A rare bird was noticed in the Korolev-Mostovskoye forestry. Owl (Bubo bubo) is listed in the Red Data Book of Belarus and belongs to the second category of national nature protection value. The species is also included in the Annexes to the Berne Convention and the European Union Directives for the protection of birds, the Red Data Books of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia. The population of this species of owls in Belarus is about 400-500 pairs (about 4% of the total number of these birds in Europe), BelTA informs..

Owl avoids neighborhood with a human and is completely absent as a nesting bird near big cities. For nesting, he chooses the deaf and hard-to-reach corners of the forest. A distinctive feature of this representative of the owls are the so-called ears - the pointed beams of feathers on their heads. The length of the body of an eagle owl is 58-78 cm, the wingspan can reach almost 2 m, the mass up to 3 kg.

"In Belovezhskaya Pushcha, special attention is paid to the protection of rare species of plants, animals and the conservation of their habitats. For continuous fulfillment of this important task, a whole monitoring system for wildlife has been established, in which not only scientists of the Pushcha and the Academy of Sciences of Belarus are involved, but also forest protection workers, volunteers of the public organization "Achov Ptushak Batkaushchyny", noted the National Park.