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RESPONDENT
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Valentin Kokhanov
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SITE NAME
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Apatity city vicinity, Kola Peninsula, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| 8-10-38-06/278-2-27-82 // // Ostrovskogo St., 30, Krasnogolovka, Mar'insky raion, Donetsk oblast, 85630, Ukraine
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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Apatity experimental territory of the Polar-alpine botanical garden adjoins to the lake approximately 20 ha in size and approximately 30% of which were occupied by a floating mire with mixed colony of gulls. Their numbers increased from 2001-2005 from 10 to 25 pairs in Common Gull, from 100 to 420 pairs in Black-headed Gull and from 30 to 395 pairs in Little Gull. Other breeding birds of the area included 3 pairs of Red-necked Phalaropes, at least 5 Reeves, 4 pairs of Teals, 3 pairs of Europesn Wigeon, 2 pairs of Mallards, 2 pairs of Northern Shovelers and 8 pairs of Tufted Ducks. An observation of European Pochard on the lake on 30 May was the second reliable record of the species fr the Kola Peninsula. Two pairs of Woodcocks were recorded in the first half of June in different parts of the area, while a recently fledged juvenile was observed on 31 August in a birch stand on the edge of a wet spruce-pine forest. A pair and a solitary male of Common Rosefinches were recorded in the area during the whole June.
Small number of clutches in the colony of gulls were destroyed by Hooded Crows and Ravens, while a few adult gulls were taken by Peregrine Falcon and Northern Goshawk.
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Rodent dynamics:
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Rodent species recorded:
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Summary
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| The data on numbers and breeding phenology of birds were collected, and report was submitted to archives of the Polar-alpine botanical garden.
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