What birds make food supplies. Looking for cones. Teaching and educational work plan

The usual body temperature in birds is + 41 ° C. To keep warm in the blood, small creatures need to eat hard. But if there is a lot of food in summer and autumn, then winter, especially in our latitudes, is a time of severe trials. The easiest way to urban birds. Pigeons, sparrows, crows and jackdaws will always find their food near human habitation. There, under the eaves of houses, in the attics and near heating plants, they are saved from the cold. But what do birds do in winter in the forest or near ponds?

Migratory, nomadic and sedentary species

The higher the latitude of the area, the more birds leave these edges for the winter. In the tundra, besides the polar partridge, almost no one remains. Long before the cold weather, while the ponds and rivers were not covered by ice, the schools of geese, swans and other waterfowls stretched south. So, in the Moscow Region, of the 300 species living there in summer, only 50 fly away for the winter. But the lower the latitude, the more it occurs. For example, the thrush in Russia is a migratory species, and in Ukraine it does not leave its native places. Nomadic birds are a special type. They feel what a great winter will be, and, on this basis, fly away or stay. Such species include waxwings, walnuts, some species of tits, tap dancing, jays, bullfinches and others. From the way the birds prepare for winter, you can guess what the weather will be like. For example, whether frost is coming or a thaw will come.

Forest birds

In winter, the inhabitants of the thickets are especially affected. Moths and bugs hid or died, a dense layer of snow covered the grains, fish could not be caught from under the ice, frogs and small rodents hibernated. So forest birds come to human habitation. Especially a lot of them in the winter near the cottages and in the villages: in the gardens dry berries still sway on the branches, in the garden you can also get profit. Predators fly for the little birds: eagles, owls, hawks.

Sedentary species know what awaits them, and therefore make reserves. How do birds prepare for winter? For example, a woodpecker lays hollows with twigs and moss. Such thermal insulation allows him to sit out on the most frosty nights. Some birds, which at other times of the year live separately or in pairs, winter in large flocks, sometimes consisting of several species. It’s easier to find food and, importantly, keep warm in a pile. In the autumn, even before the onset of cold weather, many birds feed heavily, accumulating fat reserves. However, when they save a little. But the autumn molt, after which the little bird’s body is covered with thick down, protects it from frost better.

Bird "nest egg"

Anticipating a hungry season, some species stock up on food for the future. Maybe you noticed how the birds prepare for winter: jays bury acorns and nuts in the moss and grass, crawl the linden grains and other food at high altitude to drive them under the bark of trees. And birds of prey, having killed rodents in the fall, do not eat them all. They hide part of the corpses in the hollow of trees, just in time of hunger.

Feathered optimists

But there are species that do not care for a cold. While the birds are preparing for winter, planning to fly south or stockpiling, they ... make nests. January (the coldest month) is their time. In fierce cold they bring chicks. Because cones ripen, the main feeding of crossbills. With their beak bent, like a parrot, they produce pine and pine nuts. Also feels good in the capercaillie, he eats pine needles. Grouse and grouse also have a lot of food. They eat alder earrings.

Theme of the project:

“Feed the birds in winter.”

Targets and goals:

Extend children's knowledge of birds.

To introduce children to bird literature in the library.

To foster a caring, humane attitude to the nature of our land.

To develop creativity, independence, initiative of students.

Project product: bird feeders, presentation - Feast “Feed the birds in winter!”

Project Stages:

1. Cognitive work.

Pre-class is divided into groups, studies birds; signs,

related to them; learn poems, proverbs, sayings.

2. Design work.

Each group draws birds of its own species, makes feeders.

Exhibition of drawings and feeders.

3. Presentation of the project. Feast "Feed the birds in winter!"

4. Practical work.

Each group hangs cooked feeders in the school garden.

PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT

Feast "Feed the birds in winter!"

Hall design:

pictures of the winter forest;

presentation "Wintering birds"

exhibition of feeders "We care about birds";

drawings of children with the image of wintering birds “Our favorites”;

an exhibition of books dedicated to birds;

Musical arrangement: audio recording of the concert of A. Vivaldi "Winter"

The course of the holiday

Sounds an audio recording of a concert by A. Vivaldi "Winter".

The presenter enters the scene.

Bewitched by the invisible

Dozing forest under a dream tale

Like a white scarf

Pine has tied.

Today we go with you to the winter forest. Quiet in the forest on a winter morning. Trunks and twigs of bare trees turn black. On the green legs of firs and pines are puffy pillows of snow. No rustling, no sound. And it seems: there is no one in the whole forest.

An audio recording of birdsong sounds

What wintering birds do you know?

What birds live in the forest in winter?

Which live next to people in cities, villages and villages?

And what birds do you know that fly to us with the onset of winter?

Think about why birds fly to humans in winter.

That's right, birds fly to cities and towns in winter to feed. And that is understandable. But one does not need to think that they do not remain at all in the forest.

Today we’ll talk about birds that spend the winter with us. They are called wintering birds. Guys, why do we need birds in nature?

Answers children. Of great importance are birds in nature and in agriculture, preserving cultural and wild animals from insect pests.

plants help in their pollination. For example: hummingbirds and nectaries pollinate tropical plants. Jays carry oak acorns over long distances and often lose, thereby dispersing its seeds; pecking the juicy fruits of mountain ash, bird cherry, elderberry, lingonberry, blueberry, they fly from place to place and throw out intact seeds along with droppings. It is known that the starling family destroys up to 24 thousand insects and their larvae in a month. A cuckoo, which feeds on large caterpillars, May beetles, eats them up to 270 thousand during the summer; Rook, watching the plow, is able to destroy up to 400 wireworms. A pair of tits, settled in the garden with their offspring, can clear 40 large apple trees from pests. Birds of prey are also beneficial for humans, killing small rodents-pests of field crops and spreading plague, typhoid, jaundice and other diseases.

Host: Here comes the winter! With her arrival, revitalization immediately began in the bird canteens. A few more days, when there was no snow, the birds at the feeder had to wait, and now they are always there. At such a fun feeder, you can stand for a long time and enjoy watching birds, if you stand quietly, do not make noise and do not move.

Before the holiday, the groups were given a creative task: to study birds; signs associated with them; learn poems, proverbs, sayings.

Performances of children

House Sparrow (Slide 1)

The weaver family. Order passerine

The house sparrow known to all is a nimble day pichuga (33 g) with a conical beak and short wings. In spring, the male’s head, cheeks and neck are gray on the sides, a black stripe under the eye, a mottled back, chin, throat and upper chest are black, gray abdomen and sides. The plumage of the female is brownish-gray, on the head - a dark “cap”, through the eye passes a strip, back and wings in streaks.

