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What did we learn from the bird community monitoring in the Chaun Delta, Chukotka, Russia
There are very few field monitoring camps in North-East Asia where regular monitoring of breeding birds takes place. Almost none among them consider all groups of tundra breeding birds, as follows, waterbirds like cranes, shorebirds, and passerines; none, but Chaun Delta camp. We started monitoring work at this site in 2011 and it for the […]
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Results of 2019 Nordmann’s Greenshank and Common Redshank Field Season in Russia
From May-August June 2019, we began our second year of fieldwork studying Nordmann’s Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) and Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) at the Bay of Sсhastye (“Happiness”), in the remote southwestern corner of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East (approx. 53.46500 N, 140.91100 E). Our most important result was the discovery of […]
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Study on nesting biology of the Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus, Mergini, Anatidae) in Primorye, Russia
New study of nesting biology of Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus) by Diana V. Solovyeva, and S. L. Vartanyan. Abstract: The nesting biology of the Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus) was investigated over 17 years (2001‒2017) both in artificial and natural nest sites in Primorye, Far East, Russia. Artificial nest sites of different constructions (boxes and tubes) […]
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Russia
Russia EAAFP Member since: 2006 Number of EAAFP Flyway Network Sites: 10 Focal Point Contact: Mr. Dmitry Dorofeev Senior Researcher of All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Conservation, Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology Email: dmitrdorofeev@gmail.com Tel: Russia has been a Partner since 2006 (MoP1). It now has 10 Flyway Network Sites, the most recent being […]
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1st All-Russian Ornithological Congress
The 1st All-Russian Ornithological Congress will take place from the 29th of January to the 4th of February, 2018. For further information, please visit http://www.birdcongress.org/ Contact information:
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Russian Far East Shorebird Workshop (9-11 October 2017)
Jonathan C Slaght, Wildlife Conservation Society Workshop Summary: Twenty-one avian specialists from Russia and the United States met from October 9-11, 2017 at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Sikhote-Alin Research Center in Ternei, Primorskii Krai, Russia. The purpose of this meeting was to share ideas, practice advanced avian tracking and data analysis skills, and to identify […]
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Hunting in Russia: The “Under The Radar” threat to the East Asian-Australasian Flyway?
Terry Townshend Birding Beijing Zhu Bingrun (Drew) is one of a new generation of brilliant Chinese ornithologists. These young scientists are adding a great deal to our knowledge about migratory birds in China, keen to collaborate with international experts and part of a growing network of young people in this vast country who want to study, and […]
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News from the field: First eggs collected in Russia
15 June 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Egg collection at Meinypil’gyno is underway and another headstarted bird has been spotted – White E7, headstarted just last year. The first eggs required for the headstarting programme were collected a couple of days ago, on 13 June. Three clutches have been collected so far totalling 11 eggs. […]
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Looking for wader watchers – Western coast of Kamchatka, Russia
Yvonne Verkuil The large wader stopover in Khairusova?Belogolovaya estuary on the Western coast of Kamchatka peninsula is not very famous and scientists have started investigate this area only several years ago. The last expedition in 2015, the estuary was found to host 31 wader species. During the peak of migration, in the end of July, we counted […]
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