The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.
Two young birds saved after taking a seriously wrong turn during migration.
Compass failure: aiming for the Caspian Sea, the elegant birds arrive instead on the Tom River in Kemerovo region, and in the Altai Mountains.
Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.