The song of this sparrow is a simple tweet. On the ground, he quickly jumps, flies low, along a wavy path.

House Sparrow nests in Europe and Asia. It settles next to human housing, in buildings, less often in hollows. Three times a year, the female lays 3–6 yellowish or bluish eggs with marks, incubates them for 11 days. Chicks feed 12 days.

House sparrow feed in summer - insects, berries, flower buds, plant seeds. In winter, flocks of sparrows often visit feeding troughs.

Field Sparrow (Slide 2)

Weaving family

Squad Passeriformes

The sparrow is smaller than the brownie (it weighs only 23 grams), but it is more elegant than it. The head of a female and a male is brown, black “brackets” on white cheeks, a small “beard”, brownish back with black streaks, a light bottom, buffy sides. On wings two - light strips. Beak is black, legs are brown.

The sparrow sings like this - “chev-chev-chev”. This smart moving bird spends a lot of time on the ground and trees. Leads a daytime sedentary lifestyle. Sparrow is not afraid of people.

It is found throughout Russia - from western to eastern borders. It prefers sparse forests, forest-steppe and steppes, the outskirts of cities, villages with farms and sheds. It settles in small colonies or in single pairs. Nests are arranged in hollows, under roofs, often in birdhouses, in coastal cliffs, crevices of rocks. In addition to stems and twigs, feathers and wool are used for construction. In the year, this sparrow makes two clutches of 4-8 whitish eggs with marked marks. The female incubates them for 12 days, and then both parents feed the chicks for 16 days.

In summer, field sparrows feed on insects, in autumn - seeds, in winter mainly food waste.

Raven (Slide 3)

Raven family

Squad Passeriformes

Raven - a large black bird with a metallic tint (up to 1.5 kg), significantly larger than a crow. He has a powerful black beak with a hook on the tip and bristles in the nostrils, on the goiter - lanceolate feathers; strong black legs with bent claws. When flying, a wedge-shaped tail is visible. Females are similar to males. Young birds have brownish wings at the ends, well adapted for soaring, the plumage is dull black without low tide.

Raven spends a lot of time on the ground, walks and jumps well. Young birds shout “kaa ... kaa”, with age, the voice becomes lower, and they publish a laryngeal “kru..kru”.

The raven dwells in all natural zones, and has a sedentary lifestyle. Its number in the cultural landscape is growing. Pairs are constant, occupy nesting sites up to 4 square meters. km The raven builds its nest from thick branches, bast fibers, wool, dry grass, sometimes on towers, power transmission towers, churches. The female lays 3–7 bluish-green eggs and incubates them for 3 weeks.

This bird eats everything: carrion and food waste, rodents, sick cats and pigeons, insects, fruits, grain ...

Crow Gray (Slide 4)

Raven family

Squad Passeriformes

Who did not see this clever and careful bird! Black-headed, with a pointed black beak, black strong legs and a rounded tail. Below it is gray, the neck and back are the same color.

Surprisingly, the crow is a songbird, although it is difficult to call her singing piercing croaking, clicking and crackling. She flies well, walks quickly on the ground, cleverly climbs branches. Spends a lot of time in the crowns of trees and on buildings. He leads a sedentary lifestyle, undertakes roaming in the autumn-winter period.

There is a gray crow everywhere in Russia - from the western borders to the Yenisei. Breeds in pairs in forests, reed beds, settlements, often in large cities. Female and male build a nest high on a tree from dry branches, stems, leaves, rags, using pieces of wire. In April, the female lays 3–6 bluish-green eggs with marks, incubation lasts 3 weeks.

Crow eats carrion, rodents, frogs, fish, insects, as well as grain, seeds, food waste. Omnivore, she does not shun carrion, visits landfills and garbage bins, feeders.

Gray dove (Slide 5)

Pigeon family

Squad pigeon

Everyone knows the pigeon. This is a bird with a small head, short legs, long pointed wings, a straight-cut tail, a thin beak with a wax extended at the end and a slightly bent down tip. Her back is light gray, the bottom is slightly darker, with a transverse white stripe on the lower back. In flight, a white loin and a wide dark strip at the end of the tail, two dark stripes on the wings are noticeable.

A dove walks a lot on the ground, occasionally sits on trees, flies quickly and maneuverably. The males coo, whirling in front of the females with their tails spread, kissing with their beaks, take off, describing circles, plan on raised wings.

A pigeon is widespread.

Pigeons feed on seeds of legumes and cereals, fly to garbage dumps and dumps, to feeders. In cities, they are almost tame; they take food from a person from their hands.

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Slide 6)

Woodpecker family

Woodpecker squad

The indefatigable forest drummer is, of course, a woodpecker. Big spotted woodpecker - a bird larger than a starling, with a straight chisel-like beak, pairwise located fingers. The male has a red stripe across the nape, a white forehead, a black head with a luster with white sides, a back and a nape of a black shine, a white belly with a red undercoat, a black stripe on the chest. In the plumage of the female red color is absent. Young birds are decorated with a red "hat". The woodpecker rests on the trunks, leaning on a hard, pointed tail, suspended from cones and terminal branches.

On the ground, a woodpecker moves in leaps. Seeing a person, he moves to the opposite side of the trunk. Sitting on a tree or flying, publishes a loud kick-kick-kick. When a woodpecker beats on a tree trunk with a beak, drum roll is carried in the forest. It flies along a wavy path.

In the summer, the woodpecker eats harmful insects, ants, nuts, acorns, berries, in winter - the seeds of spruce, pine and larch, grinding the cones in the "forge". Having made a hole in the tree, he drinks juice. In cities, it feeds in landfills and garbage dumps.

Klest-elovik (Slide 7)

Reel family

Squad Passeriformes

A distinctive feature of this bird is its powerful beak with crossed tips. A klest-elovik is smaller than a starling, it has a large head, tenacious paws that allow it to be hung upside down to cones, and a short, deeply carved tail. Adult males are bright red. Females are greenish-gray, first-year-old males orange-yellow.

This is a daytime, noisy and mobile bird, almost all the time spending on trees, it quickly flies along a wavy path. Flying flocks of crossbones echoes this way: "kep-kep-kep."

Crossbills are common from the western to the eastern borders of the taiga. In autumn and winter, birds roam in search of food. Their number is not the same in different years. Depending on the seed crop of conifers, nesting can occur in summer and winter, but more often in March. Crossbred nests are built not far from each other.

