About hiring an owl. Sich bird. A way of life and a place to find a sich Sich an elf in a cactus
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SICHIK-ELF (Micrathene whitneyi).
The first description of the Mexican bulo elf was recorded by James Graham Cooper (1830-1902) in 1861. Doctor and naturalist, who took part in many geographical expeditions, James Cooper was the author of the first book on the birds of California, seen in 1870.
close to the described site of the humpbacked tit. "Whitneyi" is a Latin word, coined from the name of Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), an American geologist and founder of the Harvard School of German Crafts in 1868. Sichik-elf back to back bov v_domy yak "Owl Vitney". Vіn takozh buv vіdomy yak - "Owl Elf to Texas", "Owl Elf Vіtney", and "Owl Blackout". In Mexico it is called "enano".
This is a crying owl, with a length of 12-14 cm. The new one has a large head, but a weak hip and weak paws, which is tied, ymovirno, s tim, which is suitable for dribbling spineless. The wings are rounded, the tail has 10 kermies (and 12, like in other owls). The infestation of the elf tit grayish-storm on the dorsal side with ocher or bluish marks; collar of white or brown color; The lower side was with ocher markings. Raiduzhna lemon-zhovta, dziob and pazury, pale-storm. The Sichik-elf is an osiliy bird of the desert moons of the USA (Lower California, Arizona) and Mexico. Expanding yoga boos with giant saguaro cacti. In the hollows of cacti cacti, most often species of woodpeckers, and nesting tit, sometimes together with woodpeckers and other owls, sound high above the ground - at a height of 2 and more meters. The clutch has 2-5, often 3 eggs. Strictly nocturnal coma-like bird. 
Nest and breeding: In the middle of the day, the male attracts females to a potential breeding nest, starting to sleep in the middle of the month, then we will roam for an hour to sleep, if you remember that it is coming. On flooded moonlit nights, the song goes on without interruption all night long. The female chooses a place for the nest and dominates there, forewarning the occupation of other birds of the nest. For nests, elf sichiki choose hollow woodpeckers near trees, as well as cacti, so the existence of woodpeckers in one hollow is not a rare occurrence for nests of elf sichiks. Deyakі see woodpeckers prepare for themselves more than one hollow.
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Elf Titmouse (Micrathene whitneyi) is close to the described species of the humpbacked Titmouse. This is a crying owl, with a length of 12-14 cm. The new one has a large head, but a weak hip and weak paws, which is tied, ymovirno, s tim, which is suitable for dribbling spineless. The wings are rounded, in the tail there are 10 kerms (and 12, like in other owls). The infestation of the elf tit grayish-storm on the dorsal side with ocher or bluish marks; collar of white or brown color; The lower side was with ocher markings. Raiduzhna lemon-zhovta, dziob and pazury, pale-storm. The Sichik-elf is an osiliy bird of the desert moons of the USA (Lower California, Arizona) and Mexico. Expanding yoga boos with giant saguaro cacti. In the hollows of cacti cacti, most often species of woodpeckers, and nesting tit, sometimes together with woodpeckers and other owls, sound high above the ground - at a height of 2 and more meters. The clutch has 2-5, often 3 eggs. Suvoro nocturnal comachoid bird.
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The spawning of the elf tit is found near the upper fallows of woodpeckers, it is species hollows, and there is nesting competition of titmouse and woodpeckers. The opening of the hollow is located at a height of 3-10 m above the ground. Sichik nests in the hollows of Saguaro cacti, sycamore, pines, hairy pea, wind on telegraph stovp.
Sichik-elf - not richer for the most important savts. Dovzhina approximately 12 cm, vіn important less than 40 g and є the smallest owl in the world. The new one has a rounded head, yellow eyes and white eyebrows. Sichiki-elfi love to live near the desert. If the stench screams, you see the temples, similar to squeaking sounds.
For their nest, the birds whisper the safest place. Ale, maybe, no one can think of a bird to give themselves a better place, a lower sichik-elf, who lives in the wilderness areas of the USA and Mexico.
