Ceylon frogrot [1] [2] ( lat. Batrachostomus moniliger ) is a bird from the family of frogs of the goat - like order.
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Area and habitats
- 3 Lifestyle and nutrition
- 4 Reproduction
- 5 photos
- 6 notes
- 7 Literature
- 8 References
Description
The body length of the bird with the tail is 22-23 cm, the length of the wing is 11.8-12.7 cm, and the tail is 10-11 cm. The color of the males is brownish-gray with dark and white lines, dark and small fawn and red spots, narrow white or a beige collar on the chest and white spots on the sides of the upper back, on the upper covering feathers of the wings and on the lower side of the body. Females are red or reddish-brown with less pronounced spots and stripes.
Habitat and habitat
It lives in the southern part of the Western Ghats massif in the south-west of India , to the south from 15 ° C. w. , and on the island of Sri Lanka , except for its arid northern part. It inhabits very moist primary rainforests and secondary plantings. It occurs up to a height of 1850 m.
It forms 2 subspecies [3] :
- B. m. roonwali - Western Ghats (Southwest India);
- B. m. moniliger - island of Sri Lanka.
Lifestyle & Nutrition
Active at dusk and at night, adhering to their territory. Daytime is spent sitting on branches (perched across branches), usually in pairs, in a thick crown of trees. They feed on insects ( bugs , butterflies and orthopterans ), which are caught on the ground and on branches.
Reproduction
The breeding season lasts from January to April (occasionally from June to September) in southern India and from February to March (occasionally in September) in Sri Lanka. Small, 5.7-6.0 cm in diameter, 13 mm thick in the center and 37 mm at the edges, round nests are built at a height of 2-6 m above the ground. In the clutch there is one oval white plain egg measuring 26–31 x 17–22 mm. Both parents incubate, the female is usually at night, and the male during the day. The timing of the incubation and feeding of the chicks is unknown.
Photo
Notes
- ↑ Galushin V.M., Drozdov N.N. , Ilyichev V.D. et al. Fauna of the World: Birds: Handbook / Ed. V. D. Ilyichev. - M .: Agropromizdat, 1991 .-- S. 175. - 311 p. - ISBN 5-10-001229-3
- ↑ 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. 145. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Squad Caprimulgiformes in the World Bird List of the International Union of Ornithologists (IOC World Bird List version 5.1)
Literature
- Holyoak, DT Nightjars and Their Allies: The Caprimulgiformes (Bird Families of the World. Volume 7). Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 642-648. ISBN 0-19-854987-3 [1]
- Holyoak, David T. Nightjars ( Caprimulgidae ). In: Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (2nd edition). Volume 9. Birds II, edited by Michael Ilutchins, Jerome A. Jackson, Walter J. Bock, and Donna Olendorf. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002, pp. 383-384. ISBN 0-7876-5785-9
- Galushin V. M., Drozdov N. N., Ilyichev V. D. et al. Fauna of the World: Birds: Handbook / Ed. V. D. Ilyichev. - M .: Agropromizdat, 1991 .-- S. 177. - 311 p. - ISBN 5-10-001229-3
Links
- Area map of the Ceylon frog
- Holyoak, DT & Kirwan, GM (2014). Sri Lanka Frogmouth ( Batrachostomus moniliger ) . In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, DA & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2014). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.