In one of the parks in St. Petersburg, the Red Book goshawks successfully hatched the maximum possible number of chicks, and recently four grown hawks made their first flight.
Petersburg biologist Pavel Glazkov spoke about the increase in the population of birds of prey. The specialist published photos of the hawk's nest on his page on social networks and spoke about the life of birds of prey: until autumn, adults will gradually teach young birds to hunt.
“Male goshawks are devoted family men: they carefully feed the female while she incubates the eggs, and then help to raise the offspring. The chicks now constantly emit crying crying calls, indicating to their parents where they are and that they are hungry,” the biologist explains.
Pigeons, crows, rats, squirrels and even blackbirds usually prey on goshawks. These birds of prey live in St. Petersburg all year round, and in winter their number even increases due to the search for food. At the same time, about five pairs of birds from the Red Data Book were nested in the territory of the Northern capital.