The stench builds its nests in the hollows of the trunks of giant saguaro cacti at a height of more than 2 m. Woodpeckers, most of all, woodpeckers made hollows;
Meksikansky sichik elf - Micrathene whitneyi - zustrіchaєtsya in Cactus emptied, lіsistih areas posushlivih oak gayah, overgrown lіsom Canyon on teritorії od pіvdnya Nevada pіvdennogo immediately Kalіfornії, center Arіzoni, pіvdennogo sunset New Mexico Sonora, Guanozhuato, Pueblo, Kalіfornіyskoї Bayї, Socorro and there are islands near them. Often sichik can be bachiti, if you look out of the hollow of the Saguaro cactus.
The Mexican elf spawns and in mountainous areas more often - white in the lower mountains, sometimes - at an altitude of 600-2200 m above the sea level. Vin borrows an old woodpecker's hollow.
The sichik is brought up to the migrant owls (the friend is the short-eared owl Asio flammeus). Lead the nightly way of life. Swallowing coma, vymka vіdkochuє on pіvden (shards on cold winter nights, the activity is attached to coma). In Texas, the birds are sometimes abandoned for the winter, although you can no longer catch them in the fierce birds). In Arizona, the sychik appears at the birch and grows at the spring as far as Mexico.
Poloty has a Mexican sichik similar to a cauldron. In the vicinity of the sky, the sichik-elf is hovering, covering the light parts of the body with krill. Tse peace-loving birds, yak volіyut unikat conflicts and vіdlіtayut zamіst to enter into battle.
In the daytime, the bird doesn’t show up, it’s possible to spit less in the daytime, to witness the glare of the night’s eyes at the one who stinks especially at night. In the diet of the sichik, there are spiders, coma, scorpions (the sting is seen to feed the birds). The basis of the diet is bagatons, beetles, panicles, horses and tsvirkuni. The plumage of a tit does not allow it to fly silently, but it is not necessary when watering. Their sacrifices are weak and weak, the shards of the paw and pazury of the sychik are not strong enough.
In private, the males lure the females to the moon, handy for nesting, with loud cries from the depths of the hollow, after the arrival of the female, the males roam and continue to sleep, luring them to the hollow. Love songs begin at the beginning of the month and continue throughout the night.
Owls have only one clutch per season, but the most successful breeding of the middle owls - from 70% of all eggs, little birds emerge. The reason is the high safety of the hizhakiv-savtsiv, which cannot grow nests, grow in the hollows of cacti.
Lovely cry, like a male calling a female, the whole trill on high notes “Bi-Bi-Bi-Bi-Bi”, which is formed from a series of 5 to 20 notes and is a little long all night. A short trill calls the female into the hollow to potential nesting. Settled couples sing a duet, the song of the female is lower and shorter.
Since ancient times, there have been a lot of legends about this little bird. Our forefathers believed that the one who pats її, mother is difficult in life. Movlyav, like to the black intestine, that crossed the road, the chain of the building called famously. Ale, it’s true, it’s just a little owl with an unusual sound. If you don’t explore in detail, then there are a lot of people and you don’t know the everyday powers between this and the great owl.
Zagalna characteristic
Sich - birds small size. Dovzhina її tіla does not exceed thirty centimeters, and the vaga does not reach 200 g. , that the head of an owl is more rounded, while that of a sich is flattened. On the head of a new ve, do not reveal a pir'ya, as if by a form of a guessing vuha. In other words, nothing looks like an owl.
So to the bird of power in the ranks of the drawing of a gloomy person, to that fir'ya over the eyes more eyebrows. Sich far-sighted, stench can remember the sight of booths on the great windstan, but don’t sing, what is seen for a sprat of centimeters in front of them. This bird has a short tail, which helps to create the effect of a great wingspan of the krill.
Razmiri sich anіtrohi do not respect you to be a right wise man. Fallow in sight, they eat the stench of various zdobichchu, but the main diet includes rodents and various kinds of beetles. The number of birds is even more vibratory and can catch species of buttocks in a vіdpovіdno to vlasnyh similarity. Sometimes the stinks spit in pairs, ring out in such a way to catch a species of large roses, for example, squints.
The territory of habitation of the descriptions of the birds is already large, you can see them in any little corner of the planet, the Crimea of Antarctica. Behind the zovnіshnіmi dannymi sichі raznіh vіdіv are аlѕіnіnі, аlе аnd cіkavі singularities.
