The bird makes a creaky cry. About bird voices: how different birds sing

We all know how pleasant it is to open our eyes in the morning, hearing the clear voices of songbirds. They are the first to invite the sun, proclaiming the coming of a new day. Maybe for you it’s the crow of a rooster in the village where you spent your summer holidays with your grandmother. One way or another, birdsong accompanies us everywhere. It became familiar, sounding in the ears as a constant background. But after listening, everyone realizes how beautiful and simple the natural sounds of nature are. We'll talk about this interesting chirping of birds.

Sounds of nature

Birdsong is considered one of the most peaceful and beautiful sounds in the world. Residents of big cities, in an effort to find peace and nourish themselves with the energy of nature, leave the concrete jungle in order to hear it and fully relax. Fresh air and bird trills are one of the best ways stopping the racing of thoughts and realizing how beautiful the world without its hectic pace and daily stress.

Birds, like other animals, transmit information to each other through sound signals. With their help, birds express the full range of emotions inherent in them, signaling to their relatives that danger awaits them. Even the hen, being an intellectually primitive bird, protects its chicks by sending them characteristic signals. From them, kids understand that they need to leave an unfavorable place and hide in a shelter.

Singing and the seasons

Birds do not need words to convey important data. To do this, they have a peculiar intonation, timbre and a voice inherent in each breed of individuals.

The trills of birds are clearly audible in spring and summer. This is due to the fact that during the period when the sun warms all living things, these creatures begin to create their own families. In order to attract a female, males demonstrate all their advantages. Besides external signs, they are distinguished by a special manner of inviting a potential partner with their voice.

The louder, more expressive and melodic it sounds, the more chances the male has to attract the attention of the female and fulfill the purpose laid down by nature. The reproductive instinct is the main urge of birds. We, as outside observers, simply enjoy this gift.

Tested and proven

Scientists conducted an experiment in which they isolated a chicken from all its relatives so that, as it grew up, it would not hear the sounds they made. When the chicken grew up, its sound signals were no different from the chickens that spent this time in the chicken coop. Experience has proven the fact that birds do not learn to sing (chirp, screech). This is genetically embedded in them.

Moreover, some birds also reproduce the voices of their feathered relatives. In particular, we are talking about the mockingbird, for which it got its name. Another example is the canary. Once in the company of songbirds, for example, nightingales, over time she acquires the skills of their singing. But the sparrow does not have the ability to imitate a singing voice. Another inimitable pretender among birds is the parrot. And although he is capable of learning human speech, imitating voice and timbre, he has no awareness of what is being said.

Singers of our homeland

Russia covers vast territories and includes regions with different climatic conditions. In view of this, the diversity of birds living in Russia is replete with unusual species.

Among the songbirds that live in the middle zone, there are those that evoke direct associations with our homeland.

Nightingale. His iridescent trills inspire Russian poets and songwriters to create their masterpieces. A modest, outwardly inconspicuous bird, the nightingale has a unique and inimitable voice.

The singing of blackbirds is similar to playing the flute.

The trill of a lark can be heard in the morning when it invites the sun and announces the beginning of the day.

Bright yellow orioles chirp, sing, and whistle.

Robins chirp loudly and loudly. It’s not for nothing that in Rus' their trills are called crimson ringing.

Other colorful singers of Russia: blackbird, siskin, goldfinch, chaffinch, mockingbird and others.

Overseas birds

The vocal birds of the world have aroused interest and admiration among humans since time immemorial. They inspire people and encourage them to create musical instruments imitating birdsong. But there is also a category of birds that do not sing, but talk. We are talking, first of all, about parrots. These exotic birds amaze with their ability to reproduce words and sounds of human speech. They live in Africa, Brazil, and also on the exotic southern islands. The most talkative parrots on the planet are the Gray parrots. They flawlessly repeat not only words, but copy intonation, voice and speed of speech.

Another talkative bird is the European mynah rook. Its peculiarity is that it not only pronounces words, but also actually inserts them in a dialogue with a person.

Another talented parodist is the warbler. She also reproduces the singing of other birds. It lives in the countries of the Old World, and flies to Africa for the winter.

Sleepless in the night

Some birds are nocturnal. With the onset of darkness, their activity increases significantly, because at this time the birds are looking for food. A striking example of this is owls. They fly silently, have keen vision and strike their prey at the most unexpected moment. We associate the peculiar hoot of an owl with a dense night forest and danger.

At night other birds also call. These are the nightingale, wild quail, warbler, redstart, blackbird.

Night trills flow during the mating season, namely in spring and summer. It is mainly males who sing. This is how they attract the attention of their potential partners.

