About ways of migration of birds it is talked to the head of the department of zoology of the Odessa national university of a name of I.Mechnikov, the Dr.Sci.Biol., ornithologist Vladimir Staylovskim.
- Vladimir Petrovitch, as we know, in Odessa region gathers a lot of bird and mostly water and marsh…
- Absolutely correctly. Odessa region – this place where migratory streams of three directions meet. To our region of a bird arrive from the East – from the Caspian Sea. This migratory way is called as Black Sea or Drevnepontiysky. The second way of bird’s flight lies accurately across Dnepr. The third begins in the central regions of Russia, bends around all our country, reaches to Entre Rios of the Rod and Danube. Migratory birds on Odeshchin are involved by a large amount of fresh water, a set of salty estuaries. Here they have a rest, eat. Often migratory birds remain with us and to winter.
In total in Odessa region about 320 bird species are registered. Only representatives of a water and marsh complex 120-130 types are. Just right these birds us also interest more only. It is connected with bird flu. The matter is that a virus find among waterfowls more often. That winter in our area, it is necessary to call gray and bausond geese. To us on a visit they arrive from Russia where bird flu, by the way, is already revealed. Number of these geese from time to time reaches 50 thousand. More all they chose deltas of Danube and Dnestr. It is a lot of here and wild ducks. The D last years the increase in number of a bald-coot is observed.
- And it is necessary to be careful of all of them as potential carriers of a virus?
- Only in those reservoirs which border on settlements. And such we have enough. They are located in Izmail, Reniysky, Belgrad, Tatarbunarsky, Kiliysky areas.
- I.e., if a bird privodnilas it is far from the settlement, danger isn’t present?
- Migratory birds choose, as a rule, wild, deserted corners of the nature. However products of their activity will collect and will extend very quickly in the water environment. The poultry if she swims and eats on open reservoirs, of course, will contact to these products.
- Really everything is so hopeless?
- To be saved from a virus very difficult. Matter not only in what efforts are put by experts to solve a problem. It is necessary to mean and the general level of culture of our population. And it, we confess, remains low. Not a secret, many peasants ignore instructions of veterinary services, quarantine requirements. Almost anybody from them doesn’t keep a fowls in the closed rooms.
Bird flu was and earlier. I had this illness. On work to me long time more than once was necessary to be in bird’s colonies. This virus is terrible, first of all, for the weakened organism. And still it is terrible the mutations, unpredictability.
- In the territory of the Danube biospheric reserve, as we know, carry out selective shooting of birds…
- And not only in the reserve, and in lakes Kartal, Kugurluy. At birds select tests of blood and send on the analysis in specialized laboratory. Meanwhile results negative. Generally, the peak of bird’s flight passed, migration started to fall down. Let’s hope that this time danger bypassed Odeshchina.
E.Antonova.