The jackdaw of the turns ( Corvus monedula ) is a bird of the family of the corvidés . Its plumage is black with the nape of the neck and the sides of the gray head. Male and female are rigorously identical and are faithful to life.

Relatively not very savage, the jackdaw attends all the places where it can find cavities, even in the vicinity of the man: given up ruins, careers, hollow shafts in the parks. The two parents take part in the construction of the nest rather summary and made small branches, grass, wool, hairs, feathers, etc

From April at June, the female lays from 3 to 7 brooded eggs from 16 to 18 days. The two parents assume the breeding of the young people who fly away to 1 month.

Like the majority of corvidés, the jackdaw is omnivorous: seeds, fruits, vegetables, insects, towards, snails, frogs are collected on the ground but it plunders also readily the nests!

It is a gregarious species which one can meet in band with the rooks and the starling X. The evening, the jackdaw can gather per hundreds to spend the night in the tree-dormitories.

It was vulgarly called Chochotte . In the affectionate beginning as " testifies some; Allons-y Chochotte" of Erik Satie, the qualifier became more hostile nowadays.

In mountainous area, it happens that he is confused with the Chocard with yellow nozzle (pyrrhocorax graculus), another corvidé of size and from roughly equivalent weights, they are characterized primarily by the color from the nozzle, black in the jackdaw and yellow at the chocard. The jackdaw, honest voletaillor, in general does not exceed the altitude of 1.000 meters, but it was observed by it up to 2.000 meters, whereas the chocard is a sailplane of the summits except par.

Its manners were remarkably studied and described by Konrad LORENZ, one of the fathers of the ethology.

External bonds

• '' Jackdaw videos '' Vidéos on Internet Bird Collection