Sedentary gallinaceous birds

Hunting for these feeds many people. In the market, they - a valuable commodity, their meat - excellent and tasty food. All of them - cautious birds, and close to see them not the hunter is rarely possible. But a knowledgeable person can tell a lot of prints of their feet, left clumps of manure pit at the spot where the bird was rummaging in the snow. Capercaillie - the biggest bird of all birds breed of chicken in our middle band, and track him more than others. Next in size - the black grouse. His imprint rear toe is even less clear. Next it like chicken, although it is slightly smaller. Even smaller traces of hazel, which has developed a finger back stronger. This is clearly noticeable in prints. These three birds - the real forest dwellers, but their habits of each. Grouse are kept blind thickets Krasnolesie and winter feeding of pine needles. According to a broken pine branches, fall on the snow on the needles of an experienced hunter guessed that the top of pine visited grouse. Black grouse are kept on birch peck birch buds, catkins terminated. Grouse more like pecking alder catkins. Partridges should be sought in the ravines, fields and meadows. Where many grouse, there are often suited to the villages at night and leave their droppings and footprints near Gumen, which picked up the scattered grain. It is necessary, however, keep in mind that the traces of gray partridge similar to those of a dove. It should be a good look to them to tell the difference. Helps to understand them if we can find here the same litter, different from the pigeon. It should be remembered also that the pigeons just fly to the place of feeding and marking time in the same place. Meanwhile, quail prefer to run, and traces of them from feeding directly into the field. Even less fond of flying the white ptarmigan. Many people think that this is purely tundra birds in the forest belt of them do not. But it is not. These loud and yet very cautious birds perfectly tolerate our cold and, apparently, everywhere are finding enough food. Overall coloration is reddish-brown jays, on the wings of the bright spots of alternating blue, white and black stripes. These birds are very enliven the winter forest, where the flit in its branches and utter sharp, far-audible screams. As soon as Jay observes a person, she was anxious cry now hidden, but rather somewhere in the side again hear the shrill voice. Jay - omnivorous birds. In the summer they consume, and insects, and worms, and spiders, devastate birds' nests, stealing eggs and chicks, in the autumn feeding on acorns and nuts. In coniferous forests with surprising agility, they are not worse than the woodpecker and squirrel, Hulled warmed bumps and picks out the seeds. However, they eat absolutely everything, that only turn up. Remain in our winter many species of owls and the biggest of them - an owl. Owl spends the day in tree hollows or in the remote more often, and at night a quiet, silent flight takes off to hunt. Sometimes he appears near the villages. Did not disdain an owl mouse breed, though with even greater zeal enough partridges teterok and especially the hare. Hares he pursues so relentlessly that he sometimes falls into the rabbit traps. In the middle of winter comes we have a white snowy owl - a beautiful northern predator, it is larger for all our people, except for an owl. These two birds are almost never found in the same locality. Where many owls, there is no white owls, and vice versa, where many white owls, there's probably not find an owl. The reason is simple: a white owl is kept for open spaces, and owls - in the timber bowl. Snowy owl arrives to us from the tundra. Not cold drives her to the south: she wears a warm coat of fluff and feathers, that the most severe cold, she was not afraid. Some of these owls and remains on the winter tundra. The Arctic Circle in winter it becomes difficult to find something edible. Under deep snow hides the main prey owls - Polar flycatcher, frozen ponds, where it catches fish. And here in search of food, she embarks on a long journey and winters not only in the forest, but throughout the steppe zone - up to the Black Sea. Of our joint remains in the winter so-called owl-owl, gray and long-eared owl, and from birds of prey - goshawk and some FALCONS.