Birds of our forests

Cognitive material about birds of our forests for younger students

"Birds of our forests" - stories around the world (1-4 class)

Noscova Natalia Yurevna
Position and place of work: primary school teacher MBOU - Up-Tusin School No. 14 Novosibirsk region
Description: I bring to your attention stories for children about forest birds. This material will help teachers and caregivers to diversify classes using stories. Children will be interested in not only stories, but illustrations with these birds. If the child knows about the bird, then listen to his story, and then supplement the knowledge of the child with the proposed stories. The reading child can read these story by classmates. Teachers are a cumulative material on the world around the world.
Purpose: Material to help primary school teacher and tutor.
Purpose: Familiarization of children with birds of our forests.
Tasks: - expand the knowledge of children about forest birds;
- to promote the development of thinking, attentiveness, memory;
- to educate interest and careful attitude towards nature.

Birds forests

Crossbill
Clesto - a bird, the size of a little more sparrow, the length of the body is up to 17 cm. Dense physique. The name of this bird happened from the old Russian word "Klesti", which means "compress, squeeze, squeeze" (from the word "Klestit" and the word "ticks". The beak of the Klezta bent, the ends of it crosswise crush, enter each other, he As if they are strongly compressed. Thanks to this, the kelsts very deftly flexes the scales on the cones and pulls delicious seeds. It's funny to watch how the marsh is enjoying a bump: Treightly grabbed the legs, he, like an acrobat, hangs on a branch down his head. Hairing to the branch The bumps and sticks it onto the branch. Tightly holding a bump with a paws, the bird ships his curve under the scaly.

Three types are living in Russian forests: Clest-Yelovik (eating seeds ate), Clesto-Sosnovik (Eats Pine Seeds), a blonde cool (eating larch seeds).

Coloring in males bright red-cherry color, and in female yellowish gray. Klezti's flocks are inhabit, often in taiga and mountain coniferous forests. With the arrival of heat, when the seeds of cones fall out and the feed becomes little, flocks of the chests in the country's forest areas, very far from the places of their nesting. It is held on coniferous trees with flocks, often hanging to the cones, tearing and dropping them. During the flight, constantly echo. Klezlet's voice is ringing "Cle-Cle." Song - Twitter with a loud whistle.

Klezles can take chicks at any time of the year, depending on the crop of cones. Through the yarms on the cones, the cheeks nest from February. The nest is watered on trees. On the high bark, the pair of chest builds a warm nest, covered by bad weather with dense fir branches. At this time, seeds of ate and pine ripen, the cones are open, falling asleep the forest seeds. Parents-chests are cleaned, swing in the goiter and feed chicks.

Voron
Raven is a large omnivorous bird. Body length 60-65 cm, weight up to 1.5 kg. Crow coloring - black with blue, greenish, purple sweat. Legs and beaks of black color. Great vision. In search of mining can fly through a fairly large territory. Sounds that make crows - sharp, loud cries of "Kar-Car" or restrained "Crook".

This is crow-whistle.
The crows are prone to sound resistance, they can learn to repeat the dogs and other sounds.

Crows live in forests, steppes, in the mountains, can live by rocks and coastal cliffs. Feed small rodents, eggs, fish, but may eat vegetable food. Crow brings benefit by performing a sanitary role.

Mostly crows live in pairs. During the nesting period, the male and female jointly build a nest. Place it in dense crowns of high trees. Inside linse its wool and dry grass. The female rises eggs for 20 days. In the nest usually there are 3-7 eggs. At this time, the male guards the female, brings her food. After departure from the chicken, the chicks are held for some time together with their parents, and then gradually get used to independent life.

In the mythology of European peoples, Raven was considered a satellite of wizards, a symbol of wisdom. It was believed that this is a meaning bird that could predict the future.
Crows the most intelligent birds, they can even extract food using, firm "tools" and easily traineled each other. The crows are easily tamed, and birds that have fallen in the university in childhood quickly learn to imitate human speech.