Sich uphill
The mokhnonogiy sich is a small owl with a rounded head. Behind the rose, the appearance of the trocha is more blue. In the bird's storm, with white flames all over the body. The head is large, with asymmetric facial discs.
The feathery-legged sich vіdrіznyаєє to finish with a small size of the eyes and a weak dzhobom. Legs in a new thick plumage, which led to the name "furry-legged". Dzyuba at the bird of a yellow color.
The nesting of upland sichivs is three months long. The masonry needs to be laid. Volohati sich nests mainly in hollows. Their main diet is mouse watering and beetles.
Sich is a bird of the night, but in some areas you can lead a daily way of life. Mokhnonogi sich will live near coniferous forests. Such birds linger in Russia, Pivnіchnіy Mongolia, Western China and nіvnіchnyh regions of the USA.
Sich Budinkovy
Domoviy sich - chains, which may be a storm of zabarvlennya, with small white chickens. The new one has a small head and a short tail. The rosemary of this bird is three times larger, lower in the upland one. Vvazha for the better settlement of wines near the open air, in the mountains or on the plains. How to shout sich, you can recognize, leaning close to the yogo nest. Spiv more guess the whistle.
Sich - even fast birds to choose a partner. Independently during the period of reproduction, the stench always lingers at once. Nests are encouraged to build in minks, and sometimes they build them themselves. And some people know the huts of the old zanedbanih budіlyah.
The laying of the bіlya budinkovy sich should be placed over 7 eggs. Poluyut birds ring out a day. The main diet consists of small birds and grizzlies. Live descriptions of the species in Pivnіchnіy Africa, the lands of Asia, as well as in Central and Pivdenny Europe.
Sichik-elf
Tse krihіtna owl of cinnamon color from sirim and white lines. The eyes in her are large, yellow color, dzhob serii. Feet without feathers, scarlet with bristles. Many wonderful birds fly like birds, only more coordinated. The stinks are not aggressive. No one should join the biy. It is important to build nests in hollows more beautifully. The hoard of this bird has no more than five eggs.
Sichik-elf is absolutely not able to poke through a weak joba and uncooked paws. Your diet is made up of different lumps. Birds linger in the USA and Mexico, and settle in the saguaro cactus stovburs.
Sich humpback
Gorob'yachiy sich is the most important representative of sich. The new one has a brownish-white infection and a zhovta dzhoba. The legs are densely feathered, right up to azure, like a dark color.
Gorob'їnі sichiki - vіdminnі myslivtsі, stink vіdznyayutsya strong dzhobom and chippy paws. Tsey birds will settle in the hollows of coniferous trees. The laying of eggs will sound to become more than five eggs.
Poluvannya names ptah vede nezalezhno vіd hour doby. And the main diet is rodents and small birds. These are even more thrifty birds - before the coming winter, the humpback sich picks up a species of booty from the hollow and dbaily takes it until the cold comes. Humpbacked hounds linger in Russia, Europe and Pivnichny Asia.
rabbit sich
Tsі sichі - the most unique birds from the most rehabilitated birds. The stench is leading an active daytime way of life. They have a hell of a lot of fun with little white chickens. The rabbit sich is a land-based slut, the new one's paws have such a shiya, like the stench love to fly. These birds live in colonies and all at once are ready to attack the enemy, which has hung on their nest.
Birds of the same variety of sichiv zdatni could see even more cicada sounds. If there is trouble, the stench begins to rumble, imitating a grumbling snake.
Qi birds already love to settle in holes, viritih with deaky savts. Sich rabbits actively protect their clutches, the female tries to roam as soon as possible at the entrance to the hole, and the male tries to make maneuvers, trying to get lost in the huts. Ring in the treasure at the rabbit owls up to five eggs. Naytsіkavіshe, while the female is visijuє eggs, the male is alive in the other hole. The territory of residence of these birds is America.
What is it that sich looks like a scarecrow
At the statistics, the characteristics have already been changed, yakі maє sich. Pugach, yak and sich, is brought to the family of owls. It’s easy to wake up these two birds:
- Sich is the leading way of life. Tse golovna distinctive feature birds, shards, the main and unchanging period of non-sleeping scare is respected by the dark hour of dobi.
- The pugach is richer than the sich. Yogo dozhina reaches 80 cm, and vaga can be 4 kg. Yogo is not easy to remember, at that hour you can easily hovat.
