After the winter holidays, red and pink flamingos came out to the Bolshoi Pond in the old area of the Moscow Zoo. This was announced on Sunday, May 10, by the press office of the Ministry of Culture in the capital.
— Throughout the winter, a comfortable temperature of about 15 degrees was maintained in the flamingo’s warm cage, so our charges went outdoors in early May. “They coped with the transition to the pond very well and have already delighted the zoo guests with their magnificence,” said Svetlana Akulova, General Director of the Moscow Zoo.
Flamingos are colonial birds that have been building nests, raising and rearing chicks at the zoo since 2000. Pink flamingos settled on the shore of the pond next to the aviary, and red flamingos settled in front of the aviary with red wolves, according to official reports. Website Mayor of Moscow.
Rare Australian parrots, the Inca Cockatoo, have settled in the Breeding Center for Rare Species of Animals at the Moscow Zoo. The foundation stated that the birds arrived in the summer, were subjected to quarantine, and only became available for observation in outdoor pens in April.