Zelyonaya Roscha
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Rarely recorded
- Species
- ≈ 192 species Source, Species: Community observations: eBird and GBIF
- Best time
- April–July Source, Best time: Months with the most species, across all years of observations
- ≈ 192 species Source, Species: Community observations: eBird and GBIF
- April–July Source, Best time: Months with the most species, across all years of observations
Birds in October
All birds
October
Within 10 km
About the park
Pine stands 140–150 years old cover about 70 per cent of Zelyonaya Roscha’s 13.07-hectare protected area. Deciduous trees make up the rest, most planted in the 1930s, bringing a later layer of woodland among the old pines. There was once a pond here, but it was eventually filled in. As building spread through the city, the grove’s area shrank, although its main body of trees survived.
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Before the Revolution, the land within what are now Bolshakova, Sheinkmana and Narodnoy Voli streets belonged to the Novo-Tikhvinsky Women’s Monastery, which had received it from Emperor Alexander I. The grove was then known as Monastyrskaya. A monastery cemetery stood there, while much of the land served as a place for townspeople to relax; monastic residents cared for the greenery. After the monastery was dissolved, the grove was left untended. In 1926, there was a proposal to build on it, but engineer N. Boyno-Radzevich managed to defend the green space. Later plans for a zoo affected the cemetery: in 1929, the grave mounds were levelled and an office was built there, while the zoo was eventually located elsewhere. A Regional Young Naturalists’ Station opened nearby in 1949. Blue spruces, Siberian cedars and larches were planted on its grounds, and schoolchildren and teachers spent decades developing the garden and preserving earlier plantings.
Birds recorded nearby include mallard, rock pigeon, Bohemian waxwing and great tit.
When there are more birds
October — 94 species
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