A Russian 12-year-old boy has struck up an unusual friendship with
a wild bird.
Vadim Veligurov and Abi the sparrow have been inseparable since he
nursed the baby bird back to health.
Vadim found the abandoned female baby bird back near his
grandmother’s house in Minusink, 264 miles south of Russia’s
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, where he is spending the summer
holidays.
He nurtured the little bird when it hatched and hoped she would
return to the wild, however, Abi decided to stay instead of fly
away.
Little Abi will happily sit in the boy’s shoulders, eat out of his
hand and even share a little peck.
Vadim and the bird are now inseparable and he plans to take
Abi back with him to his hometown after the summer break.
