White-naped cranes and peacock pheasants lodged in Feldman Ecopark. Two couples of these birds appeared in the Regional Landscape Park within the program of free exchange between zoos.
“The white-naped crane is included in the International Red Book. It is one of the largest, rare representatives of crane family having a restricted area of expansion. This is a careful bird with a ringing pipe voice, – the deputy director Feldman Eсopark Valery Ivashchenko tells. – The birds eat grain, zophobas, grated vegetables and fruit. They were lodged indoors as it is cold outside for these cranes now”.
The peacock pheasants who are much more widespread species lodged in the open enclosure. A characteristic feature of this pheasant are the big, poured colors of the rainbow spots – “eyes” on a tail of a male, because of which the bird received its name. Also spots – “eyes” at peacock pheasants are located on wings and a back.
Reference. The white-naped crane – a bird of a family of cranes living in East Asia. The rare species, its total number by estimates of ornithologists equals to 4900-5300 individuals. Its height reaches 1,9 m (on average 1,3-1,5 m), the weight is 5,6 kg, length of a wing – 560-600 mm. The white-naped cranes have practically no natural enemies, but their expansion is very much influenced by activity of the person. It nests in the historic area Dauriya which includes northeast Mongolia, northeast China and adjacent regions of southeast Russia. They live in the nature not less than 20-30 years, and live up to 50 and more years in zoos.
The peacock pheasant, or malleefowl – a bird of a family of peacocks. It is widespread from the East of India through Burma to the southeast of Indonesia. Length of wings is from 17,5 cm (females) to 24 cm (males). Body plumage of a male is mainly gray, females are brown.
