Reed herons | Facts & Information

Origin

Diurnal species, carnivorous, overflights wide expanses in search of food; the lands explored in this sense are inglastinations, wetlands in general, water surfaces, agricultural lands, floodplains and as far as possible even pastures.It can be found in North-West Africa, Europe except the north of the continent, Central Asia, Asia Minor to Afghanistan. Nestling hereteleui-de-reeds in Romania: for the east of the country from the north to the south and for the West the same way but with rarer confirmations; in Transylvania only in the North then East.

Feeding Reed Eretes

The reed warbler is a carnivorous bird that has a diet consisting of small mammals, insects and small birds.

Features Reed Eretes

As a result of the existence of sexual dimorphism, the male has rust-yellow and brown plumage, head yellow, on the wing with a gray area, under the wing and at the base remigele tinted white, the same proximal so with the tips, black while the female is dressed more uniform brown, on the crest, deer, chest and shoulders tinted yellow-rust. The wax, corners of the mouth and legs are in both sexes yellow.

Resident species, Reed eretele is especially prevalent in lowland regions with preference for reed beds during the breeding season at the shelter where it builds its nest.

It prefers vast lands, steppes, grassy plain, uncultivated natural Meadows, grassy floodplains, swampy lands near ponds or lakes (the latter can provide not only a varied trophic source but also the "supply" of suitable places for nesting) and as a secondary habitat, agricultural lands.

Breeding Reed herons

Usually, the nest is placed on the ground having as support the reeds in the immediate vicinity frant (bent, lying), the center presenting a shallow dive (5-7 cm).

The diameter of the hearth instead reaches approx. 1 m. The Nest reused in the following years undergoes an addition of material consisting of twigs, Moss, various herbs, in such a way that its edge exceeds the water mirror by about 40-80 cm.

Ponta consists of 4-5 (6) oval or round-oval eggs, white with blue or green iridescence, without obvious gloss. The interval of the breeding period is between the last third of April until the middle of May; between the first egg and the laying of the second, 2-3 days are required and again so many intervals for each egg.

Incubation lasts 32 (36.38) days. Brooding is provided only by the female. The chicks are stationary in the nest for more than a month and become fliers after the 56th day.