Goose cry for hunting mp3. So how to “decipher” the sounds of Nature is a matter of skill rather than tradition. II. Central European wintering grounds of the white-fronted goose

Andrey Shalygin: I think it’s no secret to anyone that such “simple” sounds and their “designation” as “woof-woof-woof” and “meow-meow-meow” actually have nothing in common with real sounds published by animals do not have. To demonstrate this fact, it is enough to know how the same sounds are called by residents of other countries.

If anyone doesn’t already know, it turns out that cats and dogs from different countries meow and bark “in different languages” in completely different ways.

And not at all because they really do it differently. But because each nation historically had its own basic species diversity of these animals and its own musical abilities in depicting voices.

Therefore, our (not corresponding to anything) dog “woof-woof-woof” may somewhere be traditional in the “woof-woof-woof” variant. Albanian dogs do "ham-ham". In Catalonia, dogs bark “bap-bap.” The Chinese say “wang-wang”, the Greeks say “woof-woof”, the Slovenians say “how-how”, the Ukrainians say “gaf-gaf”. In Iceland it's "woff", in Indonesia it's "gong-gong", and in Italian it's "bow-bow".

"Retreat meeting of the School of Manna Hunting." Photo - Olga Frunze.

Of course, as a result, with such a diversity of species that geese and ducks present to us, as well as the absurdity that decoy producers demonstrate - the dubious musical abilities of specific people and “schools” superimposed on these factors - as a result they show total “belebir” , not man. That, however, does not prevent them from selling their products and teaching others for money.

If they also knew about poultry, it would be tolerable. And as it turned out, even the voices of the birds themselves (not to mention their “language”) are generally unknown to decoy producers. They make some kind of noise, excuse me, “crap”, and claim that this is “it”... Have you even heard this very “it”? The same pheasant has a voice that almost sounds like a crow, but by ear it is absolutely clear that it is not a crow.

And even if you take lessons from the most famous beckoners in the World, then even the same Fred Zink, regarding the most famous sound imitation of a mallard duck, says that many professional beckoners pronounce “feed chatter” as “tygi-dygi”, etc. ., although he believes that it actually simply carries at its core the elementary “you-you-you”... So the Masters also have disagreements. But this is for the Masters. But here in Russia, as it turned out, many “producers” cannot even determine the specific type of sound, nor have they even heard these sounds.

And someone says, “And they also do this and that.” If you knew what they were doing, you wouldn’t say it. It’s also impossible to mix everything into one pile, but this is already “higher matters”, and many have major problems with the basics.

It often happens - only six months ago the person didn’t know a damn thing about mana. I've been watching movies for six months and I'm already a "venerable expert", it turns out. But just yesterday I was handing out carp to tourists... Now I’m already a “master”.

I assure you, the greater the border of your Knowledge, the more you will feel how great your Ignorance is, and the less you will think that you know how to do something.

Honestly? In fact, practically no one knows anything about semolina hunting in Russia. It turns out that you need to start from the very basics, even when talking with “professionals” (who, in fact, have “neither ear nor snout”). OK. Then let's start with goose mana.

• The following types of geese are common in Russia: white-fronted goose ();
• Anser albifrons grey goose ();
• Anser anser white goose ();
• Anser canagicus white goose ();
• Anser caerulescens sukhonos ();
• Anser cygnoides lesser white-fronted white-fronted ();
• Anser erythropus bean goose ();
• Anser fabalis mountain goose ().

Anser indicus

But due to the fact of modern production of decoys and the spread of the goose in America (which is the legislator of modern decoy hunting), as well as the fact of the species preponderance in the northwestern part of Russia, which is most in demand by mass hunters, the white-fronted goose today is imitated most massively and predominantly (which is wrong).

Many hunters in St. Petersburg and Moscow will immediately raise a “hullabaloo” - we have only “white carp”, where is this most abundant gray goose? Well, gentlemen, Russia, actually, is not only Moscow and St. Petersburg (as you are all used to), and Tver, where you all (both of them) go to hunt. But in Kazakhstan and in the east of Astrakhan there is practically only gray, and this is not even a third of Russia to the east. Everyone has at most one road to the north - to Murmansk... And all natural science ended there. And then who of you visited? Well then, we sit quietly and read smart books.

"A flock of white-fronted geese" performed by Alexey Manannikov and Igor Babaev

Video - Andrey Shalygin.

It should be borne in mind that this demonstration was not conducted on camera, but during a more than hour-long lesson in Semolina Hunting, and immediately after the “croaking”. Therefore, the participants of the “Master Class” did not warm up, but immediately began to “guffaw.” Therefore, the participants themselves said that “the first 10 seconds in the video should be cut off - this is a warm-up and not “clicking”.” But I left everything as it is, so that people understand that imitating the voice of birds is not as easy as it might seem at first glance.

