Amazing bird woodcock Bashny.Net

Woodcock – a bird that for many years attracted the attention of scientists. Its unusual adaptations for life in the eyes, amazing beak and beautiful plumage; the bird is beautiful and of course functional.





First of all, woodcock master of hiding. Its plumage is a real camouflage Bathrobe. Waves of brown, ocher feathers interspersed with black and white covers the back and wings of a bird. The diversity of the bird blurs, dissolves its outline on the background of the forest litter of leaves and grass. Even knowing the place where they are hiding woodcock, it is not always possible to see.





A front, grey vest, and his underwings are Buffy-rusty. So suddenly soaring woodcock seems fantastic fire flower. The eyes are arranged in surprising them the bird notices all around. It does not need to twist the head, it can be immobile. The fact that the incredibly beautiful eyes of the woodcock are like periscopes. Large black olives they stand out in dovhonosy head. Due to the fact that the organs of vision related unusually far back to the back of the head, a forest bird can simultaneously control the space in front of him and behind. The few representatives of the living world nature has endowed such abilities.





If we talk about various unusual this bird, we can not say about its amazing beak. As eyes, he is a wonderful and perfect instrument. Woodcock typically feed in the twilight. They roam the soft forest grass and choose the larvae. Preference is given to earthen worms. In a suitable place woodcock again and again starts its probe-beak into the soil, feeling the vending area until there is detected a worm. Beak – a real live pair of tweezers, just very sensitive. On the upper part there is a small recess, through which the bird can raise its probe in the soil, zadamlya prey.





Woodcocks live in Russia, especially a lot of them in the United States and Canada.

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