The main food of the crossbill is coniferous seeds, which it extracts from cones with the help of a cross-shaped beak. In addition to coniferous seeds, birds eat weeds and sunflower seeds, sometimes insects.

Common Nuthatch (Slide 8)

Nuthatch family

Squad Passeriformes

Common Nuthatch - a bird the size of a sparrow, which has a dense stocky body, a black-brown straight, long and pointed beak, a large head. Strong legs and tenacious claws allow him to climb up and down a vertical surface. The back of the nuthatch is bluish in color, the bottom is white, the sides are brown, on the forehead there are white stripes, from the beak a black strip passes through the eye, the tail on the sides is black and white.

Nuthatch is a daytime bird; it flies quickly and directly. The loud repeating whistle “tyu-tyu-tyuy”, a loud “ttoch-toch-toch”, frequent “ttsit” are heard in the voice.

Nuthatch lives everywhere from western to eastern borders, nests in deciduous and mixed old forests with hollows, in floodplains of rivers and steppe ravines, among willow thickets, in parks and gardens, towns and cities. A sedentary bird in winter with flocks of tits roams over small distances. In cities, nuthatches are visited by feeders. In summer, it feeds on ants, bedbugs, butterflies, leaf beetles, spiders, in autumn, winter and spring - berries, coniferous seeds, acorns and nuts. Storing food for the future, hammer the bark. He brings a person close, takes seeds from his hands.

Waxwing (Slide 9)

Family of waxwings

Squad Passeriformes

The waxwing is a very beautiful bird the size of a starling, with a thick, fluffy plumage, a large crest on its head, and a short wide beak. Its short tail is decorated with a bright yellow stripe, the ends of its long wings are bright red. The male’s back and chest are brownish-gray with a wine tint, gray loins and tails, brownish-gray underbody, chestnut undertail, black spot on the throat, gray tail with a yellow stripe along the edge. In the female, the wine tint is less pronounced, the throat spot is dim. Young birds are brownish-gray.

The waxwings song is a murmuring trill of “swi-ri-ri-ri-ri”, reminiscent of the sound of a pipe (hence the name). In winter, in search of berries, these diurnal birds visit large cities. They fly quickly along a wavy path, mainly in packs. A northern resident, the waxwing is found from the western to eastern borders in taiga forests, and migrate southward in winter.

In summer, the waxwing catches small insects, in the winter pecks berries of mountain ash, viburnum, and hawthorn.

Great tit (Slide 10)

Tit family

Squad Passeriformes

It is hard to imagine a man who does not know the tit! Here it is: a little less than a sparrow, with a straight, pointed beak, short, tenacious legs. The top of the head of the tit is shiny black, the nape and cheeks are white, the back is greenish, the yellow bottom with a black longitudinal stripe, wide in males and narrow in females. On the gray-blue wing there is a light transverse strip, the extreme feathers of the tail are white.

This mobile, agile bird, active during the day, spends a lot of time in the crowns of trees, in shrubs, on the ground. Man is not afraid, especially children. The voice of the tit is pin-pin. In case of danger, she publishes an alarming “trrr”, communicates quietly in a flock of tee-tee. The song repeats “qi-qi-pi”, “qi-pi”, “qi-ti”. Each male performs several tunes, but most often 2-3 favorite ones.

Broods of titmolls in search of food migrate to the fringes, gardens and villages, visiting feeding troughs, garbage dumps, stockyards. In addition to food waste and insects, birds eat grass and tree seeds, berries, peck the remains of animals.

Tufted Titmouse, grenadier (Slide 11)

Tit family

Squad Passeriformes

People sometimes reward birds with very well-defined names. Tufted titmouse, for example, was called a grenadier for its tall, sharp crest on its head. This bird is smaller than a sparrow, with fluffy plumage, a short sharp beak, strong legs that allow it to be hung downside down and clamped to grind food. Her back is grayish-brown, throat, nape and strip passing through the eye, black, head and abdomen brownish-white.

Active during daylight hours, this motile bird flies well, spends a lot of time in the crowns of conifers. The voice of a crested tit is a quiet “qi-qi-qi”, the song is a hoarse “ti-ti-trrch”.

The grenadier lives in European Russia and the South Trans-Urals, in coniferous and mixed forests. In non-breeding time, she prefers coniferous light forests. Tufted Titmouse is a sedentary and nomadic bird, the number of which has been declining in recent years. These birds are kept in pairs, rarely in flocks, sometimes with other titmouse.

The food of crested tit is dominated by beetles, caterpillars and spiders, they also peck plant seeds.

Bullfinch (Slide 12)

Reel family

Squad Passeriformes

The winter nature is decorated with our favorites - handsome bullfinches. The common bullfinch is larger than a sparrow, with a thick short, highly swollen black beak, a soft long thick plumage, and an elongated black straight-cut tail. Strong and tenacious legs hold the bird on a tree branch upside down when it reaches for berries and seeds. In males, the bottom is bright red, in females it is brownish-gray, in both the crown, forehead, cheeks, wings and tail are shiny black, the back is gray, the bottom of the abdomen, the tail and under tail are white.

Bullfinch spends a lot of time in the crowns of trees, forage, often descends to the ground. He is not afraid of man. Birds melodiously call up: "ju-ju-ju."

A bullfinch inhabits - a settled and partially roaming bird - in taiga forests from the western to eastern borders of Russia. In winter it is found in large cities and small towns. In the summer, birds move into dense forests, become silent and cautious.

In autumn, bullfinches migrate to forage places far from nesting sites. They feed on seeds of trees and weeds, berries of mountain ash, bird cherry, Siberian apple tree, and apple buds.

Eared Owl (Slide 13)

Owl family

Squad owls

Long-eared Owl (less than a crow) - a bird with a brown top and a rusty bottom, longitudinal and small transverse stripes, long “ears”, a pronounced facial disc, feathered toes, a hooked beak, a rounded tail and loose plumage. Her eyes are orange-yellow, her beak and claws are black.

This bird sits in the daylight near the trunk of a tree with a column, with plumage pressed, hunts at night. Flies silently and quickly. In winter, an owl is a settled or wandering bird. She makes whimpering sounds and whistles, a mournful “oo-oo-oo”, whimpers “hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo”. Tokuya, an owl flaps its wings, flies in a zigzag pattern from tree to tree. Eared owl feeds on forest and field mice, field voles,

\\\\ them at night from an attack or throwing a raid. Magpie (Slide 14)

Raven family

Squad Passeriformes

Magpie - this, of course, is known to everyone since childhood, "Magpie-white-sided". It is smaller than a crow (0.2 kg), black and white, in places with a metallic sheen, with short wide wings and a long stepped tail.

