Red-breasted goose: description, habitat, reproduction

Red-breasted goose is considered a narrow-minded species. At the current moment, the population is stable, although the species remains in a rather serious condition, as places for moulting and nesting are actively developed by people.

The bird in appearance is a small goose with very bright plumage. And if you are interested in how to draw a red-breasted goose, you need to know that the top of the head, neck, forehead and back, tail, belly and wings are black.

The head on the sides has large rusty spots with a contour of white hue. The area of the goiter and the front part of the neck are red. The legs are black, and the beak for the goose is relatively small.

Spread

Outside the nesting zone of this species is the Altai Territory. Migratory geese fly along the entire Lower Ob, as well as from the Yenisei Bay from Taimyr to the mouth of the river. Irtysh. A way is fixed along Tobol. In the autumn period in the past the goose was often observed also in the Barabinsk reservoirs (in this article one can see their pictures). Red-breasted goose sometimes appears in the Altai Territory, it can be regarded as flying birds, departed from their main course of the flight route. These rare zaletas sometimes occur in the migratory autumn period.

Most often Red-breasted Goose meets on Kulundinskom lake. At this point, she was observed three times in September. In the floodplain of the river. Obi data of geese were obtained in the Pavlovsk district in 1961, in addition, their presence was noted in the Petropavlovsk district; Near the village of Nizhneozerskoe on the Stepno Lake, which is located in Ust-Pristan; In the lower reaches of the river. Charysh. This goose on the river. Alei is noted in the Aleysky and Rubtsovsk districts; A view in the Upper Aley periodically occurs in the Gilevsky Reserve in the autumn period. Red-breasted goose, according to hunters, is also in the Romanov region on the lakes Gorkoe, Bitter-Perechechnoe and Bolshoy Ostrovnoe.

In addition, the bird was registered in the Swan Reserve in 1993, at the Gilev Reservoir in 1997, where they noticed a flock of 20 birds in October; In the spring of 1997, we met one specimen at the mouth of the Chumysh, as well as a flooded meadow near the village of Akutiha. Single rare specimens are recorded in the Mamontovsky and Khabar districts; On Lake Stepnoi in August 2003, two individuals were kept; Near the village of Novichikha in 2003, 6 red-breasted geese were observed on the Akinino swamp. They were rarely observed in autumn and spring on the lakes Lyapunikha and Belenkoye in the Uglovsky district.

Habitats (photo)

Red-breasted goose nests from the forest-tundra to the boundary of typical tundra, while the most favorable nesting zones of these birds are associated with tundra and shrubby - there they are located on ledges or at the edge of steep slopes along the banks of rivers and lakes. During migration, they stay near water bodies.

Number of

As already mentioned above, in recent years there has been a positive dynamics of the general state of the population of this species. In the Altai Territory most often fly alone, mostly with geese in flocks of other species. Sometimes groups of 25 individuals or less were observed, although the schools are much larger. For example, in Kulunda Lake in 1986, up to 50 individuals were kept, and in 1985 and 1989, - approximately one hundred.

Features of biology

Birds to the places of their nesting arrive in the first half of June already formed pairs. In the same month, in the twentieth, they begin to actively lay eggs. Mostly nest in small colonies of 5 or more pairs, sometimes - in separate pairs. At the age of three, there is a maturity. Each year, nesting involves no more than 38% of the entire population, while in unfavorable years - only 4%. In normal, full clutch can be up to 7 eggs, their female incubates for 27 days, then hatching chicks, touching in the photo.

Red-breasted goose is exceptionally herbivorous. Until 1968, the main wintering areas were the southern part of the Caspian Sea, at the moment - the lakes in the western part of the Black Sea and the lower reaches of the Danube.

Regularly bred since 1960 in Slimbridge, the International Center of Waterfowl. She is also bred in the Walsrode Zoo, as well as in various private airplanes in Europe. The litter was also received at the Moscow Zoo.

Security measures

That the Red-breasted Goose does not degenerate, strict control is exercised over the full observance of environmental legislation, in addition, education of the population, including hunters.