Our feathered friends. Scenario of the holiday "our feathered friends" Birds are faithful helpers, the defenders of our forests

  • 01.04.2020

extracurricular activity in primary school

Topic: Birds and I are great friends.

Goals of extracurricular activities:

    development of cognitive and creative activity of students

    expanding and deepening the horizons of children;

    development of creative abilities;

    education of love for native nature and respect for birds

Event progress.

OPENING SPEECH ( sounds of a melody - the voices of birds)

Birds are song and flight.

Birds are children of the air, patrons of the air ocean.

Birds are children of the rainbow. Their pen shimmers with all conceivable and inconceivable colors.

Birds are messengers of joy. Every year they bring spring to us on wings.

Birds are our faithful helpers, protectors of our forests, fields, orchards, orchards from harmful bark beetles, codling moths and rodents.

Birds are mystery and beauty. Beautiful poems and songs, legends and fairy tales are composed about birds. We can't do without birds. It is impossible even to imagine our Earth without birds.

And now we will go to the beautiful, diverse world of birds. Look, there are three packs gathered here. Please introduce yourself.

I PACK (SPAROWS)

(reading a poem The sparrow was sad”)

The sparrow was sad.

A sparrow in a gray zipun was sad.
- Why are you not happy, or not happy about winter?
- I will answer you, my old friend,
The field is empty, the river is sleeping quietly,
Leaves flew from maples and willows.


The distant sun began to warm weakly.
I don't want to fly anywhere.
I know the blizzard will sing here and circle,
But separation from the motherland I can not survive

I have a friend - a sparrow.
Absolutely fearless bird!
Not afraid of big pigeons
And in general, no one is afraid.
Not afraid of hungry cats
Not afraid of heights and blizzards ....
Be healthy, sparrow, be healthy!
Come chat at your leisure!

Sparrow message.

I want to tell you about sparrows. Sparrows that live next to a person, under the roofs of houses, are brownies, but there are also field sparrows. Tree sparrows nest in old parks, nests are arranged either in hollows or in a pile of brushwood, birdhouses and nest boxes that schoolchildren hang in the forest. They make a nest from any garbage, from blades of grass, from hay, straw. Inside the nest, everything is necessarily covered with feathers. There are no bright colors in their clothes - feathers: the back is brown, the abdomen is gray, and there is a light brown cap on the head. Their feathers are always clean, neat and nice to look at, as they constantly monitor the cleanliness of their body.

II PACK (SNEGIRI)

(reading a poem A. Kondratieva Lights - bullfinches.)

Where are the lights in the dense forest
They sit on branches, on snow, on knots?
Why don't the branches from those lights burn?
Their snow outfit does not melt at all.

Pinch the burdocks and chirp on the branches
About new flights, about new reconnaissance.
All winter, all day - from dawn to dusk -
Lights fly in the forest - bullfinches.

Let me be a small bird, my friends have a habit,
As soon as the cold starts - straight from the North here.
Every year I fly to you, I want to spend the winter with you.
And even redder in winter, my bright red tie.

Snowflake message.

Bullfinches are slightly larger than a sparrow. Red breasts of males are visible from afar in winter. In winter, in the forest, bullfinches eat rowan and elderberries, alder and maple seeds. Well, if the red-breasted flies to the field, then it will feast on the seeds of horse sorrel, burdock or quinoa. Bullfinches come to feed in gardens and parks. The bullfinches sitting on the branches look like red lanterns that decorate the forest and make it very elegant.

III PACK (Woodpeckers)

(reading a poem hardworking dude.)

Hardworking dude.

How much dexterity, interest in labor
At the motley woodpecker - the protector of the forest.
He is never idle
Builds houses for birds and squirrels.

Heals trees from many diseases,
His knock is heard from afar.
His work is complex and very useful.
Only harmful beetles do not like it. (G. Ladonshchikov)

If a pine fell ill in the forest,
If the disease in a pine tree is not clear,
The doctor will fly to the pine tree at dawn,
He sits on a bough, knocks on the bark.
In a red beret and white coat
A caring woodpecker treats trees. (V. Kozhevnikov)

Woodpecker message.

The woodpecker is a tree bird. He hollows diseased trees with his beak and pulls out bark beetles, larvae from under the bark with a long tongue.

Sometimes a whole pile of peeled pine cones is piled under a tree. On the tree is a woodpecker's forge. In winter, a flock of tits flies after the woodpecker. They feed around him. The woodpecker will not peck out all the seeds from the cone - the tits will peck. The woodpecker will gouge a rotten tree, and the bug or larva will get to the tits.

Well done boys. What you told us about birds is very interesting. And now we'll see how attentive you are.

The game.

Condition: clap your hands, if it's not about birds.

Birds have arrived Lapwings, siskins
Doves, tits Jackdaws and swifts
Flies and swifts Mosquitoes, cuckoos
Birds have flown Birds have flown
Pigeons, tits Pigeons, tits
Storks, crows Jackdaws and swifts
Jackdaws, pasta Storks, cuckoos
Birds have arrived Even owls are scops
Pigeons, tits Swans, ducks and thanks for the joke.

Well done boys.

Look at the desk. Here is an exhibition of your wonderful drawings of birds.

Now let's see if you really know birds that well?

Game "Live Synonyms"

It is necessary to choose the names of birds to get expressions used in comparison with people (wet like a chicken.)

Wise as... ( crow)

Badass as...(rooster)

Thieving as...(magpie)

Important, inflated, like ...(turkey)

Long legged like... (heron)

Eyed like... (owl)

Predatory look, like…(hawk)

A sharp look, like…(falcon)

A hooked nose like...(eagle)

The nose is flattened like...(ducks)

The neck is delicate, long, like ...(swan)

Stately gait, like ...(peacock) (acts like a peacock)

Quiz.

For all teams:

1. How many species of birds are known to man? (More than 8500 species.)

2. What is the largest bird in our country? (Pelican.)

3. Which bird lays the most big eggs? (Ostrich - the length of the egg is 15-17cm, and the diameter is 13-15cm.)

4. How many times is the vision of eagles, hawks, vultures sharper than human? (8 times.)

5. Which bird can dive the deepest? (Emperor penguin, to a depth of 200 meters.)

6. How many times per second does a hummingbird flap its wings during flight? (Up to 55 times.)

7. How fast can an ostrich run? (Up to 50 km/h)

8. What is the body temperature of most birds? (About 41 degrees.)

9. Which bird has the most big scope wings? (Albatross, over 5.5 meters.)

10. On what day of the year in Russia was it customary to release birds into the wild? (April 7 - Annunciation.)

11. How many breeds of pigeons have been bred by man? (More than 800.)

12. What are the most numerous birds on Earth? (Chickens.)

13. What is the name of the science that studies birds? (Ornithology.)

14. When is the body temperature of a sparrow lower: in winter or summer? (Same.)

15. What is the favorite treat of storks. (Frogs.)

16. Which bird has the longest tongue? (For a woodpecker - up to 15cm.)

17. Where do tits build nests? (In the hollows of the trees)

The yes-no game

1. ... once in the stomach of one ostrich they found 4 kg of coins, buttons, nails (Yes.)

2. ... the heron is powdering (Yes.)

3. ... kva-kva is a frog (No, this is a bird from the order of storks.)

4. … a bird can kill a crocodile (Yes, the Brazilian yabiru.)

5. …egg great auk costs like a car (Yes.)

6. ... among the passerines there are those who weigh 1.5 kg and crumbs less than 5 grams (Yes.)

7. ... rooks eat lizards, toads, frogs (No.)

8. ... a parrot and a crow belong to the same order of birds (No.)

10. ... siskins also live in tropical forests (No.)

11. ... swallows walk on the ground more often than fly (No.)

12. ... there is a bowerbird that builds a hut (Yes.)

13. … cranes love to dance (Yes.)

14. ... a hummingbird nest the size of half a walnut (Yes.)

Puzzles

1. Amazing baby! Just got out of diapers, can swim and dive like his own mother! (Duckling.)

2. What kind of spring black bird - likes to walk and feed behind a plow? (Rook.)

3. Lives in the wilderness of the forest, both in summer and in winter - a diligent worker, a nosy forest carpenter. (Woodpecker.)

4. Sleeps during the day, flies at night and scares passers-by. (Owl.)

5. What bird walks underwater? (Dipper.)

6. Is the penguin a bird or not? (Bird.)

7. The brothers stood on stilts, looking for food along the way, whether on the run, whether on the move - they can’t get off the stilts. (Cranes.)

8. What bird throws eggs into other people's nests? (Cuckoo.)

9. What bird bears the name of the writer? (Gogol.)

10. Which bird breeds chicks in winter? (Crossbill.)

11. Which bird skillfully imitates the voices of many birds? (Starling.)

12. The arrival of which birds means the beginning of spring? (Rooks.)

Host: Who has not yet taken apart the Christmas tree at home and left it until May 1? (A word to the outgoing player.)

Guess the bird

1. Which bird has a bag under its beak? (Pelican.)

2. Who can accurately find their way home? (Pigeon.)

3. Who are called "winged rats"? (Crows.)

4. According to the habits of what poultry can you tell the weather? (Goose.)

5. What bird of prey nests on rocks? (Eagle.)

6. Which bird has been a symbol of beauty and tenderness since ancient times? (Swan.)

7. Who settles on the roofs of houses and, according to legend, brings happiness? (Stork.)

8. Who imitates human speech? (Parrot.)

9. Which bird outfit resembles a black suit with a white shirt? (Penguin.)

10. Which bird has a long neck? (Crane.)

11. What bird is a symbol of wisdom? (Owl.)

12. What kind of bird knocks on a tree with its beak all day? (Woodpecker.)

Conversation “caring for birds”

Winter is a very difficult time for birds, especially if it is frosty and snowy. Do not find food for the birds under the snow. A hungry bird suffers greatly from the cold. In winter, the day is short, and in order to survive and not freeze, you need to eat much more food than in summer. We need to support the birds.