The voice of the magpie - seeping and repeating “check-check-check”. Singing is a tongue twister of various sounds, including borrowed sounds. She walks well, flies in waves. Being excited, he shakes his tail from side to side.

In Russia, magpie is widespread and has settled everywhere, wandering in the winter. The number in cities is growing. Prefers sparse forests, ravines, floodplains. Breeds in single pairs, constructing spherical nests with vaulted roofs from thick branches. In April, the female lays 3–9 bluish-green eggs with marks, incubates them for up to 20 days. Both birds feed the chicks for about 4 weeks.

In the diet of magpies, in addition to food waste from landfills, insects, seeds of garden crops, weeds. These birds steal other people's eggs from nests, catch poorly flying chicks.

Game “Wintering and migratory birds”

Game description: Leading each child gives the name of the bird: to someone migratory, to someone wintering. For example: heron, bullfinch, cuckoo, crow, swallow, woodpecker, crane, nightingale, owl, parrot, crossbill, etc.

At the command of the host, wintering birds should gather in one flock, and migratory birds - in another. Then each flock looks to see if there are strangers, and if there are, then they expel them with a cry.

Children read poems:

DO NOT ROBE, SPARROW!

The yard is white and white
The earth is covered with snow.

It's hard for the birds to winter
It’s hard to get food.

Fly up sparrow
Do not be timid!

See the girl? She
I brought you grain.

I went to the porch
He spills on a tablet.

Fly up sparrow
Help yourself, do not be timid!

PORTERS

Again in autumn,
We flew to visit us
And sat in a friendly family
On the branches of waxwings.

From far away they fly
Through the winds, rain and hail.
Rowan red lights,
They must be beckoning.

We are a bunch of mountain ash outside the window
Hang for guests
What if he drops into our house
Cheerful waxwing.

NUTHATCH

Blue back
Red barrel.
On the stem of the aspen,
Behind the leap,
Nuthatch
Jumps up and down;
A hole full of holes crawled in,
Beak down hung.
He twirls his head,
He looked at woodpeckers
From under the black edge
Sparkled sparkle
Whistled: “Hey you woodpeckers!
I’m biting down ...
It’s unlikely for you
Woodpeckers can do it! ”

Snowstorms are circling
The frost crackles at night
On top of a lush spruce
A bright crossbill peaks a cone.

He’s not afraid of frost,
Winter is not terrible for him!
Pines, ate, give a bird
Golden seeds.

Presenter: The forest is fabulously beautiful on a clear winter day, especially when a ray of sunlight flashes suddenly and illuminates the treetops covered with snow. And among the snow-white flakes on the branches we see unusual “flowers”. These are ... birds of the winter forest. The game “Find out the bird!” Is announced. According to the verbal description, you need to find out what kind of bird it is.

Birds are introduced.

Sparrow: I am a mobile bird with a rounded head, a short neck, an ovoid body, short and rounded wings. My beak is hard and pointed towards the end. In the cold season, we sit, closely clinging to each other, choked.

Tit: I am a very beautiful bird. I have a black cap on my head, white cheeks, and a black stripe on my throat — a tie, wings and tail are gray, my back is yellow-green, and my belly is yellow.

Woodpecker: I have a beautiful colorful plumage: the upper body is black, on the head and neck there are white spots, the underbone and crown are red, the beak is strong and sharp.

Bullfinch: I have a head top, wings, tail - black, back - bluish-gray, and belly - red. The beak is short, thick, conical in shape, black.

Klest: I am a small red bird with tenacious paws and a characteristic cross-shaped beak.

Magpie: My head, wings, tail are black, but on the sides are snow-white feathers. The tail is long and straight, like an arrow, and the beak is strong and sharp.

Crow: I have a large, elongated torso and large strong legs. I walk in big steps. I have a very large and strong beak. The head, throat and wings are black, and the rest of the body is gray.

Children read poems:

Birds are jumping early
On the snowy branches -
Yellow tit
Arrived to visit us.

“Tiny shadow, tilly shadow,
Everything is shorter than a winter day -
Don't have time to have lunch
The sun sets behind the wattle fence.
Not a mosquito
Not a fly.
Everywhere there is only snow and snow.
It’s good that we have feeders
Made a good man. ”

Y. Sinitsyn

Run out soon
Look at the bullfinches!

Arrived! Arrived!
A flock of snowstorms met
A Frost Red Nose
They brought mountain ash.

Well treated
Sweetened well
Winter evening late
Bright scarlet clusters.

A. Prokofiev

Presenter: And now we will conduct a quiz “What do you know about wintering birds?” Among the guys. Each correct answer is evaluated by one token.

What birds collect their stocks for the winter? (Very few: owls collect for themselves in the hollows of dead mice, jay (ronja) - acorns, nuts)

What our bird can move on a vertical trunk and up and down with its head? (Nuthatch)

What birds move along the vertical trunk only upside down? (Woodpecker, pika)

What is worse for birds than hunger or cold in winter? (hunger)

What birds migrate to human habitation for the winter? (Great tit, magpie, crow, jackdaw)

For which bird in winter, burdock seeds are a favorite food? (For carduelis)

What benefit does a titmouse bring to a person in winter when all insects sleep? (In winter, tits are searched for in the crevices and bores of insects, eggs, larvae and eat them)

What species of sparrows nest with us? (Brownie and field)

The name of which wintering bird is consonant with the name of the dance? (Taping)

Why does the carcass of a dead crossbill not even decompose in warmth for a long time? (The crossbills feed on the seeds of conifers. Their whole body is impregnated with resin. The resin keeps the body from decay)

Which bird dramatically changes the color of its plumage? (Partridge: in summer it is gray and in winter white)

What are the wintering birds with a crest on their heads? (Waxwing, tap dance)

What birds bring chicks in severe frost? (Crossbills, kingfishers)

How many different tits live in our places? (Six: large, gadget, Muscovite, Corydalis, Blue Tit, Longtail)

What birds live with us only in winter? (Tap dance, waxwing, polar owl)

How can we explain that swallows, swifts, flycatchers fly south for the winter, and tits, woodpeckers and nuthatch remain? (Flytraps, swifts and swallows catch insects in the air, and in autumn insects take refuge, that is, they become inaccessible to these birds. Tits, woodpeckers and nuthatchers adapt to the extraction of insects, their larvae, pupae and eggs from winter shelters)

Which bird order includes the largest number of species? (Sparrow)

The winner is determined among the participants in the quiz.

