Summary The first specimen of Great tit from Amur River basin was collected on the Shilka River in the eastern Trans-Baikal in May, 1855 by R. Maack (1859), and breeding by Japanese tits was strictly proved in 1869 at Lake Khanka, in southwest Ussuriland (Przhewalski, [...]
Summary This paper discusses the ecological factors that affect the populations of the Great tit (Parus major) and Japanese tit (Parus minor) in different parts of their area of sympatry and hybridization in the Amur region. The identified factors exert their effects in different directions [...]
Summary This article describes encounters with bird species that are either new to Terneiskii County, Primorskii Krai, or are rare in the region. Most records are between 1994-2007. Download magazine
Summary Short communication contains new information on the records of rare and protected birds in Magadan area (Eastern Russia) for the period of 2010-2011 field seasons. Download magazine
Summary This article presents new data on the rare birds recorded in the Lazo Nature Reserve (Eastern Russia) for the five-year period (2007-2011) since the last avifaunal inventory. Eight species are added to the checklist of birds of the Nature Reserve and two [...]
Summary The first record of the Black-faced spoonbill (BFS) in the inner grounds of the extreme south of the Russian Far East (Khanka lake, distanted for 250 km from the nearest sea cost) and their precondition are discussed in the publication. Some atypical [...]
Summary Until recently, the eastern boundary of the breeding range of the saker (Falco cherrug, J.E. Gray, 1834) was drawn through Transbaikalia and the Great Khingan mountain range (Stepanyan, 2003). However, since 1995, these birds have been recorded in the southwestern Primorye (Glushchenko [...]
Первое упоминание о Малой колпице на континентальных территориях крайнего юга Дальнего Востока России (озеро Ханка, расположено на расстоянии 250 км от ближайшего морского побережья) и их предпосылки обсуждаются в публикации. Некоторые атипичные внешние и поведенческие особенности птицы позволяют идентифицировать эту особь, как гибрид между малой колпицей и обыкновенной колпицей. Единственная [...]
Создание станции кольцевания птиц в Приморье произошло благодаря идее, «прилетевшей» в краевую администрацию с другого берега Японского моря в 1998 году. Из управления префектуры Тояма, с которой Приморье находится в побратимских отношениях, поступило предложение международного сотрудничества в области кольцевания птиц, сфере, далекой от политики, в предложении этом, однако, хорошо просматривался смысл [...]
Summary A young Black-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla nigricans (Lawrence, 1846) was found dead in a fishing net in Lake Lebedinoye (Tumen River valley, southern Primorskii Krai, Russia), one kilometer from shore, on November 7, 2014.Specific characters. This was a small-sized goose with [...]