The favorite habitat of night singers is places near ponds and swamps. Their typical inhabitant is the marsh bittern. She makes very specific sounds, similar to a roar (bugai).

City birds are singing

Common inhabitants of the urban jungle are pigeons, swallows, crows, wagtails, magpies and sparrows. We hear their entertaining but insipid chirping, cooing and croaking all year round everywhere.

But with the onset of spring, the variety of voices and their melody increase significantly. The mating season in birds, as is known, is accompanied by singing. The trills of the nightingale, starling, song thrush, robin and chaffinch sound euphonious in the city. Often these birds fly from the forest belt. In the city, they choose public gardens, parks and other places where there is vegetation. Therefore, if you want to enjoy the singing of birds and take a break from the everyday hustle and bustle, go for a walk in a park or city garden. Such live concerts are held for city residents throughout the spring and summer.

Whistling birds

Some representatives of the bird world make sounds reminiscent of a human whistle. It is heard in the forest, garden, park, both in spring and in the summer months. The characteristic sounds of tick-tick-tick-tick are made by the common redstart and its close relative the black redstart. These small birds from the flycatcher family belong to the songbirds. They are considered one of the most beautiful birds living in city parks. The size of the bird is only 10-15 cm. The abdomen and tail of the bird are painted in a rich orange color. When she straightens her ponytail, it seems as if a real flame is flaring up.

Identifying a bird by its singing style

Here are the calls characteristic of some birds by which they are recognized:

• sparrow: jik-jik-jik, chir-chir;
• raven: loud cries krok-krok, kru-kru;
• jackdaw: khee-khee, kaaa-kaaa;
• rook: kraaa;
• thrush: tsek-tsek, khii, keeee;
• lark: tiu-tiu-tiu;
• warbler: chir-chir-chchrr;
• swallow: chirr-chirr;
• tit: ts-ts-ts-prrr;
• jay: zhge-zhge;
• magpie: check-check-check;
• goldfinch: tsvi-tsvi-tsvik;
• wagtail: loud, intermittent chirping.

Sound therapy: birds and children

The calming sounds of nature provide not only aesthetic pleasure. The trills of songbirds have a beneficial effect on a person’s mental well-being.

Listening to them calms you down, sets you up for complete rest and harmonizes from within. Children are especially sensitive to sounds and very impressionable. Therefore, it is important that from the first days the child is surrounded by the singing of birds.

The impact of the voices of songbirds occurs through their entry into the auditory zone, and then into the cerebral cortex and spreads throughout it completely. When a baby (even a baby) hears birdsong, all his internal organs are tuned to harmonious and coordinated work. Audio recordings with bird sounds are suitable for a child to listen to before going to bed, or if he is irritable, nervous or sad.

Birds heal

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor V.D. Ilyichev once conducted an experiment, during which an interesting fact was revealed. People who live outside the city and surround themselves daily with natural sounds, including birdsong, are more likely to live long lives. This is explained by the fact that the natural sounds of rain, rustling leaves and birdsong are synchronized with the processes occurring in the body. It has been proven that certain bird voices solve very specific health problems.

The singing of a nightingale, accompanied by musical overtones with sharp and smooth transitions, lifts your spirits and fights migraines and depression.

Calm music with the chirping of a canary, thrush or finch has a beneficial effect on the condition of the heart.

The singing of a lark lifts your spirits.

The singing of a blackbird is listened to for migraines and hypertension.

Principles of sound therapy

Nature shares its benefits with man and offers help. Sensitive people use birdsong as an effective medicine that has no contraindications.

When you are in a park, forest, or other songbird habitat, step back from anything that worries you and listen carefully. Choose a bird sound that is especially pleasant to you and concentrate your attention on it. After some time, you will enter a light meditative state, and your energy background will stabilize and return to normal.

Listen to birdsong with pleasure every time you can. After some time, you will notice how calm, balanced and cheerful you have become. As for physical ailments, they will no longer bother you as much as they did before.

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To the question What is the name of a bird that makes a creaking cry “twitch-twitch” asked by the author Maria Fedotko the best answer is twitch (crake)
Crake (crake) is a bird that many hear, but few see. People also call him a jerk. On summer nights, the hoarse cry of the corncrake, diligently pronouncing its Latin name “crex-crex,” can be heard from the thick meadow grass. The bird itself hides all the time in the thick grass.

