On August 13, 2021, the release of two young scops owls, which we bought from the Yaroslavl Zoo, took place.
In total, a couple of flatties in the zoo laid 5 eggs. 2 eggs were unfertilized. 3 owls hatched, but one died on the first day for reasons unknown to me.
The remaining two owls were fed by their parents in the aviary specifically so that the owls would not get used to people. I was visited by physically full-fledged young scops whales with fully grown plumage. But these owls did not know how to hunt, their parents did not have time to teach them.
Therefore, the scoops sat in the aviary, learned to catch live insects (locusts, cockroaches, crickets of various species, moths, caterpillars, zofobas, butterflies) and waited for the results of their tests.
After all the expectations and paperwork, the fowls were packed in boxes and went to the Nizhny Novgorod region to a local colony of scops owls who live on the territory of a military tank training ground among a very beautiful forest with karst lakes.
Alexey Levashkin @Ornithologist's Slippers led us to such "ebenya", where even tanks do not stop by. But ornithologists and participants of Owlturs come by. And there is a hollow there, and the scops owls live.
At sunset, Alexey circled our wards, and we released them. We flew perfectly. Hurray! I breathed a sigh of relief, because there was a little less responsibility hanging on me.
Thank you all very much for your support and help! We managed to give two small angry birds a life in the wild.
For a couple of streams, you transferred 80 000 rubles to this project. ($1 = 73rubles)
Two splyushki cost 29 000 rubles (the price includes tests passed in Yaroslavl, without which the sale is prohibited).
Tests for bakposev in Moscow - 1800rubles
The feed was also donats to us, and that's fine. Thank you guys!
30 000 rubles I transferred Maria Markina @RedTabby to feed and maintain the graduation owls at the height of the foundling season.
10 000 rubles I sent to the Krasnodar rehabilitation center to feed the owlets little owls. Kutusha came to us from this center.
I am sure that none of the donaters will be offended that I transferred these amounts to save other owls. At that moment, I had nothing to spend them on, and there was an urgent need for money there. In any case, next season there will again be a redemption of owls and work on their release.
Do not think that our ransom provokes the breeding of owls in captivity. No. They have been breeding there for a long time, they were just sold in captivity as well. And we can give them a chance to live in nature.
Perhaps some breeders and zoos will eventually decide to give the chicks for reintroduction for free. We'll wait and see.
Thank you all! We did it!
Thank you to Tatiana, Yulia, the crszy zoologists @ZooLogovo and Andrey Zagorinsky for looking after the owls, feeding and shelter.
Thank you @Artem Off-Road to Artem for bringing and taking out!
Let the young sscops owls everything will be uh-huh!
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