By Olga
Gertcyk
27
October 2015
Compass
failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the
Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.
Local
resident Pavel Shaposhnikov, 29, was in a boat with friends along the Tom river
on 25 October when he spotted flamingos. 'I'm shocked,' he posted. 'We've seen
flamingos on the Tom river.' Seven of the birds were spotted. Zoologist Nikolai
Skalon confirmed the flamingos on their video were the real thing, saying they
must have strayed from their flocks and become lost.
'The
northernmost nesting of flamingos is central Kazakhstan. And these birds are
listed in the Red Book of Russia. This is due to the fact that sometimes they
mistakenly fly to the Kuzbass [Kemerovo region], even though they ought to be
flying in the opposite direction towards the Caspian Sea. It could be they go
astray during the weather changes, in the early autumn storms. Sometimes even
pelicans fly to us, but mostly we can see here the flamingos.'
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