In the Minusinsky district, a dangerous bird / News of the Society of Krasnoyarsk and Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.ru got into the lens of firefighters

In the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, firefighters met the “serial maniac” in a bird's guise – the northern forty.

A forty -gun belongs to a detachment of sparrows. With a deceptive appearance of the birds of the bird and a gentle pleasant voice, he is a brutal killer of his own kind. The scientific name is translated from Latin-an executioner-punitive. The executioner – for inclinations, the guard – for the manner of hunting ..

Favorite tactics of a forty -pole: sitting high on a tree above a meadow or field, look for your trophy. Maxim Dryukov managed to shoot the bird as deputy head of the Minusinsk Forest Forest Forest Station at that moment.

“The feathered Hannibal Lecter eats small rodents, insects and other birds. Very insidious! Birds lure, imitating their singing, and scares small animals, rustling in the undergrowth. It also hunts in the air, overtaking the victim with lightning speed, ”said in a forest fire center

A forty -gun kills, grabbing or piercing his neck with a beak and strongly shaking the prey. He takes away, holding in paws or in his beak, and then pricks on some prickly plant and “bites”. If you see a carcass or “necklace” of caterpillars on the spikes in the forest in the forest, then the forty -gun has lunch. Portions of food in the margin have crucified are hanging in “packs”.

However, for all their mercilessness, the northern forties are gentle and attentive parents. In addition, they benefit nature, as they are regulators of insect populations, including pests.