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RESPONDENT
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Victor Zubakin
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SITE NAME
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Saint Lawrence Island, Savonga vicinity, USA
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| 307-78-09(h) // vas@zubakin.msk.ru; zubakin@rbcu.ru // Shosse Entusiastov, 100-2-212, Moscow, 111531, Russia
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PROJECT DETAILS |
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Project name:
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Expedition of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on seabird monitoring
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Start of survey:
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End
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Team
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20.06
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28.08
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3
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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| Season phenology: |
average
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Weather conditions: |
| Usual weather for Bering Sea region.
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| Date of ice-break on
rivers: |
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| Date of final loss of
snow: |
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
high
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Breeding conditions:
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| Breeding conditons were generally favourable for all birds. Voles were numerous and were met few times every day. Rodent specialized avian predators (owls and buzzards) were entirely absent; among skuas only Long-tailed was recorded. Seabirds were preyed upon by Herring and Glaucous gulls, and Ravens, in stony talus - also by Arctic Foxes.
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Rodent dynamics:
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Rodent species recorded:
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| Latin | Abundance |
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| Microtus oeconomus | abundant |
| Clethrionomys rutilus | common |
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Summary
of fauna studies: |
| Results of monitoring of Kittiwake, two murre species, Crested and Least auklets breeding can be obtained from U.S. F. & W. Service
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