As an explanation for this video fragment, I can reveal a little secret of professional beckoners. Typically, all white-fronted beckoners, in accordance with American guidelines, use the “woo-woo-woo” combination (Red Bon - Nathan) , but the Chief game warden of the National Foundation of St. Tryphon, Alexey Manannikov, experimentally established that the combination "lu-luk" is more consistent with the voice of a white-fronted man. Myers teaches "le-luc"". And then Alexey told me quite correctly that a lot depends on the pronunciation characteristic of a given language (Myers' Louisiana, for example, is a former French province and the “pronunciation” here is a linguistic condition, so Alexey “crawls” and Myers “crawls”). So how to “decipher” the sounds of Nature is a matter of skill rather than tradition.

If someone thinks that he bought a decoy, learned the mallard and the standard cackle of the white carp, and that’s all... Decoy! ...Then I dare to disappoint you. Just as an example, below are brief descriptions of the species with demonstrations of real voice recordings, and after this, I hope, even professional decoy makers and “specialists” will feel a little “tiled off the roof”: “Well, where are your decoys and mana?"... That's it, it's very deep...

We read and listen. And at the same time we compare the “description of sounds” with their real sound. Just don’t think that I took it here and laid it all out at once. Descriptions have been shortened, views have been shortened. This is just a small note, not a monograph.

Descriptions of the species are taken from the Guide to Birds and Bird Nests in Central Russia (Bogolyubov A.S., Zhdanova O.V., Kravchenko M.V. Moscow, "Ecosystem", 2006).

Andrey Shalygin

Gray Goose – Anser anser Appearance. A large bird (body length about 80 cm, i.e. slightly smaller than a domestic goose) of a grayish-brown color, with a dirty white chest and belly, on which dark spots are scattered. From someone similar to him bean goose
it is distinguished by an ash-gray coloration of the lower back (loin) and a dark pink, almost red beak with a light nail at the end. The legs are pink. Adult birds have black spots on their bellies (hardly visible in flight). The front part of the wing appears light in flight.

During migration it gathers in large flocks. The flock flies in single file or in a wedge. Very careful.
You can listen to the voice of the gray goose by clicking on this button: The voice is like that of a domestic goose, the well-known “ha-ha-ha” cackle.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. Habitat.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. Spreading.
Distributed throughout inland waters of Eurasia from Western Europe, where it nests in the north to Norway, to Primorye in the subzone of mixed forests and steppes. Economic importance.

The domestic goose traces its history back to the gray goose. Geese were kept in Egypt as early as 2000 BC. In the past it was one of the main game birds in Russia. In recent years it has become more rare, especially in the European part. Description of Buturlin . The wild gray goose is the ancestor of the domestic goose - the bird is grayish-brown in color, with a dirty white chest and belly, on which dark spots are scattered. From someone similar to him A large bird (body length about 80 cm, i.e. slightly smaller than a domestic goose) of a grayish-brown color, with a dirty white chest and belly, on which dark spots are scattered. From someone similar to him it is distinguished by an ash-gray coloration of the lower back (loin) and a dark pink, almost red beak with a light nail at the end. The legs are pink. The size of the gray goose's wing reaches 49 centimeters, the tail - 16 centimeters, the beak - from 4.7 to 7.5 centimeters, weight from 2.6 to 4 kilograms. There are rare specimens - up to 6.6 kilograms.
This goose is wide common from Western Europe, through the entire USSR, to the lower reaches of the Amur. It nests in Karelia, in the delta of the Northern Dvina, in places in the Volga region and beyond the Urals it reaches 59° north latitude, and on the Ob - to the Arctic Circle. It is found on the Yenisei up to 55° north latitude, as well as in Altai, the Baikal region, Dauria and Mongolia.
The nesting area of ​​the gray goose extends quite far to the south, reaching the northern shore of the Black Sea and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea. In Transcaucasia, we had to meet nesting geese in Armenia, on Lake Gokcha. In Central Asia, this is a common bird, nesting in swamps and shallow lakes near Merv and in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. This goose is also found in Iran and Afghanistan; in southern Europe it breeds in Spain.
Gray goose before nested in large quantities on all remote lakes suitable for it, surrounded by swamps and reeds. But the changes that have occurred due to human activity, that is, the draining of swamps and burning of reeds, have led to a severe reduction in the habitats of this large and cautious bird. In the central regions of our Union, for example in Moscow and Tula, geese no longer nest regularly. However, the organization of hunting farms with the proper management of hunting and game protection in them led to the fact that individual lairs of gray geese now began to settle on nesting grounds not far from Moscow. The gray goose is especially numerous on the lakes of the Trans-Urals, in the Barabinsk steppe and in northern Kazakhstan.

