Carstel de camp | Facts & Information

Origin

The field karstel is widespread in Europe and Central Asia; winter, Africa and the southern part of Asia.

Their favorite places to stop are: wet meadows, the edges of lakes covered with sedges, also vineyards with bushy and grassy places.

The Campel belongs to the bird species included in the birds – Annex I directive and which require worldwide protection, being classified as "near threatened".

Carstel de camp food

They are useful birds, because they feed on insects and their larvae, snails,worms, bream, and smaller crustaceans, buds of aquatic plants and less often with seeds and grains.

Features Carstel de camp

It is a 26 cm bird with a quail-like appearance. It has rounded wings and relatively long legs. The adult shows a general brown coloration with darker spots on the back, wings reddish, abdomen yellowish with darker transverse stripes.

The chest and throat are grey – blue. Young specimens have uniform brown plumage with reddish wings and whitish abdomen. The chicks are covered with a black fluff.

It flies for short distances with its legs dangling. The territorial song of the male is very characteristic and is heard in spring and summer, especially in the evening and at night (crrre – crre, bisyllabic and strong).

The typical habitat of the field Crystal is open lands, consisting of hayfields, pastures, other wet grassy lands, crops of wheat, barley, oats, alfalfa, etc.

Their arrival time is mid-April. Their favorite places to stop are: wet meadows, the edges of lakes covered with sedges, also vineyards with bushy and grassy places. In some places in the foothills of the Carpathians it is also common.

After the Hay has been mowed and the field has been mowed, these birds go to puddles, cornfields, clover and places overgrown with weeds. Most leave in September; loners still meet by the end of October.

Breeding Carstel de camp

Nest consisting of 8-12 eggs, is found from late May to late June.

The presence of Christ in a certain place and he betrays it himself by his voice, which is a squeak, similar to the sound that would occur when we pass with a toothpick over the Blades of a shoulder in circles twice.

These sounds are heard in the spring after the arrival of the Christs, especially early in the morning or in the evening, sometimes even at night.

It is a migratory bird, which leaves us in the fall and returns in the spring to reproduce. It nests on the ground, in grasses.