Oriole
Oriole - a small singing flying bird, a relative of Sparrow. The length of the body is about 25 cm. Opening coloring in male golden-yellow. Wings and tail of black, from the beak to the eye also goes a black bar. On the sides of the black tail, yellow spots, the beak of red. The female color is greenish, with a spotted pattern on the bottom side of the body.
Completed in Europe and Asia in deciduous and mixed forests. Feels insects and their larvae, caterpillars, berries.

Hanging sockets of the male and female are built together, having them on the thin branches of deciduous trees. Eggs are surrounded by parents in turn about 15 days.

Chicks feed and teach both parents. During the nesting, the males of the Orioles of Dracle and Non-Tree, so these birds are built at a considerable distance from each other.
The song in the organizes is long and complicated, a beautiful whistle resembles the sound of flutes: "Fewoo-Tiou-Liu", and a loud cry - a meowing of an angry cat. Ivolga is quite a buggy bird, poorly adapts to captivity.

Oriole destroys a huge amount of forest pests and gardens. At the end of August, the organizes begin to fly away to wintering in Africa and return only in the spring - in the second half of May.
In antiquity, there was a superstition that the Oriolga shouts like a cat - unfortunately, so this bird feared. But in fact, most often the cries, similar to the "VZH-I-Ya-y" of the Ivolga, publishes before the weather worsening.

Kingfisher
Moonfield - small forests with dark specks. The throat, the pocket of the neck of white color, the abdomen - reddish. The beak is long, straight, and legs, wings and tail are relatively short.
The name of this bird appeared a long time ago, when it was believed that the pants at the kingfisher appear in winter, far in the south. This opinion arose because the jet of the kingfoon was very difficult to detect. In the people, the wintering is also called "fishing".

Moonfields are common throughout the globe. There are also forest and semi-desert species in the shores of rivers and lakes. Prefer places with some kind of vegetation - trees and shrubs.

They feed on a shallow fish, thaws, water insects. Sitting motionless on some branch, the kingfisher is looking out for prey, dives behind her, enough of it, emerges, takes off and eats.

The kingfishers are able to dramatically slow down in the air when flying, hang over the water, dive into water for prey. They have very good eyesight: easily and accurately determine the distance to their prey. In winter, they love to swim in the snow. Moonfields make a sharp, loud cry: "Ti-I-I-p ... Ti-I-P".
They nest the inheritant in separate pairs in the coastal cliffs. For the nest of the male and the female dig a mink, which begins with the tunnel, and ends with the nesting chamber. There are no litters in the nest. Summer female eggs around 20 days. The hatched chicks feed both parents, first bring small fish, then the size of the fish increases. As soon as young hazes will learn to fly, they immediately leave their parents.

Many peoples have legends and legends. For example, it was believed that this bird mined a fire for people and fell her abdomen, so it was bright red.

Owl
Owl is a nightly bird of prey. The magnitude of the body owls is different: from 40 to 180 cm, weighs from 50 g to 3.5 kg. The eyes are large, fixed, but the neck is very mobile, owls can turn their head to 270 degrees. The beak is strong, with a sharp curved crochet at the end. Wings wide, claws are long and sharp. The tail is usually short. The painting of the plumage is mainly gray and brown. Most often, females are larger than males. Owls fly silently.

The Owl Day usually lead a fixed lifestyle, so many believe that they do not see anything and sleep. But it is not. Owl and the day, and at night sees the same, although the color distinguishes weakly. There is another disadvantage of her vision - owls of far-pool. Needing with her owl almost sees nothing. But her ear is very thin.
In the spring and summer of owls often scream at night. The voices of their monotonne, similar to the detachment ("Wow-Hu") or broach ("Spertu-Yu-Yu") moans.
Owls are widespread, they are not only in Antarctica. They can dwell both in the forests and in the gardens, and in the parks. Sometimes they settled in the old manors, estates, castles, hovering horror in their crude on the inhabitants of these places. Food owls are diverse, large owls hunt for rodents, small insects feed insects, some - fish.