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A banded, immature Short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus found off the coast of the Koryak Highlands

Summary On 30 July 2013, fishermen from the Kamchatka-based Tikhbe Company noticed a “large seabird” in a small bay near the mouth of the Navyrinbayam River (Olyutorskii Bay, Bering Sea, along the Koryak Highlands, approx. geographic coordinates: 60° 28 N, 167° 42 E). [...]

A banded, immature Short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus found off the coast of the Koryak Highlands2022-03-29T10:56:57+03:00

The invasion of a coastal island in Peter the Great Bay (Southern Primo-rye, Russia) by Ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus and wild boar Sus scrofa

Summary This article describes the invasion of two species of vertebrate animals, Ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus and wild boar Sus scrofa, to a small coastal island in Peter the Great Bay. Both species are common on the mainland (the shortest distance between the [...]

The invasion of a coastal island in Peter the Great Bay (Southern Primo-rye, Russia) by Ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus and wild boar Sus scrofa2022-03-29T10:55:48+03:00

An encounter with a Common starling Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 in the southern Upper Pri-Amur, Russia

Summary Within the Russian Federation, the Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is distributed from the east towards the western Transbaikal (Stepanyan, 1990). The species was not recorded in China (on the border with the Upper Pri-Amur in Russia) until the end of the 1980s. [...]

An encounter with a Common starling Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 in the southern Upper Pri-Amur, Russia2022-03-29T10:53:59+03:00

Expected find of the first nested colony of Common starling Sturnus vulgaris in Far East region: Northeast Sakhalin, township Nogliki, summer of 2014

Summary Increased encounters with Common starling Sturnus vulgaris far to the east of its known breeding range over the last decade have finally resulted in the first confirmed evidence of breeding in the Russian Far East. Disparate clusters of no less than 6 breeding pairs [...]

Expected find of the first nested colony of Common starling Sturnus vulgaris in Far East region: Northeast Sakhalin, township Nogliki, summer of 20142022-03-29T10:52:29+03:00

Aspects of biological compatibility between the Oriental cuckoo Cuculus (saturatus) opatus and its host species on Sakhalin Island, Russia

Summary We conducted an analysis of the ecological compatibility the Oriental cuckoo with known and potential host species on Sakhalin Island, and compared oological parameters of this brood parasite and its hosts on both the mainland and island regions of the Russian Far East. Variation [...]

Aspects of biological compatibility between the Oriental cuckoo Cuculus (saturatus) opatus and its host species on Sakhalin Island, Russia2022-03-29T10:51:24+03:00

Data on the summer avifauna of the northern coast of Chukotka

Summary From May-July 2011, the avifauna of the Chukchi Sea coast between the villages of Nutepelmen and Vankarem (a distance of 70 km) were investigated. This is the first study to examine the summer avifauna of this section of northern Chukotka. Eighty-two bird [...]

Data on the summer avifauna of the northern coast of Chukotka2022-03-29T10:50:35+03:00

Expansion of “Mongolian gull” Larus (Smithsonianus) mongolicus Sushkin, 1925 to the eastern periphery of the Asian Continent

Summary This paper describes the process of colonization of a small island (Furugelm Island) in Peter the Great Bay (Russian side of the Sea of Japan) by a gull species from the Larus argentatus superspecies complex, starting from a single nesting pair in [...]

Expansion of “Mongolian gull” Larus (Smithsonianus) mongolicus Sushkin, 1925 to the eastern periphery of the Asian Continent2022-03-29T10:49:13+03:00

On breeding of Alpine accentor Prunella сollaris (Scopoli, 1796) in Dusse-Alin mountain system

Summary The Alpine accentor is considered as a sporadically distributed breeding species in the territory of Lower Priamurye (Babenko, 2000), as well in the belt of bare rockfalls of the Ezop Range, Khingan-Bureya mountain system (Biserov, 2007, 2008). However the findings of nests of this species in this territory [...]

On breeding of Alpine accentor Prunella сollaris (Scopoli, 1796) in Dusse-Alin mountain system2022-03-29T10:43:50+03:00

New data on some of protected and rare birds in Northeastern Primorie

Summary A short journey to northeastern Primorsky Krai was undertaken from late May to early June, 2011, in order to collect the material on intraspecific variations in some of passerine birds, such as the Asian house martin Delichon dasypus, the Blue-and-white flycatcher Cyanoptila [...]

New data on some of protected and rare birds in Northeastern Primorie2022-03-29T10:42:57+03:00

Results of 2006 waterbird surveys on Sakhalin Island’s northeastern shelf

Summary Data on phenology and intra-seasonal population dynamics are described for 52 species of waterbirds resulting from ship-based visual surveys conducted from late June to October 2006 off the northeastern coast of Sakhalin Island, Russia. Estimates of population, age structure and polymorphic manifestations [...]

Results of 2006 waterbird surveys on Sakhalin Island’s northeastern shelf2022-03-29T10:22:39+03:00
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