Summary Based on examinations of museum specimens (n = 320) and field descriptions of birds in nature (n = 487), the variability between Kamchatka Motacilla (alba) lugens and Spectacled M. alba ocularis white wagtail plumages were examined. Their populations are phenotypically variable, but [...]
Summary Steller’s sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus nest repair behavior is described based on observations made from 2007-2008 on north-eastern Sakhalin Island, Russia. Nest repair began in early March, immediately following the resident pair’s arrival from the wintering grounds, and took approximately three weeks [...]
Summary The Paradise flycatcher Terpsiphone paradise (Linnaeus, 1758) is a rare species locally distributed in the southwestern part of Ussuriland, mainly on the Khanka-Razdolnaya Plain. In spring it arrives in late May. The breeding season is stretched from the first ten days of [...]
Summary Different lengths of the 2nd and the 7th primary flight feathers in the Yellow-browed Warblers is one of the main distinguishing characteristics of their subspecies: Phylloscopus inornatus inornatus and Ph. i. humei. During the studies 1996—2000 and 2007 in different areas of central [...]
Brief description of article This chapter contains an annotated checklist of birds (in total, 483 species) that had been reliably registered within the administrative boundaries of Primorsky Krai by the time that the handbook was prepared for publication. The checklist was compiled according [...]
Brief description of article This chapter includes the standard list of references cited in the text of the handbook. Download magazine
Brief description of article The author index is provided to enable the search of published works from the list of 1468 items given in the previous chapter ("Bibliography"). Download magazine
Brief description of article Bibliography includes a total of 1468 published sources providing information on birds inhabiting Primorsky Krai (including 143 sources in foreign languages), which are given in one of the commonly accepted formats. Bibliographic sources are given in the alphabetic order, [...]
Brief description of article This chapter provides an assessment of species diversity of birds made on the basis of a critical review of previously published annotated checklists of all six reserves located on the territory of Primorsky Krai. The checklist of bird species [...]
Brief description of article This chapter considers the history of creation and the internal structure of the complex of Red Data Books of different levels. The list and conservation status of all bird species registered within the boundaries of Primorsky Krai, which are [...]