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RESPONDENT
Y. Goryaev

SITE NAME
Eastern Murman coast, Russia

Contact details (phone/fax//e-mail//address):
23-96-55 // // MMBI, Vladimirskaya St., 17, Murmansk, 183010, Russia

PROJECT DETAILS

Project name:

Start of survey:	End of survey:	Team size:
25.07	30.07	3

WEATHER CONDITIONS

Season phenology:

Weather conditions:

Season temperature:

warm

Season humidity:

Date of 50% snow-cover:

Date of ice-break on rivers:

Date of final loss of snow:

BIOTIC CONDITIONS

Rodents abundance evaluation:

low

Breeding conditions:

Rough-legged Buzzards were not seen. Numbers of Common Eiders and their broods were similar to those in 1999-2000, while mean brood size decrease in 2001 (1.8) compared with 1999 (2.1) and 2000 (2.3). Reproduction of seabirds in large local colony was successful.

Rodent dynamics:

Lemmings, voles or signs of their activity were not recorded.

Rodent species recorded:

Latin	Abundance

Summary of fauna studies:

Group of species	Presence	Abundance	Breeding
lemmings	No
voles	No
waders	Yes
geese	Yes
ducks	Yes
birds of prey	Yes	rare	fledging
buzzards	No
skuas	Yes
gulls/terns	Yes	abundant	fledging

species	Aggregation type	Number
Anser fabalis	moult	50.00
Clangula hyemalis	feeding	200.00
Mergus merganser	feeding	500.00

Human activity	Comment
vicinities of a permanent human settlement	Dalnye Zelentsi

Recommended citation

Goryaev, Y.I. (2001). Breeding conditions report for Eastern Murman coast, Russia, 2001. ARCTIC BIRDS: an international breeding conditions survey. (Online database). Eds. M.Soloviev, P.Tomkovich. . Updated 11 Dec. 2008. Accessed .