Nine chicks of the Red Book Saker Falcon, bred in Vitasfera in the Moscow region, found new families in Siberia. As the press service of WWF-Russia reported, they were thrown into the nests of wild relatives. "Adopters" are easier to adapt to life in nature and later will replenish the population of an endangered species of rare birds of prey.
In early June, a cargo flight brought the saker falcon to Novosibirsk, from where the chicks set off by car to the landing sites in one of the regions of Southern Siberia. Bird watchers do not name the landing sites so as not to attract the attention of poachers.
The chicks are planted in six nests, each of which contains from two to four native saker falcons. In addition, experts put food in each nest - usually hamsters and mice from the vivarium, which are guaranteed to be free of pathogenic bacteria. Bird watchers have put on GPS / GSM trackers on the five oldest falcons to track the movements of young birds.
“On the territory where the landing was planned, we managed to find twenty inhabited nests of the Saker Falcon with chicks - this is a lot,” said Elvira Nikolenko, director of Siberian Ecological Center LLC.
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