Birds in the last period of the spring

Return nightjar is timed to the emergence of moths. Nightjar hunts at night. We nightjar appear at a time when the leaves unfold in lime. In the second half of May we hear on the evening zoryam repetitive trills and "cottons" male nightjar. In the woods and on the edge of deciduous forest begins distributed beautiful flute voice of a male yellow orioles. The return of this bird is confined to the time leafy crowns of trees, oriole - the last of the migratory birds. Soon after the arrival of an oriole nest on the tree, and the female sits on the eggs. The entire last period of the spring can be seen wedding turuhtanov tournaments. These shorebirds arrive to us in early May and occupy those positions which then makes the nest: the swampy shores of lakes, rivers, marshy meadows and grassy marshes. In the spring the males turuhtanov, who had put "marriage dress, are very different from females. On the sides and bottom of the neck, they grow very long feathers, forming a sort of collar. On each side of the head appear "ears", it also grows quite long feathers. "Collars" and "ears" are a variety of colors: from black to gray, from dark red to light red, one-color or speckled, striped, pestryankah. Stains are so diverse, that among the hundreds turuhtanov-males, it is hard to find at least two completely identical: that no male, then its colors "collar" and "ears". This collar can be raised and lowered at will most birds and plays an important role during fights between males. Fights are drawn from the second half of May until the end of June and have the same meaning as grouse courtship.