the 4 or 5 types of the water-blackbirds draws itself through its uncommon one(s), with other Singvögeln of way of life not to be confused from. Quite incomplete spreads, she are at clear and stone, often fast flowing brooks the forest, steppes and mountain-regions, to find Asia, north and South America in Europe.
Characteristics Here stilts the 14-19 cm big birds with its powerful runs vigorously through the water, with each step sincerely, see-sawing with the notably short tail. The sure contact with the water becomes possible through the extreme adaptation to this habitat. Lockable nose-openings and a so dense one, is strongly with Dunen of pushed through plumages known otherwise only from real waterfowls. The plumage constantly is greased with the secretion of the big Bürzeldrüse. So, the water-blackbirds are not only good swimmers and divers; they can even run at the reason under water. The diving-process is restricted to at most 30 seconds; in exceptions can be reached on that occasion up to 6 m of water-depth. On this occasion the low specific weight must be evened out through vehement rudder-hits with the wings since swimming-skins are missing.
Also in the low and straight flight, the birds follow the water-runs. These become at all over left not the whole year as long as they still show an ice-free place also in the low winter somewhere. Otherwise the birds avoid into deeper mountain-situations or behave as line-birds.
Food Between shingles and sandbanks, the water-blackbirds look for water-bedbugs, mollusks, fish-brood and tadpoles after small animals - mainly insect-larvae -, beside it however also after plant-sharing. Indigestible food-components are forth-choked again as Gewölle.
Brood The water-blackbirds cover a creek along a strictly delimited precinct; often, the same Nistplätze are used year for year. Near the nest, the male often sits down on a boulder and lets its chant, that is similar for the wren, sound. With it, performs courtship display brings the male closer to itself the female under wing-tremor and bows.
The big, spherical nest is from-dressed by both partners from dry moss built and interior with dry foliage. It lies over the water in 1-5 m of height, normally under a ledge or in a column, near but also under a bridge or even behind a waterfall. So, it is protected against numerous predatory enemies, who still nevertheless destroy numerous broods beside the cancellations through strongly rising water. The female incubates the 4-6 eggs alone.
Types In Europe, Asia and North-Africa, the water-blackbird (Cinclus cinclus) lives, whose sexes differ with the shining of white colored throat and the bay sub-body externally hardly. However, numerous subtypes deviate of each other in the plumage-coloring. The brown water-blackbird (Cinclus pallasii) is less colorful from means and Eastern Asia, whose spread-area partially overlaps with that of the water-blackbird. it populated north and Central America's west gray water-blackbird (Cinclus mexicanus); the white-head-water-blackbird (Cinclus leucocephalus) advanced as far as into the subtropical and tropical regions of Venezuela until Bolivia.
Endangering Our native water-blackbird is on the red list of the endangered types.
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