Labor Relations (Blue Nightingale)
Lusciniacyane
Class - Birds
Order - Passeriformes
Family - Flycatchers
Rod - Nightingales
Appearance
The blue nightingale is distinguished by its bright color: the male’s upper body is dark blue, the lower part is dazzling white, and the sides are grayish. A wide black stripe passes through the eye. The female is olive-brown above with a bluish tint, the undertail and belly are white, the tail is blue. Young birds are brownish with buffy streaks and a white belly. The beak is dark gray, the legs are yellowish-gray, the eyes are dark.
The blue nightingale is noticeably smaller than the common nightingale, body length 12-15 cm, wingspan 21-24 cm, weight 11-18 g.
Habitat
Migratory species, winters in Southeast Asia. Departure begins in August and returns to nesting sites in June. Breeds in the remote taiga along the banks of streams and rivers in the southern parts of Central and Eastern Siberia and Far East
, especially in Primorye, is found in the forests of Northeast China and Korea, Japan and Sakhalin.
Lifestyle
The species is poorly studied.
The song of the blue nightingale is quite simple, reminiscent of the singing of a garden redstart.
The blue nightingale's favorite nesting habitats are dark coniferous and mixed forests with dense undergrowth. It rarely settles in deciduous forests, as well as in bushes along the banks of taiga rivers. It stays secretive, skillfully hiding among the dense branches.
The blue nightingale is the main parent species of the broad-winged cuckoo. .
The blue nightingale makes its nest on the ground under the cover of bushes, grass, protruding roots and windbreaks. The structure is bowl-shaped, built rather casually from moss, thin twigs, grass, leaves, pine needles and plant fibers. A full clutch contains from 4 to 7 blue or greenish-blue eggs. Incubation lasts 12-13 days, the female incubates. The bird sits quite tightly, relying to the last on its camouflage coloration. At this time, the male stays nearby and sings. The chicks fly out at the age of 11-14 days. Both parents stay at the nest very carefully and secretly until the young leave it. After this, in case of danger, adults try, on the contrary, to attract attention to themselves, leading the enemy away from the brood.
Captivity
Successfully bred in Germany. A third generation of captive-bred birds has been reported.
At home care The blue nightingale is not a shy, highly adaptable bird. After molting at the end of summer, it may begin to sing again, but less intensely than in the spring-summer period. He eats well the usual “nightingale” food - a carrot mixture with the addition of dry ant pupae and mealworms. He loves to swim for long periods of time; in order to avoid hypothermia, it is better to keep this process under control.
Nightingale dimensions
Description of the bird
This is what a nightingale looks like on earthThe most famous songbird in the CIS countries it is a nightingale from the flycatcher family of the passeriformes order. Despite their wonderful voice, nightingales are not distinguished by their external beauty.
Appearance
In the photo: a nightingale sitting on a branch A common representative of the species is common nightingale weighs 25 g, body length in males and females is 16-17.5 cm, wingspan is 24-27 cm. The color of the plumage of the common nightingale is olive-brown, the tail and wings are darker, and the abdomen is lighter, the sides are gray, the beak is small , yellow color. The nightingale looks quite ordinary, more like a sparrow than a bird with an outstanding voice.
What do they eat?
Nightingales feed on worms, earthen insects, spiders, and ant eggs. In summer and autumn, nightingales add berries to their diet. In captivity, bone meal, shells, feed yeast, hamarus, cottage cheese are used as substitutes for natural food for nightingales. chicken eggs, and sunflower seeds. Nightingales also eat walnuts, boiled meat and millet, fruits, berries and vegetables.
Where does he live?
This is what a nightingale looks like when it sings The distribution range of the nightingale is wide. Birds are found in Europe, Western Asia and the Yenisei. Nightingales winter in Africa. For nesting, they prefer bushes or forest edges located near bodies of water, as well as groves, gardens and parks.
Migratory bird or not
This is what a nightingale looks like in flight Nightingale – migrant. Migration begins in mid-August and lasts until mid-October. The nightingale flies to southern countries for the winter. Winters in Africa, south of the equator, but not north of southern Ethiopia. Nightingales fly to their native lands in the spring from mid-April to early May.
Kinds
Today, ornithologists track 14 species of nightingales, which differ in external characteristics, singing abilities and habitat. In this article we will talk about the most popular nightingales in the CIS according to search queries.
Common Nightingale
- Latin name: Luscinia luscinia
- Weight: 24 g (large adult bird)
- Highest classification: Nightingales
- Conservation status:
Common Nightingale ( Eastern nightingale) - this species has the largest population in the nightingale genus. The bird's plumage is warm brown with a characteristic gray-brown pattern of spots on the chest. IN wildlife The lifespan of an ordinary nightingale is 8-10 years, some nightingales live up to 12 years.