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This is a crake or twitcher. Here's some information about this bird.
Crake, or twitcher (lat. Crex crex) is a small bird of the rail family, belonging to the monotypic genus Crex.
It breeds in Europe and Asia, including in Russia, where it lives in wet tall grass meadows, densely overgrown shrubby swamps, sown arable lands or close to them. Migrant, winters in sub-Saharan Africa. Until recently, it was included in the International Red Book list as a species that is in danger of extinction, but in 2006, due to the clarification of the total number of birds, its status was improved and is currently considered as “close to becoming a threatened species.”
Description
A small bird, 22-25 cm long and weighing about 150 g. In size and build, it resembles the crake (Porzana porzana) - the same round, slightly laterally flattened body, elongated neck and round head; however, it differs from the latter by a noticeably shorter beak. The plumage of the upper body is light red, with dark streaks. The top of the head, primary flight feathers of the wings and tail feathers are chestnut with dark cores and gray tips. The sides are reddish-buff, with white transverse stripes. The chin and front of the neck are light gray. The beak is short, strong, reddish-brown in color. The iris of the eyes is hazel or brown. The tail is very short. Legs are brownish. Males and females differ slightly in appearance from each other - females have a crop with an ocher-red tint, while the male’s is grayer. IN winter time The gray tones of the plumage are replaced by reddish-ocher. Does not form subspecies.
Flies reluctantly and slowly; in case of danger, it tries to escape, and when suddenly startled, it flies a short distance and lands, seeking shelter in dense vegetation. It moves quickly among tall grass, often changing directions. In flight, unlike other birds, it does not extend or tuck its legs, but leaves them dangling freely.
The voice is sharp and very loud (in good weather, audible at a distance of more than a kilometer) - a loud, creaking “crack-crack”, reminiscent of the cracking of a wooden stick on the teeth of a comb. It calls mainly at dusk and at night, and only during the mating season - in spring and the first half of summer. While screaming, it stretches its neck and periodically turns it in different directions - as a result, the voice is heard either louder or quieter. The crake's cry is highly characteristic. It cannot be mixed with anything. It rarely turns into a fast “ge-ge-ge-ge” or “derg-derg-derg-derg” (hence the name), pronounced in a nasal and squeaky voice.
Area
Breeds in the forest and steppe zones of Europe and Asia to the west of the Baikal region and Vitim. In the territory Russian Federation rises north to 62-63° north latitude, in Scandinavia to 68° north latitude. In Asia it is also found in Kazakhstan, Central Asia and Transcaucasia. In the Alps it lives at an altitude of up to 1400 m above sea level, and in Russia it rises to the Sayan alpine belt at an altitude of up to 3000 m above sea level. Previously, the corncrake's range was much wider and covered most of the Central and Northern Europe in the interval between 41° and 65° north latitude, and to the east reaching 120° east longitude. However, in recent years its spread, in particular in Western Europe, has sharply declined and fragmented, and in countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland, it has become an extremely rare bird.
In winter, it migrates to savannah areas in central and southeastern Africa between southern Tanzania and the northern regions of the Republic of South Africa. Autumn migration begins in August and continues until the first half of October. Before departure, the birds gain the weight they need for a long journey. Spring arrival at the end of April-May, when the grass is already quite high. They migrate alone and at night, so it is quite difficult to track the flight time.
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One of the options:
The great bittern (lat. Botaurus stellaris) is a bird of the heron family.
general characteristics
The bittern has black feathers with yellowish edges on its back, and its head is the same color. The belly is buffy with a brown transverse pattern. The tail is yellow-brown with a blackish pattern. In general, this coloring of the bittern is camouflage and helps the bird to remain unnoticed among the stems of reeds and reeds where it lives. Males are slightly larger than females. The body weight of a male is about 1 kg, sometimes up to 1.9 kg, height is up to 70 cm and above, females are somewhat smaller. The wing length in males is on average 34 cm; in females it is 31 cm.
Spreading
The bittern breeds from Portugal east to Japan and Sakhalin. To the south, the range extends to North-West Africa, Iran, Afghanistan and Korea. Another subspecies of the great bittern inhabits the southern parts of Africa. Bitterns winter in the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, northern India, Burma and Southeast China. In some parts of Europe, bitterns do not fly away for the winter, but remain at their nesting site and survive safely until spring. However, in severe winters, when all water bodies freeze, they die.
Lifestyle
The bittern flies to Russia from wintering in early spring. Depending on the local climate, this could be March - May. Bitterns live in bodies of water with standing water or weak currents, overgrown with reeds and reeds. The flight to wintering grounds begins in late September and early October, but some bitterns fly away already when the first snow falls. In both spring and autumn, bitterns make seasonal flights alone. Bitterns shed once a year from August to January. Thus, molting ends already in wintering grounds. The bittern is active at dusk. Like many herons, the bittern stands motionless for a long time, lying in wait for its prey, grabbing it with a sharp lightning-fast movement. During the day, she stands motionless in the thickets, usually on one leg, with her head pulled in and ruffled. It is very difficult to notice it at this moment: it looks more like a bunch of dry reed stems. When in danger, she freezes with her neck stretched vertically and her head raised. In this case, it is even more difficult to notice, since it becomes like a reed; the beak, extended upward, resembles the head of a reed. When in direct danger, the bittern opens its beak wide and regurgitates the swallowed food.
Voice
The bittern has a very loud cry, spreading over 2-3 kilometers in the area. It can be rendered as a low “trumb” or “u-trumb”, reminiscent of the roar of a bull. For this feature, in Ukraine and Belarus the bittern is called a bull. To some, the bittern's voice resembles the hum of the wind in a chimney. The bird makes such sounds using the esophagus, which swells and acts as a resonator. The bittern usually calls in spring and the first half of summer, usually at dusk and at night, as well as in the morning.
Nutrition
The bittern feeds mainly on various fish - crucian carp, tench, perch, and small pike. They also eat bitterns and frogs, newts, aquatic insects, worms, and tadpoles. Sometimes they also catch small mammals. The bittern feeds its chicks mainly with tadpoles.
Reproduction
Bitterns begin to nest even in the same area very unevenly. The nest is made on hummocks protruding from the water, always in dense thickets. The diameter of the nest is about 50 cm, the height is about 35 cm. There are 3-7 eggs in the clutch. The female lays eggs with an interval of 2-3 days, but begins to incubate immediately after laying the first egg. The eggs are incubated mainly by the female, only occasionally replaced by a male. After 25-26 days, the chicks hatch. 2-3 weeks after hatching, the chicks begin to leave the nest, and at the age of 2 months they can already fly. Soon after the bittern chicks fly, the family falls apart.