Gooseberry - Anser fabalis

Gray Goose – Anser anser Look like gray goose, but the head and neck are dark, which is clearly visible in a flying bird, the back and rump are dark brown, the beak is black with an orange transverse stripe, the paws are orange-pink. Tundra bean goosebumps usually differ from taiga ones by having a lighter beak (an orange stripe along the edge of the beak reaches the corners of the mouth).

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. Lakes, swamps, river valleys with shrub vegetation. On migration it is found along the banks of water bodies, in fields and in the steppe . For rest, it uses permanent places, where it returns after feeding in the fields (usually in large flocks).
Spreading . Distributed throughout the tundra and forest-tundra zones of Eurasia. In Central Siberia and the Far East, the range extends south to Mongloia and China.
Economic importance. One of the main hunting species, especially in the North. On the shores of the Barents Sea a subspecies can be found short-billed bean goose — A. fabalis brachyrhynchos(formerly considered an independent species), breeding in Iceland and Spitsbergen. It differs from the bean goose, young white-fronted goose and lesser lesser white-fronted goose by its lighter color and pink legs, and from the greylag goose by its dark head and neck, short beak with a black top. The voice is like that of a gooseberry, but higher.

The domestic goose traces its history back to the gray goose. Geese were kept in Egypt as early as 2000 BC. In the past it was one of the main game birds in Russia. In recent years it has become more rare, especially in the European part. . Bean man a little less gray goose, from which it differs in its black beak, with a yellow or orange belt. The body color is grayish-brown. The bean goose never has black spots on its belly, like the white-fronted goose. The wing dimensions are 40-49 centimeters, weight from 2.75 to 4 kilograms. Bean gooseberry is common in the northern regions of Eastern Europe and Asia, where it reaches the Chukchi Land, Anadyr and Kamchatka. It nests in the tundra of the mainland and on Novaya Zemlya; in Eastern Siberia it is also found on mountain lakes in forest belts. To the south, this goose reaches the Barabinsk steppe, Altai, Sayan and Mongolia. All our bean goosebumps belong to the same species and are divided into four subspecies, of which one - the short-nosed bean goose - is found among us only by chance; it nests in the northern regions of Western Europe.

Genus Dabbling ducks – Anas

In Russia it includes 12 species: mallard, black duck, gray duck, wigeon, pintail, killer whale, teal, whistling teal, green teal, marbled teal, shoveler. Interspecific hybrids are occasionally found.

Mallard, or mallard duck, or kryzhen(obsolete) — Anas platyrhynchos

Gray Goose – Anser anser The most numerous duck in Russia. Large, slightly smaller than a domestic duck, up to 0.5 m in size. The male in breeding plumage has a black head and neck with a green tint, a brown chest, a yellow-green beak (greenish at the end of summer), orange paws, and a violet speculum. There is a white collar on the bottom of the neck. The central tail feathers are curled upward in ringlets. The female is reddish-brown with a lighter belly, blue speculum, pinkish beak with a dark center. The silhouette of a flying river duck resembles a wine bottle.

You can listen to the mallard's voice by clicking on this button:
The voice is like that of a domestic duck, of which it is an ancestor. In flight it makes a characteristic ringing quack. In addition to the crackling “rab-rab” during the mating period, the whistling “fiib” is also added.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. The mallard is the most flexible species of duck; it is able to adapt to a wide variety of living conditions. Lives in quiet bodies of water with abundant vegetation, especially thickets of reeds, even in large cities.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. The mallard has a very wide distribution - its range extends across all of Europe, North Africa and Asia, south to Mesopotamia, Kashmir, Mongolia and Japan. It is also found in North America. Our northern border coincides approximately with the border between the forest belt and the tundra. The mallard is the most common duck in the northern hemisphere.
Distributed throughout inland waters of Eurasia from Western Europe, where it nests in the north to Norway, to Primorye in the subzone of mixed forests and steppes. One of the main objects of hunting. The domestic duck comes from the mallard.

