Nest box

The harsh winters in eastern Turkey can prove to be a bane for the toughest of creatures.

The season is particularly arduous for birds, who are left without shelter as the freezing cold devours all foliage.

However, a community in the province of Kars has banded together to come up with a possible solution, making and putting up small wooden birdhouses around their village.

Birdhouses in the likeness of the district's historic houses have been made in Karabük's Safranbolu district. The district had made cat houses and now they have made birdhouses to protect birds from bad weather conditions, Safranbolu District Governor Fatih Ürkmezer has said.