- The diet of eating the owl is richly wide, lower in the sich. Through strong paws and hard dziobi, the scarecrow can attack the great savtsiv.
- The scarecrow has a great pіr'yanі vushka, which is not the power of rich variety of sichіv.
- The eyes of a scarecrow can mother a red bow, which is absolutely not powerful for yellow-eyed sichs.
Starry look
Krykhitna owl, dozhina body is about 12-14 cm, vaga - about 44g. The landing of the body is vertical. The sichik has a remarkably large head, wow. Weak hips and weak paws. Creela rounded, long; The wingspan of krills is 37-38 cm on average. At the short tail (length 4.5-5.3 cm), at the top of other owls, 10 kerm feasts. Feet in bristly pir'yam. Zabarvlennya grayish-storm with ocher or bluish marks (in some first and second feasts there may be white pimples, through yaks on the back and z'are white specks); on the abdomen was with ruddy-brown separations; collar of white and brown color. On the tail there are 3-5 light rudders or brown horizontal smugs. From the shoulder along the back, there was a line, which is torn, the same way along the edge of the wing. The head and especially the appearance can be richly lighted behind the tail of the plumage. More brown on the back and more orange on the head, chest and belly. Navkolo dzioba, along the edges of the krill and on the forehead there are specks. There were “eyebrows” above the eyes. Rayduzhna lemon-zhovta, dziob i kіgtі bіdo-bіdo аbo сірі, the basis of dziob can be buti different colors. In young sichiks, the disease is not so stringent, there are no signs and disguise more sire.
way of life
Sichiki-elfie have weak legs and azure, which greatly complicates the watering. Sound the stench only eat komakhs: horses, grasshoppers, mills, fly larvae, caterpillars, bagatonizhkas and cicadas, as well as scorpions and spiders. Like a scorpion, it is assigned to a bird, the father saw a sting on the back of the head, and then we will already have a bird of a scorpion. Sich-elfie spit on the wind and at sunset, in the daytime, and every day. The water of the troch is guessing the water of the kazhaniv and in the field the stink is even more maneuverable, so you will be free to fly. The feasting of the sichiks is not the same as that of other owls, and they are not allowed to fly silently, but it is not necessary for them. The stench laps at the coma, zmushyuyuchi quietly rage, and then squeal them. Some sichiki poop on the ground, weeping clods from trees on the ground. Sometimes the cactus owls make them roar until the last days, or else the bright light in the whispers that they are flying. The first one is to take a vidobutok, the sichiki carry them to the treasure, tear them into small pieces, and then eat them. The pellets are small, dry and formless. The stinks of revenge in the main part of the tіl comakhs and are often torn apart, unhappily after that, like a bird of їх vіdkine. The elf sichiki is not more aggressive and will fight in the face of troubles, and not fight. In captivity, elf sichiki lingered up to 5 years.
Sicha-elf chicks
Reproduction
In the middle of the month, the males of the Sichik-elfs begin to sleep at night, gaining potential partners to nest. If two birds pair up, the female will sit at the chosen nest in order to save him from being busy with other birds. Entry at the nest of roses at a height of 2 to 10 meters. In kvіtnі-grass titties lay 2 to 5 eggs (mostly 3) with an interval of 1-3 days. Visijuvannya begins with another egg and three days 21-24. At the sight of other species of owls, the female elf sichika sometimes waters at night during the period of brooding, and at the same time her partner pisses about the eggs. A vigodovu female is chicking, and a male is to bring. At the fall, the male can bring a hedgehog often about once per quill. The plumage of the chicks appears on the 28-33rd day. It is important for huts to get to the nests of sichiki-elfs, so the stink of the most stink of breeding among the middle of the American owls. From the rest of the eggs, 70% of the chicks live to fledge. This is due to the fact that it is important for the huts to get to the nests, it is especially quiet that they are resting at the cacti.
