Un falco selvatico ha attaccato un drone russo e ha salvato le persone. Il tosto eroe piumato è sopravvissuto, ma gli è costato un’ala e ora è sotto cura per tutta la vita

In Nikopol, a bird saved people from a Russian drone. A wild hawk attacked the enemy UAV just as it was flying over a private home. After the collision, the drone began to descend, and the bird fell into the yard. It was taken to a local veterinary clinic. The hawk was named FPVshka.

An amputated wing means the hawk will no longer be able to fly or hunt, so it will live in an aviary under human care.

The feathered hero was treated for more than a week and then transferred to a shelter in Dnipro for permanent care.

It happened in late October, recalls volunteer Oksana. She was the one who found the exhausted bird in her yard. The hawk attacked the Russian drone right before her eyes.

The woman took the hawk that had saved her life to a local veterinary clinic. There, the bird was diagnosed with a concussion and a broken wing.

“Unfortunately, the wing injury is such that it’s simply impossible to reconstruct it. It’s practically severed, held only by skin,” said veterinarian Mariia Dubynska.

The feathered hero was treated for more than a week and then transferred to a shelter in Dnipro for permanent residence. The hawk FPVshka has only recently begun eating on its own. However, it is still frightened of people, as well as of Russian attacks.

“Birds are fragile creatures by nature, and stress has a very strong impact. It’s loud here as well, unfortunately. The hawk reacts warily to explosions. It immediately looks up, trying to see what’s happening,” explains Yana Rusina, co-founder of the shelter for birds and animals.

The best outcome for a wild animal after rehabilitation is release back into the wild, but for the hawk FPVshka this is impossible. The amputated wing will not allow it to fly or hunt, so it will continue living in an aviary under human care.

The war in Ukraine is causing large-scale damage to wildlife. Birds in the forest-steppe and steppe zones where fighting continues are particularly affected. Constant explosions, destruction, and the burning of steppes and forests are fundamentally altering bird biotopes – the natural habitats many species are accustomed to.

The greatest losses are being suffered by steppe bird species.

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