The domestic goose traces its history back to the gray goose. Geese were kept in Egypt as early as 2000 BC. In the past it was one of the main game birds in Russia. In recent years it has become more rare, especially in the European part. . The mallard, or mallard duck, is, if not the most numerous, then perhaps the most famous of all the ducks of our lakes and river valleys. She is inferior in height and weight the domestic duck, which descended from it, however, can still reach a weight of 2 kilograms (the largest and fattest individuals), with a wing length of 30 centimeters. More often, the weight of adult individuals does not exceed 1.5 kilograms.
Drake in his wedding feathers he is very beautiful, and his attire at this time sparkles with the colors of various metals. His black head glows with blue and green purple; This color is delimited below by a narrow white collar. On the dorsal side the plumage is brown and gray, with wavy white lines and small dashes; the crop and chest are chestnut; the belly is light gray, with darker streaky markings; undertail black, with a metallic sheen; The middle tail feathers are black and curled in ringlets. On the light gray wing, a brilliant blue mirror (the brilliant color of the secondaries) protrudes brightly, framed by velvety black and white borders.
U females the upperparts are dark brown, with buffy-red edges of the feathers; the underside is lighter, reddish, with dark spots. There is also a mirror on the wing. The female's plumage is of a protective type.
Already in September, the drake is dressed in his nuptial plumage, which he wears throughout the winter and spring, until the start of the summer molt. In the summer months, the color of its plumage is similar to that of the female, only slightly darker (especially the top of the head); its beak is lighter than that of the female, greenish; the legs are a brighter orange color. Young drakes (hatched in the last summer) put on their nuptial plumage later than older ones. And in older individuals, for various reasons, autumn molting may be delayed or not fully develop. And in late autumn, drakes are sometimes found, the plumage of which differs little from the plumage of females. It is remarkable that in a species close to the mallard duck, the so-called Chinese black duck, both sexes are almost identically colored throughout the year, similar to our female mallard. This duck is found here in the Amur region and the Ussuri region.

Wigeon, or fistula, whistler, Wigeon(obsolete) —Anas penelope

Gray Goose – Anser anser Noticeably smaller mallards. The male is light gray with a fine streaky pattern, the head is brown with a yellow top, the belly is white, the speculum is green. The female is distinguished by a brown head and chest, and a violet speculum. The beak and paws are gray. In flight, white spots on the wings are visible (light gray in the female).

You can listen to the voice of the wigeon by clicking on this button:
The drake’s voice is a sharp whistling “swi-u”, the female’s is a crackling quack “kerr”. The drake's cry can most often be heard during migration - it is a soft two-syllable whistle.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. Common on overgrown rivers and lakes from the tundra to the steppe zone.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. It is found throughout the north of Western Europe, throughout the Volga basin to the delta, in Siberia to the southern steppes, in Mongolia and the Ussuri region. It goes further north than other ducks, reaching the forest-tundra. During migration, large flocks of wigeons appear in the Baltic and North Seas.
Distributed throughout inland waters of Eurasia from Western Europe, where it nests in the north to Norway, to Primorye in the subzone of mixed forests and steppes. An important hunting object. The wigeon easily tolerates captivity, adapts to life at home and is easily tamed. Its meat is excellent, and its down is considered one of the best.

Description of Buturlin. For its voice, the wigeon is called by hunters a fistula, or a whistler, and in some places also a wigeon. The drake in breeding plumage has chestnut coloring head and neck, with a reddish-white crown. The crop is reddish in color, the chest and abdomen are white. Other parts of the body are covered with gray plumage with white streaking. The mirror is shiny green, with a black border. In front of the mirror on the wing there is a wide white spot. The summer outfit of the male remains significantly different from that of the female. In summer, the drake's back is brown, with chestnut stripes; the head and neck are brownish. The mirror of the wedding attire also remains. The duck has gray-brown plumage with dark spotting, a white belly and a black-gray speculum without a white spot in front. The legs and beak are gray in both sexes.
Judging by some observations, the male stays close to the female in the spring even when she has already sat down on the nest, and leaves her only in the second half of the nesting period. In the river basins of the European part of Russia, wigeons are found in much smaller numbers than mallards and teal species.
Wigeon communication is possible already at a fairly large distance distinguish from other river ducks by the rather bright red colors of the plumage and the white colors of the mirror and abdomen. When flying in flocks and swimming on the water or sitting on the shore, these ducks like to stay closely together in a group. Their flight is fast and easy, and their working wings do not make much noise. Just as teals do, wigeons often seem to turn or sway in flight, showing either their sides, their shiny belly or the underside of their wings.
In high-flying flocks of wigeons, birds usually emit clear whistling sounds. screams. These cries make it possible to establish that wigeons in spring and autumn, during migration, sometimes fly over our river valleys at night.
Taxonomists usually classify this species into a separate subgenus for its short beak, which in the wigeon is shorter than the metatarsus. Although the size of the wigeon's body does not exceed the size of the gray duck's body, its wing is somewhat larger.

Pintail, or pintail, or sharptail, or shilen(obsolete) — Anas acuta

Gray Goose – Anser anser A little smaller mallards. The neck is long and thin, the tail is sharp, awl-shaped, the beak and paws are dark gray. The male has a dark brown head, a green mirror with a bronze tint, a white belly and chest that are striking in flight, and a noticeably pubescent neck. The female is brownish-gray with a mirror without shine.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. Prefers to settle in small reservoirs of river valleys and large lakes.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. The pintail nests throughout Europe and in Asia south to Transcaucasia and Primorye. It can be found in the clear tundra, much to the north of the last islands of crooked forest.
Distributed throughout inland waters of Eurasia from Western Europe, where it nests in the north to Norway, to Primorye in the subzone of mixed forests and steppes. An important hunting object, especially in the North and Western Siberia, where pintail is most numerous.

