White caliphate | Facts & Information
# White caliphate | Facts & Information
White caliphate | Discover Fascinating Facts and Information About White caliphate
This species of bird belongs to the order Anseriformes and the family Anatidae.
White caliphate
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The White caliphate ( Tadorna tadorna) is one of the most beautiful species of ducks that live and multiply in our country. Unfortunately they are very rare and for this reason it is a bird protected by law.
The fact that it is hard to bear the human presence and habitat changes but also due to the specificity of nesting places make it one of the bird species strongly threatened with extinction and requires urgent measures for conservation.
In the case of the red caliphate the situation is much worse. The White caliphate is widespread in almost all of Europe along coastal areas but necessarily with fresh water sources nearby. The largest population is in the UK.
In Romania it lives both on the coast and in the Danube Delta and in some portions of the Danube course. Sporadically White Calipari can appear on various lakes and ponds in the interior of the country, especially during the winter period.
Food White caliphate
The White caliphate feeds on aquatic insects, worms, snails, shells, algae, various aquatic plants, sometimes also seeds.
Birds submerge their entire upper body in the water, and search the bottom with their beaks to find hidden shells.
They prefer to eat crabs, mussels and snails.
Features of the White caliphate
The plumage coloration is particularly beautiful and for this reason they are bred as ornamental birds. The head and wing mirrors are dark green and the wing tips are black. The goiter is white and continues with a brick collar.
The beak is orange-red and the legs pinkish. The male has a protrusion on the forehead, an extension of the beak, due to which it is also called the bumpy duck. The size is large for a duck which is why it looks more like a goose.
The length is 60-65 cm, the wingspan is 1.1-1.3 m and the weight is 0.9 – 1.5 kg.
The White caliphate is a semi-Migratory Bird. It generally stays with us over the winter and only in very hard winters retreats to the coasts of the Black Sea or the Mediterranean Sea. Hunting at caliphar white and caliphar red is prohibited.
The sounds made by the two birds differ quite a bit. The cry of the females is sonorous and deep, a kind of "gaga-gaga", those of the male are high, Hissing, of the type "tiju-tiju-tirrr-tiju-tiju".
Breeding white caliphate
For nesting, the White caliphate looks for secluded and well-protected places.
In coastal areas it uses the steep banks and makes its nest in cracks, Burrows, among the rocks so that the nest is as well masked.
In the delta they look for nesting quiet islands or lake banks with Burrows, crevices and even old trees with hollows.
In the nest the female lays 8-10 eggs in a single series which she hatches for 28 days.
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