Wildlife: a bird with a red breast

What kind of bird with a red breast sits on a branch in front of a window in a wonderful and glorious winter day? Of course, bullfinch! In the whole world of these birds there are only 9 varieties. Probably, it is not necessary to explain that the common bullfinch was the most widespread and huge popularity. About him and talk.

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From the point of view of zoological systematics, bullfinch is an ordinary, or a bird with a red breast, belongs to the family Reel. Their closest relatives are goldfinches, finches, crossbills, and the most distant are canaries.

Appearance

By their size, bullfrogs are not inferior to sparrows, but they seem more dense because of their characteristic physique. Their beak is very sharp, massive and conical. Eyes resemble small black beads. The head and body are almost merged due to the short neck. A bird with a red breast (photo 1, 2, 3) has very short wings and, on the contrary, a moderately long tail.

It is widely believed that bullfinch is a very bright bird. However, this is not always the case. They are, rather, unattractive: on their head they have a black "cap," covering the eyes. The wings and tail are also black, and the back is gray. The color of the abdomen in males and females differs markedly. In males, its color varies from gray-pink to crimson-bright or orange, in females - gray or brownish.

Food

A bird with a red breast is a herbivore. The basis of the diet of bullfinches is dry seeds of spruce, maple, ash and other trees. Birds adore pecking berries of viburnum, mountain ash, bird cherry. They swallow them not entirely, choosing only the seeds. The flesh falls to the ground. Sometimes birds eat young shoots and flowers, kidneys. Very rarely they become predators, eating small insects. It should be noted that these are very voracious birds.

Lifestyle

All bullfrogs are exclusively forest birds inhabiting deaf and dense forests. They try to avoid open space, and in the nesting period they stay away from the human dwelling. An ordinary bird with a red breast gives preference to dark spruce forests, and not to light pine forests. In addition, bullfrogs are both sedentary and migratory. Everything depends on the fodder conditions of this or that locality. If the year turned out to be fruitful, then the birds winter in the same place, where they grew, and if not - fly south.

The overall quality of all bullfinches without exception is their secrecy and caution. That's why it's very difficult to see them in the summer ... Yes, friends, you did not misunderstand! It was in the summer! Why? We read further!

The myth of bullfinches

Friends, bullfrogs are not basically winter birds! This is a great error! Their appearance at the shelter in the winter gave birth to the idea of them as northern birds. However, they inhabit the tropics and subtropics. Common bullfinch, unlike its relatives, has the most extensive area: from west to east - from Ireland (and Britain) to Sakhalin (and Kuriles), from north to south - from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula. That's why the "winter" bird with a red breast - not so "winter"!