Feed the birds in winter!

Let from all over

They will flock to you, like home,

How many of them die - do not count!

It's hard to see.

But in our heart there is

And the birds are warm.

Train birds in frost to your window.

So that without songs it was not necessary

We welcome spring.

We are for the bird festival
For starlings, for tits
Not one prepared a house
Every bird tastes
I undertake to adapt
Teremok that the storm will not break.

You have made wonderful feeders at home. After class hour we will fill the feeders with food and, when we go for a walk, we will hang them around our school grounds. Every day we will check them and, most importantly, replenish them. We will take care of the birds. Because BIRDS ARE OUR FRIENDS!

Olga Popleva
Ecological project "We are green defenders - friends of birds" Video

project on: "We green defenders - friends of birds» .

(preparatory group)

GBOU g GBOU School No. 1374 UK "Semitsvetik" in Moscow.

Type of project: cognitive - research.

Children's age: 6 - 7 years

Lead time project: from 1.09.2015 to 31.05.2016.

Members project: educators, children, parents.

Performed:

Poplva O.P.

Early in the morning birds jump on snow-covered branches -

Yellow-breasted tits flew to visit us.

No mosquito, no fly. Everywhere only snow and snow.

It’s good that a kind person made feeders for us.”

(Yu. Sinitsyn)

Relevance project:

The world of birds is interesting and diverse. Watch for feathered with children is a real pleasure. Every year they bring us spring on their wings. Birds are our faithful helpers, forest protectors, fields, orchards and orchards. Their melodic, cheerful, sonorous songs are a source of inspiration for writers, poets, and musicians.

Per recent years in the capital region has halved waterfowl, tits have almost disappeared, a number of already rare "red book" birds are under the threat of complete extinction feathered. Even sparrows are seen less and less in the city.

The result is a colossal increase in the number of insects, from which both people and plants are particularly affected.

The reason for the disappearance of birds from cities is the elimination green spaces and as a result, the lack of food supply for them.

We are on the threshold ecological disaster, the consequences of which may be irreversible. What can be done to remedy the situation? At a minimum, do not destroy nests and do not scare away birds, feed them with your favorite treats, hang birdhouses, feeders. Only together we can overcome this situation!

Target: - to form children's ideas about birds, their lifestyle and behavior, about the connection with environment, the role of man in the life of birds.

Cultivate love and caring attitude towards feathered.

Tasks:

Encourage children to show cognitive initiative; consolidate knowledge about what is not in nature "unnecessary" creatures, in it everything is expedient and everything is in great balance;

Develop creativity, children's speech, attention and thinking; the ability to compare and establish causal relationships between different types of birds; - expanding children's ideas about migratory birds (rooks, wagtails, swallows, etc., breeding chicks, caring for them;

To cultivate a kind attitude towards small neighbors on the planet, the ability to admire and rejoice at new bird sightings, to arouse interest and desire in providing all possible assistance feathered friends;

Increasing the level of pedagogical culture of parents through involvement in joint activities with kids (manufacturing of feeders, birdhouses).

Expected result.

Systematization of children's knowledge about birds;

Formation of a conscious effective attitude towards birds, a desire to take care of feathered;

Understanding their importance in people's lives;

Parent actively involved in project, is able to instill in children a love and respect for birds.

Implementation plan Project:

Preparation for the event project.

1. Select methodological literature on the topic.

2. Select fiction and educational literature on the topic.

3. Pick up didactic material, visual aids

(pictures, illustrations, game tasks and exercises, audio recordings with bird voices, musical works).

4. Make a long-term plan.

5. Making hats - birds; didactic games; creating attributes for classes and games.

6. Making feeders and birdhouses.

7. Making crafts for organizing an exhibition "Little Birds".

8. Production of leaflets with call: "Feed the Birds in Winter". 9. Photo report parents: "Our Children and Birds"

10. Presentation project.

2. Main stage:

Performance project.

Implementation project in different types activities, taking into account the integration of educational regions:

1. "Socio-communicative development":

Build an understanding of relationships in nature "man and bird";

Encourage the desire to learn more about birds, take care of them;

Observation of the behavior of birds on a walk, while feeding at the feeder.

Game activity:

Develop gaming skills children: plasticity, accuracy of movements in simulation and outdoor games;

To form constructive skills in creative and educational games; onomatopoeia in speech games;

simulation games: "We are birds", "Recognize me, I am a bird ...".

Didactic games: "Name the Bird" "Who lives where?", "When It Happens", "Who's screaming?", "Who's gone?", "Name the bird affectionately". "Seasons", "When does it happen?", "Choose a wing by color".

Role-playing games: "Bird Dining", "Bird with chicks

Conversations: Why do birds need nests?, « feathered- our smaller brothers "

Encourage the initiative to take care of the birds that come to the site to the feeder.

"Safety".

Conversation on the topic: "Beware of the cat!", "Let's not let the bird die of cold and hunger". "Don't ruin the bird's nests",

Watching the feeder (birds are small, defenseless can't take care of themselves)

"Communication":

To teach children to receive an emotional response when communicating with each other in all activities;

Skill games communication: "Call me a sweet name"

2."Cognitive Development":

Develop cognitive abilities, the desire to learn on their own something about birds;

Encourage interest in sources of information;

Develop mental abilities.

Observation of the birds that have flown to the children's area garden:

(note the structural features, habits, feeding, consider nests, birdhouses).

Board games: "Cut Pictures", "Help me find my mom", "What bird, name it", "Who eats what?", "Domino", Magnetic Mosaic", "Puzzles", "Who lives in the forest?", "Birds of our city".

Conversations: "Birds in Winter", "What do birds eat", Why do birds need nests?,

"City Birds", "Forest Birds".

3. Speech development ":

To form a desire to pronounce words correctly;

Highlight sounds in words, teach onomatopoeia;

- games: "Name the Cubs", "Who's screaming", "Whose voice?"

Looking at photos birds: "Birds of Russia", "Wintering Birds", "Migratory birds".

Consideration of plot pictures: "The Rooks Have Arrived", "Feeding the Birds"; "Magpies on a rowan branch", "Snigeri".

Making descriptive stories from pictures. Memorizing poems about birds, guessing riddles.

Open class: "Wintering Birds".

Poetry: A. Barto "Tit", "The bird sat on the window"; A. Blok "Crow"; V. Zhukovsky "Bird".

Puzzles:

I've been catching bugs all day

I eat insects, worms.

I don't fly away for the winter

I live under the ledge. (Sparrow)

Wears a gray vest

But the wings are black.

You see, circling, twenty couples

And they scream: - Kar! Kar! Kar! (Crow)

He is on the roofs, on the balconies

The waltz is dancing, but with a bow;

puffs up with feathers,

Sideways - moving sideways,

Seeds feet

stomping around in circles,

And sings and speaks

The neck is a rainbow; (Pigeon)

On a pine tree, in a dense forest

Sitting carpenter with a chisel:

In a frilly shirt

In a red cap.

I knock - my head hurts,

And I don’t knock - hungry,

bird's tongue for prey:

It's sticky and prickly. (Woodpecker)

Lost the brothers

Didn't love mom

I forgot my stepmother

Didn't feed the kids. (Cuckoo)

Comes to us with warmth

The path, having done a long one.

Sculpts a house under the window

From grass and clay. (Martin)

back greenish,

yellowish belly,

Little black cap

And a strip of scarf. (Tit)

He comes every year

Where the house is waiting.

Apples on the branches in winter

Collect them quickly!

And suddenly apples fluttered, after all. (Bullfinches)

I sleep during the day and fly at night.

Am I doing well? (Owl)

I will visit everyone in a day,

All that I know, disheveled! (Magpie)

Reading fiction literature:

To instill interest in literary works, poems, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, sayings;

Encourage self-communication

both positive and negative

Reading: A. Barto "Bird", "Who's screaming?"; E. Charushin "Yashka"; M. Zoshchenko "Smart bird"; A. Maykov "The swallow came running"; E. Avdeenko "Sparrow"; A. Tolstoy « smart jackdaw» ; M. Prishvin "Woodpecker", "Gadgets"; M. Gorky "Sparrow"; bianchi "Sinichkin calendar"; A. Kushner "Birds". Blyton "Famous Duck Tim"

Poetry: Yu. Kushak "Forty forty";

Fable: "The jackdaw wanted to drink";

4."Artistic and aesthetic development":

Poetry evening on the topic: "Meet the Birds"

productive activity:

Drawing work: "Drawing a Sparrow", "Bird pecking rowan", "Bird in the palm".

Modeling work: "Let's Blind the Bird". "The bird is pecking at the grains", "Feeder with grains".

Application work: "Tit at the feeder", "House for a birdhouse", "Bullfinch". Making a feeder from waste material

- coloring books: "Birds", "Forest feathered» , "Poultry yard".

Bird stencils.

Construction games material: "Birdhouse", "Feeder".

5."Physical development":

Outdoor games: "Sparrows and the Car", "The mother hen and the chicks", "Birds and chicks", "Find Your Nest", "Birds in the nest", "Sparrows and a cat", "Bird Flight".

Health:

Taking into account the psycho-physiological state of health, teach children to control their behavior, emotions, physical condition.

To form the ability to listen to your body based on sensory channels of perception.