The size of this species reaches the size of a sparrow. The belly and chest of the birds are gray-yellow, the plumage of the back and wings is brown with an olive tint. There are no patterns on the chest, thanks to which the species can be distinguished from the common nightingale.
- Latin name: Luscinia calliope
- Weight: 20-30 g (large adult bird)
- Highest classification: Calliope
- Conservation status: Least Concern
The Ruby-throated Nightingale is a small bird with a light breast and an olive-brown back. Characteristic difference the male of this species has red throat plumage. These birds sing loudly, but their song is shorter than that of an ordinary nightingale.
- Latin name: Tarsiger hyperythrus
- Weight: 11-16 g (large adult bird)
- Body length: 12-13 cm
- Highest classification: Nightingales
- Conservation status: Least Concern
The male red-breasted nightingale is handsome with an orange belly and a blue tail and wings. The body length of this species is about 13 cm, weight - up to 16 g. This species is widespread in the Himalayas, India, China, Bhutan, and Myanmar.
Blue nightingale – small view(about 15 g) with a pronounced difference between females and males. Males have blue-black plumage on the back, brown wings, black beak and cheeks, breast and abdomen are pearl-gray. Female blue nightingales are similar to females of the common nightingale. Sometimes their color has a blue tint. But the song of blue nightingales sounds simpler.
Male and female: main differences
Sexual dimorphism in nightingales differs depending on the species. For example, females and males of the eastern and southern nightingales practically do not differ from each other. But the males of the blue, red-breasted and ruby-throated nightingales have bright and noticeable plumage.
Keeping at home
Thanks to their sonorous voice, nightingales often become pets and favorites. However, you should pay attention to the fact that birds do not adapt well to captivity and may behave restlessly at first. If a bird fights in a cage, then cover the cage with thick cloth and try to disturb the nightingale as little as possible until it calms down.
Cage requirements
Minimum size cages for keeping nightingales - 40x60x30 cm. The smaller the cage, the greater the chance that the bird will develop obesity, which leads to death. The inside of the cage is equipped with a bird feeder and water bowl. The bars and jumpers in the cage must be wooden. In captivity, nightingales live up to 5 years.
Insectivorous nightingales are demanding on their diet. To ensure that nightingales do not lack nutrients in captivity, they are fed flies, mealworms, crickets, and ant eggs. Plant components are gradually added to animal feed. For example, berries, fruits or vegetables. However, insects cannot be excluded from the nightingale’s food. It is worth noting that if a bird has stopped feeding for at least two days in captivity, then the nightingale should be released in order to save its life.
The photo shows nightingale eggs Due to weakly expressed sexual dimorphism, it is difficult to select a pair of nightingales. If this is successful, then such a pair is placed in a large aviary, a lot of material is left for the nest (grass, leaves, moss, bark) and the birds are provided with peace. In one clutch, a female nightingale has from 4 to 6 eggs, which she incubates for two weeks.
This is what nightingale chicks look like They fly out of the nest at 10-12 days, and their parents continue to feed them for another 10 days.
What to do if you find a nightingale chick
If you find a nightingale chick that has fallen out of its nest near a tree or bush, then you should not immediately pick it up. Pay attention to the nest; if it is not destroyed, then do not panic. In order to make sure that everything will be in order, and the chick’s parents will find it and accept it, it is worth observing the chick. When the hungry nightingale starts screaming, the parents will hear the scream and fly in. If you see a destroyed nest, wait more than 2-3 hours, and the parents do not arrive, take the chick home and try to feed it.
What to feed a nightingale chick
Padovan food for insectivorous birds is suitable for nightingale chicks. Suppress the food in a cup and give the already suppressed food to the chick. Live insects are also suitable, but there are cases when a bird is poisoned by insects or worms stored in stores and this leads to its death. Recommended food: padovan + mashed eggs (mashed eggs - eggshells).
- In Russia, the city of Kursk on the street. Pionerov, 84-a there is a museum “Kursk Nightingale” dedicated to the symbol of the Kursk region;
- John Milton's sonnet "To a Nightingale" (1632–33) contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, and the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful (or "cuckolded") to their husbands;
- The nightingale is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 kuna coin minted since 1993;
- The nightingale was the inspiration for the Korean court dance Chunaengjeon (춘앵전). The dance was originally performed by the male dance group of the Joseon Dynasty court, Mudong;
- Nightingales are secretive and cautious birds that do not adapt well to captivity;
- Adult nightingales teach chicks to sing from the moment of birth; when the chicks grow up, they imitate adult nightingales with their voice;
- In addition to their own famous trills, nightingales easily and well adopt the singing of other birds;
- In eastern countries, the singing of nightingales was considered a harbinger of happiness, and therefore nobles, kings, and emperors bred them.
