Game grouse

At first timidly, and somehow hesitantly. In the first half of March, the young have not yet speak. The longer walks spring, the capercaillie are gambling games. Midst of them coming in the second half of April. In early May, the old men fall silent. Young tokovat continue until late May about two hours before sunrise high on the tree, is heard a soft "Teke-Teke." This is some of the old open current. Still hardly brightens the north-east, but he can not wait to start playing as soon as possible. Grouse game consists of two parts. First Cock fifteen times muffled mumbles disyllabic mot: Teke-teke-teke ... He repeats these sounds faster and faster, so that, finally, they merge into a kind of continuous trill. Trill those he pulls up to a minute, then suddenly snaps and ends up being the hunters call "skirkanem" or "turning". This part can not be reproduced by any words. Most likely, it can be represented scrape of iron on iron. Few in this beautifully. But the inveterate hunter waits for it "skirkane" bated breath. In those few seconds while it lasts, it needs to catch two or three times to step closer to being enacted singer. During skirkaiya grouse can not hear even a loud noise, as if it stalls. Why deaf grouse? In the outer ear canal it has a special blade, rich in small blood vessels. In tokuyuschey birds in these vessels receive a lot of blood, and the blade swells, turns into a tumor. Current, grouse opens his mouth, and one of the skull bones presses while the tumor. She closes the auditory canal: ears grouse are like shut up. It was in those seconds grouse and hears, but sees it all the time well. Skirkanem enjoys a hunter to quietly sneak up on tokuyuschemu wood-grouse - a very sensitive and cautious bird. At this time, grouse and shoot: the case of a miss shot is not spugnet bird. While snow in the woods a lot, roosters tokuyut only on the trees. At best flies to pochertit wings in the snow. Truly tokovat they are taken with the advent of thaw holes. Begins tokovat capercaillie cock at the top, then descends to the middle branch, and then at the bottom. On each floor, he vytantsovyvaet his awkward dance. This dance is that grouse marking time on the horizontal branch of pine and small steps moves sideways from the edge of the branch to the trunk and back again. However, he strongly cranes, dissolve the fan tail and fluttering wings, knocking them to the branch. Finally, it flies to the ground. Then continue the same dance and the song is repeated without speaking, until the sun to. Grouse rarely gather in large numbers. But where there is a lot of them, for example, in the Ural forests, wood for one tokovische flock sometimes four to five dozen. Such tokovischa stretched for several kilometers.