http://birdwatchingsiberia.com Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:09:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Boutama is one of the most beautiful rivers of Yakutia, which flows through the territory of the “Lena Pillars” park with it’s unique banks, rich fauna and flora. The average current flow is 1 meter per second. Boutama River is situated on the area of Lena Pillars Nature Park. Geological texture of ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=274 Geographic Location These wetlands are found along the coastal territory between the Khromskaya Guba (Bay) and the Sundrun River mouth in the Republic Sakha/Yakutia. The site ranges between 0.4 – 71 m above sea level in the Indigirka River Delta, between the Khroma and Sundrun rivers. The surrounding coordinates are 70° ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=270 Great Siberian Lena river (length is 4270 кm) flows into the Arctic Ocean and formes the largest delta in Russia, which square is more than 32 thousand square km. A numerous channels (total quantity is 6500) formes a dense network. There are more than 1500 islands and 30 ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=267 The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), sometimes colloquially called "snowflake", is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It is an arctic specialist, with a circumpolar Arctic breeding range throughout the northern hemisphere. There are small isolated populations on a few high mountain tops south of the Arctic region, including ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=265 The Lapland Bunting, Calcarius lapponicus, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group separated by most modern authors from the Fringillidae (Old World finches). It breeds across Arctic Europe and Asia and in Canada and the northernmost USA. It is migratory, wintering in the Russian steppes, the southern ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=263 The Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla), is a passerine bird. It belongs to the bunting and American sparrow family (Emberizidae), a group separated by most modern authors from the true finches (Fringillidae). This is a small bunting at 12-13.5cm in length. It has a heavily streaked brown back and white underparts with ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=261 The Pallas's Reed Bunting, Emberiza pallasi, (also known as Pallas's Bunting) is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae. It breeds across northern and central Asia across to Mongolia. It is a migrant, which winters in south east ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=259 The Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) is the most widespread and common rosefinch of Europe, where it has spread westward from Asia. Common Rosefinches breed from Sweden and Siberia to the Bering Sea; the Caucasus, northern Iran and Afghanistan, Pakistan and the western Himalaya, Tibet and China; to Japan between latitudes ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=257 The Asian Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte arctoa) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family. It is found in China, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and Russia. Its natural habitats are tundra and temperate grassland. http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=255 The Common Redpoll, Carduelis flammea, is a species in the finch family. It breeds somewhat further south than the Arctic Redpoll, also in habitats with thickets or shrubs. Nominate C. f. flammea (Mealy Redpoll) breeds across the northern parts of North America and Eurasia. There is also an Icelandic subspecies, ... http://birdwatchingsiberia.com/?p=253