Description of Buturlin. The pintail, or pintail, whose name comes from the structure of the drake's tail feathers, is distributed further north than other dabbling ducks.
Not inferior in size to the gray duck, the pintail is different differs from other river ducks by a noticeably long neck and a pointed tail, the middle feathers of which are elongated in the female, while in the male the mating feather can reach 20 centimeters. The drake's mating plumage has almost no metallic coloring. In this plumage, the male has a brown head and a similar neck with white stripes. The bronze-green mirror is bordered in front by a reddish-brown stripe, and in the back by black and white. In summer, the drake has a slightly darker brown plumage than the duck, which is similar in color to the mallard and has a yellowish-brown speculum. The drake retains a shiny mirror of his wedding attire. The legs and beak of birds of both sexes are bluish-gray.
Nest it usually places it in a dry place, often under a bush or under an overgrown sedge tussock. In Kazakhstan, pintail nests were found even 4-6 kilometers from the nearest lakes. In the middle zone, a full clutch of eggs occurs already in the second half of May - early June. The number of greenish eggs is usually 7-10.
Flight The pintail is light; it makes almost no noise with its wings. Game connoisseurs consider its meat more tasty than the meat of mallards and other large ducks.
The long neck makes this duck’s landing on the water somewhat unique and distinguishes it from other river ducks on migration. During flight flocks of pintails usually fly at high altitudes and sometimes stay together not in a shapeless heap, but in a wedge formation, although not as regular as the “key” of geese or cranes. In late autumn, at the stopover sites of migratory ducks on the southern seas, pintails are sometimes seen in pairs. The mating call of the male, quite high in tone, is noticeably different from the call of the mallard drake.
During span Pintails often gather in large flocks. Such flocks are also common on the western flyways - off the coast of the Baltic and German seas. Some birds reach wintering grounds in tropical Africa. The mating season and nesting of the pintail proceed almost the same as in mallards.

Teal-whistle, or small teal, or teal sexual(obsolete) —Anas crecca

Gray Goose – Anser anser The smallest of our ducks: 35 cm in length. The drake's head is chestnut with a shiny dark green stripe across the eye, the chest is pinkish with dark spots, the speculum is bright green and black. The female is brown with reddish streaks, the speculum is bright green. The beak is dark gray, the paws are olive. The flight is fast, silent and very skillful (can suddenly change the direction of flight to the opposite). Can take off from water and land almost vertically upward.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. Prefers reservoirs with dense thickets of reeds, and is also found in the mountains.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. It is most numerous in the forest and forest-steppe zones of Russia, less common in the forest-tundra and tundra.
Distributed throughout inland waters of Eurasia from Western Europe, where it nests in the north to Norway, to Primorye in the subzone of mixed forests and steppes. One of the main objects of hunting.

Description of Buturlin. Teal sexual and teal corncrake- the most small from our river ducks. In the European part of the USSR, they are perhaps the most common, as they are unpretentious when choosing nesting sites and obtaining food. The sexual teal, whose wing length does not exceed 20 centimeters and weight - 0.42 kilograms, is distributed for nesting from the northernmost parts of the continent (71° north latitude on the Yenisei and 73° on Taimyr), across all of Europe and Asia, to Turkmenistan, Mongolia and Northern China. Due to its small stature, it is also called the small teal, sometimes the whistler. It is easily mixed (when it is in summer) with cod. But he's good is different a two-color mirror, which is black on the outside, metallic green on the inside, and bordered in front by a white stripe. The drake in breeding feathers has a red-chestnut head and upper neck, a shiny dark green stripe on each side covers the eye and goes down to the neck and back of the head.

Teal, or teal crake to, or blue-winged teal(obsolete) —Anas querqnedula

Gray Goose – Anser anser Slightly larger in size teal whistler, length about 40 cm. The head of the drake is brown with a white stripe above the eye, the back and chest are brown, the belly is white, the speculum is green. The female is light brown with streaks, the mirror is matte, green without shine. The wings are bluish-gray, the beak is black, the paws are gray. The flight is fast and silent.

