Slender little bird with a wonderful sonorous clear voice has long and for a long time been loved by connoisseurs of sonorous trills. Not everyone wakes up with the first roosters. Someone was lucky to meet the morning under the vigorous song of the nightingale. Kuryans also belong to the lucky ones. They have their own "family" vocalist. And, although such a biological species does not exist, many fans are sure that the Kursk nightingale is different from other tribesmen.
And there is also a whistler, rubythroat, bluethroat. And they all belong to the nightingale family. The vocal data of feathered artists was glorified in their creations by poets of past eras. In Homer's Odyssey, one of the heroines of the myth magically turns into just such a feathered one.
Nightingale - songbird: description
Closer to the hero of this presentation was the great Russian writer Nikolai Nekrasov. In his poem dedicated to everyone's favorite, he noted that "our nightingale in Kursk is worth…".
Glorified him, of course, in the first place singing. After all, if you look from the outside, then the appearance of this winged phenomenon is completely unremarkable. Many have heard, but, however, they have seen less and know who the nightingale is - a bird, descriptionwhich you will read, but you will not recognize when you meet. The sprout is small, only seventeen centimeters, the legs are long, the eyes are dark, the color of brown, only the tail with a redhead.
Habitat
The bird, which belongs to the eastern subspecies, lodges almost throughout the European part of our vast homeland, to the Caucasus and Crimea, to the Altai and Yenisei. You can meet her in East Germany, and in Poland, and she does not fly past the B altic states. And there is also a Western representative living in Ukraine, in Southern and Central Europe, Asia Minor. Persian and African subspecies breed in Kazakhstan and Transcaucasia. In general, he lives almost everywhere, does not grieve, is friends with sparrows, since he belongs to this detachment. And their families are flycatcher and thrush.
Food
Nightingale - a bird, the description of which we have already practically stated, is not at all whimsical in food. Spiders, various insects and berries are part of the regular menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The nest is nested low in grass or bush roots.
Reproduction
Drags literally everything for his home: dry leaves, stems, straws. If you are lucky to pick up shreds of wool somewhere, then the bottom in the nest will be soft and warm. In this cozy apartment, the offspring of feathered singers are born. Only the female incubates the eggs.
They are a little over twenty millimeters long, the color merges perfectly with dried leaves. This means that for the thirteen days that are necessary for the hatching of chicks, it is unlikely that someone willaccidentally see and can do harm. Moreover, all this period, the expectant mother and her offspring are reliably guarded and fed, like a real man, by the head of a friendly family.
Wintering
The nightingale is a migratory bird, so it goes to winter not just anywhere, but to Africa. He also loves to warm fragile bones in the sun. True, he does not forget to return in time to denote spring and warmth by singing. This happens in early May, when the weather has already settled down, and the sun warms like a summer. In the southern regions they celebrate their early return, back in April.
Singing
Some poets claim that winged vocalists only sing at night. But this is completely false. Trills can also be heard at other times of the day, but only performed by males. This is how they show signs of attention to their girlfriends, take care of them. Probably, the knights, having peeped at the birds at one time, began to perform serenades under the windows of their beloved.
The famous nightingale of Kursk is always in the first place among Russians in singing. For connoisseurs and connoisseurs of their vocal art has become a whole science. Solo is distinguished by a large number of so-called "knees", in an approximate translation into human language - verses. These features are reflected in catchphrases. And who do you think "throws knees"? Folk talents study the nightingale style of performance and try to imitate it, compete with each other in skill, like those same birds.
Songs of various kinds
Ivan understood the habits of feathered choristersSergeevich Turgenev. He even detailed ten "verses" in his letter to a hunter friend. Bullet-bullet, kly-kly, captivity-captivity, go-go-go-tu … Here is Julia's boredom, and peal, Leshev's pipe and cuckoo's flight. Connoisseurs attribute up to twenty-four tribes to singers, especially noting their peculiar construction in each locality. Kursk people sing "verses" more than others, for which they have always enjoyed increased attention, even during large fairs several centuries ago.
They came here from all over Russia to buy nightingales. In the middle of the nineteenth century, 150 rubles was a rather big sum. That is how much, or even more, they paid for local birds. For this money, then it was possible to buy a couple of horses, and even add a couple of cows to the barnyard. According to the register for 1836, 420 birds were sold by local residents that year at the Root Fair.
Catching the songbirds of the Kursk land was a profitable business in those days. It was not in vain that they said that they "sing to the arshin". Happy owners were ready to lay out tidy sums, so that later every day they could be touched and admire the sonorous trills. The training of small birds in vocal art also brought considerable profit. Chicks were specially placed next to adult males so that young people would listen and repeat the knees of "professionals". The Kursk tune could also be heard in St. Petersburg, because the Imperial Court had a weakness for such a sound.
The nightingale has not lost its popularity even today - a bird whose singing is heard at dawn and at sunset from spring toautumn. Now at home, unlike parrots and kenars, these birds are not kept. Unless only enthusiastic ornithologists. But in Kursk, a museum was opened a few years ago, which is dedicated to the life and phenomenon of feathered singers. More than 500 exhibits, historical data, literary works, sayings and signs. Everything that the Kursk nightingale can tell about itself is collected here, photographs and clay figures of a feathered bird from local masters arouse constant interest and daily attract hundreds of visitors to the museum, young and old.
Vocal competitions and festivals of bard songs bearing the name of the proud bird are held on the territory of the region and beyond. And you can also get from Kursk to Belokamennaya by the “nightingale” train.
Kursk Nightingale
This sonorous nickname was given to famous stage voices: in Tsarist Russia - singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya, in the forties of the last century - tenor Ivan Surzhikov, now this is the name of the public's favorite, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Lev Leshchenko.
Surprising is the fact that with all the reverence and pride of the local "feathered stars", they are not on the coat of arms of the Kursk region. But there are three flying partridges. This is how they bypassed the main symbol of the region.
Unlike the end of the nineteenth century, when bird hunting in the Kursk province threatened the "singers" with extinction, in our time there is no need to include them in the Red Book. Only in the region there are about two thousand pairs. But this does not mean that they do not need protection, like all living things around.us. It's nice to meet and see off the day with pure singing, which gives a feeling of peace and brings a smile.
Conclusion
We hope you understand what a nightingale is - a bird, the description of which we told you. Now you can share your knowledge with loved ones.
