Spring game birds

But what is it? Somewhere in the distance heard the sounds monotonous. They repeated it louder, then quieter, hurriedly rushing to each other. This zatokoval grouse. In vain would try to submit letters of his spring song. Try to stick his tongue and pull off and quiet and monotonous single note, fast talking with the tongue from side to side so that turned out like this: bololo Lolo ... bololololo ... bololololo ... bololololo ... Usually after every four or five cycles followed by a short pause. Sometimes these sounds reminded me of a village truck jingle that somewhere is rolling on a remote highway. Grouse current in the middle lane begins at the end of March. While the snow in the woods a lot, roosters tokuyut carefully, sitting in the trees, and almost no flies on the ground. Tokuyut with only older males, young, yet silent. The more runs off the snow, the defiant display in black grouse. By the end of April, current flares up stronger and stronger. Black grouse begin tokovat already on the ground, overgrown with bushes clearings on the edge of raised bogs or near the forest edge. They are there for this special favorite places that for some reason they like and they are accustomed. These places are called hunters tokovischami. They collected some old and young cocks. However, the harder tokuyut until the old ones. Young and old people are afraid of trying not to get their way. Now you can hear other sounds. His single color muttering, consisting of several tribes, cock ends suddenly with a loud hiss: "chuu-shshshi! .." These sounds are called for. However, it is very annoying other roosters. Tokuyuschy grouse is a very special kind. He goes, spreading its tail and wings, strongly cranes, squats, jumps and at the end of his mutterings scraping loose ends of the wings on the ground. Despite the chance mating, grouse have never done so deaf as his cousin grouse, and sneak up on him is not so simple. In some places the birds tokuyuschih going to be very much on tokovische. In Priuralsky forests on these spring gathering flock, they say, sometimes up to hundreds of roosters. Under tokovische if they capture a large area, scattering along the forest edge, and sometimes even flew to a nearby field. Where grouse heavily persecuted, display in a cock, rarely two or three. Tokuyuschie grouse often fight among themselves. The more cocks fly to tokovische, the hotter they tokuyut and thus become more fierce fighting. Meanwhile in the bushes around tokovischa going hen, and it often happens that at the time, as the brave heroes and generously reward each other's blows beaks, impatient hen fly away, not waiting for the end fights with anyone from the timid young, who dared to speak openly in the tournament. More difficult to watch and hear the other current big forest birds - grouse. Capercaillie avoids populated areas. He needs a large coniferous forests, dampness soil, overgrown with ferns, moss bogs with scattered groups of pines for him. They also love to somewhere nearby stream made its way, covered with alders and Osinki. Tokovat beginning to grouse about two weeks and then three before grouse. Even in the first third of March, they are moving to places of their tokovisch. Most of this moor, pine trees, or near the edge of the high boron Mokhovikov.