Amazing bird remez

Bird remez weighs no more than 7-11 grams and its features exceed the overseas sister - hummingbird. For example, to equip the nest, the Russian bird is content with one flexible twig, and hummingbirds require thick enough rods on the tree. Why is the Russian "inch" not so popular as others?

According to scientists, this is due to its rather modest coloring and inconspicuous behavior. After all, the very word "remez" in German means "reed titmouse", from Latin - "hanging", "hangs". That is, you can guess that most of the time Ptah lives in reed thickets and other bushes and trees growing near water bodies. She with the enviable skill of the acrobat is able to hang on thin rods of vegetation, clinging to them with one leg only.

Nutrition and reproduction

Bird remez most of the food finds in the reeds and bark of trees in the form of small beetles, berries and plant seeds. Insects and larvae perfectly complement the daily diet of poultry.

Reed tits are recognized as polygamous. However, there are also such individuals who are able to live with one partner. The female lays 5-8 eggs and incubates the chicks for two weeks. They are born naked and helpless.

For 30 days, the remezza chicks are in a sheltered nest, and parents feed them, bringing in the beak of small insects. About a month later the chicks become independent and ready to leave their parents' house.

Ordinary Remez

With whom only they compare feathered "inch", residing in the Russian territory! Often it is called a "swamp titmouse", and there is no mistake in it. After all, the bird remez - the closest relative of this sonorous songwriter!

Nevertheless, it should be recognized that the Remezov family is a separate species and it is seen not only in Russia. Little birds have long taken a liking to the eastern regions of Japan, China and the moderate climatic zone of Central Europe. The ordinary remez is somewhat larger than the other subspecies. The length of his body reaches 12 cm, and the weight is able to reach up to 19 g (in males).

Can you say about these birds that they are singing birds of Russia? Their thin whistling can hardly be compared with a nightingale trill. However, the "king of singing" is more modest in color, rather than in remez. The bird, the description of which we are considering in this article, pleases the eye with the color of its back. Most often it is muted brown. The head of the remez has, as a rule, a gray shade and a black mask around the eyes. Scientists note that this bird is a magnificent builder of the nest.

Ptakha suspends it at the end of a thin but firm branch. Brings in the beak stems of herbs, weaves them an elegant frame and fills it with poplar fluff and petals of the inflorescences. The result is a unique rocking-nest!

Magic house

It is often used for esoteric and therapeutic purposes. According to ancient beliefs, if you take the fluff from the nest of the rime (straw) and put it in the chicken coop, the poultry will regularly carry eggs. And advanced mages use the nest of remez in various rituals. So, to reconcile the couple's "house" hang on the stick and hit them with a quarreling couple.

If a woman is supposed to have difficult births, then she is fumigated with a nest, which is preliminarily spoken for a successful outcome. In Russia, there are cases when toddlers, late to take the first steps, were taken to the ponds to find the refuge of the remez. It was customary for the children to keep a bird over the bird's nest with a special conspiracy, so that they quickly and confidently went.

Songbirds of Russia

If we talk about singing talents, then, of course, the primacy here can be given to the nightingale, blackbird, Oriole, chaffinch, korolku. And ordinary remez, as we have already found out, is more famous for its construction gift. But we should not forget about other subspecies of this family.

For example, oatmeal-remez. She has quite a pleasant singing - slightly intermittent and filled with a different tonality. Ptahs usually settle on the side branches and start their raspevku. However, when oatmeal-remez is very worried, it can make sharp sounds, similar to an unpleasant "snuff".

Scientists advise lovers of bird singing to enjoy the gentle trill of this bird in nature, and not keeping it in captivity. Oatmeal-remez can hardly be tamed and may even die, losing freedom. But if there is a great desire to keep a songer at home, then choose for her a spacious cage in the solar zone of the room. Oatmeal-remez is more insectivorous bird than cereal. If this is not taken into account, then the songbird will in time cease to please the owner with his delightful trill.