Javelin rate | Facts & Information

Origin

The spear rate is 56 centimeters long. Anas acuta is more of a landscape for our country, passing through the autumn, late in the very numerous cards from the northern nesting lands on the way to wintering places in southern Europe and Northern Africa. In mild winters many specimens remain with us. Some isolated nests are known in the Eastern Carpathians and Dobrogea.

The spear rate is also called the sharp-tailed rate or the skewer rate.

It is a surface rate and a summer guest, of medium size (0.5 – 0.6 kg).

He leaves in November and returns in February. Sexual dimorphism is evident, but less pronounced than at the other rates.

The male is brunpestrit, with a brown head, mottled goiter, white-yellow abdomen and black subcaudals.

The hindwings are chestnut brown, bordered towards the wing tip and towards the body by a darker band, then continued posteriorly with a broad white band.

The female is similar to the large duck, but smaller, more mottled, and with a composite mirror similar to the duck. Both sexes have blackish beaks and yellow legs with blackish palmate.

Feed Rate Spear

Like all ducks and javelin ducks it finds most of its food in water.

It usually feeds on seeds, aquatic plants, other grasses and small animals at night.

Features Javelin Rate

The predominant plumage in males is grey, with a brown head and neck and underside White; the female is tan.

The beak is grayish-blue. The flight silhouette is characteristic, the neck and tail are elongated. The male has in the middle of the tail 2 long feathers.

According to a census made in the period 10-20 January 2005 on the territory of our country there were 515 copies of Javelin rates.

This bird is protected by law.

Reproduction Rate Javelin

Mating occurs when the duck approaches the duck with its head bent and tail raised. Then he calls her with a whistling sound. The sulirat duck lays 6 to 12 eggs in a ground nest.

The nest is built of stuff, rushes and grass at some distance from the water.

The eggs are hatched for about three weeks. Sometimes it helps the male to hatch. Chickens are covered with feathers in less than a month.