Results of Registration of Rare and Insufficiently Studied Birds in Priamurje and South-Western Priokhotje Region in 2011

Pronkevich, V. V.; Roslyakov, V. I.; Voronov, B. A.

doi:10.33910/1999-4079-2011-3-4-381-385

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“…In 2009–2013, a series of avian surveys conducted throughout the greater Academy, Schaste, and Tugur Bay regions in central Khabarovsk Krai revealed that Schaste Bay (mainland Russia, ~20 km west of Sakhalin Island) may be an important breeding area for greenshanks as numerous pairs were found displaying brood-rearing behaviours (Pronkevich and Oleinikov 2010, Pronkevich et al 2011a, b, Pronkevich 2013, Pronkevich and Voronov 2013). During 2019–2021, we concentrated nest-searching efforts here and found a total of nine (six active and three inactive) greenshank nests.…”

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First nests of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer found in over 40 years indicate nesting plasticity

Maslovsky

Maleko

Pronkevich

et al. 2023

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Summary Knowledge of the breeding ecology of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer is necessary to develop a comprehensive species-specific conservation plan. We found nine greenshank nests in Schaste Bay, Russian Far East during the summers of 2019–2021. These are the first nests found in over 40 years and the only discovered to date on mainland Russia. In contrast to previous nest descriptions, we found greenshanks do not exclusively nest in trees, but also place nests on the ground at the base of mature or sapling larches. Our results indicate greenshanks may be larch obligates during the breeding season, and protecting coastal larch forest ecosystems near bogs, meadows, and mudflats throughout the Russian Far East may be critical to the species’ conservation.

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First nests of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer found in over 40 years indicate nesting plasticity

Maslovsky

Maleko

Pronkevich

et al. 2023

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The population size and breeding range of the Scaly-sided MerganserMergus squamatus

Solovyeva

Liu²,

Antonov

et al. 2014

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SummaryBased on surveys during 2000–2012 and best available knowledge, we estimate the global population size of the Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus to be c.1,940 pairs (or c.4,660 birds prior to reproduction). In Russia, surveys identified the breeding range in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range and the area adjoining the lower Amur River. Particular effort was made to define the edge of the range. Breeding densities in the Sikhote-Alin were applied to un-surveyed rivers within the range to estimate overall numbers. The breeding range comprises c.7,800 km of 120 rivers: 6,800 km in Russia, 600 in China and 400 in DPR Korea. In Russia it comprises 88 rivers of both the western and eastern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin Range, and two small isolated areas, one in central Khabarovsk and the other in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. All known and potential breeding areas were surveyed in China, where the breeding range comprises the western slope of the Changbai Mountains, and one isolated river system in the Lesser Xingan Mountains. Scaly-sided Mergansers are also assumed to breed on the eastern slope of the Changbai Mountains in DPR Korea. No recent surveys have been made there but numbers were estimated by applying densities from China to rivers with apparently suitable habitat. Detailed examination of past records suggests that an earlier claim of breeding Scaly-sided Mergansers on the Dep River was erroneous and we conclude that the breeding range never extended as far west as has been portrayed in most literature. The lack of comparable surveys previously precludes an assessment of change in population range or size, though it seems inevitable that habitat loss in China is likely to have resulted in some loss of range and numbers, particularly in Heilongjiang Province, in recent decades.

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Results of Registration of Rare and Insufficiently Studied Birds in Priamurje and South-Western Priokhotje Region in 2011

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First nests of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer found in over 40 years indicate nesting plasticity

First nests of Endangered Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer found in over 40 years indicate nesting plasticity

The population size and breeding range of the Scaly-sided MerganserMergus squamatus

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