Children read poetry.

HOW TO BIRD A BIRD?

How to winter a bird?
It is known that in birds,
There are no wadding robes
Not a bike shirt.

Many do not even have a nest:
They are in a thunderstorm and hail,
And in the rain and in the cold
Sitting on the branches, sleeping.

But who gives them shelter,
When is snow sweeping?

There are different birds:
Some are afraid of a blizzard
And fly away for the winter
To the good, warm south.

Others are different people:
In the cold circling the forest
For them, separation from their homeland
More terrible than severe frost.

To their tousled feathers
Snowflakes don't stick
They are under powders
Frolic for warm up.

Crows are sitting on pillars
Gaddy on the daw branches,
Free sparrows to jump
As if twisting the rope.

But if it snows for a long time
And the blizzard lasts a long time
Then, friends, have
Pichugam our tight.

They are bombarded with snowdrifts
Mounds, courtyards, paths,
Can't find the birds
Not a grain, not a crumb.
And now they fly weaker
Crow, Jackdaw, Sparrow ...

Hurry to the rescue, children!
Here at this most difficult time
Birds are waiting for salvation from you.
Feed them! Warm up!
Hang the house on the bitch!
Sprinkle crumbs in the snow
And even semolina ...
And the poor things will come to life!

Gliding merrily in the sky
Feathered friends take off
And they will sing, tweeting:
“Thank you so much!”

K. Muhammadi

Game “Bird Concert” (Attention)

Each group of guys from 3 people is given the name of the bird, then say how they sing:

Sparrows - Tweet - Tweet

Tits - Tignes - Tignes

Crow - Car - Car

Woodpecker - trrr - trrr

Bullfinch - du - du - du

Klest - tsok - tsok - tsok

Waxwing - Tür – Tür - Tür

The guys are performing a song on the motive “A grasshopper was sitting in the grass”. Each bird on a line.

Presenter: Glorious, we have a concert. I think that after such a concert, our birds became very hungry.

We have announced a contest for feeding troughs and now we will summarize its results. What is the most convenient bird feeder?

Awarding of winners.

The student reads a poem:

Frosts are cruel this year ...
Anxious for the apple tree in our garden,
Anxious for the Bug:
In her doghouse
The same cold
Like in the yard.
But most worried about the birds,
For our little sparrows, jackdaws, tits:
After all, it is very cold in the air to them.
Will we help those defenseless?

Help! They need to be fed
And then
It will be easy for them to survive the cold.

E. Blaginina

Host: Guys, do you know what food wintering birds like?

Students show feed and talk about them:

Almost all birds eat sunflower seeds and, first of all, tits and nuthatch.

Almost all birds eat melon and pumpkin seeds, except for tit and nuthatch.

Oats, if there is nothing better, eat oatmeal, sparrows, tits.

Millet and millet are the favorite food of oatmeal and sparrows.

The seeds of burdock are the main food of carduelis.

Seeds of quinoa, wormwood, hemp, horse sorrel, nettles, all grain-eating birds willingly eat.

Rowan and viburnum berries are the favorite food of bullfinches and waxwings.

Breadcrumbs eat tits and sparrows.

Raw (unsalted) lard is an excellent food for tits, nuthatch and woodpeckers.

Raw meat is good food for tits and nuthatching, as well as for crows, jackdaws and magpies. Lard and meat are hung on strings.

Host: Guys, did you remember what food the wintering birds eat? Let's check! The game "Define food" is announced. Blindfolded, you need to identify food and remember who eats it. The game involves 4-6 people.

Host: Well done guys! You have learned how to determine food and you know which of the wintering birds, which food loves. Now meet and remember the rules for feeding birds.

During feeding birds do not litter in the forest, park, garden: do not leave newspapers, paper and plastic bags, cans and boxes there.

Bird feeders should be very modest, better not painted.

The feed in the feeders should be little and only necessary for the birds: seeds of wild herbs, bread crumbs, sunflowers, slices of unsalted lard.

Feed the birds regularly. Birds can not be fed from time to time: it is in the winter that they really need your support, it is in frosts and blizzards that most of the birds die.

Follow these rules! Learn about the rules for feeding birds to your younger comrades, brothers and sisters.

Feed the birds in winter
To all over
They flocked to you like home
Flocks on the porch.

Their feeds are not rich,
A handful is needed.
A handful of one - and not scary
It will be winter.

Tame the birds in the cold
To my window
So without songs
We meet the spring!

Let's look at the books on display. You can watch, read them. They will help to learn more about the life of birds. But this is after the holiday.

Now hang the feeders on the school grounds.

References:

Belyakov I.V. Wryneck. Krasnodar Book Publishing House, 1983.

Zemlyanova O.V., Kozlova N.B., Patrusheva L.I., Nosova M.N., Garyung S.G., Pogudina N.A. Scrolling through the ecological calendar: scenarios of mass events dedicated to the dates of the ecological calendar. Barnaul: AKDEC, 2003.

Nuzhdina T.D. The world of animals and plants. Encyclopedia for kids. A miracle is everywhere. - Yaroslavl: “Development Academy”, 1997.

Shorygina T.A. Birds. What are they like? M., 2005.

"Feed the birds in winter!"

The design of the group:

pictures of the winter forest;

exhibition of feeders "We care about birds";

drawings of children with the image of wintering birds “Our favorites”;

The conversation:

The phonogram of M. Sviridov “Snowstorm” sounds.

Educator: Bewitched by the invisible,
Dozing forest under a dream tale
Like a white scarf
Pine stuck.

Today we’ll talk about birds that spend the winter with us. They are called wintering birds. So winter has come! With her arrival, revitalization immediately began in the bird canteens. A few more days, when there was no snow, the birds at the feeder had to wait, and now they are always there. At such a fun feeder, you can stand for a long time and enjoy watching birds, if you stand quietly, do not make noise and do not move.

The game “Distribute birds on migratory and wintering is announced " Wintering birds put on the feeder, and migratory “send in flight."

Children read poems:

DO NOT ROBE, SPARROW!

The yard is white and white
The earth is covered with snow.

It's hard for the birds to winter
It’s hard to get food.

Fly up sparrow
Do not be timid!

See the girl? She
I brought you grain.

I went to the porch
He spills on a tablet.

Fly up sparrow
Help yourself, do not be timid!

I. Belyakov.

PORTERS

Again in autumn,
We flew to visit us
And sat in a friendly family
On the branches of waxwings.