You can listen to the voice of the teal by clicking on this button:
The drake has a quiet creaky crackling sound, the female has a rattling quack. When taking off, it emits a jerky “klerrb, klerrb”, a shrill “knek” or “knerr”.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. It prefers small rivers, small and shallow reservoirs left over from the hollow water of river valleys, ponds near villages, and especially likes to settle in small reservoirs in forests.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. The most common river duck in the fauna of the European part of Russia. Rare in the north. In Western Europe, its nesting area in the north is limited to 60° north latitude, in our country it is limited to the Upper Volga basin. To the south of these borders it is often found throughout the Mediterranean Sea and our southern seas, Central Asia and the Primorsky Territory.
Distributed throughout inland waters of Eurasia from Western Europe, where it nests in the north to Norway, to Primorye in the subzone of mixed forests and steppes. The teal easily tolerates captivity and reproduces well in zoological gardens.

Description of Buturlin. Teal-crake, otherwise codling, or bluish-winged teal, larger (wing length up to 21 centimeters, weight of a fat drake up to 0.6 kilograms) teal whistler. Drake of this species painted more modest. There are no shiny colors on the head: the top of the head is dark brown, the sides of the head and neck are chocolate-colored, with white dashes; there is a white stripe above the eyebrow; The upper side of the body is dark brown, with light edges of feathers. The shoulder feathers are striped and noticeably elongated. The mirror is a shiny steel-blue color and bordered with white stripes. The female, painted in dark brown colors, has a mirror bordered with whitish stripes, brownish-gray, without shine. The drake, even in summer feathers, retains a shiny mirror and a lighter bluish-gray color of the wing coverts than the female.

Shoveler, or Soksun, or burdock(obsolete) — Anas clypeata

Gray Goose – Anser anser The Shoveler is easily distinguished from other ducks by its very long and disproportionately wide beak. The head and neck of the drake are black, the chest is white, the belly and sides are red, and the beak is black. The female is brown with streaks, the beak is brown. The mirror is green, the paws are orange. In flight, the black tips of the wings and the bluish coverts of the secondaries are visible. On the water, a short neck is noticeable; in flight, there is a red spot on the belly. They fly relatively slowly.

Although, seriously, there is no “ha-ha-ga” there. Folklore transcribes this in different ways, for example in the south-eastern regions of Russia and Ukraine as “taga-tega-tega”. Heavily overgrown lakes and rivers are everywhere from the southern tundra to the steppe and forest-steppe. On the lake and floodplain lands of the central zone, this duck is not numerous, although it is occasionally found almost everywhere where mallards and teals nest. But in the lower reaches of the Volga, and especially on the steppe lakes of Kazakhstan and Western Siberia, the Shoveler is the most common of the ducks.
Prefers large, calm, overgrown lakes and open lands. During non-breeding times, it feeds in fields and meadows. Distributed in Europe, North Africa, Asia and North America. In Western Europe it is found as far north as Norway; here to the lower reaches of the Northern Dvina, Pechora and Ob, south to Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan and the Ussuri basin.
Economic importance. An important hunting object, especially in the south of Russia.

Description of Buturlin. Shoveler also stands out into a subgenus and differs from other river ducks by its long beak, greatly expanded at the end. In downy chicks this enlargement of the beak is less noticeable. The beautiful breeding plumage of the drake is distinguished by the strong development of bright and metallic-shiny colors. Its neck and head are black with a dark green sheen, its crop is white, and its underparts are chestnut. The mirror is metallic green, bordered with white stripes at the top and bottom. The wing coverts are blue; yellow eyes, orange paws. The female is similar in plumage color to the mallard, but has a dull mirror bordered with white stripes. The upper valve of the beak is brown, the lower one is orange. The drake in summer feather looks like a duck, but its mirror remains bright. The female's legs are also orange. The total length of the bird is about 50 centimeters, the wing length is 24 centimeters.
The duck quacks; The drake’s voice is a quiet and hoarse “hut...”.
Before molting, males gather in flocks of several hundred. Such flocks of beautiful drakes located on a clear lake are a wonderful sight. Even in the wild, when they hatch and feed on feeding grounds during migration, they usually do not eat much fat. They can often be seen resting during the day, and they seem to feed more at dusk and at night.

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We know that geese are sociable birds and hunters who are passionate about this hunt need to know and understand their calls. If you hunt with wind decoys, then this is not difficult to learn. With experience, you can easily determine from the birds' voices and behavior their intentions in relation to your arrangement.

For example, a small flock flies above your hide at an altitude of 25-30 meters, the birds actively communicate with each other, respond to decoys, and there is every chance of lowering the flock even lower. The flock did not break up, but flew in one herd, and this is a sign of alertness. On the next circle, the geese flew away - an experienced hunter would have found his bearings in time and managed to get the geese, because the distance allowed him to make a successful shot.

Let's consider another situation, from approximately one point the geese begin to turn around and fly away from your hiding places, making sounds of danger. For an experienced hunter, this is a hint that something is wrong, for example, in camouflage or something else, and you need to look for an error. Or such a situation, a flock of geese flying at a decent altitude, 300 meters, began to respond to your decoys, the geese circled over the stuffed animals, began to break into many small herds and fly over the stuffed animals several stories high (as hunters say).