- Games for the development of breathing: "Bird".

Cardiac control activities: "Knock Knock".

- Psycho-gymnastics: "Feathers and Pebbles"

Development environment:

Story pictures on the topic "Birds". Album for consideration: "Birds of the World", "Birds of Russia", "Pets". Books - coloring pages: "Birds", "Forest feathered» , "Poultry yard".

Organize an exhibition joint work on this topic "Little Birds";

Making a slide folder topic: "Let's save nature with love and care";

to participate in the competition of drawings or photographs of children and birds.

Involving parents in the construction of feeders and hanging them on the site kindergarten. Making a birdhouse. Providing bird food and participating in stock: "Feed the birds in winter!". Exhibition of children's drawings topic: "Birds". Production of leaflets call: "Feed the Birds in Winter".

3. Final stage.

Summing up the implementation project;

Exhibition of creative works: "The birds are our friends»

Making and hanging birdhouses by dads with

Photo and video report of parents: "Our Children and Birds"

Presentation project.

Creating a cartoon "Feed the birds, people".

The arrival of spring is felt by all living beings, but especially birds. On the thawed patches and on the hot spots, timid grass makes its way, black-and-gray rooks proudly walk around and shout with joy that nothing has changed at home.

Above the fields, larks, barely noticeable in the sky, are already ringing, and in the forests, finches and warblers are trying their voice. Soon, soon, the cuckoo will begin to count the years - and the leaves will hatch, and the main soloist, the nightingale, will fly in and hide in the dense paradise of white fragrant bird cherry.

Every day, new migratory birds! And their own, settled, are returning from the forest. Spring Nikolai Sladkov called "bird's" is not accidental. He composed a heartfelt hymn to the birds, compiled an “atlas of birds”, bringing on their wings from distant warm countries spring red. A great connoisseur of bird singing, a naturalist writer noticed all the subtleties between great and not so great masters. Who knows who wants to sing!

The guests have settled in, settled down, it's time to take care of the house. “Where are they, bird houses? Birdhouses, titmouses, owl-houses, gogolyatniks, checkboxes? Houses for wagtails, flycatchers, pikas?.. There are, there are birdhouses and titmice. But not enough! And it would be necessary to put together and hang out more soon, before it's too late. For the joy of yourself and for the benefit of the birds! You can get carried away with this business as seriously as the heroes of Mikhail Alekseev's story "How we met the starlings" - Misha and Vanya.

N. Sladkov

Birds

Birds are children of the air, conquerors of the air ocean. They rise above clouds and mountains, fly over seas and deserts.

Birds are the children of the rainbow: their feathers are painted in all conceivable and inconceivable colors.

Birds are messengers of joy. Every year they bring spring to us on wings.

Birds are our faithful helpers, defenders of our forests and fields, orchards and orchards.

Birds are mystery and beauty. Birds are our childhood friends.

Beautiful poems and songs, legends and fairy tales are composed about birds, we cannot do without birds. It is impossible even to imagine our Earth without birds!

That's what birds are.

The birds brought spring

Robins appeared in the forest - and the first streams in the forest murmured. Robins on the trees ring, and streams under the trees.

The cuckoos flew in, cuckooed - the forests were enveloped in a warm green haze. It was on bushes and trees that spring buds burst, green leaves appeared.

Wild ducks returned from the south - the first polynyas on rivers and lakes opened, living water splashed in them.

The cranes appeared, trumpeted under the clouds, and below all the swamps thawed for them, the snowy cranberries appeared.

The nightingales from the south returned, whistled, rattled - everywhere the bird cherry blossomed, the spirit of the bird cherry pulled.

The swallows flew in, flashed, chirped - the flowers were the first to bloom, butterflies fluttered over the flowers.

Spring has come, spring is in the yard!

So spring is being done: each a little, each what he can, each his own.

Vesnichka

Vesnichka, like spring, you look forward to all winter: rather spring green haze, golden willow lambs and a bird with a sprout the size of a birch leaf, with a cute spring song.

The willow song, though sonorous, is a little sad. These are not the vigorous cries of a brawling finch, not the cold biting whistles of a smart nightingale. In the song of the willowweed there is the spring murmur of streams and the soft whistles of the warm wind.

If you meet a willow willow in spring, you will be delighted and... soon you will stop noticing it! Or rather, you see and hear it, but it no longer attracts attention as much, the birds are brighter and more vociferous and distract you. But then, by autumn, you really regret that you were distracted, didn’t see enough of the willow to your heart’s content, didn’t hear enough of her songs in reserve. And you already miss her, and you start to get bored, and again you wait and rush spring.

And again spring, and haze of birches, and willow. And her first song, twisted from the murmur of streams and the whistling of the wind. And again soon she is lost in the hurried succession of spring events. And again you regret later that you didn’t see enough and didn’t hear enough for the whole winter.

And waiting again...

Wagtail

The one that shakes its tail, shakes its long tail. Slim, fast, agile! It runs so fast along the water's edge or along the ridge of the roof that you can't even see its legs! Like riding a bicycle. Still on the run and lunges with the beak to the right and left - like a rapier. One, two - and there is no fly!

The wagtail sings uncomplicated, but in early spring I am glad to hear such a song. And she flies to us as soon as the living water breaks through. There is even a sign: the wagtail flew in - wait for the ice drift. She, they say, breaks the ice on the river with her long tail!

The wagtail is indeed always near the water. And if not by a lake or a river, then at least by a puddle. She has a table and a house by the water.

Wagtails also love ... the village herd!

They get confused under the hooves of horses and cows, they ride on horse and cow backs. Not for the sake of pampering, but for the sake of horseflies, mosquitoes and flies. And everyone is happy cows and wagtails. And shepherds: calm cows bring more milk. And horses don't kick.

Arithmetic titmouse

In spring, white-cheeked titmouse sing the loudest of all: they ring bells. In a different way and manner. Some people hear it like this: “Twice-two, twice-two, twice-two!” And others whistle smartly: “Four-four-four!”

From morning to evening, titmouse crammed the multiplication table.

Two-two, two-two, two-two! - shout out one.

Four-four-four! - cheerfully answer others.

Arithmetic titmouse.

Everybody wants to sing

Toads sing, owls chirp. The bumblebee hums in bass. Nothing to say about birds! From dawn to dawn they sing, others even at night.

It’s not enough for a starling to have his own song, so he sings other people’s. He sits on a birch, shiny and black, as if dipped in tar, spreads his wings and snaps his beak like a hairdresser with scissors.

Either he will whistle with a white-browed, then he will slip through with a spinner, then he will grunt like a duck. And a rooster, and a gander, and a lamb. Oriole, warbler, magpie! To different voices: both for myself and for everyone.

Five black grouse

A hazel grouse flew into the dawn on the side of the grouse current and started his song:

I counted: six braids on the current! Five aside in the snow, and the sixth sits next to the hut, on a gray-haired hummock.

And the hazel grouse:

Pya-yat, pya-yat, five black grouse!

Six! I say.

Pya-yat, pya-yat, five black grouse!

The nearest - the sixth - heard, got scared and flew away.

Pya-yat, pya-yat, five black grouse! - the hazel grouse whistles.

I am silent. I see five. The sixth one left. And the hazel grouse is not appeased:

Pya-yat, pya-yat, five black grouse!

I don't argue! I say. - Five so five!

Pya-yat, pya-yat, five black grouse! - the hazel grouse whistles.

I see without you! I barked. - Don't be blind!

How they will chirp, how the white wings will flutter - and not a single black grouse is left! And the hazel grouse flew away with them.

night cuckoo

The night cuckoo cuckoos the day cuckoo. During the day, everyone interferes with her, and at night she is alone. Warm spring night. The water murmurs dully, the frogs purr dully. The light of the cloudy moon hardly divides the darkness into heaven and earth. And above the muffled muttering silence, a sad and distant cuckoo is heard, as if they are hitting with an invisible hammer on the shining hats of the stars.

It's nice to sing in the silence of the night. Everyone listens to you and guesses: soon it will be their turn.

The night cuckoo was singing. Everyone wakes up to the sun. Crested lapwings will wake up and fly over the swamp, creaking their wings.

Long-nosed curlews will whistle dejectedly on gray hummocks: “Ku-li-ik! Ku-li-i-ik!”

Blackbirds cackle in the dark chapyga.

The cranes will blow their booming trumpets. The finch will sing smartly, with a crackling flourish, as if rinsing the neck.

And there, you see, the sun will rise.

But that's later. In the meantime, silence, and the night cuckoo cuckles. The invisible hammer beats and beats on the sonorous stars: "Ku-ku-u, ku-ku-u, ku-ku-u!"

If you want to live long, hurry up to count the years in the forest. Now the night cuckoo will bore you! Enough for two lives. More will remain!

A. Tumbasov

My house

Everywhere check-mark anxiety, sparrow fuss, rook efficiency, snarling haste - the birds have got families.

"Truy, leli-lyul!" - some bird, hiding in the bushes, does not let up.

And her song, like that of any bird: "It's busy here - this is my home!"

M. Alekseev

How we met starlings

The lark season passed, and it was replaced by no less exciting: from day to day, starlings were to arrive. These mischievous, cheerful mockingbirds-parodists, having appeared, will remain with us for a long time, as if as a reward for the fact that we, people, save them from the big worries and troubles of building nests, we build houses for them, one more beautiful and intricate, more intricate than the other.

For example, from half a winter I began to overcome my grandfather Mikhaila, so that he, a magnificent master of building birdhouses, would get down to business as soon as possible.

Grandfather updated the birdhouses every spring, the old houses were sent either to the firebox or to boxes for tomatoes of the future harvest.

