Fauna and flora of Sakhalin

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11.10.2015 3:05, Ольга Титова

October 10, on one side of the house, where there are hills, large birds of prey. If you are standing on a path and a large bird has flown in your direction, you will see a lot of birds that were hiding in the grass fly across the path. This is a winter buzzard, or furry-legged buzzard. They helped me identify it on the page.
On the other side of the house, where there is a vegetable garden, you can watch either single birds or whole flocks. Especially for their admiring, we leave untidy sea buckthorn. Wind-beaten grapes are also picked up. It's a brown thrush.

This post was edited by Olga Titova - 23.10.2015 02: 30

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12.11.2015 3:07, Ольга Титова

Information and photos from the site
http://citysakh.ru/news/41642

Bat specialist Kuniko Kawai said during the lecture "Bats of Hokkaido, Kunashir and Iturup Islands" that these animals, unlike gliding flying squirrels, are capable of free flight with the help of wings. Bats ' vision is poorly developed, and they orient themselves in space by means of radiation and perception of high-frequency sound signals — echolocation. Most bats eat insects, but some can eat nectar or even fish. Insectivorous bats consume a large amount of food-weighing up to one-fifth of their own weight, which brings significant economic benefits to agriculture by eating pest insects. Bats live in different habitats: most species prefer to settle in caves, but bats can also be found in hollows or under the bark of trees, and sometimes they even make "houses" in the rolled-up leaves of plants. The order of bats includes more than one thousand species, which is about 20% of all existing mammal species in the world. Kuniko Kawai said that Japanese experts during joint visa-free expeditions discovered 10 bat species in Kunashir, and 4 in Iturup.For comparison, Hokkaido is home to 19 species, and the Russian Far East — 18 bat species. At the same time,only three species of them have a very extensive range, inhabiting the entire territory of Russia. One of these species, the northern kozhanok (Eptesicus nilssonii), has been recorded in Iturup, but so far it has not been found in Kunashir. Species that have a wide distribution range can carry dangerous infectious diseases from afar.

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20.11.2015 10:49, Ольга Титова

September 17, 2015 Shevchenko Meltdown Kholmsky district Sakhalin
Going under the crowns of tall larch trees, I noticed that at the height of the view something fluttered out of the tall grass. At first I thought, I wonder what kind of butterfly. I went to the place where she was supposed to sit – no one. I looked up and saw a red-glowing creature flying in the blue sky, plopping down on a larch tree like a sack. The second creature continued to fly now under the canopy of the forest, now out into the open sky. Just by flying: without flapping wings, more soaring - I realized that these are bats. Already at home, having enlarged the photos, I was definitely convinced of this. I think these bats are a couple of small pipefish.

http://zmmu.msu.ru/bats/rusbats/muruss.html

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Murina ussuriensis Ognev, 1913
TRIVIAL NAMES: Ussuri pipefish, small pipefish
SYNONYMS: katerinae Kruskop, 2005. [
: Weight about 4.5 g, body length about 36-45 mm, tail length about 30-32 mm, forearm 28-30 mm, wingspan about 19-22 cm.
DESCRIPTION: The color of the back is gray or grayish-fawn, with a reddish tinge, the belly is yellowish-whitish. The sagittal crest is not developed on the skull.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Far East, Eastern Manchuria, Korea, Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands.
NATURAL HISTORY: Lives in mountain mixed coniferous-deciduous forests. During the day, it is kept, apparently, among the foliage and under the fruit plates of large herbaceous plants. It hunts low above the ground in dense thickets. Lifestyle has not been studied.
status: A rare species, known from a small number of finds of solitary animals. IUCN: "EN: A2c"

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14.12.2015 4:10, Ольга Титова

July 7, 2015.
On the island of Sakhalin and on the Kuril Islands, an interesting species grows-Siori bird cherry, or Ainu bird cherry (after the name of the Ainu people). The Siori bird cherry has the longest brush - 25-30 centimeters each.
It is also interesting because its inflorescences are often not drooping, as in other bird cherry species, but are directed upwards, like candles. They begin to droop later, when the fruits are already forming. And when blooming, this tree attracts attention with its narrow and long, faintly fragrant brushes-candles, and it blooms later than the others.
There's a cloud of butterflies in the tree nearby.

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18.12.2015 13:49, Ольга Титова

The black-throated gagaoa is indicated for Sakhalin.
BLACK-THROATED LOON
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NATURAL CONDITIONS/Wildlife/Birds
The BLACK-throated LOON (Gavia arctica), a bird of the loon family (Gaviidae) of the order Gaviformes. Total length 62-75 cm. Weight 2-3. 5 kg. Males and females are equally colored. In mating dress, the head and back of the neck are gray. On the back there are large black and white spots, collected in transverse stripes. On the front side of the neck there is a black spot with a green metallic sheen. There are longitudinal white and black stripes on the sides of the neck. The bottom of the body is white. The legs and beak are black. It is distributed in Eurasia and North America. It breeds in the northern and central regions of Sakhalin and on the Northern Kuril Islands (Paramushir, Shumshu). It is a nesting, migratory, and rare wintering species. Seasonal migrations in April-May and October-November. In summer, idle (immature) birds are recorded on the nomads. In flocks of up to 100 or more individuals, usually 20-30 birds. Nesting sites: shallow fresh and brackish lakes overgrown with coastal aquatic plants, on wetlands near the sea coast and large lakes. During seasonal migrations and summer migrations-lakes, river mouths, and coastal sea waters; in winter-ice-free areas of the islands ' coastal waters. The breeding season is in May-August. Monogams. They settle in single couples. The nest is built by both partners. It is placed on swampy shores and islands of lakes, on a layer of dead plants. In a clutch of 1-2, rarely 3 eggs of olive-brown color with black and white spots. The incubation period is about 1 month. The female and the male incubate alternately. The hen begins to fly at the age of 2 months. The main food is fish. It also eats crustaceans, worms, shellfish, insects, green shoots and plant seeds. Conditionally-a hunting bird, obtained along with hunting birds during hunting periods.
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Nechaev Vitaly Andreev

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19.03.2016 8:49, Ольга Титова

Olga, there is a big topic on birds of Sakhalin at the forum of the Russian Bird Conservation Union:
http://rbcu.ru/forum/forum19/topic2667/
And it is led by a man who deals with these very Sakhalin birds. You can try to contact him, I think he will tell you more precisely.

Unresolved issues with birds in previous posts took time to study the literature and confirm the specialist Nechaev Vitaly Andreevich, for which he is very grateful.
In the photo with Lapland plantain, a field lark is in the background.
Field lark is larger than sparrow, weighing 30-50 kg . It is a large breeding and flying species all over Sakhalin. Wintering grounds in Southeast Asia.

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