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In municipal forest-parks, especially in of many years forests, wild birds still nests, first of all they are birds of prey and birds nesting in hollows. Some species of bats are dwelling. The most of these species are noted down into the Red Book of Ukraine.

For example, the tract "Lysa gora" is factually an island in the middle of the municipal buildings. Here during many years there was a military unit. That's why now there (according to Zoology Institute data) there is a lot of species noted down into the Red Book.

They are Papilio machaon and black apollo - Parnassi apollo, Polyommatus daphnis, beetle-deer - Lucanus-cervus,  small batmen -Nystalus leisteri and others.

Within Kyiv there are the beavers settlements, not long ago still there is an otter (it is possible it dwells there now).

The Dnipro river, its tributaries and islands are of great important for municipal biological diversity protection. There are not only nesting of ten bird species, but thousandth birds agglomerations during transmigrations and hibernation periods. As a rule they are the rare species. So, the golden-eye duck agglomeration of several hundred of species is observed during the period of spring migration, opposite the housing massif Obolon in 1994.

At the Bortnitska irrigating system, some years ago, about two ten eagles - Haliaeetus albicilla stayed for the winter (in Ukraine they nests no more 20 couple and stay for the winter about 200 species).

The small rivers and natural allotments of flood-lands have a considerable value.

 

Lucanus-cervus

Nystalus leisteri

Haliaeetus albicilla

 

 

Papilio machaon

Parnassi apollo

Polyommatus daphnis

 

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