At the same time, the geese are actively vocalizing; take your time, these geese have intentions of joining your stuffed animals. If possible, try to lower the geese as low as you can be patient. It’s an indescribable feeling when geese fly 5 meters above you, and some are already sitting in stuffed animals. You hear the flapping of wings, the cracking of feathers - this is a completely different stage of hunting than shooting geese at a distance of 30-40 meters. Now let’s listen to the sound files and try to make out the voices of the geese:

3. The sound of danger. In our case, the geese noticed the video camera; if these sounds are repeated regularly, look for a mistake. As a rule, this is a disguise or poor quality of profiles or stuffed animals.

5. A flock of white-fronted geese. When the geese make such noise and begin to break down, you can plant them, they are happy with everything.

6. This is a continuation of file 5. Geese are already flying at an altitude of 10-15 meters, and there is a further decline. An indescribable feeling.

7. Roll call of a small flock of white-fronted geese. Have fun and lure them in point blank.

8. A mixed flock of white-fronted and bean geese. Only 6 pieces separated from the flock, the rest in one herd - the first sign of doubt. When flying at 15-20 meters, shoot, there are doubtful geese in the flock.

Currently, sport goose hunting is a hobby for millions of people in many countries around the world. A civilized hunter must know the rules of hunting in his region and be able to distinguish protected species of geese from those that are allowed to be hunted.

Gray geese, white-fronted geese and bean geese are members of the genus Anser of the Anatidae family of the Anseriformes order.

Features. Large goose. The body length reaches up to 90 cm, the wingspan is up to 1.5 - 1.7 meters. The weight of adult males in autumn reaches 3.5 - 5 kg. Females are slightly smaller. The color of the plumage is light gray tones. Mature birds have a crop and abdomen with small black transverse streaks. The beak is a solid pink color with a white claw at the end. Paws are red-pink. The eyes are light brown. The voice is sharp, cackling, reminiscent of the sounds made by domestic geese. The flight of gray geese is fast; during long flights they fly high, often lining up in a wedge. They usually do not mix with other species of geese.

Habitat. Mainly lives in the southern half of Russia. It nests especially willingly on large lakes with reed fields, in river deltas, in floodplains and estuaries. The main population is concentrated in the Volga delta, Kazakhstan, and Western Siberia. In the European part it nests unevenly. Prefers biotopes of forest-steppe and steppe zones. Winters in Azerbaijan, southern Ukraine, the republics of Central Asia, as well as in the countries of Western Europe, South and Southeast Asia.

The number has stabilized in recent years and, according to some sources, reaches up to 150 thousand individuals.

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Features. The most numerous species of our geese. Body length 60 – 90 cm, wingspan up to 1.5 meters. The weight of adult males in autumn reaches 2.5 - 3 kg. The color of the plumage of an adult bird is mainly gray, lighter below, the undertail is white. There is a white spot on the forehead surrounded by a dark border. Mature birds have large transverse black streaks on their bellies. The beak is 40–55 mm long, pinkish, with a white claw at the end, the legs are orange. Young birds do not have a white spot on the forehead and there are no dark streaks on the belly. Unlike other species of geese, the white-fronted goose has a tail that protrudes from the ends of its folded wings. The male's voice is high, sharp, shrill, two or three syllables; in the female, low-frequency components predominate.

TUNDRA (WESTERN AND EASTERN) SUBSPECT (Anser Frossicus)

FOREST SUBSPECT (Anser Fabalis)

TAIGA SUBSPECT (Anser Fabalis Latham)

SHORT-BILLED SUBSPECT (Anser Brachyrhynchus)

Features. A small goose of the genus Goose of the Anatidae family. Body length 60 - 70 cm, wing length 38 - 43 cm, weight 1 - 2.5 kg. It has two-color plumage. Black on top, white below. There are gray stripes on the sides of the body. The black “cap” on the head extends to the neck, crop and forms a sharp border with the light chest. The cheeks are white except for a black frenulum running from the base of the beak to the eyes. The male and female are indistinguishable in color. The voice is sharp and shrill. Resembles a hoarse bark or cough. The flight is fast. Birds often change formation, break formation, and fly in a dense flock.

Habitat. They winter on the shores of the northern seas, in Holland, Germany, and Denmark. Spring migration occurs in a rather narrow front along the coasts of the North and Baltic seas. Breeds in large numbers on Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island. In recent decades, open tundra and coastal meadows on the coast of the Barents Sea have been developed.

