Opening of a Hunting season in Moscow suburbs.
Since July, 26th the hunting season in Yaroslavl region opens. The tourist's complex "Yaroslavna" offers all fans of hunting to take part in it.
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HUNTING ON CRAKE SINCE 26TH JULY. Appearance. More large than quail, light coloring short beaked bird, reddish with dark motley feathers from above, grey with a light throat from below. In flight reddish covering feathers of a wing. Reluctantly flies up. It is active basically at night. Habitat. It prefers damp meadows with a magnificent grass and not too crude sedge swamps. It keeps also on swamps with bushes and even in the corn at crude lowlands. |
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HUNTING FOR THE BLACK GROUSE SINCE 2ND AUGUST. Black grouse – a bird of average size (weight of males - 1,0-1,4 kg; females - 0,7-1,0 kg). It can be met in forest-steppe and meadow parts. The male is brilliant-black with white undertail and "mirror" on a wing. A tail bent in a form of a lyre. Red eyebrows. A female is ginger-grey. Fly up with noise. Flight fast, with frequent waves of wings. The nest twists in a form of poles on the earth under protection of bushes and windfallen trees. In an egg laying - 5-9 ochre with red-brown mottle eggs. In autumn and summer their food - berries, various parts of grassy plants prevail. The major winter forage - birch kidneys and ear rings. |
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HUNTING FOR THE ELK SINCE 20TH of AUGUST. Elk — an artiodactyls mammal, the largest kind in deer family. Length of a body of the male is up to 3 m, height in withers to 2,3 m, length of a tail of 12-13 sm; weight of 360-600 kg. Females are smaller. On external shape the elk considerably differs from other deer. A trunk and a neck at it short, wither high, in the form of a hump. Feet strongly extended, therefore, to have a drink, the elk is compelled to go deeply into water or to kneel forward feet. A large head, hook-nosed, with a hanging fleshy upper lip. Soft skin growth under a throat ("earring"), reaching 25—40 sm. the Wool rough, brown-black; feet are light grey, almost white. Elks occupy various woods, thickets of lake-beds on coast of the steppe rivers and lakes, in forest-tundra keep on birch forests and aspen forests. In steppe and tundra they can be met not far from wood, sometimes on hundreds kilometers especially in summer. The great value for elks has swamps, the silent rivers and lakes where in the summer they are fed with water vegetation and escape from a heat. |
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HUNTING FOR THE DEER IN SEPTEMBER. Deer — artiodactyls family, containing 40 kinds. Deer are extended in Eurasia, Northern and the South America, and also have been delivered by a man to Australia and New Zealand. The size of deer varies between size of a hare (pudu) and horses (elk). Only males have branched antlers. Exceptions are only a water deer which in general does not have antlers, and a northern deer , antlers are carried by both sexes. Antlers are dumped every year and new are grown. |
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HUNTING FOR THE WILD BOAR IN SEPTEMBER. Wild boar — an omnivorous artiodactyls not ruminant mammal from a pig family. Differs from a house pig who has undoubtedly occurred from a wild boar (and other close kinds), shorter and compressed body, thicker and high feet; besides, the head of a wild boar is more long also more thin, ears are longer, more sharply and besides standing, sharp, fangs are more strongly developed and more sharply (male have much more strongly developed fangs, than at a female). The bristle, except the bottom part of a neck and a back part of a stomach, forms a sort of a mane on a back. A bristle of black-brown color with an impurity yellowish, an under fur brown-grey, thanks to it - the general coloring is grey-black-brown, a muzzle, a tail, the bottom part of feet and a hoof — black. Length of a body to 1,8 m, a tail of 25 sm, height of shoulders of 95 sm; the weight of an adult wild boar can reach up to 150—200 kg. The wild boar keeps in rich quantity in water marshlands, both woody, and grown with a cane bush, etc. Old males live basically one by one and join flock only during pairing. Females form their own small flocks of 10—30 females and cubs and young, weak males. |
