Black neck pyrol
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The black- naped pyrole ( Oriolus chinensis ) is a species of bird in the oriole family . It is mainly found in East Asia and prefers to live in mixed forests and parks .
features
The bird can grow to be 23 to 26 centimeters. It is easy to recognize by its strikingly radiant and colorful plumage. In the female, the plumage is more yellowish-green and gray-white, in the males the color is golden-yellow and black. The black-necked pyrole has a red, conical beak. He's a loner and not very sociable. The birds are quite shy and rarely come out of their hiding places in the treetops. The black-necked pyrole can live up to 15 years.
Distribution area and habitat
The black-necked pyrole lives in Asia, it is mainly widespread in the areas of China , Korea , Java and the Philippines . Since the oriole is a migratory bird, it mostly overwinters in southern China , southern Indochina , Myanmar and on the Malay Peninsula . The birds can also be spotted in Europe in summer. The bird prefers to live in areas with temperatures between 22 and 30 degrees Celsius. He usually stays on trees in parks and in forests near settlements in order not to be discovered. Despite its bright colors, the oriole is well camouflaged between the leaves of the tall trees, but the habitat of the black-necked pyrole is threatened by the incessant clearing of the forests. Poachers pose another problem for the population of the animals.
food
The black-necked pyrole prefers insects such as z. B. cockchafer , moth , grasshoppers , caterpillars , butterflies , beetles , cicadas , but also fruits such as wild berries, sweet cherries and currants . The oriole also has a preference for forest soil. In order to separate the fruit from its core, the black-naped pyrole uses its conical beak, with which it can easily detach the pulp from the core. The fledglings learn this technique by imitating the parent's approach.
Brood
Every year the male black-necked pirate heralds the mating season with the whistling mating call "Bühlo". This call attracts the females. After mating, the couples preferably build an artistic bowl nest in the protected mixed forests of China, Korea and Manchuria , which is made from parts of roots and bark. The bowl nest is always between two forks. The female lays two to five eggs between May and July, which are speckled with reddish brown on a pale red background. In summer, the animals breed in Europe too. While the female is breeding, the male drives away nest robbers with rasping and croaking calls. After 14 to 15 days the nestlings hatch and are fed by both adult birds. The young birds leave the free breeders' nest in the year of their birth .
literature
- Bertelsmann Lexicon Institute. Bertelsmann Lexicon in three volumes. Og-Z. Wissen Media Verlag GmbH, Gütersloh 2003, p. 104.
- Bum-joo, Yoo. Birds of Korea. AULA-Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2007.
Web sources
- www.zoo-scalar.de/infoeti/VO0123.htm , (October 17, 2009)
- www.world-of-animals.de/tierlexikon/tierart_Pirole.html , (October 17, 2009)
Web links
- Oriolus chinensis inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2013.