The City of Kuopio will start taking bird boxes to parks and the South-Kallavesi archipelago this week. The last time the city took bird boxes to parks was in the late 1990s.
The City of Kuopio will hang around 150 bird boxes in the archipelago and parks of the National Urban Park. This week, for example, the city is taking nest boxes for the loggerhead goshawk to the South Kallavesi archipelago.
The design of the boxes has been chosen to support some declining bird species, such as sparrows and ladybirds, to remain part of the urban bird population.
In the wizarding forest, the pots were impossible to maintain
In recent years, the main species that have been introduced into nearby forests and parks in Kuopio have been chalk squirrel boxes. Last spring, caterpillar and great crested newt boxes were placed in city ponds and on the shores of Väinölänniemi and some small islands.
In the archipelago town of Velhometsa, stilts were taken during the housing fair in 2010, but there they encountered senseless vandalism, according to the city. At that time, after one round of repairs, the city considered that it was impossible to maintain the ponds in the area.
The last time the city hung buntings in parks was in the late 1990s. Now a large part of these poles have already broken down and fallen from the trees.