Summary This article presents data of avifaunistic interest collected in 2004–2012 in different regions of Primorye (primarily on the Khankaisko-Razdol’nenskaya Plain) and some adjacent areas of the Northeast China (Heilongjiang Province). One species (red-billed starling) is introduced into the avifauna of the Russian Federation for [...]
Summary The family icruridae includes 20 to 26 species of peculiar tree passerine birds spread mainly in the low latitudes of the Old World from Africa and Madagascar to New Guinea and Northern Australia. The putative center of its origin of this family [...]
Summary The finding of a nest in Severnaya Lagoon supplements the pattern of current distribution of Spoon-billed sandpiper, as this is the only proved case of its breeding within the boundaries of Kamchatka Krai for the last 30 or 40 years. [...]
Summary The Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto was first detected in the Upper Pri-Amur in the summer of 1997 (Dugintsov 1997). There have been a number of observations within this decade that support the assertion that the region is being colonized by this species. [...]
Summary The Gyrfalcon Falсo rusticolus L. is one of rare falcon species, listed in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation (RF). The state of its local population in Kamchatka keeps on deteriorating, mostly owing to poaching, which has acquired nearly industrial scale in the Kamchatka [...]
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 [...]