the garden-red-tail (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) is one of Europe's most frequent and at the same time most splendid small-birds (14 cm of length). With its notably auburn tail, the white waiter-head, the black throat over the brown-red breast and that gray waiter-backs are the male, to hardly confuse with another bird of its spread-area (Western Europe until means-Siberia and Afghanistan).
The best, the second still resembles it in Europe living type, the house-red-tail (Phoenicurus ochruros); 14 cm of length, that is colored much darker with its black front-body, however.
Habitat While the garden-red-tail prefers light forests, gardens, parks and installations, the house-red-tail is, as original mountain-inhabitant to like about rocky hillsides, at stonework and at buildings sooner.
Zugverhalten Both types are distinct migratory birds. Until on some Mediterranean-populations, the garden-red-tails brooding in Europe move in to the hibernation in the steppes and savanna-belts beyond the equator south from the Sahara, but not. On the train, they are also in open terrain.
Food The red-tail is an active bird. Unremittingly, it flutters u on the search of insects. a. small animals of branch to branches, chases its loot in the air or seeks it at the ground; Berries and fruits supplement the food-offer.
Chant The precinct is delimited through a short and pleasantly sounding chant; this begins with a high, protracted sound, that two or three short attacks follow. Occasionally ahmt the male also the tone-remarks of other birds after.
Reproduction With it, performs courtship display brings it right to the validity the shining plumage-parts auburn first. So it stretches with long neck far forward, lets hung the wings or sets it up before em females and fans out the tail-feathers on that occasion far apart. In a series of Balzflügen, the female from branch to branch is hunted; both vibrate fast on that occasion with the tail downward until the combination is carried out. The male then hatches demonstratively at the Nisthöhle and one, to show about it to the female. It then is left the nest-construction and the Bebrütung of the 5-8 eggs fully to this. If the boys slipped after approximately 2 weeks, they are fed by both parents and are looked after as well after going out.
System Many other types this type or relatives types of the throttles can be summarized in a "red-tail-group." they are world, d, in the northern elderly. h. in North-Africa, South-Asia, north and Central America spreads (cottage-singers). Most types are marked through shaking or trembling movements of the tail; this not always needs to be colored auburn.
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