Olive mockers
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Olive Mockers ( Hippolais olivetorum ) |
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The Olive Mocker ( Hippolais olivetorum ) is a songbird from the reed warbler family (Acrocephalidae). The species has a relatively small distribution area in south-eastern Europe and Turkey .
description
The olive mocker is 16-18 centimeters long and has a wing length of 8.5 to 8.8 centimeters. It weighs around 15 grams. At the top it is colored gray. In addition, the bird has a whitish spot in front of the eye. The underside is whitish gray. The strong beak is relatively long.
distribution and habitat
The Olive Mocker lives in light forests with clearings rich in bushes, high maquis as well as olive and almond groves on the Adriatic coast , in Greece and in the coastal areas of Turkey .
food
The olive mocker feeds on insects and their larvae.
Way of life
The song of the Olive Mocker is louder, slower and deeper than that of other mockers. The nest is usually built in dense vegetation in a tree or large bush. The nests are usually 1 to 3 meters above the ground on the outer branches. They are made of bast, blades of grass, roots and webs on the outside. Plant wool, grass panicles, horse hair and down are used inside. The nest is built and the eggs are incubated by the female. The three to four eggs are pale purple and spotted black and have a size of 21 × 14 millimeters. The breeding season is about 13 days. An additional shift is possible. Feed both parent birds, the young birds leave the nest after 2 weeks and are still not quite able to fly. In September and early October the birds move to their winter quarters in East Africa, from where they return in early May.
literature
- Alfred Limbrunner and Manfred Pforr: Ornithological picture atlas of the breeding birds of Europe . Verlag J. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen 1980, ISBN 3-7888-0347-9 .
- Wolfgang Makatsch : We determine the birds of Europe . Neumann Verlag, Radebeul 1966.
- Lars Svensson , Peter J. Grant, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström: The new cosmos bird guide. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07720-9 , p. 300 f.
Web links
- Hippolais olivetorum inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved November 13, 2011.