Singing
The birds sing melodious trills from the beginning of May until the end of summer. Each nightingale song consists of 12 repeating elements, which are also called knees. In them, the low “fiuit-trr” is combined with a characteristic clicking and whistling sound. More to interesting facts It is true that nightingales often add the sounds of other birds to their melodies. In crossword puzzles, the question “what is the name of the nightingale’s singing” has 5 letters and 4 answers are suitable: whistle, trill, tickle and lekot.
Blue nightingale - small bird with a dark blue back and white belly, a black stripe passes through the eye. The dorsal side of the female is brownish with a blue tint (especially noticeable on the tail).
Very secretive. The song is sonorous, short, with a slightly “metallic” tint, and consists of short notes that are clearly repeated, like those of a song thrush. The beginning of the song is always the same and characteristic chorus of two squeaky monosyllabic sounds. A blue nightingale sings, sitting in dense bushes; frightened, it does not fly over, but falls to the ground like a stone. An alarm cry is a sharp, rough “chok-chok” (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1995).
Spreading. South-East Siberian species, spreading to the west. The blue nightingale is typical for dense dark coniferous cluttered taiga or deciduous forest with clumps of dark coniferous young growth; avoids stagnant moisture (Moskvitin, 1972).
The nightingale does not nest in the Minusinsk Basin. Inhabits the dark coniferous and mixed taiga of the Sayan and Kuznetsk Alatau. In the Yenisei part of the Western Sayan (Sayano-Shushensky Reserve) it is common in low-mountain and high-mountain cedar forests and mixed forests along river valleys, occasionally found in larch forests (Sokolov et al., 1983; Petrov, Rudkovsky, 1985). In the southern, drier part of the reserve there is less of it: in the river basin. Big Urs S.M. Prokofiev (1987a) found it only as a rare species of valley mixed forests and high-mountain pine forests (0.4 and 0.7 individuals/km 2). In the Usinsk Basin, the usual nesting species of floodplain forests along the river. Us; It also nests in cluttered hollows of streams on slopes overgrown with mixed forest with an admixture of dark coniferous species. Common in the dark coniferous, especially fir, taiga of the Eastern Sayan foothills near Krasnoyarsk (“Stolby”), as well as in the middle reaches of the river. Mana (Tugarinov, 1913; Yudin, 1952; Krutovskaya, 1958).
A characteristic bird of the western part of the subtaiga dark coniferous forests (Chulym basin); A.Ya. was found on Chulym itself. Tugarinov between the village. Kurbatovsky and village. Borsuk in 1909 (Tugarinov, Buturlin, 1911), on the river. Maly Kemchug - K.A. Yudin (1952), on the river. Big Kemchug - R.L. Naumov (1960); in the latter case, the blue nightingale was numerous in the dark coniferous taiga (35.6 individuals/km2) and common (1 individual/km2) in birch-aspen forests.
In the southern Yenisei taiga, it is numerous in dark coniferous forests with abundant undergrowth, undergrowth and dead wood: in the coastal forest near Ust-Pita - 44 individuals / km 2, in the forests of the Yenisei Ridge - 10-23; in the taiga along the Yenisei valley it is common (2-7 individuals/km 2) (Bursky, Vakhrushev, 1983). In the Angara region, along the outskirts of fir trees, in aspen forests and on silkworms, it is numerous (12-16 individuals/km 2), along the edges of pine-aspen forests and in pine burnt areas overgrown with aspen it is common (1-8 individuals/km 2) (Vladyshevsky, 1975, 1980 ; Vladyshevsky, Shaparev, 1976). On the Angara in the mixed and dark coniferous taiga there is also a lot of it (8-16 birds/km 2) (Syroechkovsky et al., 1978). In the southern taiga Transangarya near the village. Decisive is numerous (22 individuals/km 2), near the village. Usovo is rare (0.3 individuals/km 2) (Gibet, Artamoshin, 1977). In the southern taiga of the upper reaches of the Keti, the blue nightingale is also rare (Moskvitin et al., 1977).
In the Yenisei middle taiga, found on a nesting site only in the Yenisei strip, north to Mirny; here the blue nightingale nests on the high left-bank floodplain of the Yenisei (forests with an admixture of fir) and here and there in the Yenisei right-bank mixed taiga above Mirny. In the collection of the Zoological Museum of Tomsk University there is a young male blue nightingale from the outskirts of the village. Bakhta, 20 km north of Mirny (Moskvitin, 1972). Not found in the middle taiga of Evenkia (Rogacheva, 1988).
Phenology. Arrival near Krasnoyarsk - June 4-13, full clutch - June 26, fledglings - July 9-19 (Yudin, 1952; Krutovskaya, 1958).
Reproduction. Nest on the ground, under roots, dead wood, in a half-hollow. Entrance on the side. Clutch - 5-6 blue eggs (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980).
