BREEDING CONDITIONS REPORT, 1994


RESPONDENT

Victor Shtro

SITE NAME

Bovanenkovo, Yamal Peninsula, Russia

Contact details (phone/fax//e-mail//address):
// ecostation@lbt.salekhard.ru // Ecological Station, Zeleunaya gorka St., 21, Labytnangi, Tyumenskaya oblast, 629400, Russia

PROJECT DETAILS

Project name:

Start of survey:

End of survey: Team size:


WEATHER CONDITIONS

Season phenology: late

Weather conditions:

Spring was relatively late.

 

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

BIOTIC CONDITIONS

Rodents abundance evaluation:

high

Breeding conditions:

Arctic Foxes bred successfully. There were no owls recorded. Compared with 1993, a slight increase was recorded in Rough-legged Buzzard, whose clutches contained an average of five eggs. Numbers of skuas and Herring Gulls remained similar to 1993. Numbers of Willow Ptarmigan slightly increased, while those of waterfowl slightly decreased. Temminck's Stint, Red-necked Phalarope, Dunlin and Golden Plover were recorded three to seven times less often than in 1993. Other wader species either remained at the same level or decreased only slightly; the only exception was Golden Plover which was recorded very much more often. Curlew Sandpipers were observed for the first time in this area.
 

Rodent dynamics:

Numbers of rodents were above average.

Rodent species recorded:

LatinAbundance

Summary of fauna studies:

 

FAUNA IN THE STUDY AREA

Group of speciesPresenceAbundanceBreedingDetailed studiesComment
arctic foxesYes breeding  
wadersYes breeding  
buzzardsYes breeding  
ptarmigansYes    
skuasYes    
gulls/ternsYes    
owlsNo    

 

SEABIRD COLONIES

speciesComment

 

WATERBIRD NON-BREEDING AGGREGATIONS

speciesAggregation typeNumberComment

 

HUMAN ACTIVITY IN THE STUDY AREA

Human activityComment

 


Source(s):

Tomkovich, P.S. 1998. Breeding conditions for waders in Russian tundras in 1994. International Wader Studies 10:132-144.

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