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RESPONDENT
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Yuri Shchadilov
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SITE NAME
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Khabuika Lake, Russky Zavorot Peninsula, Russia
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| Contact details
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| (095)457-77-49(h.)/423-03-22(off.)/423-23-22(fax) // anbelous@online.ru //
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WEATHER
CONDITIONS
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Weather conditions: |
| At Khabuika Lake the spring was late and extended. From mid-June and through early July the weather was cold and with strong, mostly northerly winds. Due to this, plant growth and thawing of permafrost were very slow.
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BIOTIC
CONDITIONS
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| Rodents abundance evaluation: |
low
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Breeding conditions:
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Arctic Foxes Alopex lagopus were abundant, and many dens were dug. No Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca were recorded. Only Arctic Skuas nested in the area while Long-tailed Skuas Stercorarius longicaudus were seen passing through. Numbers of Rough-legged Buzzards Buteo lagopus were low and no nesting was documented. Perhaps due to the lower than usual numbers of fish young in the littoral zone much fewer gulls could be counted in the area. Also it was not uncommon to see the gulls scanning tundra for bird nests.
Breeding wader numbers were noticeably lower than in the previous year. This was especially true for the Ruff Philimachus pugnax and Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii. Lekking in the Ruff was less pronounced and their flocks were smaller than in previous years. The start of clutch initiation was delayed by at least 2 weeks. No wader chick were seen before mid-June while the timing of hatching in passerine birds was as usual (early July).
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Rodent dynamics:
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| The overall predator-rodent situation was similar to the previous year: the abundance of Root Voles Microtus oeconomus and Siberian Lemmings Lemmus sibiricus remained low.
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