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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]