Width
Sichik-elf lives on deserted, arid territories, on coastal woody territories and summіzhny flat-mountains with a view of 600 to 2,200 meters above the sea level. The stinks live in gorges, canyons, plateaus, and on the mountain tops. The area of their residence is the western part of the USA (Lower California, Arizona) and Mexico. Їхнє mistseprozhivannya closely related to giant saguaro cacti. In the hollows of cactus cactuses, which grow at a height of 2 and more meters from the ground, titmouse nest. Sometimes, together with smaller owls and woodpeckers, as species, nests nest. Such a susіdstvo vimushene - the sichik himself cannot be vivodivbati nest through weak dzioba. However, if a sichik knows a nest in some other tree, you can settle in a new one. Nests of sichiv-elfs were found in mesquite trees,
Іsnuє impersonal prikmet, tied with a bird sich. Most of them are not the most pleasant. Our ancestors knew that this bird was ahead of the threat. For example, it’s possible to be unacceptable, as in the material plan (for example, fall into the ground), so in the non-material (you want to do evil to you).
Peculiarities of that place
Ptah sich - a small owl, with an extraordinary ringing. A lot of people don’t know why they have the right to look like the great ones. Rozmiri sich are small. Dovzhina yogo tila syagaє less than 30 divas, and masa - close to 200 rubles.
Zvichayny owls are richer: dozhina - up to 65 cm and vag - up to 700 g. Owl's head is rounded. The sichivs are splashing. The plumage of the sichivs is brown, with white, small patches.
In owls on the firth, it is easy to remember later and transverse lines. In addition, the Sichs have no feasts, like a guessing whistle. Otherwise, in view of their relatives from the family, they are not disturbed by anything.
On the great head of the sich, the majestic eyes are ruffled, the stench is fixed on the eyeglasses. So, in order for the birds to marvel at me directly, it is necessary to turn your head.
I have a thought that owls can turn back. Tse pardon, the head of the feathered one turns at a direct 135 degrees, which gives the bird the ability to marvel over the shoulder.
Far-sightedness has been blamed on the Sichs. At the sight of a sprat of centimeters, the stink of nothing should be drank. However, on the great vіdstanі and in the temryavі zіr is simply vіdminniy. Different kinds of buttocks help them with thread-like pir'ya, stitching on paws and dzhobі, stench play the role of a "sensor".
Ptah sich looking really serious. Tse podkreslyuє vіnochok and step over the eyes, on the square of the brіv. Through your sane looking the feather is matched with the people, like a powerful frown . Ptah sich sees whistling sounds, not powerful owls and її name the word “whistles”.
A thicker coat, a small dozhini ends with a shortened tail, which increases the visual size of the krill. The legs of the sich are covered with pir'yam, the dozhina of some of them hangs from different species.
The range of sich is great. You can see it on all continents, Crimea, Antarctica. The sounds of the Sich from the different places are little disturbed.
Character and way of life
Sich - donkey birds. Vinyatok to become the river of Athene, like a sack at the high altitude, she can go down to the plains of the city. Vybіr zhitla representatives tsikh feathery dosit razny.
For example, the widest sich Athene, near warm weather, gives priority to open spaces, the type of steppes and napivustel. Pivnichni vidi give priority to the forests, or to settle near the dwelling of the people. Їхні budinki dosit raznomanіtnі. Nests can be built in burrows, wells, at kupah hmizu and on hills of budіvel.
In the photo, a sich-elf near the hollow of a majestic cactus
The sich-elf lingers on the pivdenny entry of the pivnіchnoamericanskogo continent. Weak stink of the stench does not build nests of species themselves, to settle in the nests of other birds or hollows of trees. One of these places is the hollow of the majestic saguaro cactus. Upland Sich live by the coniferous forests of the front.
Gorob'yachiy sich in the main bag in the hollows of trees, yakі znahodyatsya in zmіshany fox. Sich is a night bird. Prote є vinyatki. For example, the humpback sich is active in the morning and at sunset, and the sich-elf chooses no life. For the pivnіchnyh meshkantsіv, the hour of watering becomes a long, polar day.
Yak shout bird sich, you know a lot of people, and it's not easy to remember yoga. Tsomu spryaє skritnіstі і maskuvalny zabarvlennya, scho prihovuє sich against the backdrop of trees. Tsikavo, scho hear how to scream birds sich at night, in the rainy weather.
Zhivlennya sich
The zygodactyl structure of the paws helps to grab the prey easily. Tobto two fingers of the bird are straightened forward, and two back. When you are on the seat, you can turn one finger to the front.
