Insectivorous birds: the names

These winged assistants during feeding their Chicks destroy a great many insects. Perhaps that is why birds are insectivorous deservedly considered beneficial to man. While, for example, the same starlings cause during their autumn migration damage to vineyards and stone fruit trees.

Birds insectivorous

From the name itself it is clear what, or rather – who feed on these animals. Insectivorous birds consume insect pests, including beetles and moths, weevils and moths, beetles and butterflies, aphids, bedbugs, flies and many others. Of course, that insects are their main diet (especially during the hatching and feeding of Chicks).

Birds are insectivorous. Name

In the grass on the ground and in the air collecting all sorts of pests starlings and hoopoes, thrushes and finches, corvids, sparrows and larks. Thickets consume tons of insects Robins and wrens, warblers. In the crowns of large trees – Orioles and cuckoos, kinglets, and warblers, Tits and woodpeckers. And it – is not a complete list of the insectivorous birds that live in the middle lane.

Some interesting facts

Sometimes insectivorous Birds provide mankind a huge service. And if not for the work of these winged helpers, some insect species have bred in large numbers, because we know that this is – one of the most rapidly proliferating groups of inhabitants of the planet.

• In the middle of the last century in the Scandinavian countries, Diamondback moth multiplied so that the population was about 100 million individuals per hectare. Here, the birds came to the rescue of the man and destroyed a surplus in nature.
• In the United States on the Great lakes in 1975 “fishing flies” made up of infinite numbers. They even Packed into cars and homes, their bodies littered the streets and the coast layer up to 15 centimeters. For cleaning were allocated buses. And this again helped the winged assistants.
• Sparrow, being insectivorous, at one time was almost completely (by order of the government) killed in China, as it was considered harmful devourer of crops. The field began to be swarming with caterpillars, of which there was none to destroy, and it took a considerable amount of time to restore the population to previous standards.
• Sort of control over the number of insects carried out by insectivorous winged, nature plays a huge role. So one hectare of forest (according to research conducted by the Moldavian scientists) seven pairs of insect-eating birds bred Chicks destroyed in just 90 days, about 6 000000 insect, a third of which are harmful.