Common Redstart - a bird beautiful and useful

Common Redstart-a bird belonging to the family Drozdov, the suborder of songbirds, passerine. Similar in size to a Sparrow: length of the body – total 16 cm, wing-about 8 cm, weight – less than 20 g. Females and males differ in color. In males, back grey, belly rufous, tail "burning fire" (hence the name) often shudders.Emblazoned On his forehead a white spot, sides of neck and throat painted black. The female is less bright in the gray-brown colors, but the tail is also red.

Bird-Redstart inhabits almost all deciduous and mixed forests and parks. Prefers to stay on the lower parts of trees, bushes and even on the ground. Often nests close to human. Sing trills loudly.

Males from wintering on the African continent return before females. They immediately look for a place for nesting-hollow, cave or a pile of fallen trees. Jump around found places, not fly away, because it can take people. Sometimes I would sit in the hollow and will post the tail like a sign: “A decent home, and with it – a stylish groom!”.

A Female stumbles upon a “ad”, flies to the hollow, and soon there are 6-7 testes blue. Chicks will appear in two weeks. Mainly the female incubates. The male follows her and sits rarely enough. Most of the time of day, he sings, “marriage” he sang. Stops at midnight, sleep 3-4 hours, then gives a tremulous trill, often flying up to the top of the tree.

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When there are Chicks singing has neither the time nor the energy. Times for 500 a day arrives common Redstart (male and female) to their nest to feed offspring. So it goes on for two weeks, until the nestlings out of the nest. But parents does not become easier: you have to feed exactly the same to follow the restless offspring. Caring parent – Redstart. The photo in the article shows the process of feeding almost adult kids. This period lasts for another week, as youth flies are still bad.

When the Chicks grow up, become independent, parents can take a rest. But after some time in the nest of new eggs. And then begins the hatching and feeding of the second generation for the season. A brood roam alone in the woods.

With the onset of autumn, common Redstart begins to prepare for departure to warmer climes. Feathers in birds appear muted tones, it becomes more dull, losing brightness. They fly away in late September and always at night. In October birds reach Africa, where they spend the winter. The wintering grounds are leaving in March, flying quite fast in a month reach their nesting.

The Redstart common in summer destroys many beetles-click beetles, mosquitoes, caterpillars, ants, various beetles, bugs, dung beetles, flies, spiders and other pests and their larvae. She has a huge benefit forests and parks. In late summer, you may eat berries and seeds of plants.

People often catches Redstarts in the spring, alluring in different ways. Caught instances of tie wings so they fought in the cage the first time. With good care and proper aft the bird survives, and it may be a few years to live in captivity. However, to hear her melodious songs can be extremely rare.