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time we travel to the nature reserve that's home to over a million birds as well as rare fish and plant life. the folded delta a handicapped place with a multitude of islands but not a speck of giant land where you just jump into the boat and off you go to wherever you want for centuries this delta was where russians farming for black caviar giant fish can be found yeah boy of the two told man were holding up a catfish part of its tail was half a metre long number of birds here in spring and autumn runs into the millions the first places a purpose roberta's they're lucky to have these islands you can easily lose your way in this tangle of beautiful plants to see how water sparkles on these leaves coming across turtles bathing in the sun there really a few metres from where you live is not something out of the imagery of the delta

wilds is just a few steps away from civilization. and strand is a city in russia's south it has a kremlin made of white stone and another symbol of the city is the swoons that live in the pond in the center of this one stayed there all the year round most of all the people of astra on the proud of the volga river russia's most famous river drains into the caspian sea in the astrakhan region. from above it looks as though the deep river runs into an obstacle one hundred thirty kilometers from the caspian sea. it's into hundreds of small narrow channels this area is known as the volga delta it's almost a triangle shaped most of its territory covered with water. to go from

bastrop and southward soon the sea feels totally list includes a. main treasure of all good delta fish come here to spoon. fish attract migrating birds more than one and a half million beds of three hundred species come here least spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over the russia south that come here to fish and hunt unfortunately though many species perished as a result. more the at that time women like to dress up they hats with feathers hair and fat as well very much invoke the heron only has five fed there is on its head so it thousands of parents were killed in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was a desolate place

a special expedition that came here from moscow in one nine hundred twelve found no trace of it the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the deltas natural environment to the nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was a civil war at the time the country's coffers were empty and the future was unclear that's what the situation was like when they started to create a nature reserve in the balkan doubt. it's hard to reach the reset for master it's a hundred kilometers through flooded fields and the ferry to the other bank of the volga. is a fifteen kilometer stretch of dirt road once you've reached the end of it you don't need the car anymore you have to take a boat because there's not much ground from that all the way to the caspian sea.

if you. reach the boundary of the nature reserve everywhere there are signs prohibiting entry and the person found trespassing can be punished by the rules. in all fairness such strict measures produced posted results soon after the nature reserve was founded. here with news that we begin with the first one nes were found here and the first terran colonies were discovered in the reserve as well as a lawyer but that's core retains the harry detrick code of subsequent generations the quick witted ski book. auntie fishel islands are the only spots of drawing down . the house ranges and dogs with their families. scientists doing research they hit too. early in the morning on the phone just to be tripped on the ref and ranger are out to beg off set out on an expedition to make a record of the birds in the reserve all right let's go today to the tikka channel

to see what's going on there and over there with how high the water is we'll look at the type of marks yes will check them in. the toy box in the river charles act as natural measuring for the stuff. as rangers make the rounds of the reserve they're supposed to see whether the tide box had been washed away is difficult to see though from the boats if they are secure enough. they make the rounds once a month during high season each time they follow the same route. in the fall of just puts down a description of each bird he sees in the notebook. the data is then processed and entered into a fifty year old book chronicling the state of the natural environment. everything is put on records even the first groping over frogs for example the

first turtle emerging from the water just sunbathe and the first crossed snakes sneaking out of its hideout the first darling the first night the for. swallow the sun when baby birds start to leave their nests is also noted. the white tailed eagle is one of the biggest birds of prey in the asteroid and nature reserve. these birds have a wingspan of up to two in the hof meter. the white tailed he who is the fourth biggest bird in europe birds of the species in the volga tells him mostly feed on fish they catch the fish themselves or grab them from other birds such as comrades . sometimes they call she'd cormorants by pretending to attack them when you normally they don't go out of cormorants but

