Video: In the Odesa region, swallows have built a nest in the wreckage of a Russian Shahed drone
In the south of the Odesa region, barn swallows built a nest in the wreckage of a Russian “Geran” (“Shahed”) attack drone.
According to a scientist, the birds successfully raised their chicks right inside the wreckage of the downed enemy drone.
“Barn swallows raised their chicks in a nest made from the wreckage of the ‘Shahed.’ Soon the chicks will take flight and, together with the adults, fly south to Africa—7,000 kilometers from the Tuzly Estuaries,” noted Ivan Rusev.
The biologist also released a video showing an adult swallow caring for several chicks in a nest built inside the wreckage of a Russian drone.
The published footage reveals that this fragment previously belonged to a “Geran” strike drone, which Russia uses to attack Ukrainian territory. The serial number is even still visible on the debris.
This story has become a symbolic example of how nature transforms instruments of war into a place for new life, and how the swallows chose the wreckage of an enemy drone to raise their young.
Ivan Rusev, Ph.D. in Biology and head of the research department at the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park, reported on this unusual discovery.
As a reminder, on April 5, a real bird drama unfolded in a stork’s nest in Lelyaky, Poltava Oblast. The nest’s original occupant, a stork named Odarka, initially drove out Kvitka, but was later displaced by another stork—the nest’s current occupant, Lel.
