Rare feathered predator, the booted eagle after almost thirty years of absence was discovered by biologists in Luhovickij forests near Moscow. This is the website of the TV channel “360” on Monday, July 10.
“Moscow region — the Northern border of the habitat of this migratory bird, which winters in Asia and Africa. Booted eagle — a fast, agile predator that preys on smaller birds, rodents, lizards and snakes,” — said the Minister of ecology of the region Alexander Kogan.
He recalled that the last time the nesting of the booted eagle was recorded in the region in the late 1990-ies.
On 26 June it was reported that a couple of black storks, which are not settled in the suburbs almost a hundred years, gave birth. A nest of critically endangered birds, biologists found in the woods West of the Moscow region in the middle of last month. Then the authorities of the region said that if the Chicks appear, the part of the forest where they live, will make a monument of nature of regional significance.
Booted eagle — the smallest of all eagles, its weight does not exceed 500-900 grams. He lives in Africa, Australia, South Asia, and are sometimes found in southern Europe, as well as in Kazakhstan and Russia. According to the online encyclopedia, the bird is very trusting and curious.