It took the old man several days and even nights to make one birdhouse, since the design was very complex: the birdhouse was equipped with a porch with an iron roof over it, with some kind of tiles around the edges and something else, so ingenious that you can’t name it, what would it be. At the entrance to the porch, grandfather built in a thin wire fence: it freely let its rightful owner, that is, a starling, into the house, but did not allow birds, crows or magpies to enter there, and even a cat.

Above the roof of the house itself loomed a beautiful little lace chimney, full of eye-warming notions.

I liked such birdhouses, and I whined at my grandfather:

Grandfather Misha, the starlings have arrived.

Truth? But didn’t you, namesake, confuse them with sparrows?

No, I didn't. Vanka said. He saw on the farm.

Your liar Vanka. Starlings don't arrive that early.

Why? I asked. - It's warm outside.

It will melt soon.

That's when your starlings will fly in, Mishanka, - and grandfather revealed to me his unwritten alphabet of nature. - Arrive now, they will die of hunger. What do starlings eat?

Worms.

Correctly. Where do worms live?

In the ground

And again true. And where is she now, the earth?

Under the snow

Under the snow, therefore, worms and various insects are buried. The snow will be removed from the fields, large thawed patches will appear in the gardens, small creatures of God will crawl out to bask in the sun - the starling is right there. Tsap-scratch them with his long beak - and full, and nose in tobacco ...

Do starlings peck tobacco? I wondered.

They don't bite, of course. They are not such fools as your father or Uncle Petruha. There is just a saying: "Full, drunk, and nose in tobacco." She was invented, Mishanka, for unlucky men. Hope you don't be like that

I won’t,” I declared resolutely, because I managed to sufficiently look at my parent when he was both well-fed and drunk too much, and tobacco reeked from him a mile away, and when he was not only disgusting outwardly, but also dangerous, because he climbed on everyone with his fists.

And don’t, Mishanka, ”the grandfather said with satisfaction and, reassured, returned to the starlings:

In ten days, not earlier, your noisy guests will come. And by that time, I’ll knock together not one birdhouse for you, but two at once, and I’ll bring it to you myself. We will put one in the yard, and the other on the street, under the window, so that you can listen to the songbook right at home.

That's great! - I exclaimed and, jumping up, hung on my grandfather's neck, clasping her with my thin but strong arms. I awkwardly poked at his beard: I wanted to kiss the person who, after my mother, was perhaps the dearest and closest to me.

By the time of the arrival of the starlings, in almost all yards, on poles crowned with branchy branches, or on willows growing in front of the house, brand new, unpainted (this spoiled bird does not like paint, we knew this) houses for them were gilded, delighting our blossoming childish souls.

Everyone wanted the first starling to appear in his courtyard, so that later he could declare it publicly.

Knowing that he arrives early in the morning, I woke up before sunrise and, wrapping myself in anything, went out into the yard, sat down on a stump and did not take my eyes off the birdhouse for hours, shivering at the same time from the morning frost, more often wielded the sleeve of a fur coat under my increasingly moistened nose, but endured, did not go into the hut: all of a sudden, he thought, he would fly in, but I wouldn’t see him.

My patience was eventually rewarded. True, I did not catch the very moment at which the bird appeared, and discovered it only when it was already sticking its long beak out of the house and emitting a sonorous whistle warning everyone and everything: here it is, they say, I have arrived!

Before fluttering onto a branch and from there to tell this news to the whole wide world, the starling dives ten times in a row into its new home, explores it with all possible thoroughness. After all, not anyone else, but he had to make a responsible decision: is the house suitable for living in and breeding?

The male is the first to fly to the nesting sites. Having found a new dwelling quite suitable, he will first fly up to its roof, wave there often, often with his wings, silvered from the bottom to match the color of the abdomen, then he will move to the highest branch and there he will give full rein to his rare talent to sing both under the nightingale and under the sparrow , and under the dove, and under the rook, and even under the guttural centenarian - the black crow. A whole chapel in one tiny throat - isn't it a miracle, isn't it a miracle?! And where, when and how did he overhear all these dissonant bird voices in his short life. And if only the starling of a bird would depict for you both a cat's meow, and a cow's meow, and a sheep's bleating, and flicker like a goat. He can do anything, bastard!

The nightingale, sung by the poets of all times and peoples, will not be able to perform even a hundredth of these songs, and we do not get tired of praising him and admiring his voice. We understand that the nightingale has at least one song, but it is a nightingale. The starling does not seem to have its own song, but only a starling can assemble into one whole a great many songs and turn them into something single and unique, and no one else, is that not enough?! Isn't that why we are waiting for his arrival with no less (if not more) joy than the nightingale?! It is also close to our hearts because it does not hide from us in the dark thickets somewhere across the river, but floods, rejoices at the opportunity to live, sing and create right before our eyes, hiding nothing - neither its songs, nor its love scenes , nor their big family worries, which were the result of this love ...

Vanya... Vanya! The starlings have arrived!

Guess what, so do we! - instantly retorted my friend. - Even yesterday!

Come on, are you lying? - somewhat taken aback, I asked.

By God! Here are those cross! But, seeing that this was too little for me to believe, Vanka immediately added:

Honest pioneer!

Vankin's mother, like any mother, did not like it when her children lie, tell lies, sighed contritely and, threatening her son with her grip, said with bitter reproach:

You're lying, you rogue. You didn’t go out into the yard either yesterday or today.

I heard mom.

You didn't hear anything. At least he didn't lie to his mother! And you call yourself a pioneer. Oh you!

Maybe you really heard, Aunt Vera! I stood up for my friend.

Oh, yes, you absolutely! - And Vanka's mother defiantly went to the stove, rattling there with tongs and a poker.

We ran out into the yard, climbed onto the mound and, with our heads back, waited for the appearance of Vanka's starlings. In my heart I felt sorry for my comrade, forced to lie out of pride, and I watched his birdhouse with no less impatience than he did. And when the bird from the flight, without any warnings, dived into a new and therefore unfamiliar house for her, she shouted first and louder than Vanka's:

Arrived! Arrived! .. Van, did you see it?

Don't yell like that, Mish! - Vanka held my sleeve, as if I was going to fly up to the willow, where the birdhouse was attached. - You'll scare more!

I saw that Vanka's eyes were turning red, and I pressed my comrade tightly to me. And it was so good for both of us that it is beyond words.

N. Ustinovich

spring mail

It happened somehow unexpectedly, and therefore it was especially joyful. In the morning, while still lying in bed, grandfather Nazar hears: a starling sings in the yard. Yes, how she sings! It will chirp, it will whistle, it will fill with a nightingale trill ...

Grandfather came out onto the porch, took a deep breath: the air is clean, fresh. It's still freezing, but it's still spring!

The starling was flooded for a long time, then flew off somewhere. And by the evening he returned not alone - with a girlfriend. And then the war began. During the winter, sparrows occupied the birdhouse, firmly settled there. Do not let the owners home!

There was a lot of noise at the birdhouse. In the end, the sparrows retreated. Chirping offendedly, they disappeared under the eaves.

The grandfather sympathized with the sparrows, but what can you do ... Do not occupy someone else's apartment!

Some time has passed since that day, and grandfather completely forgot about the bird war. Are there many other, more important things to keep in mind...

Once the grandfather sits on a bench, basking in the sun. He sees: the postman is coming with a full bag. As he walked along the street, he passed, but he didn’t even look into the alley where Nazar lived.

“There has been no letter from Misha's grandson for a long time,” thought the grandfather. And then he remembered that he had not looked into the letter box nailed to the fence for two weeks.

"Here's what a forgetful one! Grandpa shook his head sadly. “I’m waiting for a letter, but it may have been in the box for a long time.”

And he got up from the bench, went into the yard.

Grandfather's box was the simplest. A wide gap formed in the old fence, and grandfather hung a flat plywood box to it. If you push a letter through the crack from the street, it will fall right into the box. And so that the paper does not get wet in inclement weather, a plank is fitted on top.

Here grandfather came up to the box, lifted the lid, and from there a sparrow fluttered.

Why did the devil bring you here? - Nazar grumbled and looked into the box.

And then he was so surprised that he even whistled softly. Yes, and there was something to be surprised: the sparrows made a nest in the box and had already laid eggs.

Well, these sparrows are impudent! grandfather laughed. - Everyone strives to climb into the wrong place.

Nazar stood, thought, then brought nails and a hammer. He tore off the board on which it was written "for letters", turned it upside down and nailed it to the fence so that only a small hole remained from the gap. Now it was impossible to drop the letter into the box, and the sparrow could crawl through freely.

Having finished this business, the grandfather again sat down on the bench. And now he sees: a sparrow flew in and, as if nothing had happened, yurk into the box!

So be it, live, - whispered the grandfather with a smile. - And the letter, if it is, will be brought into the hut.

After that, Nazar told everyone for a long time what kind of mail spring had sent him.

O. Skalon

Spring is coming!

A little gentle breeze blows

And the mornings are chilly.

And thin ice breaks

In the wilderness of an awakened garden.

But here comes the sun,

And now the ice has melted.

And a joyful flock of birds

Shouts: "Spring! Spring is coming!"

Here the first stream ran,

And the snow disappears everywhere

A nimble, ringing sparrow

Reminds us of spring.

V. Papin

Spring

The starlings flew in and occupied the nests,

Happy songs are sung.

And the stars became big and bright,

And people get up early.

I. Mikhailova

In the village

The starlings chatter at the starling,

Singing to delight our hearts.

Quietly spring air chimes -

And at the very old garden,

Where the buds on the branches are visible,

The weary herd rests

Quietly listening to the sounds of spring.

M. Valek

Kamyshovka

From reeds-reeds

She wove baskets

I put eggs in them

Yes, I kept watch all night.

Early morning to the market

She brought goods.

I was there at the fair.

Bought a hundred baskets

Yes, a whole load of eggs -

Barely brought to the house!

M. Valek

Sparrow

Good in someone else's house

On other people's bread for him,

Ah, what a sweet sleep!

Raindrops beat on the canopy,

Like falling from heaven

Grains of wheat.

It would be nice to peck.

Just don't open your eyes!

Sparrow under the eaves

He pecked his nose - one, another,

He pecked, swayed.

Fell right into the puddle

Spilled half -

This is where he woke up!

A. Murashov

Sparrow

old gray sparrow

Flew away from the cat

Sat on the fence

And cleaned the feathers.

And to know that he is alive,

He squeaked loudly:

"Chiv, chiv, chiv!"

M. Valek

Song of the titmouse

Spring is dressed up in flowers.

There would be more flies!

Don't laugh, I know myself -

Winter sows them all winter!

From every snowflake

On every edge

Black

Little fly!

And you didn't know about it...

Ah, just wait for the summer!

S. Danilov

Conversation with a lark

Still under the ice crust

The snow is high and white.

Listen, sonorous lark,

You arrived too early!

I'm agile with the breeze

Snow in the valleys

I will melt!

I'm patterned with the sun

Ice on lakes

Don't brag ahead of time!

Look how much work ahead! ..

And lark's efforts

Not enough, maybe ... What then? ..

Then, flying under the sun,

I'll sing my song!

A simple song will warm

M. Tank

Why does the sun rise early

Only just we to the birch

Attached a bird house,

How the new settlers flocked -

This is the custom of the birds.

But on the branches in front of the entrance

There was a dispute: who should settle?

"To me!" - shouts the roller.

"No-no-no!" - the tit calls.

The sparrow pushes the starling,

All ruffled with a cry:

“I came here first!

Guest stray, let it pass!

And the starling: “What are you, buddy?

I'm not a guest, I'm a local resident.

This house, by the way.

It's called a skunk!"

People fled from the yards.

They saw: arguing loudly

Sparrow, starling, titmouse

And yet - a rollercoaster.

Screamers, calm down.

Are you short of apartments?

We promise: there will be so many

Just enough for everyone!

Since then, the birds do not argue,

Arriving in our village.

How many houses on the branches!

How many songs there are funny!

The sun loves to listen to birds -

Cause it's so early

And rises in spring and summer

From dawn mist.

S. Markova

feeder

Hanging feeder on the window

To the delight of us and the birds.

And every day a hundred friends

There is a knock on my window.

Tits, jackdaws, sparrows -

Quiet and badass -

Knock together in the morning

Through the window of my apartment.

What a joy to see the birds

And hear the trill of titmouse!

I meet them every time

Like dear sisters.

Goals:

1. Generalize and expand the knowledge of children about birds;
2. Develop logical thinking, attention, creativity;
3. Cultivate love and respect for birds.

Training:

The walls of the hall are decorated with posters "Birds are friends of the forest, garden and garden!", "Guys, love and protect birds!", "Schoolchildren, get ready to meet feathered friends!"; an exhibition of children's drawings and crafts on the theme "The World of Birds" is being arranged; the scene of the hall is decorated with silhouettes of birches and firs, stuffed birds taken from the biology room.

The course of the game program

Leading:
Today is Bird Day in our school. Why can't we do without birds? Birds are our childhood friends. Birds are messengers of joy. Every year they bring us spring on their wings. Birds are our faithful helpers, defenders of forests, fields, orchards and orchards. Birds are dear to us as part of our wonderful world. Their melodic, cheerful, sonorous songs, bright plumage enliven nature, instill vigor and joy in us. Remember. Guys, that you can’t destroy bird nests, shoot them with slingshots! Take care of the birds! Birds are our friends! Birds are beauty and mystery. They are a source of inspiration for writers, poets, musicians. De ty perform the song "By the road lapwing".

Children in costumes depicting different birds rise to the stage.

Student 1:
From dawn to dusk -
Here is the working day of birds!
The sun rises early
It calls for itself on the way:
If you cut down forests.
Dust will go under the sky
The lakes dry up
The rivers will become shallow
And the birds will not
Nest in the desert.
It is very sad,
When everything is empty.

Student 2:
"Good people, wake up!
Hurry up to work...

The bird choir has long
Distributed outside the window.
Hard work awaits the birds,
All day one concern -
Feed your chicks
Yellow-mouthed "well done".
Well, they have little grief,
Because mother feeds.

Student 3:
In a warm nest lie
Slowly they squeak.
Their parents bring them
Many different harmful midges.
So many ... that can not be counted
For this, the birds are honored!
Very good at catching flies
Our flycatchers
Just flickering here and there
gray heads.

Swallows fly in a whirlwind.
What is breathtaking
They grab midges on the fly,
Purify the air.

Wagtail in the garden
It's like walking on a spring.
All graceful and slender
Head in a dark cap.
Very dexterously to the right, to the left
Everything is scurrying around
Gets out from under the lumps
And beetles and worms
And no one will hide
From such a worker.

Someone up there on the tree
Visible a little from behind the needle,
This is a king bird -
Golden crest.
It weighs only 5 grams,
But known for deeds
Because all year round
He doesn't stop working.
Gets insects from the needles of Christmas trees
And in winter he is on duty despite the cold.

What a cloud from heaven
Rolled into the lake
This white swan has landed on the water.
She swam like a pava, proudly, majestically,
She fluffed her feathers, stretched out her neck.
How beautiful, it's just amazing!

Dipper - bird-diver
And this surprises us
Walks along the bottom of the river
And he finds a lot of food there.
Olya is very careful
And it's impossible to get close to her.
A little sound is heard
The bird will perch immediately.

Above the river on a branch
Azure light,
This is a kingfisher bird
Protects prey.
Sitting for a long, long time
hanging long beak,
Seems to be asleep
No... deceived the fish,
Rapid Throw -
Got a fish on the "hook".

And this is a bird - Remez-titmouse
She has a nest - a mitten,
She knits herself
And attaches to the branch.
And she hangs like a hammock
For blue "kids".

Woodpecker - forest friend
Like a real doctor
He heals trees.
Beak knocks on the trunk
Here the disease will determine.
If the tree is sick
That sound is muffled
If a loud sound knocks -
The woodpecker will fly further.
Hammers a hollow house with a beak
And hatches chicks in it.
There they are on a hard day
Sitting in the dark for a long time
Chosen to freedom
When the calluses grow.
Then they fly apart
Leaving home.

On a birch tree
A bump suddenly grew
A gray pod is entangled in birch bark
This finch is working

He is very smart
Made my own nest
And disguised it.
And no one will understand
That the finch lives in it.

And the nest at the warbler
Only one weed
It's all like a sieve
Gossamer cobweb
And woven into the bush
It holds firmly.
And no winds
He will not be torn apart.
Warblers work nicely
They collect caterpillars in the garden and in the garden,
We save the harvest.

And the goldfinch is a real "dandy".
The plumage is just amazing
Everything is beautifully chosen
Wherever he flies
Everyone looks after him.
Flocks of goldfinches visit wastelands,
Like butterflies are fluttering
Weeds are destroyed.

Amazing bird -
Well, who tell us
Deftly walks along the trunks:
Up and down and here and there?
Who flickers all day?
This bird is a nuthatch.
real acrobat,
Cleans all trunks in a row.

And the hoopoe has a beak like an awl
Scallop - cock.
He flutters like a butterfly
Lives in dark hollows.

Well, a stork, such a dandy,
He is dressed in a dress coat
And on the legs are red boots,
For hours a stork stands patiently in a swamp,
akimbo playfully,
Like he wants to dance.
No... he's just waiting for the frogs
Because he wants to eat.

Everything around is white,
Outside the window, winter is long,
Only here on the apple trees
Ruddy apples.
They are not edible
These are bullfinch birds.

And the redstart
tail fire,
It flickers like a flame
What surprises people.
People think the house is on fire!
This bird is sitting on the roof.

Student 4:
With singing birds
Live more fun
That's why we need
Take care of them.

Make a house for the starling
For tits - titmouse,
And when winter comes
Prepare food for them:
Burdock balls.
Nettle brooms,
Bouquets of swans -
And they will not be in trouble.

Leading:
For the game, we need to choose participants, and they will be those who correctly guess the riddles.

1. Not a princely breed,
And walks with a crown
Not a military rider
And with a strap on the leg,
Not worth a watchman
And he wakes everyone up early (Rooster).

2. Flies at night
On the hunt.
Can't see during the day
Yes, and hunting to sleep (Owl).

3. Black, agile,
Screaming "crack"
Worms enemy (Rook).

4. Whiter than snow, blacker than soot,
Above the house, below the grass (Magpie).

6. White as snow
Puffed up like fur
walks with shovels,
And eats with horns (Goose).

7. Front awl,
behind the fork,
Himself small
And I have been overseas (Swallow).

8. He flies every year
Where the house is waiting for him.
Knows how to sing other people's songs
And yet it has its own voice (Starling).

9. Long-legged, long-necked,
Long-billed, gray body,
And the back of the head is bare, red.
Wandering through the dirty marshes,
Catches frogs in them,
Clueless jumpers.
How will the summer go by?
He's on his way to the south
Along the old, long paths
In a flock lined up in a wedge (Crane).

