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The surveys of large birds of prey at Kamchatka have begun
from a beginning of 60th years.
Valley of Kamchatka river (special surveys were conducted here during 3 years 1985-1987) and the east coast from Lopatka cape up to Ust-Kamchatsk were the most detail investigated. The most successefull surveys (due to the good choice of the time of the year, technique and selected areas) were ones, supported by WWF in 1996. 196 new nests of SSE were found and the area of more than 12 000 square km which have been not covered with the surveys of all previous years was inspected. What about winter SSE allocation, the special International survey was made by Dr. Lobkov and his Japanese colleagues at 1985 both at Kamchatka, Sachalin, Magadan and Japan. At Kamchatka totally about 900 birds were surveyed. Since this survey nobody undertake something similar during 14 years. |
Fig2. The map of summer air surveys have done at Kamchatka during
1984-1998 |