Nutrition- apparently, insects and their larvae (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980).
Website "Birds of Central Siberia" (http://res.krasu.ru/birds/)
Description
In weight (15 g) it is noticeably inferior to the common nightingale. The blue nightingale differs from all other species of nightingales by the blue color of its dorsal side. Sexual dimorphism is pronounced. The back of adult males is dark blue, the flight feathers of the wing are brown with a blue coating, the cheeks and beak are black. The ventral side of the body is white, the sides are gray. In adult females, the back is olive-brown in color, also with a bluish tint, the belly is white, the rump and tail are blue, and the throat and craw are buffy. The chicks have a blackish-brown color with ocher streaks; their belly is white.
The song of the blue nightingale is quite simple, consisting of a set of sonorous whistles, interspersed with a rough “chok-chok” sound.
Spreading
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Luscinia cyane (Pallas, 1776)
Siberian Blue Robin
Description
Signs. The smallest of the nightingales. The male has a distinctly blue upperparts and a black mask on his “face.” The female is olive above, with a blue tint, most pronounced on the tail and rump, whitish below, with darkening and a faint scaly pattern on the chest and sides. The male and female are distinguished from the bluetail by the lack of obvious rufous color on their sides, pure white underparts, black mask, slightly rounded and shorter tail, and longer legs. In autumn the color is generally the same as in spring.
The young in nesting plumage are similar to the female, dark brown above, but with buffy streaks, whitish-buff below, with an indistinct scaly pattern, there is already a blue color on the tail; similar to young bluetails, they differ from them by a clear rufous border on the large upper wing coverts, and a short rounded tail. After molting they look like an adult female. Young males in autumn have a faint blue coating on top, especially on the shoulders, rump and tail, and there is a faint scaly pattern on the chest. By spring, the young become similar to adults, but the blue color is duller in both males and females, a faint scaly pattern on the chest may remain, there is no blue on the wing, it remains olive-brown from last summer, there is an ocher stripe on the wing.
Voice. The song is whistling and leisurely. The volume and pitch of different elements of a song are different. Different phrases alternate with pauses of several seconds: loud “Tsil-du-due-due-due”, “Prityu-Prityu-Prityu”, loud “Tsli-tspi-tsli-tsli-grsh”, “til-til-til- til-til” and quiet “tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi-tsi”. During pauses, at close range you can hear a very quiet “tick, tick, tick...”. There is a similarity with the singing of the thick-billed warbler; in contrast, the song of the blue nightingale contains two-syllable elements and there are no loud, fast trills. It differs from the song of the brown warbler in the presence of two-syllable elements and a “nightingale” timbre. When singing, the male stays in the thick of the foliage of bushes and trees, and only sometimes - openly. Sing in different time days, but mainly at dusk. The singing season is quite short; it almost stops when the chicks hatch. Signals of anxiety - a sharp “chock, chock...”, as well as dry clicking, twittering, and sometimes snatches of songs.*
Spreading
South of the Far East and Siberia, to the west - to the Tomsk region. Within our region it is not numerous and in some places a common species. Vagrants are known far to the west.*
Biology
The birds are very secretive, staying in the thicket of thickets near the ground. The tail often twitches, especially when anxious. They arrive very late, in early - mid-June. Nesting habitats are dark coniferous or mixed, less deciduous forests with the indispensable presence of dense coniferous undergrowth and rich undergrowth, usually damp. They love urems along rivers and streams, ravines, ravines overgrown with forests and other hilly terrain.
The nest is usually well hidden in bushes, among brushwood, tree roots, and overhanging grass. It is constructed quite primitively - in the form of a bowl, carelessly folded from moss (there is a lot of it), half-rotted tree leaves, bast fibers, thin twigs, grass, pine needles, and sometimes with inclusions of wool. Nests can be located shallowly in the cavities of rotten dead trees and stumps. The clutch contains 4-6 eggs (up to 7) of a uniform blue or greenish-blue color, without streaks. Egg dimensions are 18-21 x 11-15 mm. The female incubates for 12-13 days. It sits tightly, lets you close, after which it silently flies away and does not show itself for a long time. The chicks are covered with dark gray down on top, the mouth is orange-yellow, with pale yellow beak ridges. They sit in the nest for 11-14 days, they are fed by both adult birds. Parents at the nest are cautious and secretive, but when hatching fledglings, on the contrary, they are very restless and actively withdraw. Food - a variety of insects and other invertebrates collected for the most part on the ground. They also eat juicy berries. They fly away early, in August, and winter in the south-east. Asia.*
Information sources
V.K. Ryabitsev. "Birds of Siberia". Moscow-Ekaterinburg, Publishing House "Cabinet Scientist", 2014.
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