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They are all centenarians. We tell you more about each of them in our article.

Every child needs love and care. Unfortunately, it sometimes happens in nature that babies, for various reasons, remain without parents. We will tell five vivid stories about animals, proving that parental love knows no boundaries and species.

«My Snow Leopard» is a cultural ecological and educational event. The festival is designed to unite adults and children from different countries through creativity in a common effort to preserve the rarest and mysterious wild cat of our planet — the snow leopard.

bringing the victim into a state of psychosis and provoking the development of schizophrenia. And the most interesting thing is that its main owners are cats.

Last weekend, the Notivory team took part in the Mom and Dad Party 2022 family festival in Izmailovsky Park.

Friends, the Project for the conservation of Red-book birds of the Vladimir region has come to an end. Our Team would like to thank everyone who took part and watched us with interest.

The winners of the X festival got acquainted with the protected nature of Khakassia, as well as the culture and rock carvings of ancient peoples inhabiting the Khakass land in different eras.

One of the rather bright, but little-known birds of Russia, jokingly called a patriot, is the varakushka. She received this title for the «flag on her chest»

It is hardly correct to call dolphins our smaller brothers: their weight, depending on the species, ranges from 50 to 350 kg, and body length from 1.5 to 5.5 m. And dolphins have bigger brains than we do. Let’s get to know these smartest and friendliest creatures closer.

As part of the Project for the Conservation of Red Book birds, we want to introduce you to an extremely unusual representative of birds.

The most unusual precipitation of the XXI century

The My Snow Leopard Wildlife Festival was established in 2013 by the Sayano-Shushensky State Natural Biosphere Reserve and the Khakassky State Nature Reserve with the support of the Khakass Republican branch of the All-Russian Public Organization Russian Geographical Society.

A silent bird similar to a stork, an ibis and a pelican at the same time.

A short film about waterfowl, their habitats and nesting sites, including rare birds listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation and the Red Book of the Vladimir region.

Until quite recently, just a few decades ago, pigeons with letters were not such a relic of the past as they are now, in the age of computers and the Internet. But have you ever wondered: how did carrier pigeons know where to deliver messages?

No matter how beautiful this phenomenon may seem, in fact, it is dangerous.

Its weight is only five grams with a length of nine centimeters.

Why does the beak of birds of prey have a powerful, curved shape, and in forest birds it is short and rounded? Read the article.

Indeed, sparrow populations in large cities began to decline.
There are many opinions about why this is happening. Someone blames the increased city noise and air pollution. Others talk about influence…

We have all heard about poisonous snakes, frogs, spiders or insects more than once. But not everyone knows that there are poisonous birds in nature.

Venomous birds differ from venomous snakes in that their body does not produce poison on its own, but accumulates when they eat poisonous plants and animals. So gradually the body tissues become poisonous, and the bird itself not only remains healthy, but also acquires additional protection from predators and parasites.

One of these birds is the thrush flycatcher, belonging to the family of sparrows. The flycatcher has a small size: the body length is about 25 cm, and the mass is about 70 g.

The skin and feathers of this bird contain batrachotoxin, which is not produced independently, as, for example, in snakes, but is formed due to the peculiarities of its nutrition, for example, by beetles containing this toxin.

The good news is that batrachotoxin is not fatal to humans. It is only capable of causing unpleasant sensations in the form of itching of the affected area. But small animals, faced with the poison of a flycatcher, can suffer quite a lot: the toxin released by it leads to convulsions, respiratory arrest and palpitations.

Thrush flycatcher

Another poisonous bird is the spur goose, which belongs to the duck family and lives near freshwater reservoirs. The size of its body in length can reach 100 cm, and its weight is 6 kg.

An interesting feature of this goose is the spurs located on the carpal fold of its wings. It is in these spurs that the poison is contained, which, just like in the thrush flycatcher, is not produced independently, but accumulates due to abscess beetles, which live in large numbers on sown fields and are the diet of the spur goose.

Spur goose

The blue-headed ifrita kovaldi is the last venomous bird in our selection. Its weight is not more than 600 g., and its length is about 20 cm. A potent poison is concentrated on the skin and plumage of this bird, causing chemical burns when it comes into contact with it. Once inside the predator’s body, the poison can lead to its death in a matter of minutes.

The blue-headed ifrita kovaldi

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The project is being implemented with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund.