In the Smolensk region, a lonely swan with a broken wing was rescued near the thermal power plant
2. He could not fly away for the winter because of a broken wing. Smolensk State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company reported about the bird's rescue.
A local resident, pensioner Nina Kuznetsova regularly visited a bird stuck in a freezing pond and fed it. “I didn’t fly. He will jump like that, and that's it, ”the woman recalls.
The swan was caught thanks to the state hunting inspectors. “It was decided to catch the bird from the ice captivity using an inflatable boat and a stretched net. Through joint efforts, everything worked out, “- said Denis Tyurev, a leading specialist in the forestry department of the Smolensk region.
According to Natalia Titova, chief physician of the Smolensk veterinary center of the State Veterinary Service, if the swan had not been saved, with the onset of cold weather it could perish. “There would be no conditions of detention. Both water and pollution would get into an open fracture, “she explained.
Now the swan is at the Vernost shelter.
Earlier it was reported that a wounded man was rescued in the Dalnekonstantinovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region a swan, which was noticed on the pond by local residents on the eve of frost. It turned out that the bird is tame, and it has an owner.