The sichivs have teeth, so they don’t chew the stench of zdobich. The stench is rozryvayut її on drіbnі parts or zakovtuyut povnistyu. Parts, yakі can not be reshaped, so like pіr'ya, tassel, or wool is more vibrated.
Drinking style and diet different types sich signifies vіdrіznyaєtsya. To serve as a brownie owl: watering, hamsters, and navit flying. Do not guide the wines with clods and wooden hrobaks.
Sich is more patient guarding the victim and attacking if it stops collapsing. For watering, go like heaven, and earth. Domovі sichі Keep stocking up.
Gorob'yachiy sich will be wild birds and rodents. The victim is not forged whole. The vidobutok is resolutely obscured, the best things are picked out from it. Autumn hedgehogs are kept in a hollow in reserve.
A fluffy sich flies over the earth, watching the victim. For a landing, a small height is chosen. The object of watering is birds and grizzlies. Zha zakovtuєtsya tsіlkom.
Sich-elf - comachoid. Yogo diet: horses and saran, fly larvae, bagatoni, caterpillars and cicadas. Often zdobichchu flock and scorpions. Bulba is found exclusively at home.
Gorob'yachiy sich
Reproduction of that trivality of life
In the spring, the Sichis have a wonderful period. At this hour, male birds with their voices call females. In the middle of spring, the female lays close to five eggs, which she can think of a white, granular shell.
As long as she is laying eggs, the male will often fall out of her life. The male of the humpback sich begins to age future mother even before that, how to lay eggs more often. And the future father of the Sich-elfs gives the males the opportunity to independently and replace them on the clad.
The chicks arrive in a month. The stench is blind and covered in down. In the wake of the people, the female of the humpback owl robs the booth and sings it out. Children grow up fast and in a month they reach the remembrance of the fathers. Fully independent stinks melt to a sickle.
Survival at the sich is narrower than the temple, so that their life is practically inaccessible to huts. The average trivality of the life of the Sichs becomes 15 years.
The mysticism of sichiv calls out in people a singing fear. With these birds, it was tied with a rich povіr'їv that prikmet. And yet, get to know them better, it’s impossible not to remember their mind and spontaneity.
Owl Family (Strigidae)
Mexican Sichik Elf
micrathene whitneyi
Synonym: elf tit, Mexican pygmy tit
The first description of the Mexican elf sichika was compiled by James Graham Cooper (1830-1902) in 1861. Doctor and naturalist, who took part in many geographical expeditions, James Cooper was the author of the first book on the birds of California, seen in 1870.
"Whitneyi" is a Latin word, formed from the name of Josai Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), an American geologist and founder of the Harvard School of Housekeeping in 1868. Sichik-elf bov vіdomy yak "Owl Vіtnі". Vіn also buv vіdomy yak - "Owl-elf to the state of Texas", "Owl-elf to Uitnі". In Mexico, these birds are called "enano".
Rozmir: The middle length of the female is 16 cm, the male is 15 cm. The average wingspan of the female is 38 cm, the male is 37 cm.
Description: Sichik-elf is a crying night owl that lingers in the dry, dry weather on the rainy day and the rainy entry of the Happy States and Mexico. The landing of the body is vertical. The head is large, there are no outer forelocks. The plumage is brown-gray in general, with white lines on the belly and a little bit of dzhoba. The head and especially the "appearance" can be richly lighted for the tail of the plumage. Forehead, krill, that little house was like a joba with yellow specks. There was a smuga, which is torn, to pass from the shoulder along the back, the same smuga to pass along the outer edge of the wings. White comir, like a nashinik, pass through the roof. Crila dovgі ta protect a short tail. Legs are given naked, but the stench is in the bristly pir'yam. The eyes are pale yellow and nibi "hanging" on the front with thin white "eyebrows". Dziob syriy, the basis of the upper beak of different colors. Podlitki are similar to mature birds, ale pier is brown-gray without patches, "disguise" is sirish, lower in mature birds.
Voice: Sichiki-elfie can see vocal vibes. The voice of the male is high, it sounds yak bi "wai-wai-wai-wai-wai." Yogo song can try the whole night. The song of the female sitka-male is the biggest call in the spring - in the early evenings and on the sweatshirt. In a short version of the song, the male attracts females to the potential nesting site. You can bet a duet, but the song of the female is quiet and short. The male can see a short "CHU-URU-URU-URU" in the polity, if he fills the hollow, like a wine "showing" his partner. In times of trouble, a sichik-elf sees the signal "chiir". The little birds see this very sound, if they are hungry and want to stench.