From far away they fly
Through the winds, rain and hail.
Rowan red lights,
They must be beckoning.

We are a bunch of mountain ash outside the window
Hang for guests
What if he drops into our house
Cheerful waxwing.

NUTHATCH

CLESTS

Snowstorms are circling
The frost crackles at night
On top of a lush spruce
A bright crossbill peaks a cone.

He’s not afraid of frost,
Winter is not terrible for him!
Pines, ate, give a bird
Golden seeds.

Educator: The forest is fabulously beautiful on a clear winter day, especially when a ray of sunlight flashes suddenly and illuminates the treetops covered with snow. And among the snow-white flakes on the branches we see unusual “flowers”. These are ... birds of the winter forest.

The game “Find out the bird!” Is announced. According to the verbal description, you need to find out what kind of bird it is.

Birds are introduced.

Sparrow: I am a moving bird with a rounded head, short neck, short and rounded wings. My beak is hard and pointed towards the end. In the cold season, we sit, cuddling closely, to each other, choked.

Tit: I am a very beautiful bird. I have a black cap on my head, white cheeks, and a black stripe on my throat — a tie, wings and tail are gray, my back is yellow-green, and my belly is yellow.

Woodpecker: I have a beautiful motley plumage: the upper body is black, on the head and neck there are white spots, the underbone and crown are red, the beak is strong and sharp.

Bullfinch: My head, wings, tail are black, my back is bluish-gray, and my belly is red. The beak is short, thick, conical in shape, black.

Crossbill: I am a small red bird with tenacious paws and a characteristic cross-shaped beak.

Magpie: My head, wings, tail are black, but on my sides are snow-white feathers. The tail is long and straight, like an arrow, and the beak is strong and sharp.

Crow: I have a large, elongated torso and large strong legs. I walk in big steps. I have a very large and strong beak. The head, throat and wings are black, and the rest of the body is gray.

Children read poems:

TITS

Birds are jumping early
On the snowy branches -
Yellow tit
Arrived to visit us.

Yu. Sinitsyn

SNEGIRI

Run out soon
Look at the bullfinches!

Arrived! Arrived!
A flock of snowstorms met
A Frost Red Nose
They brought mountain ash.

Well treated
Sweetened well
Winter evening late
Bright scarlet clusters.

A. Prokofiev

Educator: And now we will spend among guys quiz “What do you know about wintering birds?”

1. What birds collect their stocks for the winter? (Very few: owls collect for themselves in the hollows of dead mice, jay (ronja) - acorns, nuts)

2. What our bird can move on a vertical trunk and up and down with its head? (Nuthatch)

3. What birds move along the vertical trunk only upside down? (Woodpecker, pika)

4. What is worse for birds than hunger or cold in winter? (hunger)

5. What birds migrate to human habitation for the winter? (Great tit, magpie, crow, jackdaw)

6. For which bird in winter, burdock seeds are a favorite food? (For carduelis)

7. What benefit does a titmouse bring to a person in winter when all insects sleep? (In winter, tits are searched for in the crevices and bores of insects, eggs, larvae and eat them)

8. Which bird dramatically changes the color of its plumage? (Partridge: in summer it is gray and in winter white)

9. What are the wintering birds with a crest on their heads? (Waxwing, tap dance)

10. What birds bring chicks in severe frost? (Crossbills, kingfishers)

11. How can we explain that swallows, swifts, flycatchers fly south for the winter, and tits, woodpeckers and nuthatch remain? (Flytraps, swifts and swallows catch insects in the air, and in autumn insects take refuge, that is, they become inaccessible to these birds. Tits, woodpeckers and nuthatchers adapt to the extraction of insects, their larvae, pupae and eggs from winter shelters)

Children read poetry.

HOW TO BIRD A BIRD?

1 reader:

How to winter a bird?
It is known that in birds,
There are no wadding robes
Not a bike shirt.

Many do not even have a nest:
They are in a thunderstorm and hail,
And in the rain and in the cold
Sitting on the branches, sleeping.

But who gives them shelter,
When is snow sweeping?

There are different birds:
Some are afraid of a blizzard
And fly away for the winter
To the good, warm south.

Others are different people:
In the cold circling the forest
For them, separation from their homeland
More terrible than severe frost.

To their tousled feathers
Snowflakes don't stick
They are under powders
Frolic for warm up.

2 readers:

Crows are sitting on pillars
Gaddy on the daw branches,
Free sparrows to jump
As if twisting the rope.

But if it snows for a long time
And the blizzard lasts a long time
Then, friends, have
Pichugam our tight.

They are bombarded with snowdrifts
Mounds, courtyards, paths,
Can't find the birds
Not a grain, not a crumb.
And now they fly weaker
Crow, Jackdaw, Sparrow ...

Gliding merrily in the sky
Feathered friends take off
And they will sing, tweeting:
“Thank you so much!”

Educator: We announced competition feeders andnow let's summarize it. What is the most convenient bird feeder?

Awarding of winners.

FROST

Child:

In chorus:

Help! They need to be fed
And then
It will be easy for them

Survive the cold.

E. Blaginina

Educator: Guys, do you know what food wintering birds like?

Children show feed and talk about them:

Almost all birds eat sunflower seeds and, first of all, tits and nuthatch.

Almost all birds eat melon and pumpkin seeds, except for tit and nuthatch.

Oats, if there is nothing better, eat oatmeal, sparrows, tits.

Millet and millet are the favorite food of oatmeal and sparrows.

The seeds of burdock are the main food of carduelis.

Rowan and viburnum berries are the favorite food of bullfinches and waxwings.

Breadcrumbs eat tits and sparrows.

Raw (unsalted) lard is an excellent food for tits, nuthatch and woodpeckers.

Raw meat is good food for tits and nuthatching, as well as for crows, jackdaws and magpies. Lard and meat are hung on strings.

Teacher: Well done guys! You know which of the wintering birds, which food he loves. Now remember the rules for feeding birds.

1. During feeding birds do not litter in the forest, park, garden: do not leave newspapers, paper and plastic bags, cans and boxes there.

2. Bird feeders should be very modest, better not painted.

3. The feed in the feeders should be little and only necessary for the birds: seeds of wild herbs, bread crumbs, sunflowers, slices of unsalted lard.

4. Feed the birds regularly. Birds can not be fed from time to time: it is in the winter that they really need your support, it is in frosts and blizzards that most of the birds die.

Follow these rules! Learn about the rules for feeding birds to your younger comrades, brothers and sisters.

