BREEDING CONDITIONS REPORT, 1991


RESPONDENT

Alexander Kondratyev

SITE NAME

Anadyr Bay coast, Russia

Contact details (phone/fax//e-mail//address):
+7 (812) 145-21-54 // akondratyev@mail.ru // St. Petersburg ,198328, Kuznetsova prosp. 26-1-196

PROJECT DETAILS

Project name:

Start of survey:

End of survey: Team size:


WEATHER CONDITIONS

Season phenology:

Weather conditions:

Before the break-up of river-ice (10 June) the weather was windy and misty, it was very hot and dry afterwards. Summer weather was abnormally hot and dry: to the end of August short-term rains occurred only four or five times.

 

Season temperature: warm
Season humidity: dry
Date of 50% snow-cover:
Date of ice-break on rivers: 10.06
Date of final loss of snow:

BIOTIC CONDITIONS

Rodents abundance evaluation:

average

Breeding conditions:

Arctic Foxes in Avtatkuul river valley seemed to feed mainly on ptarmigans.
 

Rodent dynamics:

Live lemmings were not met. Ruddy Vole occurred quite numerously in the river flood plain.

Rodent species recorded:

LatinAbundance
Clethrionomys rutiluscommon

Summary of fauna studies:

 

FAUNA IN THE STUDY AREA

Group of speciesPresenceAbundanceBreedingDetailed studiesComment
arctic foxesYes    
volesYescommon   

 

SEABIRD COLONIES

speciesComment

 

WATERBIRD NON-BREEDING AGGREGATIONS

speciesAggregation typeNumberComment

 

HUMAN ACTIVITY IN THE STUDY AREA

Human activityComment

 


Source(s):

Ryabitsev, V.K. 1998. Breeding conditions for waders Russian tundras in 1991. International Wader Studies 10:111-116.

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