More than 200 duck houses will be installed on Moscow ponds on the eve of the summer season

On the eve of the summer season, 209 floating houses for ducks will appear in the capital's reservoirs. This was reported on May 5 on the portal of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. mos.ru .

"In winter, the company's specialists conducted a thorough inspection and necessary maintenance of each house. Platforms, facades and roofs were cleaned of <...> contamination, and damaged elements were repaired if necessary. In addition, we checked the strength of the cables connecting the floating structures to the anchors," Svetlana Butushina, head of the Department of Planning, Control and Analysis of operational activities at the State Unitary Enterprise Mosvodostok, said in the publication.

Such houses are necessary for birds to rest safely on the water, especially for chicks after long swims. First of all, they are placed on reservoirs where there are no shallow exits to the shore.

Work on the delivery of cabins from storage sites and their installation begins after the ice has completely disappeared and the reservoirs are prepared for the summer season. The "apartments" for birds remain on the ponds until the first autumn frosts, when the birds begin to fly south.

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