Zhelna is a bird of the family matlovich, black woodpecker. This is one of the largest representatives of their kind. The bird has a jet black color, and if not for the bright red males have the top of the head, and females – the back of the head, it was quite difficult to distinguish from the crows. The black woodpecker has a typical habit - he likes some time to accompany running through its territory of a person. However, he flies forward, and he watches, peeking out from behind the tree. In the old days, superstitious people thought that they are pursued by an evil spirit, and killed a curious bird.
Black woodpecker (photo birds you can see in the article) basically leads a single life. The exception is mating season, which starts in the woods when there is snow. Since the beginning of March the males try to attract the attention of females, they scream and knock on the trees. Throughout the forest at a great distance, you hear a guttural "frew-frew-frew” that can go in a mournful mewing cry – “ceee”.
After mating with the male beginning to settle in more remote areas of the forest. To build a nest, they hollow out in the tree hollow. Mainly on new housing works male, while half watching him from nearby branches. Nest is built on a smooth-bore high trees. Often, black woodpecker selects this fir, pine or aspen. Hollow hollows out a at a height of not less than 4 meters, it has an inlet of approximately 10x17 cm, and a depth of 40 to 60 cm For its construction may take up to 4 weeks. The birds nest is used in subsequent years, however, if it is not occupied by other inhabitants.
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The bottom of the nest is lined with nothing except the bark of trees. At the end of April the female lays 4 to 5 eggs, and after two weeks of incubation start to hatching the Chicks. In the nest they spend the first 4 weeks of his life. At this time they deal with the parents. They continue still some time to do it when the Chicks are leave the nest.
In August, the young birds have left not only the nest but also the territory of the parents. They are looking for new places or those that were left without a master. Once the Chicks have departed, the adult birds begin to avoid each other. They sleep in the hollow, but each has its own "bedroom". And when you consider that the black woodpecker considers its territory the plot of several square kilometers, disputes over food they did not have.
The basis of the diet of Jenny are insects and their larvae. Black woodpecker consumes bark beetles of timber beetles, jewel beetles, ants, larvae rockbottom and so on. In one day he can eat up to 600 larvae than of great benefit infested by insects to the plants. It often happens that the bird totally throws off the bark of a tree or, getting something especially tasty, makes in the barrel of the rectangular openings.
The Black woodpecker is a sedentary bird, in winter from your "home" doesn't it fly away and it feels just as good as in summer. Habitat most often prefers dense coniferous forests, but also found in deciduous. Zhelna widespread throughout the forest zone of Russia, it occurs in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Caucasus, and in all the forests of the European part of our country. Black woodpecker – longtime friend of the trees, it must be preserved, and today it is under protection of our state.
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