Red-billed oatmeal [1] ( lat. Emberiza caesia ) - a species of birds of the oatmeal family.
| Red-billed oatmeal |
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| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Infrastructure : | Passerida |
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| International scientific name |
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Emberiza caesia ( Cretzschmar , 1827 ) |
| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22720920 |
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Red-billed oatmeal 16 cm long and weighing about 20 g is very similar to garden oatmeal ( Emberiza hortulana ). However, her head is a bright bluish-gray color. The throat and “beard” are brown (not yellow like that of a garden), the beak is reddish pink. The plumage of the female is more dull and with more stripes than the male and may differ from the female garden oatmeal in brown throat and “beard”. Young birds are very difficult to distinguish from young birds of garden oatmeal, they are distinguished from young birds of mountain oatmeal by a reddish beak.
Singing is like garden oatmeal singing, however, it is shorter and sounds like “du du du du du”.
Red-billed oatmeal loves rocky slopes with freestanding bushes and trees, as well as semi-deserts. This is a migratory bird; in Southeastern Europe, the species is vagrant. It nests throughout Greece , on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey and Cyprus , on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Asia . He winters in Sudan in Africa. Less commonly, it is found on the Mediterranean coast of Western Europe, sometimes individual individuals reach Helgoland .
The bird feeds on seeds and insects.
A nest of stems, straws and roots is built on the ground between the stones, often in dense vegetation and is lined with hair. The female lays 4-6 whitish or grayish eggs with a length of approximately 19 mm. There are two masonry a year. The brood period lasts approximately 12-13 days.
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 396. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- Peterson, Mountfort, Hollom, „ Die Vögel Europas - Ein Taschenbuch für Ornithologen und Naturfreunde über alle in Europa lebenden Vögel “, Paul Parey Verlag, 10. Aufl. April 1973, ISBN 3-490-05718-X , S. 289-290
- Christopher Perrins, “Vögel, Biologie + Bestimmen + Ökologie” , Paul Parey Verlag, ISBN 3-490-22618-6
