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Belarus

Great Grey owl Strix nebulosa ŠJens Eriksen http://www.sitecenter.dk/birds

News
Scientists propose to restore desolated marshes of Belarus.
Scientists of the Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus jointly with the republican public organization Protection of birds of Belarus proposed to restore a complex of desolated marshes in Belarus. As BelTA was informed by the leading research assistant of the Institute of Zoology, Candidate of Biology, Aleksandr Kozulin, there are about two hundred thousand hectares of marshes in Belarus, that once were developed. Now they are exhausted and are of fire risk. The scientists sent a project of restoration of the Belarusian marshes to the Global Ecological Fund. It is a very authoritative international organization and practically all countries are its members. The leadership of the fund showed interest in the project of the Belarusian scientists and as the result on March 25 experts of this organization arrived in Belarus. They will hold a number of consultations and will acquaint themselves with marshes of Belarus...

It has recently been reported that the largest colony of aquatic warblers in the world is in Servech Mire - Belarus...

numbers

Number of bird species:291

useful reading

Birds of Belarus at the boundary of XXIth century.

Minsk. 1997. 188 pages. Nikiforov M.Ye, Kozulin A.V., Grichik V.V., Tishechkin A.K. Scientific Editor: Prof. Mikhail M. PIKULIK, NASB Correspondent MemberIn Russian. Papercover.Published by N.A.Korolyov, Minsk, Belarus
ISBN: 98564400706
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useful information

Proact

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clubs

Akhova Ptushak Belarusi [BirdLife Belarus]

PO Box 303, Minsk 220050 +375 17 210 5687 apb-minsk@mail.ru

West Belarussian Society for Birds Preservation

...here you can find some information on the activities of the West Belarusian Society for Bird Preservation (Zachodne-Belaruskae Tavarystva Akhovy Ptushak, ZBTAP). Our Society was founded in 1993,and includes now ca.60 members. Its activities are realized in Belarus ( ex-Soviet country between Poland and Russia). Principal goals of ZBTAP are: conservation of biodiversity; preservation of unique habitats; propagation and re-introduction of endangered birds; propaganda of nature conservation ideas among people...

reserves

Belarusian National Parks

http://www.nbrb.by/Natiobank/NBRBCoins.eng/coll04.html
Some pictures and information about National Parks good for birding... links to several parks.

Pripyat Marshes

http://www.minter.demon.co.uk/brown/results/korniush.htm
Shared with Ukraine...

Pripyatsky Marshes

http://www.belarus.net/ECOLOGY/pripyat1.htm
These places are the centres of populations of such birds as a spotted eagle, a corcrake and a reed-warbler. Take a reed-warber, for example, we can see what catastrophic consequences could be made by drainage of Pripyatsky marshes. This small grey and brown bird with a shrill voice used to be wide-spred in Europe: from France to Ural. Novadays in many countries a reed-warbler is extinct or at risk of disappearance.

Wetlands

http://www.ramsar.org
larus presently has 7 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 276,307 hectares...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

2005 [August ] - G J White - Slovakia, Poland & Belarus

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/slovakia/slovakia4/slovakia-2005.htm
This report is a compilation of observations during three trips to eastern Europe in 2005; twelve days in Slovakia and southern Poland in June, three days in western Poland in early July and four days in Belarus in early August...

local guides

Birding Pal

http://birdingpal.org/Belarus.htm
Local birders willing to show visiting birders around their area...

Branta Tours

http://www.branta-tours.com/belarus.php
...Northern Belarus is characterised by the largest tracts of raised pine bogs in Europe. This extensive tundra-like ecosystem is the favourite habitat for many waders. Whimbrel, Curlew, Golden Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Redshank, Snipe and Ruff are some of the species to be seen there, and we may just turn Willow Grouse, Jack and Great Snipe...

mailing lists

Birds in Russia

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