1. Write down the names of the meadow plants that you were able to identify while working with the herbarium. Check the box next to the names of the plants that you have seen in nature.

2. Seryozha and Nadya’s mother asks if you know the plants of the meadow. Cut out the pictures from the Application and place them in the appropriate boxes. Test yourself using the textbook. After self-test, paste the pictures.

3. Using the atlas-identifier “From Earth to Sky,” find out the names of these meadow plants and sign them. Mark the plants that you have encountered in nature (fill in the circle).

4. Ant Question wants to introduce you to his insect friends. Guess who is shown in the pictures. Connect the pictures and names with arrows.

Compare the bee and the flower fly; filly and grasshopper; dung beetle and burying beetle. Highlight the signs by which they can be distinguished in nature (answer orally)

Comparison of a bee and a flower fly

Similarities:

• Yellow and black contrasting color.
• Similar buzzing noise.

Difference:

• The eyes of a flower fly are much larger than the eyes of a flower bee.
• The flower fly has short antennae, while the bee has long antennae.
• A flower fly has two wings, and a bee has 4 - two fused wings on each side.
• The coloring on the flower fly's abdomen consists of black and yellow spots, while that of the bee consists of even stripes.

Comparison of filly and grasshopper

Similarities:

• Identical arrangement of hind legs.
• Similar hard elytra on the back.
• Identical antennae.
• Similar chirping (fillies chirp louder).

Difference:

• The grasshopper's abdomen is much shorter than the filly's abdomen.
• The grasshopper has more powerful and longer legs than the filly.
• Grasshoppers jump much higher than fillies.
• Grasshoppers are nocturnal, while grasshoppers are nocturnal.
• The grasshopper is a predator, and the grasshopper is a herbivorous insect.
• Grasshoppers are beneficial agriculture eating larvae and harmful insects, and the fillies cause damage to the crop, as they eat plants in huge quantities.

Comparison of dung beetle and burying beetle

Similarities:

• The same shape of the mustache - lamellar

Difference:

• The burying beetle has longer legs than the dung beetle.
• The burying beetle can run quickly, while the dung beetle moves slowly.
• The burying beetle has bright orange stripes on its abdomen, while the dung beetle is dark blue.
• The burying beetle has a shorter body length and has an oblong shape, while the body of the dung beetle is one and a half times longer and has an oval shape.
  

5. Our observant Parrot is also in a hurry to give you a task. After all, who knows, he is the best bird expert in the world. Recognize the birds by their characteristic behavior and write the names. Find these birds in the pictures and number them.

1) Constantly shakes his tail: Wagtail
2) Makes a creaky “yank-yank” cry: Korosten
3) Gives away its presence with the song “drink and weed”: Quail

6. Make a diagram of the food chain characteristic of the meadow community in your region. Compare it with the diagram proposed by your desk neighbor. Use these diagrams to talk about the ecological connections in the meadow community.