Feed the birds in winter
To all over
They flocked to you like home
Flocks on the porch.

Their feeds are not rich,
A handful is needed.
A handful of one - and not scary
It will be winter.

Tame the birds in the cold
To my window
So without songs
We meet the spring!

And now, let's go outside together and hang the feeders in the kindergarten.

In winter, our feathered friends are very tight. Those birds that remain with us to winter, often experience severe food shortages and die. So it is in our power to help our feathered friends. We’ll make do-it-yourself feeders for them. Creating a feeding trough with your child and further bird watching will help to instill in the child a love for working with hands, creation, and, of course, for nature and animals.

The simplest bird feeders can be made from materials that are always at hand.

Feeding trough - a garland.

To do it, you need to string the feed on a strong thread or metal wire. Usually, unsalted lard (a delicacy of blueberries), unpeeled peanuts, bread crusts, dried fruits are used as food.

Abalone feed is a bag.

Put the food in a net, for example, from vegetables, and tie it on top. An elastic bandage is best suited as a mesh. The choice of feed depends on the grid cell.

Milk Bag Juice Feeder

from a plastic bottle.

It is necessary to cut two “windows” in a bag or bottle opposite each other. Under the "windows" you can install a six, and on top fasten a rope, for which you can hang the feeder on a tree.

What to put in the feeder?

You can put bread crumbs, pieces of bread, sunflower seeds, dried rowan berries, basically any berries, ash seeds, you can put panicles of different herbs with seeds, different grains: millet, oats, oatmeal, rye. Tits, for example, adore meat and fat. Nuts will also be used: hazelnuts or peanuts. You can put dried fruit, or even a raw half of an apple.

Respectfully your tutor

Bird feed

Bird feeding in winter

The need for food increases at low temperatures, as more energy is spent on heat production. Therefore, in winter, birds should eat especially hard. However, food at this time of year is difficult to access. In addition, food production opportunities are limited by short daylight hours. They learned how to tolerate a sharp deterioration in the nutritional conditions of birds, migrating or regularly migrating to areas where such deterioration does not occur. On the other hand, many polar birds, such as taptle, butterflies, and waxworms, migrate to mid-latitudes for the winter, not because there is more food, but because the day is longer. Insectivorous birds feed almost continuously on a winter day to survive a long frosty night. Settled birds often change feed composition in winter. For example, the feeding regimen of the hazel grouse changes in different seasons depending on the availability of one or another plant food. In spring, it feeds mainly on catkins of birch, willow and aspen, in summer - insects, seeds, berries, green shoots of grass, in autumn - mountain ash, buds, shoots of trees. A large motley woodpecker feeds on xylophagous insects, aphids, ants in summer, cones of coniferous species in winter, and drinks tree sap in spring. Many wintering birds switch in the fall from animal feed to plant food, such as the nuthatch and all tits. In addition, they prey on insects hiding under the bark, pick out larvae from winter nests. Many birds nest for the winter for human habitation - magpies, jays, woodpeckers, and in recent years - rooks and starlings remaining for the winter.

The harsh winter period helps to survive the reserves accumulated in the fall. The role of feed reserves in bird life is often exaggerated. Many species, which are credited with the opportunity to stay wintering due to stocks, make them far from every year, but only in years with a very good harvest of feed. Nevertheless, this reserve can play a role in maintaining the life of birds in the winter. But the birds themselves do not remember their pantries. During winter migrations, stocks, as a rule, are not found at all by the tits or nuthatch that made them. The exception is owls and owls, which are put into the hollow of "extra" mice in reserve and then regularly visit pantries. Some ornithologists believe that jays are looking for their stocks of acorns and small potatoes, guided by the sense of smell, which they have developed much better than other birds. This question remains open so far.

Birds can easily tolerate low temperatures if they are adequately provided with food. Thrushes remain overwinter with an abundant harvest of mountain ash. Crossbills appear in winter exclusively where there are fruit-bearing spruce, pine or larch. The presence of ripe seeds in cones allows them to nest until the time when the seeds spill out into the snow.

A large role in experiencing an unfavorable time of the year is played by a flocking lifestyle. Small clusters, constantly changing their composition, form birds immediately after nesting. In the pre-autumn forest, motley companies are often found, consisting of tits, warblers, warblers wandering along common routes. Gradually, migratory birds are sifted out of these clusters, and by winter the flock acquires a permanent composition. Usually it includes kings, several species of tits, nuthatch, pikas, and sometimes a small speckled woodpecker. Flocks of waxwings, crossbills, tap dancing, siskins roam in flocks. Most migratory birds also travel in packs. Everyone knows the thousandth flocks of starlings, roaming noisily in gardens and floodplains, flocks of rooks in compressed fields. Alone travel birds of prey, goats, kukushi, owls, some waders. The benefits of a flocking lifestyle are obvious - it’s easier to find food and detect danger. Many small birds, united, are able to drive away a predator - a crow, a squirrel and even an owl. With screams, they attract the attention of stronger birds to them. The same motives encourage the unification of flocks of birds for some reason that did not nest. In the midst of summer, sometimes flocks of lapwings, forced to roam, flocks of waders, for example large godworms, and in the south of the European part of the USSR, flocks of silver gulls and mute swans can be seen.

The instinct of food storage is quite well developed in many birds. These include some species of owls, tits, woodpeckers, corvids.

One of these birds - a small owl, or sparrow-syrka, has a very pronounced instinct for storage. It lives in Northern and Central Europe, and is found in humid coniferous forests here. Soviet researcher G.N. Likhachev discovered a hollow in the Tula region, where there was a whole warehouse of corpses of mouse-like rodents collected by these birds. They lay tight and weighed more than 2 kg. These stocks were collected by owls until December. With the onset of winter cold and snowfall, it becomes more difficult to catch rodents. At this time, the owl climbs into the hollow and counts only on its stocks. One of these warehouses contained 86 rodents, mainly voles. Other species of owls make stocks, for example, an eared owl. And in the nest of the swamp owl, 8 mice were found, in water rats, 4 voles, 4 other rodents, coot chicks, etc.

Small food reserves are made by crows and magpies, who hide them under fallen leaves, in dry grass, in the snow. But this is probably in countries located north of ours. The fact that crows and magpies show such a tendency during a harsh and cold winter is not surprising. A similar type of storage is inherent in jays. Sometimes they stockpile acorns and hazelnuts, burying them in the ground. One author observed jays in the Orenburg region (USSR), where these birds hibernate and stockpile in hollows and tree roots. According to P. A. Sviridenko, the nutritional reserves in such warehouses reach 4.5 kg.

