Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war

White storks – a national symbol in Ukraine – have suffered. A third of their nests are empty. “The stork sees its foraging area is dry, with no frogs, no snakes, nothing. So it doesn’t settle,” Ponomarenko said. The bird has adapted by breeding on landfill sites, feasting on mice and rats. Dozens...

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