Common Whitethroat: description, habitat, reproduction and content in the home.

One of the largest families of song-birds are considered a Warbler. These birds prefer to build their nests in dense thickets of grass and shrubs. Mainly inhabit the forest-steppe and steppe zones. To the family of warblers also include reed warblers, mockingbirds, and warblers.

For wintering birds fly away to warmer climes and return home in late spring. In Russia found a large number of members of this family. But the most melodious among them is the grey Warbler. Also it is affectionately called by govoruchina, as the bird sings a short song resembling the dialect.

Description

Birds of the family of warblers are small in size. Their body length is around 14-20, see the smallest of them is gray Warbler that let us consider:

• Bird has a bright color that allows it to camouflage in dense thickets.
• The Back and tail of males is brown, but the plumage of the head is ash-gray. The thorax and abdomen are whitish in color. The wing feathers visible red stripes with a light pink tint. The outer tail feathers have white markings.
• Color females less remarkable. Head brown, rest of plumage gray.
• Gray Warbler found in the Western regions of the Eurasian continent. One subspecies lives on the Crimean Peninsula and the Caucasus.
• For wintering birds leave to Africa.

The Mating season and nesting

On returning from the wintering warblers, the mating season begins. To the nesting grounds, males arrive before females. The preparation for this important procedure includes the hymn of the partner. The trill of the male in this time you can hear from morning until evening - so he attracts a female. Among all members of the family one unique feature is exactly gray Warbler-singing birds did not stop even during the flight. The trill contains short verses and bright, expressive finish.

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Construction of the nest begins as soon as the shrubs foliage appears. For this purpose, the dried leaves and stems of cereals. Engaged in the construction of both partners. Gray Warbler, unlike its relatives, Viet deeper nests, placing them at a height of 20-50 cm above the ground. Sometimes you can find a bird house that is covered with spider webs and cocoons of various insects.

The Offspring

For one season, the bird has time to make 2 eggs. The first comes at the end of spring (may). The clutch can be from two to four eggs. The second falls on June-July month. Cuckoo very often throw their eggs in the nests of warblers, and they, in turn, raise someone else's offspring. The period of hatching is 11 days. The eggs of birds have a whitish color, with numerous spots of purplish-grey and yellow-brown hue.

After hatching, the parents take care of their offspring for 10-12 days. Uperevshis, babies begin to fly from the nest in search of food. At this time parents finish feeding the Chicks throughout the week. From September to November is the migratory period. Birds depart on the South, in the tropical regions of Africa. After wintering, which ends in April, they fly to their homes.

What is a bird?

Gray Warbler has a varied diet. It includes:

• Cicadas;
• Different types of bugs;
• Flies of small size;
• Butterflies and caterpillars;
• Spider;
• Locust;
• Bugs;
• Hymenoptera insects;
• Berries and juicy fruits.

Small Chicks parents feed soft food: larvae, caterpillars.

Celebrities at home

Gray Warbler-a bird of small size. Therefore, it can be found among Pets. What you need to know about in captivity?

1. Warbler refers to the peace-loving birds, so it is unacceptable to keep her in a cage with birds.
2. For home maintenance use cells rectangular or special enclosures.
3. The First time the bird is difficult to adapt to new conditions. She is very timid and may run around the cage. It is therefore recommended that some time to cover a new dwelling warblers translucent matter.
4. As soon As the bird will get used to the new conditions of life, you can hear her songs.
5. The Cell content warblers should be spacious and equipped with perches, drinker, feeder, bath. If the bird lived in a cage, you can plant plants in it. They Slavka tools nest for hatching.
6. Feed the pet need live food. Suitable larvae and caterpillars of various insects, worms that live in flour, the eggs of ants and other small insects. Particularly hard to feed birds during the nesting.
7. Useful to add in the diet of barred warblers products such as cereal mixtures, currants, raspberries, elderberries and blueberries. The birds also like the grated carrots.
8. Regularly, 1 time a month, do I have to disinfect in the home pet. Very carefully this procedure should be carried out during the nesting season, otherwise, frightened, the birdable to destroy the walls.
9. You Must comply with temperature (18-20 degrees), as birds are very thermophilic.
10. It is Unacceptable to put the cage on the drafts, it may harm the health of your pet.

Warblers easy to care for and get along well with people.