There is a lot of information about storing food with Siberian nuts, which in some years fly into Western Europe. These birds with variegated plumage belong to the family of corvids and represent a subspecies of those that we find. The Pekhtold arborist, who has been monitoring cedar plantations in Western Europe for many years, characterizes this activity of the Siberian walnut as follows.

“This very mobile bird exhibits extraordinary activity during the ripening of seeds. Tearing a cedar cone from a tree or lifting it from the ground, it flies not far into the forest, sits on a convenient place, picks nuts in its beak and flies to the place where the stock warehouse is located. She chooses only large, high-quality, completely ripe nuts, which can be seen in the study of stocks, although this is difficult to do, because the bird knows how to hide them so well that it is almost impossible for a person to find. "

Siberian walnut makes significant reserves and hides them in various places. Heaps of 5-6 cones were found hidden in the roots of the trees. N. A. Kholodkovsky and A. A. Silantiev note in their monograph that pine trees, gaining a mouthful of nuts, carry them to the forest, where they hide under moss and other secret places. Such bird activity plays a large role in forest restoration. Collecting mature cones, they carry them far from the gathering place; if the cone is heavy, the bird often loses it and flies after another; taking away the cones, she leaves the bad ones, which then germinate. Cedar can carry up to 80 seeds at a time. Reserves are used by her in the fall and winter. But the bird does not always find its stores, sometimes they use protein, and unused cones go to restore forest plantations.

According to observations, a nut, or pine nut, loves to hide seeds in places exposed to fire with a weak grassy cover. Every year, 2-3 thousand seeds per hectare are stocked by birds, half of which remains unused and serves as a natural afforestation of these places.

The crested titmouse also stocks. According to observations, she collects them all year round and especially in the fall. This bird feeds on plant seeds, larvae and caterpillars, which it usually hides in the bark of trees between lichens and branches, but so that the pantry is accessible in winter when the snow covers the branches. Since such stocks are scattered throughout the forest, the food of tits in this area is used more or less evenly by the entire population.

An interesting way of storing food in shrikes. All shrikes are migratory birds; some of them only winter in Bulgaria, while others nest with us, flying away in the fall. All of them feed on caterpillars, locusts, bugs, sometimes small birds, mice, lizards, etc., which are pricked into sharp thorns of shrubs as stocks near their nest. If the shrike does not find what to chop the catch on, he puts it in a fork in the branches. Cooking in this way stocks are carried out gradually and also gradually used in the absence of fresh food. An interesting picture sometimes appears before the eyes of an observer: on the branches of thorns and hawthorn, which grows along the edges of meadows and gardens, caterpillars are hung. They are dried and canned in the sun, like meat. When the female shrike hatches an egg, the male carries her food, not flying far. A hungry mother feeds without moving away from the nest.

The instinct of food storage is also observed in a small restless forest bird, a nuthatch, which rarely lingers in one place. He constantly climbs the branches of trees. It is known that nuthatch stocks the winged seeds of maple, beech, as well as acorns, etc., hiding them in the cracks of the bark of large trees. We watched how these nimble birds filled with linden boxes of seeds hollow to the very top. Another author observed how two pairs of birds carried away sunflower seeds and pumpkins from a feeder set on a tree. This they did throughout the winter. The birds not only ate seeds, but also hid them in the cracks of bark, old pears, apple trees, white acacia and oak. They were tireless in this work. Taking away from 2 to 4 seeds at a time, the nuthatch flew to a neighboring tree, where they hid their prey, and now returned for new seeds. This went on from morning to evening. Crawling through the tree, the birds easily found prey. Sometimes so many seeds are hidden in the cracks of old trees that these trees sprout in the spring. Many other birds, especially tits, also use nuthatch stocks. The nuthatch instinct is manifested not only in autumn and winter, but also in summer.

On some days of June, nuthatching is as active as in winter: in one day, a pair of birds can take 200-300 sunflower seeds out of the feeder.

It is known that birds store food at a certain time in order to ensure a safe wintering or feeding their chicks. Most birds do not stock up on food at all, since they lead a migratory lifestyle and do not need winter stocks. As for the summer stocks of shrikes, they make them in the nesting period, when bad weather can prevent the hunting of caterpillars, lizards, frogs and small songbirds.

In North America, a species of green woodpecker lives, which, like all other woodpeckers in the summer, feeds mainly on the larvae of various insects and the insects themselves. In winter, these woodpeckers switch to plant foods, using, even acorns. But at this time, the fallen acorns of oak and beech are covered with snow. American green woodpeckers began to stock up acorns for the winter. They do this very diligently, and their stocks do not become prey for other animals. Birds find a suitable oak or pine and hammer a hole in the bark to push only one acorn into it. It is placed there so tightly that only a bird that has a beak, like a woodpecker, can get it. If a person sees such a tree, then it will seem to him that it is all clogged with thick nails. Woodpeckers seem to predict time. As soon as they begin to intensively hammer their "nails", local residents know that the cold and the first snow are approaching. Until the snow falls, the woodpeckers do not come close to the mosaics of the trees. But now the snow fell, it became impossible to search for acorns on the ground and under the trees, and the birds begin to look for them in the bark, where the snow cannot hide the reserves. In this case, the woodpecker eats only the core, and hard shells remain hammered into the tree. In America, these birds sometimes cause telephone and telegraph communication disruptions, as they often use telegraph poles for their winter warehouses. There have been cases when up to 700 acorns appeared in one telegraph pole. With a strong wind, such a pillar could not stand and fell. Another American species of woodpecker, called copper due to the orange-copper color of the plumage and living in the forest regions of the Missouri River in Texas and Mexico, makes warehouses studied by Sosyur. There is no vegetation around the extinct volcano Pizaro. The slopes are covered with frozen lava. Here and there are isolated instances of agave, adapted to the dry and hot climate of that place. Only copper woodpeckers circle around the dry and lonely trunks of the agave, using them as their warehouses. Birds punch holes in the trunks, filling them with acorns. And they do it in the same way. The first hole makes its way near the ground, then higher and higher at the same distance to the very top. The work is not easy, it is accompanied by the dragging of acorns, which are not easy to find. There are no acorns near the volcano, so woodpeckers bring them for several kilometers. Warehouses of these woodpeckers have invaluable advantages: in a waterless area, moisture never damages acorns, in addition, they are reliably protected from mice and hares. Woodpeckers stocks are used in the summer, which lasts six months. At this time, all plants dry out, no insects. Without warehouses, the birds would have disappeared.

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