The lentil bird is a beautiful songbird,which belongs to the reel family. Lentil has a small size and weight: its weight ranges from 19 to 25 grams. The bird has a fairly bright plumage. The male has red color on the breast, back, head and nadhvoste. In females and young birds, the plumage is greenish-gray, the belly is white, the wings are dark. Males have a colorful plumage after they arrive for the second time to hibernate, and until then, young males have a very dull greenish color. The lentil bird is endowed with a strong beak that has a conical shape.
The main places of settlement of lentils areraw forests, rivers and streams. She also lives in urban parks, gardens, is found in lilac thickets. The main habitat of the bird is an open space where there are shrubs and forest edges. You can meet lentils in natural habitat quite rarely, because it behaves very carefully and prefers to hide in dense foliage, but by the sonorous voice of a bird you can learn about its presence.
Lentil Bird (photo in article) ismigratory birds, so the area of its distribution is quite wide: almost the entire European part of Russia, the Caucasus, the Asian part of Russia and Siberia. For the construction of nests, lentils use the roots and stalks of herbs, diligently lining the nest tray with fluff and grass to give neatness. The main place of construction of the nest are branches of shrubs and low trees. Complete laying contains about 5-6 eggs, having a greenish color with purple spots and specks. Hatching, which lasts about 14 days, is occupied by the female lentils, and the male at this time is engaged in her feeding. Chicks leave the nest quite early, not even knowing how to fly well.
Lentil Bird got its name thanks tomelodious trills, which are formed as a result of a clear and quite clear sound combination of “four-che-vi-tsa”, which is a kind of calling card of a colorful feathered one. The basis for feeding lentils are various overripe seeds and fruits, less often they consume small insects (during feeding of chicks), mainly caterpillars, small beetles and aphids. In spring time, it is time for the cherry tree to blossom, and for lentils, the flowers at that time become the basis of nutrition.
Lentil bird wintering in Asia and India.Males with red color are the first to go to wintering grounds. After them old males fly away, which do not have nests, and the last are young birds. Many bird lovers decide to keep lentils at home and face some problems, the main one being the molting process. Molting lentils in captivity occurs due to improper feeding, which leads to obesity and metabolic disorders. Therefore, the bird lentils are very demanding on the quality of food.
Lentils - colorful feathered, which hasplace in the children's literary work, whose author is Nikolai Sladkov. Lentil Bird is a book that includes interesting poetic stories about various forest birds.
