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RESPONDENT
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Ivetta Tatarinkova
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SITE NAME
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Ainovy Islands, Russia
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| Contact details
(phone/fax//e-mail//address): |
| (815-33)-223-19 (off.)/(815-33)-232-50 (fax.) // // Rechnaya St., 1-20, Kandalaksha,184040, Russia
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| Snow melted in April; the lake ice disappeared by 3 May in contrast to the long-term average date of ice-melting of 23 May. Spring wader migration also started earlier than usual. Between 10-20 June the weather became cold, and the whole summer turned stormy, cold and wet. Such weather conditions probably caused significant mortality of both wader clutches and broods.
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BIOTIC
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
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Breeding conditions:
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| Reproductive success of the few waders breeding on the Aynovy isles was very low. Autumn migration of Turnstone Arenaria interpres, Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus and Knot Calidris canutus started much earlier this year than the long-term average. Although young birds migrated on the usual dates, their numbers were extremely low. For some species which, in this area, are usually rather numerous on migration, juveniles were either very few in number or completely absent (Little Stint Calidris minuta, Red-necked Phalarope and Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea).
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Summary
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