No doubt hummingbirds are familiar to everyone.light Someone saw her on television, and some of us just stumbled upon a little bird wonder in a magazine about nature. By the way, as part of the school program in our country, this bird is studied as a kind of mysterious phenomenon of life that lives on the territory of the hot continents of the planet: South and North America, on the island of Cuba. Proceeding from all this, it can be unequivocally stated that the bird is known everywhere, from young to old. A few years ago, information appeared in the press and in social networks that a hummingbird was spotted in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia. Is this true and how reliable is the fact of the habitat of a tropical winged individual on the territory of our country, we will try to understand the framework of today's material.
A couple of words about the bird
The hummingbird is the smallest bird thatever could contemplate the world. Its size does not exceed 5 cm, and the flight is very much like the fluttering of a butterfly. It is not easy for an ignorant person to distinguish a "baby" from a butterfly, therefore, when news of the hummingbird habitat in the Krasnodar Territory leaked to the masses, many skeptics reacted to it very predictably: they did not believe it. But such a reaction is another quite worthy explanation: hummingbirds live in tropical climatic zones, which are famous for their hot temperatures, both during the daytime and during the nighttime almost constantly. Krasnodar also boasts high rates on a thermometer only a few months a year.
Similarity with the butterfly
Hummingbird, though it is a bird, but it feedsnot at all worms, although small larvae are not alien to her. Basically, this baby drinks nectar from flowers, which makes her even more like butterflies. By the way, it doesn’t land on a flower, but feeds on nectar due to its long beak, resembling a mosquito's proboscis. It literally hangs in space, while creating the impression of absolute statics, although the wings never for a second stop their mad moves. The hawk moth is a large-sized butterfly, feeding on floral nectar in the same way as a hummingbird. In the Krasnodar Territory, these species of giant butterflies have been inhabiting for a long time and were noticed at precisely the time when news of the appearance of hummingbirds spread in southern Russia. Although skeptics believe that this is hawk, and not a tropical bird.
Where does the wind come from?
And now it's time to figure out the main thing.the question of the article, namely, to find out: “Are there hummingbirds in the Krasnodar region?”. By the way, almost 50 years ago, hummingbirds (ocher) were spotted in Chukotka and on the islands of Ratmanov and Wrangel. For a start, it’s worthwhile to talk about the cases that caused the heated debate over this issue:
- In 2011, a resident of the South of Russia on his mobilethe phone recorded a short video where he allegedly captured a hummingbird collecting nectar from a flower. The post on the social network he signed: "Hummingbirds in the Krasnodar Territory". However, the video clearly shows that the hero of his video is none other than the aforementioned butterfly hawk. Of course, many people understood that the author just wanted to attract potential users to increase views on his channel, and there is no point in even speaking about the veracity of the name.
- For the second time, in 2015, another manput out a similar video, but it really was a creature very similar to a hummingbird. It was after this post that doubts arose as to the veracity of the statement. Many experts have stated that there are hummingbirds adapted to a cool climate and that, they say, they are a bit larger than a five centimeter specimen. They assured the public that the giant 20 cm in size can easily inhabit the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, referring to the ocher individuals. However, scientists have flatly rejected all these unconfirmed facts, inserting their categorical "no" into the discussion.
Conclusion
Despite the controversy and rift of public opinionone can safely say that the hummingbird bird and the Krasnodar Territory are mutually opposite concepts and are unlikely to be able to go hand in hand in the near future. Although in times of global warming, the migration of small tropical birds is possible.
