Birds of the Nizhny Novgorod region: photos and names

The Nizhny Novgorod region is rich in forest areas, inhabited by 293 species of birds. This is very common, and rare, and even those that are listed in the Red Book. Birds of the Nizhny Novgorod region are divided into 19 detachments. Some of the species usually nest far from the area, therefore appear in the area infrequently. They nest constantly in the area of just 17 detachments.

Flying birds

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, having lost their course, birds fly like a thick-haired guillemot, a pink pelican, a cormorant. In rare cases, even flamingos were met, which became a sensation for scientists. These birds do not belong to the birds of the Nizhny Novgorod region, they live in other places.

Tolstoklyukaya guillemot occurs in the Arctic territories, on the island of Vaigach and on the two islands of Novaya Zemlya. Pink pelican dwells on the lands of South-Eastern Europe, in Africa and Asia. Cormorant is widespread in areas with a tropical and temperate climate.

The flamingo is an amazingly beautiful creature that lives in Africa, in Azerbaijan, South-East and Central Asia, and in America. This stately bird, as a rule, does not leave its territory. But despite this, she was met twice in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Unfortunately, both times she became a victim of hunters.

Sometimes come here a small toadstool, a duck loaf, gyrfalcon, peregrine falcon, shipotus, black-headed gull, polar owl and others.

Nesting birds

There are 17 bird detachments in this region. They are all common in neighboring areas. If you look at the photos of birds from the Nizhny Novgorod region, it's amazing how diverse the avifauna of this region is. Especially common are waterfowl birds, small birds of forests and meadows. They can easily be found even near human habitation. These include such units:

• Grebes - chomga and black cherry toadstool from them are most widely spread;
• The stems are mostly represented by herons and a bittern, the storks are rarely found;
• Anseriformes are the most numerous detachment, it is a goose, a goose, various kinds of ducks, swans, pelicans and others;
• Otter-shaped - hazel grouse, black grouse, wood grouse, partridge - live in forests;
• From the cranes are common gray crane, shoulder straps, corncrake and coot;
• Charadriiformes are gulls and sandpipers: blackfish, snipe, woodcock, gull gull, crouch and others;
• Pigeons are widespread in the area not only in nature, but also in cities;
• From the cuckoo-shaped live here 2 species;
• A goat is widely distributed, but it is difficult to see;
• Black swift is ubiquitous in the region by large flocks;
• The hoopoe lives mainly on the right bank of the Volga, it is difficult to see;
• Gingerbreads are less common in the region - it is a golden bee-eater, kingfisher and cisco;
• Woodpeckers are yellow, large and small, mottled, white-backed;
• Passeriform - this is the most numerous unit, such birds are found everywhere in the central strip of Russia.

Birds of prey of the Nizhny Novgorod region

A large number of rodents in the region contributes to the spread of daytime and night predators. Such birds are more difficult to see, they are more secretive. Especially many of them are very rare. The most common order is the daytime bird of prey. It includes 27 subspecies, of which 21 nest here permanently. These are such birds as buzzard, spotted eagle, osprey, black kite, snake-eater, goshawk, lun, kestrel, falcon and others.

There are also night predators in the Nizhny Novgorod region. These are 12 subspecies of oviforms. A long-eared owl, a spittle, a horsy owl, a gray owl live in the area all the time. And sometimes also a polar owl flies here for winter.

Birds of the Red Book of the Nizhny Novgorod Region

Here there are rare endangered birds. To such carry 70 subspecies. Photos and names of birds of the Nizhny Novgorod region need to know all people living here and in neighboring regions. After all, these birds can not be found in the future. Rare birds include the gray heron, small bittern, chomga, white stork, mute swan, osprey, peregrine falcon, small gull, eagle owl, kingfisher and many others. Quite rare here are loons, gray woodpeckers, gyrfalcon. But there are also those who are under threat of extinction. This is a black stork, a golden eagle, an eagle burial ground and a bearded owl. In order to protect these proud and beautiful birds from extinction, special reserves are created where they reproduce.

Black stork

It belongs to the order of the stork. A fairly large bird with a wingspan of about 1.5 meters. Color is noteworthy: the body is dark with a greenish tint, the abdomen is whitish. Young birds have black beak, legs with a green tint.

This beautiful bird is included in the Red Book, because it was almost exterminated. The last two nests that were found in the region were destroyed in the early 1980s. But more recently in the region have found a new nest with a brood of chicks. Black Stork is a secret bird, does not like the community of people. Nests, as a rule, are more often forests, near forest lakes, marshes, rivers.

Golden eagle

This bird belongs to the detachment of hawks. Berkut is recognized as the largest eagle in the world. The length of his body grows to one meter, and the wingspan is more than two meters. These birds of the Nizhny Novgorod region, as a rule, try to stay in pairs near their nest.

The color of the golden eagle is brown, the vertex and posterior zone of the neck has a light-colored color, reddish-golden. The beak is dark brown, with a blue tinge, legs, like all eagles are feathered to the fingers, and fingers yellow. The claw of the back finger comes in a bend up to five centimeters, which you will not find in other birds of prey.

This hunter, like other representatives of the subspecies, has very good eyesight, but only in the daytime. An object the size of a hare, he will see at a distance of a couple of kilometers. The neck of the golden eagle can be rotated 270 degrees, which increases the field of view. "Frowning" superciliary arches protect eyes from bright sunlight.

Golden eagle is included in the Red Book in connection with its mass extermination. Another important factor in the extinction of the species is the use of pesticides by man and his invasion of the wild.

Eagle-burial ground

Birds of the Nizhny Novgorod region - eagle-burial grounds, as well as golden eagles, belong to the family of hawks. The size of his torso is about 85 centimeters, the wingspan is more than two meters. The color is dark brown, almost black. The vertex is lighter. On the humeral parts of the wings there are white spots. Plumage to the very toes, legs yellow.

Some ornithologists suggest that this predator received its name, because researchers often meet it on tree branches near stone and adobe mausoleums. Many experts propose to change the name to a solar eagle or imperial eagle. Another part of ornithologists believes that the bird received its name because it feeds on carrion.

The number of burial eagles is terribly small. The bird is listed in the Red Book all over the world. In connection with the expansion of megacities, there are very few places for nesting at the eagle-burial ground. They are also destroyed every year from power lines. And of course, in the disappearance of this species, poachers are to blame.