Forty are one of the most surprising birds, without being flying, it is widespread on all globe. Besides, is famous for forty for the thieves' abilities and special passion for all bright and brilliant.
It is easy for Sorok to recognize by its plumage. Bluish-black, with modulations, some views of breasts have a so-called body and a breast of a bird fartuchek white color. Wings the soroka long, thin, on edge of plumage on them and a tail has a white border. The place of residence and nestings of a soroka are forests of any type, but most often she lodges near human housing, bringing a lot of trouble upon the neighbors. The fact that this bird has high intelligence is remarkable, it is capable to remember information, easily adapts to any conditions of accommodation, copes with extreme situations and intuitively feels danger or the friendly attitude towards himself.
As forty breeds
Very few people know that he forty is a peculiar antipode of a cuckoo who is not engaged in education of the posterity and just throws up eggs in others nests. Forty, on the contrary, steals someone else's eggs and transfers to the nest.
Before laying eggs, forty builds nests, and their quantity reaches 10 pieces from which she will choose then only one. The design of a nest of a soroka quite difficult is a strong construction in the form of a bowl, and sometimes a sphere with a side entrance, filled with a soft laying from down, a moss and leaves, wool and a dry grass.
One laying of a soroka is 7-8 eggs which it evaporates within 18 days. After appearance of baby birds on steam light long time nurses them as they are absolutely helpless, and the science of self-survival and adaptation is acquired hardly. The period of growth of young growth can be more than 4 weeks.
The interesting facts about soroka
Sorok begin to lay eggs before other birds, in April or at the beginning of May. To ensure safety to future posterity, these birds are formed in pack which nests are very close. Males are engaged in protection of "territory", and so far one their group is engaged in protection, another gets livelihood to females and baby birds. Livelihood which they hide in small deepenings in the earth near a gnezdovishch are capable to stock Soroki. Soroki are omnivorous – they with pleasure eat insects and lounge-lizards, often ruin others nests, a parts of eggs from which move to the laying, and eat a part. For the baby birds the sorok make a peculiar menu and alternate food animal products to seeds of plants, sprouts and leaves. Despite almost unanimous opinion that sorok do not bear any advantage the nature needs them. During activation of pincers, for example, they help large animals to get rid of them, bringing together them is not present only from the surface of skins, but also extending that already managed to stick.