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[30 Jul 2009 | 4 Comments | ]
Boutoma River

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 Lena Pillars contains outstanding evidences of the Earth and its living population development history. Numerous fossils of ancient organisms found here are unique preserved evidences of a very important stage in the history of the organic world and a biodiversity …

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Kytalyk State Resource Reservation

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.

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Lena Delta

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 30 000 lakes. About 16 000 qubic metres of water flow through the delta Lena every second, it’s about 500 qubic kilometres per year.

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Plectrophenax nivalis L.

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.

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Calcarius lapponicus L.

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).

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Emberiza pusilla Pall.

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).

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Emberiza pallasii Cabanis.

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.

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Caprodacus erythrinus.

The Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) is the most widespread and common rosefinch of Europe, where it has spread westward from Asia.

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Leucosticte arctoa Pall.

The Asian Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte arctoa) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.

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Acanthis flammea L.

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.