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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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The species is listed as Vulnerable – the estimated number of individuals is 4600-5100 (HBW), of which about 2000 winter on Hokkaido. Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709 – 1746) was a German-born naturalist, though it seems he spent most of his (shortish) adult life in Russia, participating in the exploration of the North Pacific region.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”

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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China

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The HBW even mentions the importance of Ruoergai for this species: “Key sites for migrants include the Ruoergai Plateau (China), which is also an important breeding area” Common Mergansers also seem to use these wetlands as breeding area. The raptors of Ruoergai deserve a separate post.

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

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The deal failed due to Russia voting against it, citing uncertainty about whether the commission had the authority to establish a marine protected area. So close to the pole only a handful of bird species can survive, and even so, death toll is very high, hence their populations must be huge (millions). Finally – the Seabirds.

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Rosefinches, Griffons and Woodcocks

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This is my first visit to this area, known as the Madz Brod, where two new breeding species for the country were discovered a decade ago. They are common winter visitors, but this is my first observation of them in the breeding season. Madz Brod by Slobodan Puzovic. We wait again. Temperature drops to 11oC.

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Siberian Chiffchaff in the Altai Mountains

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The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear. canariensis ).

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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