as soon as they sense danger they drill each down to fish and get out of the way as fast as they can eagles get the prize crowns are their rival so they too trying to pick up the fish in other words white tailed eagles and crowns live off a corner and this is a work of. white tailed eagles and not as common in any other area of russia as they are in the volga delta. so say one of the largest habitats for these birds in the world. about two hundred eagle pairs nests in the reserve alone. european only come to astra and for the expressed desire of watching them in the wild. of nearby of nobody wants a visiting german camera man was so thrilled by doesn't white tell the eagles flying overhead that he told the drama to hong kong there and then started filming

them when i told him that fine white tailed eagles were nothing out of the ordinary he said that only a few such eagles nested in his country all of them in germany had been recorded and. they were under constant observation. people with cameras have been exploring the under part of the delta. q it's been officer fish biologists and even the underwater camera in the morning they go to one of the remove channels. and clear ideal conditions for. nearly sixty fish species in habits of all the data including. their famous for their black caviar. is a total ban on fishing in the risk of its employees are only allowed to use fishing

rods even local people. fishing. that i can't show how big it was even if i spread my arms to the limit imagine this tall man holding a catfish while part of its tail about half a metre long is on the ground. during high water the fish move to the flood plain to spawn it's here that baby fish scramble out of. data the receding water takes them back to the river. both fry and fish come here after spawning the warm water stimulates underwater vegetation this is a comfortable place for the young it's like a kindergarten. for the time they're almost new fish in this quite a nursery so the cameraman switches his attention to the plants. occurring is fairly strong here it seems this tangle with education services are filtered

purifying the water flowing through it. as a result it becomes clear. when i go down there i clearly see that there remains the bottom and the seaweed are all covered with mud. even in the summer that clear water makes it possible to see that the seaweed is so thick it looks like a forest. but also find their water some of the most beautiful flowers in the delta. what's more here you can see above gradually from the water the interesting thing about water lilies is that they conceal themselves under water during the night and at dawn onto the water surface to bloom again. to little to assist the most famous plants of the. few decades ago the sacred

symbol of the buddhists took up nearly a quarter of a hit. today occupy twenty nine thousand. what. this is a lotus leaf from which the little boy in the water will slide down like mercury. these reddish leaves differ significantly from the others look at how these leaders parker. says considered a symbol of purity and in lighting meant. disbelief to help people understand the origin of their desires and reefs tiredness sharpens the senses and even provides protection from evil forces.

persian and i think of the last meal a lotus as makes you think your version was shot. we'd sell the most common plants and of all the delta they grow all the over the place have many of the deltas islands are in fact nothing more than a fifth of reeds growing in shallow water. some of them can even grow up to six metres in height. motorboats can't go too far off without damaging its screw propeller. fortunately the warden you know you can easily lose your way in a rethink it it's not like a forest here you can tell where north especially if the skies over cost and the stars are nonphysical and rethink its constraint for many many kilometers from the queue. the noise of an engine is heard from a far it's there's peace and quiet it signals that there's a trespasser in the area in the range it immediately calls based with the gods.

a few minutes later a rat finds approaches next to one of the real dominance dimitry there is a net snake. oh yes i see it. the net is full of fish most likely it was last checked a long time ago. the bulk of the fish are dead. great may have killed them all. they then set the surviving fish free which was one of the kind of fish is it anyway shall we let them go dimitri yeah sure. the boat continues on its way to more and that's a found there by the ranger called space again l.o.l. oh there he did it there are three nets here again so shall i remove them right i'm

going to do it right away. empties one of the nets and leave it in place dogs will come here in the evening to ambush the poacher. in the evening while decent parents descend on the area. birds here have little fear of humans they know from experience that they will not be disturbed while they're in the reserves which is why there are so many. in these head. on the sort of just so going to visit them in the movies.

