By Valentyn Ogirenko
OSTROH, Ukraine (Reuters) – Dozens of swans have actually crowded to a storage tank in western Ukraine this winter, averting snow as well as ice to take pleasure in the warm waters released from a close-by nuclear power plant.
Scientists claim the birds move from throughout Ukraine as well as somewhere else in eastern Europe to the storage tank, which the Khmelnytskyi plant makes use of for cooling down as well as hence never ever ices up over.
“There is no need to make an extra effort to get to the Black Sea as the birds feel comfortable here,” Oksana Holovko, head of the scientific research as well as study division at a close-by nationwide nature park, informed Reuters.
Since the water temperature level does not go down less than 10 levels Celsius (50 levels Fahrenheit), the storage tank is additionally abundant in shellfishes as well as pondweed which the swans can consume.
The lake, which is around 20 square kilometres (7.7 square miles) in dimension, has actually developed into a regional vacationer area.
“It is great to have such neighbours,” a regional homeowner informed Reuters as she involved feed the swans.
“They come here every winter, which means they like the place and how people treat them. They feel good here. It is great when people preserve a humane attitude and birds can feel that.”
According to Holovko, the storage tank is a house for various other water birds during the Ukrainian winter period, where temperature levels can go down dramatically listed below absolutely no.
(Writing by Margaryta Chornokondratenko; modifying by Matthias Williams as well as Raissa Kasolowsky)