Scientific name:
Coccothraustes

Natural spread:
Euopa, Asia, North-Africa

the Kernbeißer is the biggest native type of the finches with a length of 18 cm. Kernbeißer live on foliage and Mischwäldern the restrained one(s) in the treetops, that mediterranen and the steppe-zones of Eurasia and North-Africa. Here, the birds of tree-fruits with hard stones and seeds, of which they eat moreover usually only the most inner kernel, live. they prefer fruits of cherries, plums, hornbeams and maple.

Shape The brown, blue and white patterned Kernbeißer is unmistakable through its unusually thick beak, that gray-blue in the spring and summers, in the winter however yellow is colored.

Hikes The Kernbeißer are part-pickpockets. The most northern brood-birds spend the winter to the largest part in the Mediterranean-countries as well as in northwest-India, China and Japan.

Way of life The Kernbeißer lives on foliage and Mischwäldern in the treetops, in parks and grounds very hidden, so that one usually recognizes it first, if it wipes off in the fast flight. Also the robin-good chant is to rarely be heard.

Brood The brood-period begins end of April or beginning in our widths May. The nest is usually based rather highly on a bulky brushwood-base in a foliage-tree. If the nest with approximately 5 eggs is complete, begins to brood the female alone. The boys slip after approximately 14 days. Both alto-birds feed the nest-stools until these leave the nest after 10 -14 days.