Poluvannya and eating:
The manner of the flight of a sichik-elf is similar to the flight of a kazhan, it is just as maneuverable, but less lame.
From sichikiv-elfiv, through їх visibly weak nig and azure, the filthy thoughts came out. In fact, the whole species of booty is coma, if the stench can sometimes drink a bear, and inspire a little bird. There was marked a sprig of lonely lizards and elfs on small lizards and small snakes. Call for the eating of a elf-sit-cat, horses, saran, fly larvae, caterpillars, bagatonizhki, cicadas, as well as scorpions and spiders are put together. Like a scorpion, it is assigned to a bird, the father saw a sting on the back of the head, and then we will already have a bird of a scorpion. Sich-elfie spit on the wind and at sunset, in the daytime, and every day.
Dobuvayut zhichiki-elfie on the fly, shards of stink even more maneuverable in the field. To slander the coma on the fly, the stench hovering from the porch on the trees, bushes or cacti. The feasting of sichik-elfs is not the same as that of other owls, that stench cannot fly silently, but it is not necessary for them. Flying, elf-sichiki growl in coma, zmushuyuchi quietly fly, and then squeal them. Quite often, elf sichiki, in the coma, come the light of the late ones to rich the other jarrels of the bright light. Elfi sichiki can polyuvat and on the ground weeping clods from trees or ground.
Carry a kind of stench to a snug hide, tear it apart into pieces, first of all.
Sichiki-elves are not aggressive birds;
Nest and reproduction: In the middle of the day, without interruption, all the night, in the moon-filled deserts, male elf-elfs begin to sing their song, turning on the female. yoga was not taken by other birds.
The place of residence of the Sich-elves is closely related to the giant saguaro cacti. In the saguar hollows, which grow up at the height of two and more meters from the ground, titmouse nest. Sometimes, together with smaller owls and woodpeckers, as species, nests nest. Such a susidstvo vimushene - the sich itself cannot be species of a nest through a weak dzioba. Deyakі see woodpeckers themselves through tsikh susіdіv to slay themselves more than one hollow. However, if you know a nest in some other tree, you can settle in a new one. Nests of sichiv-elfs were found in mesquite trees, oaks, plane trees, hairy mountains, pines. Some birds settle in hollows, like woodpeckers in telephone stovpahs.
The entrance to the nest will ring out from 3 to 10 meters above the ground. On the cob of kvіtnya-grass themselves sichikiv-elves put up to 5 white eggs (on average 3) with an interval of 1 to 3 days. The incubation starts after another egg is laid and three times two to three eggs. At the sight of other owls, the female elf tit sometimes poluє during the day during the period of nasidzhuvannya, making a turbot about eggs for її per day on a partner.
The little birds look out for the female, the shards are turned over, and the male brings them. By stretching the pіku poluvannya male can bring їzhu male shohvilin.
Chicks fledge at 28-33 days. Oskіlki elfs can finish the nest protection, then they have the highest number of nesting birds among the old American owls (out of the last eggs, 70% of the birds that have hatched, live to plumage). These high displays reach beyond the heights of the fact that it is important for huts to get to the nests of elfs, especially to the quiet ones that live near cacti.
Mortality: In captivity, elf sichiki lived for over 5 years. In nature, birds make trochs of enemies, and, as it was said earlier, it is important for huts to reach the nests of sychiks-elfs.
Middle of residence: Sichik-elf lives in deserted, arid territories, on the coastal woody territories and summіzhny flat-mountains from 600 to 2200 meters above the sea level. The stinks live in gorges, canyons, plateaus, and on the mountain tops. The area of their residence - day and night the USA (Arizona, California, New Mexico) and Mexico (Baja California)
Foresee: є 4 recognition foresee tsієї owls.
Micrathene whitneyi whitneyi - pivdniy zahid USA, pivnich Mexico
Micrathene whitneyi idonea - Californian avian, New Mexico and Sonori's avian
Micrathene whitneyi sanfordi - day of California
Micrathene whitneyi graysoni - Socorro Island
