Summer census of sparrows will be held in Russia

The All-Russian Summer Census of Sparrows will be held in Russia from August 8 to 16. This was announced on July 22 by Anna Mostovaya, a member of the Union for the Protection of Birds of Russia and the Russian Network for the Study and Protection of Feathered Predators.

The previous campaign took place in winter, from February 7 to February 15. Then the participants counted more than 320 thousand birds.

"This year, the summer season falls on the period from August 8 to August 16. Summer monitoring is very different from winter monitoring. In winter, we look at the bushes and count the whole group on them. In summer, sparrows, although they stick to the same places, but they are not concentrated on one bush next to a working feeder, as in February. They are not easy to notice, but sometimes you need to look for them," Mostovaya said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

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