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or. you. know none of. us fix this history still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal the hidden in the soviet files house on the embankment on oxys. the morning fog envelops the volga delta all mythologists get out that door and to get ready to go to a faraway lands to inspect its cormorants clooney. moment is the most common bird in the delta. the number of cormorants here runs into

hundreds of thousands. with into the schools of climate is such a fish this staple food. but head their prey can be found everywhere in the delta which is home or insulin to bring to sense that colin is here. this clearly is considered to be a fairly young one it appears only fifty years ago. today numbers about fifty thousand mists. thinner and less look round fungus thirty to forty since gates is a dinosaur. these shallow phenols a made from treaty pack two rigs. one tree might be home to schools of nests. and. in scorching hot days and old birds on the edge of their nests flapping their wings to cool it down they also make sure that their hatchlings are camped out

on the sun of food for the baby birds and then how to fly into. at that time flocks of cormorants or spectacle on a par with a hitchcock movie. cameron says patients often go to fish to get a panic and they are less common in the reserve. just what we often feed together when a corner of sports are sure to begin circling over it. they also want their share. you would be hard pushed to find chemicals in the delta. these very cautious beds nests as far away from people as possible. to see pelicans you would need to enter the area i think. that the focus meets the caspian sea. level delta looks like a large nature the host of islands in it. but it's still part of the volga river

here it stretches two hundred kilometers wide. the flood waters right now are about one point four meters deep at other times the depth is between a metre and one point two metres this is the middle of the volga delta there are a lot of fish here because of the river of the thoroughly warmed by the sun there is a wealth of vegetation and a good deal of food for fish and birds down there. back in the nineteen fifties there were one thousand five hundred pelicans nests in the astrakhan reserve. since then that number has dropped to five hundred. it's very difficult to spot a colony of pelicans in the fiqh reads. they spend an hour looking for one before

the boat runs into a pelican colony. baby birds hatched here a short time ago. at the. colony was here forty years ago but then it disappeared that it has been grown in the past four years in the beginning there were only five nast's then forty and now we have one hundred in san diego. at first glance pelicans look like very clumsy birds they have choking both is. short sick legs and their tail is barely visible. less many religions will fail that the sacred animals muslims believe that a pelican brought stones for the construction of mecca and its bill. and europe the purpose is a symbol of parent to love legend has it pickens roots that chest certainly that

peaks to feed hungry babies with blood. bullet can spray with each other only for the duration of one season build and this reads tickets. i first saw as they looked like a can of garbage twigs. there two or three baby birds to invest it born blind they kids. saw starts to grow seven days later and after ten weeks they can fly. also there are only

a handful of them are here and we try not to disturb them if we can help it we do keep records of them but we don't do any detailed research. even the gods make a point of not approaching islands with pelicans and nesting in fact the gods live in floating tap ins and they visit the ivan delta they stay there for only three days at a time. have you seen many pelicans nicholai there are about a hundred nast's here and in grown ups there are some but others are still very young. compared to pelicans there are thousands of swan nests in the delta. last century the swan population is rapidly shrinking due to the hunting. sit cannot fly so poachers would take that opportunity to cram them into nets and beat them with sticks. now that catching swans is prohibited the population has

started to increase. in the fifty s. only five pairs of swan nested in the bowl delta but now their numbers have gone up hundreds of times over us. the swan this scene is a symbol of devotion as it was thought that once pet they stay together for knife. as soon as they settle down and taught the start building nests as a roof other but by welcoming. people because no one if the touring nesting season the female seats on the nest. while the male swims around to guard against intruders. swans are very strong birds they don't like the presence of all the birds especially glee's sometimes

swans even cheese out from a shared habitat with the. moon with a there are five to seven eggs in a swans nest. or something frightens them that they leave their nests. crews often use this tactic to steal their eggs. or get a couple of always accompany motorboats when they reach the end of their section they hand over the boat to another couple of grounds the man in the boat is to preoccupy its noses when the boat approaches the nest the noise of the engines scares the bird away. to get into the nest just steal the eggs as a result the sets this room and.

reserve is called the floating venice of russia for its calm and beautiful nature. people come here every year to find a quiet place under the sun and in peace. in the dusk descends on the river you may be duck enough to see a spectacular sea talks of swans flying into the sunset. wealthy british style.

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