10. I don't know my father's mother
But I often call
Children will not know
I'll sell someone else's (Cuckoo).

11. Who is jumping there, rustling,
Gutting cones with a beak?
Voice clear, clear -
Cle! Cle! Cle! - sings with a whistle.
The bird is also known
What is not afraid of frost:
Maybe in the cold the most evil
Take the children out in the winter (Klest).

12. She is long-tailed,
Black from the back.
The belly is white and the shoulders.
Chattering instead of speech.
At least he sees someone - instantly
Raises a chirping cry (Magpie).

Leading:
Those who received blue tokens for the correct answer take the places of the players, and those who received green ones take their assistants.

Game conditions:
The participants of the game advance to the next round of most points and stars.
Each player receives one point for a correct answer. If the answer is correct for both the players and the assistants, a star is added.
Players and assistants have "hands" on the tables with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. You need them for answers.

1. Which bird flies the fastest?
Martin
swift
Falcon
Sandpiper

2. Which birds have wings covered not with feathers, but with scales?
Wren
Ostrich
hummingbird
Penguin

3. What bird are we talking about in the fairy tale of the Danish writer G.-Kh. Andersen "Thumbelina".
Tit
Martin
Crow
Goose

(4 players advance to the second round).

GAME WITH spectators

You need to solve puzzles. Prizes await the winners. (1. Magpie, 2. Swift, 3. Heron, 4. Swallow, 5. Sparrow, 6. Crow, 7. Seagull, 8. Falcon, 9. Siskin).

Leading:
Now 12 cubes with the letters depicted on them will jump out of this grammar box. You have 2 minutes to make words related to the world of birds, using the letters only once. How many letters are used, so many points.

P I I T A C S R B G L E

(Bird, stork, hawk, swift, heron, etc.)

The one who made the longest word goes to 5 boxes in which there are prizes. Among them - "audience applause." The player can choose a box with a prize by giving a star. If he does not like the prize, he can open another box, but for this he will again have to give a star.

(3 people go to the 3rd round).

GAME WITH spectators

(A puzzle is proposed. The presenter reads the description of the bird, and the audience must guess its name. Correct answers are accompanied by a demonstration of an illustration depicting this bird. For the correct answer, the participant in the game receives a prize).

Questions:
1. A bird of the crow family of the passerine order. The plumage is loose, reddish-gray; the tail is black, on the wing there is a blue spot with black spots, on the head there is a crest with black spots. Useful in the destruction of insects; makes stocks of acorns for the winter, which contributes to the resettlement of oak; at the same time, it harms, ruining the nests of small birds. (Jay.)

2. This bird lives mainly in forests. In winter, it is often found near dwellings. Useful for killing insects in gardens and forests. The plumage is dense, fluffy, yellow breast. (Tit.)

3. Songbird. In spring and summer, plumage of adults is black, with a bright metallic sheen. In autumn, after molting, it is covered with white specks - these are the light ends of the contour feathers, which are erased by spring, and the specks disappear. Juveniles are black-brown in color with a lighter throat. The beak is yellow, sharp and rather long. Noticeable to humans, the arrival of these birds means, especially for city dwellers, the onset of spring. (Starling.)

4. Bird of the suborder swifts of the long-winged order. The wings are long and narrow. The plumage is dark brown or blackish. The nests of this bird consist of plant materials glued together with saliva, or from one hardened saliva (the so-called swallow nests); in China, people eat these nests. (Salangan.)

5. Bird from the order of passerines. The head is large, the beak is on top with a hook and a tooth in front of the top, the tail is long. The plumage is loose, often gray tones in combination with white and black, less often with red. Avoiding continuous forests, it settles in the forest-tundra, on the edges of the forest, in glades, in the steppe or desert with thickets of shrubs or individual trees. Some of them store food by impaling prey on knots or thorns. (Shrike).

6. The size of a starling, an elegant bird. The plumage is pinkish gray. The throat and the stripe from the beak to the eye are black, the forehead is reddish. The wings are black with wide white and narrow yellow stripes; on the head is a large crest; at the end of the tail there is a transverse yellow stripe. Distributed in the north of the forest zone from the Kola Peninsula to Kamchatka. The song is gentle "sviriri-sviriri". (Whistle).

"Logical chain"

You need to find an error in the chain of suggested answers and show the number that does not correspond to it.

1. I think that all these birds dig nest holes.
sand swallow
Kingfisher
Woodpecker
bee-eater

2. All these birds have chicks in spring.
Starling
Crossbill
lark
Oriole

3. In these birds, all toes are interconnected by membranes.
Gull
Penguin
Duck
Turkey

4. I think that all these birds hunt during the day.
Falcon
Eagle
Owl
Golden eagle

(2 people go to the final).

GAME WITH spectators

And now we will test our viewers' knowledge about birds. In Russian folklore, there are many proverbs and sayings about birds. Let's remember them. You need to connect the first part of the proverb with the other. For the correct answer, the player receives a prize.

ON THE FOREIGN SIDE ... BUT THE SEA DIDN'T LIGHT.
BETTER TITS IN HANDS ... WHICH IS NOT CUTE OF ITS NEST.
EVERY BIRD ... HAPPY ITS FUNNEL.
CHICKENS IN THE AUTUMN… THE ENTIRE BIRD IS AVAILABLE.
THE WORD IS NOT A SPARROW... THAN A CRANE IN THE SKY.
EARLY THE BIRD SINGED ... YES SIT LOW.
OF THE OLD SPARROW... YOUR OWN SONG.
EVERY KULIK… DOES NOT MAKE A SPRING.
STUPID THAT BIRD ... CONSIDER.
ONE SWALLOW… PRAISES HIS SWAMP.
THE TITTOM HAS MADE GLORY ... IT WILL FLY OUT, _ YOU WILL NOT CAPSE.
A YOUNG CRANE FLOWED HIGH… AS LIKE THE CAT EATS.
THE CLAW IS STARTED... YOU CAN'T SEND ON THE CHAPF.

4 ROUND (FINAL)

In one minute, the players and their assistants need to make as many words as possible from the word - L A S T O C H K A. After one minute, the players begin to list the words they have composed in turn. You can use helpers. If the words are over, you can give away the stars earned during the game. The one who says the last word wins.

Awarding of the winners and participants of the game.

Leading:
Try for a moment to imagine our world without birds. Without a lark over arable land, and a nightingale in a grove, and a sandpiper in a swamp, and a woodpecker on a pine tree, without flocks of sparrows. How to get poorer
our life! What else can happen if the birds disappear?
(Children answer.)

Yes, guys, huge hordes of pests will attack our gardens, orchards, fields and forests. Highly
they will quickly destroy the vegetation, and death will come to man, to the entire animal world.
Let's hope that such an ecological catastrophe will not happen on planet Earth. let's
Let us remember what you and I must do so that such beautiful creatures as
birds . (Children answer.)

That's right guys. Bird nests must be protected; do not shoot birds with slingshots; install birdhouses in spring, and feeders in winter. And, of course, do not forget to fill these feeders and birdhouses with food ...

Student:
Feed the birds in winter
Let from all over
They will flock to you, like home,
Stakes on the porch.
Their food is poor -
Need a handful of grain
One handful-
And not scary
They will have winter.
How many of them die - do not count,
It's hard to see.
But in our heart there is
And the birds are warm.
Is it possible to forget:
Could fly away
And stayed for the winter
Along with people.
Train the birds in the cold
To your window
So that without songs it was not necessary
We welcome spring.
(A. Yashin. Feed the birds.)

Children sing the song "About the Sparrow".


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Goals:

  • to acquaint with the birds of Russia, with their way of life;
  • broaden the horizons of students;
  • develop the desire to independently acquire knowledge;
  • cultivate respect for nature.
  1. Tit.
  2. Bullfinch.
  3. Waxwing.
  4. Nuthatch.
  5. Woodpecker.
  6. Wagtail.
  7. Dipper.
  8. Grebe.
  9. Crossbill.
  10. Kedrovka.
  11. Capercaillie.

Birds are song and flight.
These are the voices of our forests, steppes, mountains and deserts. The songs of birds sound on Earth all year round, their voices are heard day and night.
Birds are children of the air, conquerors of the air ocean. They rise above clouds and mountains, fly over seas and deserts.
Birds are the children of the rainbow: their feathers are painted in all conceivable and inconceivable colors.
Birds are messengers of joy. Every year they bring spring to us on wings.
Birds are our faithful helpers, defenders of our forests and fields, orchards and orchards.
Birds are mystery and beauty. Birds are our childhood friends.
Beautiful poems and songs, legends and fairy tales are composed about birds, we cannot do without birds. It is impossible to imagine even our planet without birds.
That's what birds are!
N. Sladkov.

Part 1. Fragments 3-15. Tit.

Tit- forest bird. Under the tree canopy, among many other birdies, it is difficult to notice. But with the onset of autumn, when everything calms down until spring, you can suddenly hear her song “qi-qi-qi, pin-pin-pin”. Look at her! Can you confuse her with one of the birds, so smart? The tit flew from the forest closer to people to survive the winter.

She will be happy with everything that we humans offer her on the feeders: crumbs, grains, cereals, sunflower seeds, pieces of bacon. The titmouse will instantly find a treat and fly to the feeder regularly. And if you forget to add food, they will immediately notify you ... How? With all your behavior! They can even knock on the window with their beaks.

In the park, you can see how titmouse boldly grab seeds from the palm of your hand.

Titmouse's favorite delicacy is pieces of bacon hung on tree branches ...

In March, tits begin to praise the arriving warmth and sun. Their spring song is simple, but sonorous and pleasant: “zenzivar, zenzivar…” Under this song, the birds retire to the forest, and their life becomes not so open and noticeable. But, if they lived in the winter in a park or in a garden where they were fed, they can stay here for the summer.

