The WWF expert explained why Syrian woodpeckers began nesting in Moscow
MOSCOW, 23 Jul — RIA Novosti. The resettlement of Syrian woodpeckers in Moscow could be linked to climate change, said the RIA Novosti expert of the world wildlife Fund (WWF) of Russia Yulia Kalinicheva.
As reported earlier, the Moscow authorities, unusual for the latitude of the capital of the southern Syrian woodpecker began to nest in Moscow in Bitsevsky forest. Employees Bitsa forest managed to find a young woodpecker, who was probably born in Moscow.
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“Promotion of this southern species to the North may be linked to climate change, and in recent decades scientists have observed the resettlement of a number of species of animals and plants in more Northern latitudes,” said Kalinichev.
According to her, Syrian woodpecker in the capital will have to change the diet: unlike their Northern counterparts, this species prefers insect larvae in stone fruits — cherries, apricots, plums. In addition, the holes he builds mostly on fruit trees with softer wood.
“If employees Bitsa Park met a young bird, born in Moscow, there is reason to assume that she, and her parents are highly adapted to feeding our insects and buds, and nests have chosen ready-made hollows or great spotted woodpecker white-backed”, — said the representative of the Fund.