In 1997, it was removed from the Red Book of Russia. Currently, the population has increased to half a million and continues to grow rapidly (E.N. Gurtovaya). The first reason for the rise was the protection of wintering grounds and the restoration of feeding grounds along the flight routes. The late timing of migration of barnacle geese is of considerable importance. Thanks to this, the bulk of birds fly after the close of the spring hunting season (V.B. Zimin). During the autumn migration, according to individual tagging data (Afanasiev 2005), from nesting sites from the mouth of the Pechora River to wintering grounds in Western Europe (about 3000 km), they make no more than two or three short-term stops and reach the goal in 1 - 3 days .

Characteristics of wintering sites of the white-fronted goose in Europe and Western Asia

Key ornithological territories of the European part of Russia,
in which the white-fronted goose is a significant spring migrant
Olonets spring flocks of birds. Geese
V.B. Zimin, A.V. Artemyev, N.V. Lapshin, A.R. Tyulin. 2007, Nauka publishing house

ACOUSTIC ALARM OF WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE ANSER ALBIFRONS

(Dissertation of candidate of biological sciences Evgeniy Arsenevich Krechmar, St. Petersburg, 2008)

general characteristics

In birds, acoustic signaling occupies a special place among all forms of communicative behavior. The ability to fly requires both a “mobile” and distant (at a distance) effective communication channel. Birds are characterized by a high level of diversity of sound responses, which is reflected both in the richness of forms and in the flexibility of their use in task conditions that change throughout the annual cycle. Birds with the maturonate type of breeding, which include Anseriformes, are characterized by differentiation in the use of acoustic communication when communicating in different social groups at different stages of the breeding season.

The formation of the acoustic repertoire of the white-fronted goose is divided into two main stages. At the first stage, the formation and development of the youthful (juvenile) repertoire takes place, and at the second stage, the adult (definitive) repertoire occurs.

In the repertoire of females there are signals comparable in characteristics of filling the frequency range with males; the main part of their acoustic repertoire has a more pronounced low-frequency content. Males, on the other hand, have a narrower range of frequencies that constitute the energy spectral maximum in the signals of the repertoire.

The frequency range used by males completely overlaps the frequency range used in acoustic signaling by females. The voice of female white-fronted geese has a wider frequency range than that of males. At the same time, a significant part of the signals in the females’ repertoire is characterized by a predominance of well-defined low-frequency components.

The white-fronted goose is a species in which multifunctionality of acoustic signals in its repertoire is the norm. An exception is the two-beat call of the male AM11, used to warn of the danger of chicks at short distances. Four signals (A2; AM9; AF10; AF14) had a high level of multifunctionality. In addition to flight, they were used in foraging behavior and various types of terrestrial-aquatic locomotion. The ground contact-orienting “silent” signal of male AM7 accompanied the largest number (6) forms of motor activity. Signals AM7 and AF13 were ground-contact by their specificity. They were used in close interactions in dense groups, especially in broods and brood groups. These signals accompany “calm” forms of behavioral activity that are not directly related to the complex of anxious and defensive actions.

Throughout the life cycle of the white-fronted goose, the stages of development of acoustic signaling are consistent with the stages of ontogeny. The role of acoustic signaling changes at different stages of the life cycle. The entire sequence of changes in age repertoires corresponds to the information needs of various life cycles. At different stages of the life cycle, the conditions and tasks of the existence of geese change. However, there is no direct correlation between the number of tasks corresponding to developmental stages and the diversity of the current repertoire. First of all, this is explained by the phenomenon of probabilistic specificity of the signal repertoire, in which the multifunctionality of individual signals manifests itself with different levels of probability in different situational contexts.

When solving biological and specific current behavioral problems, the information load is determined by the need for the amount of information necessary and sufficient for the proper implementation of the required forms of behavior. Requirements for the level of reliability of information transfer also vary from task to task. In some cases (such as a state of extreme danger that threatens the life of an individual or brood), the requirements for reliability are very high; in other cases (foraging, orientation-demonstrative behavior, for example), the reliability of the communication channel may be low. The acoustic communication channel provides a high level of reliability. A number of physical prerequisites characteristic of acoustic signaling determine the effectiveness of the acoustic communication channel in the conditions of the existence of the white-fronted goose at breeding sites.

Considering the list of parameters that are important when considering the requirements for communication channels for the white-fronted goose, we can note the following important characteristics that make the acoustic channel indispensable: circular directivity, range, noise immunity, stealth, efficiency and the possibility of localization. All of the above prerequisites make acoustic signaling in the white-fronted goose the main and most effective channel of communication and orientation.

All other possible channels impose serious restrictions on the possibility of transmitting information in the various conditions characteristic of the habitat of this species. Acoustic signaling in the white-fronted goose is a typical example of an optimized, species-specific communication system, flexibly adapted to a wide range of life tasks and functions at different stages of the life cycle.

White-fronted goose signal labels.