Red chalk bunting
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Rötelgrundammer ( Pipilo erythrophthalmus ) |
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| ( Linnaeus , 1758) |
The red chalk bunting ( Pipilo erythrophthalmus ) is an American songbird from the family of the New World chambers .
features
With a length of 23 cm, the red chalk bunting is one of the largest New World sparrows. The bird has red-brown flanks, a white belly, and a long dark tail with white edges. The eye color is generally red, only in the southeastern population it is white. The male is colored black on the head, upper side and tail, in the female these parts are brown.
Occurrence
The red chalk bunting lives in open fields, thickets, and the edges of bushes and forests from southern Canada via the USA to Mexico . The northern populations spend the winter in southern North America.
Way of life
The bird scratches its feet on the ground between the soil and leaves for insects, spiders and fruits.
The female alone builds a bowl-shaped nest out of twigs and grasses on the ground or between the lower branches of a bush. The clutch of two to six eggs incubates for about two weeks. Both parent birds feed the young birds for two weeks. The young birds stay with their parents until the end of summer.
literature
- Colin Harrison & Alan Greensmith: Birds. Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 1993, 2000, ISBN 3-8310-0785-3
- Bryan Richard: Birds. Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-4054-5506-3
Web links
- Pipilo erythrophthalmus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings about Pipilo erythrophthalmus in the Internet Bird Collection