Tits are not afraid of humans, because very trusting. A nest of tits can be seen in a mailbox, in an abandoned samovar pipe, in a felt boot lying on a pile of firewood, in a jacket pocket worn on a scarecrow ... From 6 to 15 fragile, light eggs can be seen in a warm nest lined with wool and fluffy.

Tits are excellent tree frogs. Strong legs with sharp claws on the paws allow them to rummage through tree branches up to the thinnest, in search of insect larvae. However, they can be in a variety of poses, often even upside down.

Parents bring food to growing chicks up to 500 times a day. One scientist marked a tit and observed it for 40 minutes. During this time, the bird examined 96 pines and 5 birches in search of insects and their larvae ... Is it necessary to say what service these birds provide to trees?

The family of tits includes 65 species. All members of the family are small birds. The largest is the great tit, weighing 25-30 g, the smallest -10 g.

Among the tits there are titmouse - titmouse, long-tailed titmouse - polovnichka, blue tit, Muscovy, there are even crested titmouses ...

Part 2. Fragments 16-22. Bullfinch.

With the first snow in our area, extremely beautiful birds appear - bullfinches. Chest, neck, cheeks of a bullfinch - a male of bright red color. There is a black cap on the head, the back is bluish-gray. All colors are pure, and this makes the bird elegant. The female is not so brightly colored, but just as beautiful.

The bullfinch is a bird slightly larger than a sparrow.

And they called it that because bullfinches are the first heralds of winter with snow. This is an extraordinary sight: important. a proud, red-breasted bullfinch on a rowan branch, and white snow all around.

From time to time the birds dive into the snow, bathe in it.

The bullfinch is a calm and respectable bird. He will not fuss, scream, rush about at the feeder. He does everything calmly. But the bullfinch's song is simple, uncomplicated. In the early morning and in the evening, and in severe frosts and during the day, bullfinches fly in a flock from bush to tree in search of food and feed on ash, maple, rowan berries, seeds of wild apple trees, seeds of weeds.

Bullfinches peck out rowan berries from berries, apples only seeds, the pulp itself is dumped on the snow.

If the flock is disturbed, they hide among the branches of spruce or pine. For most of the day, the birds sit quietly and silently in the depths of the fir branches. And these birds spend the night in a spruce forest, hiding their heads under their wings. After sunset, the bullfinches are not visible, and at dawn, the voices of awakened birds are heard over the spruce forest, soon the flock flies to the ash trees, mountain ash ... The bullfinch is a forest bird. With the approach of spring, the bullfinches are not visible near the human habitation, they flew into the forests.

It happens that a family of bullfinches build a nest under the roof of a country house or on a veranda among dense thickets of flowers. Then the birds behave cautiously, secretly.

Or in severe frosts, a bullfinch can fly onto the porch and fall dead. But, if you bring a bird home, it will warm up, peck crumbs and stop being afraid of people.

Part 3. Fragments 23-28. Waxwing.

And these elegant birds - waxwings. They sit, sing - they whistle in a pleasant silvery voice, like bells. And they look pleasant - smoky pinkish, with tufts, with red, yellow, white specks on the wings.

Beautiful, mysterious, trusting. They nest in the north; they appear in our forests only in winter.

What do they eat? Just like bullfinches, they love mountain ash, apples of an apple tree - wild, seeds of various plants ... At a mountain ash and an apple tree, seeds are pecked out, throwing the pulp onto the snow. They peck quickly, as if in a hurry somewhere.

They can even overeat and fall dead in a whole flock into the grass, into the snow. They lie down there for 2-3 hours, get hungry and again, having come to their senses, they fly to look for food.

"Swirk-rewirk" - is heard in the forest. This is a flock of waxwings flying from bush to bush, from tree to tree... They are not afraid of people: where they nest, people are not visible.

Spring will come, it will get warmer, and ... So the waxwings flew away to their native lands, where it is cooler.

Part 4. Fragments 29-36. Nuthatch.

A few sounds in the early morning in the winter forest. But as soon as the edge of the sky in the east begins to turn pink, the cheerful whistle of the nuthatch is heard. "... Tyuyu - tyuyu - tyuyu-tirrr ..." - a strong, sonorous voice of a little bird.

The whole life of the nuthatch passes on tree trunks. He is a master of climbing trunks up and down, he can do it sideways, upside down, and upside down. And it does not rely on its tail. But the tenacity of the fingers is such that it can even hold on to a concrete pillar.

This bird is always in motion, always on its feet, and it seems that it uses its wings only to fly from tree to tree. Having soared up to the crown of the tree, the nuthatch descends headlong down the trunk almost to the very ground, inspecting all the cracks and looking for everything that comes across for food: bugs, insect larvae ... It can be considered an omnivore.

In the winter park, this bird can be fed with seeds from the palm of your hand. The nuthatch is so trusting and is not afraid of a person!

It is interesting to watch the nuthatch in the forest at any time of the year. Without a shadow of anxiety, he will go about his business: look for food for himself and for his chicks.

It is also interesting that this bird is very thrifty. In autumn, she hides in cracks, in cracks in the bark of a tree, what can survive until winter. There may be nuts, maple seeds, bread crumbs from feeders, pieces of lard.

And in the winter it will find both its reserves and the reserves of its relatives. And neighbors can use its stocks. If you make reserves, then you need to live near them. And so it happens. I must say: the nuthatch is a homebody. A married couple lives on "their" site all year round, not letting strangers into it. And the birds themselves do not fly to "alien" areas. The couple arranges its nest in a hollow left by a woodpecker. If the entrance to the house is too large, the birds reduce it by covering it with clay, leaving an even hole about 3 cm in diameter. So the hollow becomes inaccessible to predators.

After coating, the hollow is first filled with pieces of rot, chipping them from the stumps. Then the construction of the nest itself begins. It never has fluff, feathers, or hairs. This is a unique building made of thin pieces of bark, placed on edge so that the chicks will grow in "Spartan" conditions. The work goes quickly, at this time the birds are not distracted even in search of food.

All this happens at the beginning of spring.

And immediately the female lays 7-8 eggs. In early May, chicks already appear, which the mother and father feed and take care of for a long time. Only by the end of June, the chicks fly out of the nest.

Part 5. Fragments 37-49. Woodpecker.

big motley woodpecker- the most numerous in our forests.

It can be found in all forests, in the park. He is slightly larger than a starling. It fully corresponds to its name - motley. The male can be distinguished from the female by the red spot on the back of the head. In summer it feeds on insects, in winter it eats pine and spruce seeds.

All woodpeckers are caring parents. The nest is arranged in a hollow, where it is always dry and clean. The mother hatches the chicks, and the father brings her food. Hatched chicks are fed together, flying to the nest carefully and alternately throughout the day. Noise rises in the nest as soon as one of the parents appears with food.

This is what a two-day-old woodpecker chick looks like. But every day its appearance is changing. Every day the chicks grow and change in appearance. They are voracious and ready to eat, eat and eat ... After 25 days, the chicks are already crawling out of the nest, they still do not fly well, but they deftly climb the tree trunk, clinging to the bark with sharp claws. And very soon the whole family will leave their native hollow, never to return here again.

To soak, the woodpecker spends a lot of energy. First, he plucks the bump, and it holds on tight, and he cuts it off with his strong beak. Then he brings the bump to the "forge" and strengthens it there. To extract only 1 seed, the bird makes 20-30 blows with its beak. So for each bump 600-700 strokes. And for 10 cones? That's right, 6000-7000 strokes. One can envy such diligence. It does not scatter the plucked cones, but extracts almost all the seeds from them. The processed cone is thrown aside with its beak and flies for a new cone. It can gut up to 70 cones per day. So by the end of winter, under some "forges" there are 800-900 empty cones, and sometimes 5000-7000.

In summer, both in a rotten stump and in the bark of trees, a woodpecker will find either a fat larva or wood-boring ants.

Do woodpeckers sing? The “drum trill” of woodpeckers is a signal to others that a piece of forest is occupied. Having found a dry knot on the site, he quickly taps on it with his beak. The knot is motionless, and the woodpecker's head "dangles back and forth." You can't call it singing. Yes, they give a staccato voice, but this is also not singing.

There are about 220 species in the woodpecker family. In addition to the large spotted woodpecker, you can meet the small spotted woodpecker, the black woodpecker, the golden-fronted woodpecker, the white-billed royal woodpecker, the green woodpecker - the most silent.

Part 6. Fragments 50-55. Wagtail.

In early spring wagtail can be seen on the sandy banks of the rivers. The bird runs between pebbles and snags, looking out for living larvae, bugs in the cracks. Or it will fly up, grab a fly on the fly and return to its original place. Mosquitoes, moths, midges, beetles, their pupae are the favorite food of the white wagtail.

And this is a yellow wagtail.

But why does the bird have such a name, a wagtail? Because when a bird runs, its long tail swings up and down without ceasing. That's why - wagtail or wagtail.

On the roads this bird
I couldn't meet you.
Small. There is a habit
Swing up and down slightly.
Long tail - up and down
It jumped up, then hung.

Roy will see a mosquito
Somewhere in the yard.
Runs up ballerina
Grab! - and no mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes tremble with fear
If this bird is nearby.

Shout cheerfully: "Tsok-tsok!" -
And swing like a shuttle.

Confident and courageous
The runner is grey-white.
Semenit, rushes along the path -
Moshkare will not descend….
Guess what kind of bird?
- Wagtail! Wagtail!

