter forest. Still: the red strip around the beak, white cheeks, a reddish-brown nape and black wings with a bright yellow strip. Handsome! Prefers a sedentary lifestyle, however, in the winter, flocks of these small birds can slightly migrate in search of food. They feed mainly chigles with seeds.
The first birds in the spring
Rook
Completely black and gloomy, the rook first appears in the fields, returning with huge flocks in the very beginning of the beginning of spring. Looks like a crow, but a little more compact and prefers the team, gathering in a pack. Most of his life spends on Earth in search of food. It feeds on animal food, and not only bugs: his diet includes rodents and even small animals like rabbits.
Starling
With the advent of spring, flocks of starlings appear, returning home from warm countries. These small mockingrs are ready to mimic everyone and everyone, repeating literally everything they hear. Small, with a black-gray opera, starlings are equipped with a curved beak for ease of food consumption, the starlings live in the hollows of trees, and sometimes they agree to the birdhouses built by people.
Nightingale
Nightingales are famous and beloved many singers, delivering incredible pleasure from the evening to sunrise. This little modest bird has long legs and huge eyes, very modestly painted: you can’t say right away that it is able to enchant her voice. A migratory bird, a nightingale flies in spring from Africa, and immediately begins to sing, although it behaves quite modestly and does not show.
Poultry
Chicken
The chicken is a representative of the most large family of poultry, which, as it is believed, descended from wild Asian chickens. There are three groups of homemade chicken depending on their economic purpose: egg, meat-vic and meat. These birds are literally omnivorous, but in the farm they are fed mainly by grain crops.
Turkey
Huge and terrible, turkeys are a thunderstorm of any house. This bright bird with a long beard (among turkeys) and a fluffy, similar to a fan with a tail attracts attention, although the turkeys do not look more modest in an example. Turkeys feed on plant foods: shoots, stems of herbs, berries and fruits, but they will not refuse insects.
Goose
Goose has been living next to man for many thousands of years, and he also feels good well in the wild in nature. These are large birds, slightly smaller than the swan, with a long neck and a high beak, a sharp voice and a squabble character. Which, however, did not prevent them from saving Rome precisely thanks to their bad mood.
Duck
The duck is a representative of the most large duck family, which has almost one and a half hundred species. Home ducks descended from Kryakwa, from which they borrowed known to everyone, almost the legendary “Krya-Krya”. The duck was domesticated many thousands of years ago, and since then many breeds of domestic birds were bred these species.
Quail
The quail is the most tiny and representatives of the chicken family with a nondescript-brown plumage, and only they are migratory. The quail moves quickly, nodding his head at every step. Able to eat both seeds and animal foods, including harmful insects. Small flocks are formed before the flight.
Pheasant
Home breeding pheasants is not a simple thing: these large brightly colored birds with an incredible tail requires a lot of attention. In the household you can find up to seven species of pheasants, each of which has its own characteristics. For a long time this bird was considered an ideal game, and now it is quite subject to wide breeding.
Guinea fowl
Caesarka is a close relative of home chickens and turkeys, whose homeland is Africa. These birds have long been great in home breeding, and they are sick much less than their relatives. Love to run quickly and sometimes fly. It has a very useful dietary meat, for which, in fact, it is bred.