She can build a nest where she likes: behind a window trim, under the roof of a house, behind a pile of firewood, in a barbecue, under the hood of a car. The voice of the bird is not loud, but pleasant, ringing like a bell. At the end of summer, having gathered in flocks, wagtails fly away to hot Africa.

Part 7. Fragments 56-59. Dipper or Water Sparrow.

Dipper or water sparrow. Lives near rivers. Winters near the polynya. It winters well: it sways on ice floes, bathes in the polynya. She also sings songs!

Dive into the icy water and roam the bottom on foot. The nose sticks into all the bottom cracks, the bottom silt stirs up the bottom silt with its paws - it looks for water beetles and larvae. And he will find it - so up. It will float up, fly up, sit down on the ice, break a shell or a cover of a chitik - caddisfly larvae - on it.

The whole winter day either dives, then emerges, then runs along the bottom. And it will not get wet - her feathers are water-repellent. And it will not freeze - her feather is dense, warm. Moreover, the beetles and larvae “warm” from the inside.

A pair of dippers builds a nest on the bank of a river or stream. A large round nest with thick walls is built from green moss, dry leaves and blades of grass. On the side there is a wide inlet. Often it is not visible, as it is hidden from prying eyes. Only the female incubates the chicks for 17-20 days, but both parents feed them.

Part 8. Fragments 60-72. Grebe.

Do you know this bird? What a beautiful outfit: a lush orange collar, tufts on the head, a dark brown back, a snow-white belly ...

Hunters call such wonderful birds ... grebe. And only for the fact that her meat is tasteless. What about beauty? Look how beautiful this is! One only velvet - black crest what is it worth?

The bird also has another name that is more appropriate for its beauty - crested grebe or diver because it dives great. From the first to the last day, this bird lives on the water.

It is interesting that on land it can only crawl, although it flies excellently, swims, dives and, standing like a peg to its full height, can rush across the water surface with the speed of a motor boat. It is also interesting that grebes are excellent dancers in the bird kingdom.

The dance starts suddenly. The birds had just been busy with their own business... Suddenly, both started up, as if they had seen each other for the first time, swam swiftly towards each other, slightly bowing their heads and pointing their sharp beaks at each other. But, almost colliding with their breasts, they stop, throw up their heads and turn them either to the right or to the left.

... and then the birds suddenly turn away and quickly spread in different directions, without stopping or looking back, and dive.

They dive not to hide embarrassment, but to collect grass rags at the bottom. And with these bunches of grass, as with gifts, they again quickly rush towards each other. And, approaching, both grebes stand up to their full height, as if under them there is not water, but a solid support. This dance can be repeated many times until the sun "sets". This continues until the water in the river warms up. Then the couple begins to build a nest.

Their nest is also on the water, floating. Not a single bird has such a nest - it floats on the water like a raft. On the "raft" eggs; when the bird leaves the nest to clean up, eat, it covers them with leaves, stems so that no one sees.

Under the eggs in such a nest is always damp. Chicks appear - furry and striped, like chipmunks. They don’t know how to walk, they don’t even know how to stand, but they’re welcome to swim and dive! Just a little - gurgling, gurgling - and into the water. And not one is visible. With a brood, each family, leaving a nest that is no longer needed, moves to an open, grass-free place.

So far, the main place of residence of the chicks is the back of mom or dad. It's warm, cozy and safe here. If danger suddenly appears, they are ready to instantly hide under water with their children. And the parents feed and carry the children in turn, distributing their time for the toilet, rest, and hunting.

These birds are amazing - great grebes, grebes or divers ... These birds are migratory, with inconsistent dates of arrival and departure. Early autumn with cold weather - they fly away early, and if the autumn is long and warm, they can live until frost. The same thing happens with the arrival from warm regions.

Part 9. Fragments 73-78. Crossbill.

They can be distinguished by their beak. You need to look for such a beak! With sharp, curved, crossed ends, the beak is an excellent tool for processing cones. And the seeds of cones of coniferous trees are food for these birds.

Most often, stories about crossbills come down to the fact that these birds hatch chicks in winter, in the most severe frosts. Yes, that is right! The crossbill sits for itself in a nest among snow-covered branches and incubates chicks. The wind howls, a snowstorm sweeps, frost reaches 30-35 degrees. The female of week 2 sits, does not leave anywhere, because the eggs cannot be left for a minute without the saving maternal warmth. But the male carefully feeds her. But even when the chicks appear, nothing changes. After all, now you can not leave helpless children. Zoologists assure that their fluff is not thicker and not longer than that of babies born in spring and summer. All warmth from mother! Over time, the fluff becomes larger and thicker. The mother occasionally leaves the nest, flying away for food. But it returns quickly and the chicks warm up under the wing of their mother.

In general, the male usually feeds the offspring: he brings the seeds of spruce, pine, passes them to the female, and she - to the children. At one time, the male brings up to 300-400 g of seeds in his esophagus.

Most often there are 4 chicks in the crossbilly nest. They stay in the nest for three weeks, but even then their parents take care of them. The fact is that in young crossbills, the beak is the most common, straight. Only at 1.5 months of age, the beak is bent, returns to normal. And only now the children themselves learn to get the seeds out of the cones, pushing the scales apart or breaking them off.

The nests of crossbills are well hidden from snow and from prying eyes in the thick of spruce paws, they are made of dry twigs and tightly braided with strands of tree lichens. A deep, spacious tray is carefully covered with dry moss, hare, squirrel, elk hair. As soon as the children grow up, the parents divide the brood and, together with the chicks, go to travel through the forest, not at all caring about the fate of the others.

Among the crossbills in our forests there are crossbill - spruce, crossbill - pine, white-winged crossbill.

Part 10. Fragments 79-85. Kedrovka.

And here is the taiga bird nutcracker. So it was called because most of all nutcrackers are in the cedar taiga and this name is related to the word cedar.

It can also be called a walnut. Its plumage is dark brown with white spots on the tips of the feathers. Of course, her food is cedar nuts, and in those parts where there is not much cedar, acorns, nuts - hazelnuts, berries, and when it is necessary to feed the chicks, various insects are also eaten: weevils, barbels.

The bird's nest is built in coniferous trees when there is still snow in the forest. Nestlings are fed with beetles and their larvae, last year's nuts. The kids are growing fast. And when the new nuts ripen, the chicks can no longer be distinguished from their parents.

As soon as the pine nuts ripen, the nutcracker begins to stock up. Stuff nuts into the goiter and flies to the mountains. There he puts the nuts in the cracks of the rock, hides them in the hollows of the trees, buries them under the moss. Nutcrackers are known to drop more than half of all ripe cones from trees, and many of them remain untouched. And, if the nuts remain in the cones, then they do not germinate, but disappear or are eaten by mice. But the nutcracker crushes the cones, pecks out nuts from them and hides them, thereby making reserves for the winter for itself and for the chicks. Everywhere where the cedars stand, in the autumn the cries of the nutcrackers are heard, sometimes sharp and unpleasant, but sometimes gentle and melodic.

Most of the stocks of nutcrackers are eaten during the winter, part is eaten by chipmunks, squirrels. But still, some of the nuts remain under the moss and germinate in the spring. In such places, cedars grow in groups of 5-10 sprouts.

So it turns out that the nutcrackers, “planting” cedars in this way, help the forest.

The most surprising thing: how does this bird know how to find reserves hidden in the fall under the snow in winter? How does she determine the location of the pantry? Nobody can say for sure. Each nutcracker arranges hundreds of pantries, and in a variety of places.

Here she is, a nutcracker bird!

Part 11. Fragments 86 - 97. Capercaillie.

Capercaillie- a beautiful forest rooster. Capercaillie - a forest dweller. In the spring, when the snow melts in the forest, the capercaillie begin to lek - to sing their spring songs. The capercaillie walks on the ground like a turkey-cock, spreading its tail like a fan, and clicks with its beak, as if two sticks are knocking against each other. And the song ends, as if a knife is sharpening on a bar.

By the end of the song, the bird does not hear anything, it stalls, which is why it was called the capercaillie.

Capercaillie live in the thicket, shun people. And they sing their songs, i.e. “lek”, in early spring, gathering on the current, where they flock in the evening. At evening dawn, they sing for a short time, and the morning song begins long before sunrise. The song is heard in the forest for 200 steps and attracts capercaillie, who also gather on the current and choose a pair of the one who sings better, whose plumage is more beautiful.

Often during the mating between the capercaillie there are fights, and the capercaillie will choose the one who is stronger.

Capercaillie's nest is arranged on the ground among last year's dry grass, in a small depression where the female lays 8-12 eggs. The capercaillie hatches alone, sometimes leaving the nest for a while to find food.

The light brown plumage with rusty and white transverse stripes on the female helps her hide very well in the grass. You won’t even notice her when she sits on a nest among branches and dry blades of grass.

You will not notice the chicks among the grass either, they are so motley. But ..., the kids, barely dry, go after their mother and themselves begin to feed on flies, ants, berries. And their mother teaches them to forage and hide in the grass in times of danger.

Favorite food in summer - strawberries, lingonberries, cranberries, cloudberries, grass seeds. Closer to winter, birds fly to the banks of the river, lake, fill their crops with small pebbles. These pebbles help grind hard pine needles in the bird's stomach in winter. The pine, on which they feed on needles in winter, will be completely bare by spring. After all, needles are the only food of these birds in winter.

On winter snowy nights, capercaillie fall from trees into a snowdrift and sleep there. An amazing sight is the flight of birds from under the snow. You go skiing, the snow sparkles all around, and suddenly birds fly out from under your feet with a loud flapping of wings.

The text material for the presentation was taken from the issues of the Young Naturalist magazine.

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