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Analysis of the Fauna and Bird Population of Urup Island and Adjacent Water Areas (Greater Kuril Chain)

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The ecological patterns of the formation of the fauna and bird population of the Urup Island were analyzed for the first time. The method of route accounting on the transects of unlimited width was used. The commonality of the species composition (n = 105) of the avifauna of Urup Island is high: the similarity of local avifauna of the northeastern and southwestern parts of the island is 77%. In general, 34% of species are ubiquitously distributed; 39%, locally; 27%, pointwise. 71 species nest (68%). The taxonomic structure of the avifauna (formed by species from 13 orders) corresponds to zonal and landscape peculiarities of the island territories located on the eastern periphery of Northern Eurasia. Passeriformes (34%), Charadriiformes (33%), and Anseriformes (11%) (typical for the boreal and hypoarctic belts of the Palearctic) predominate. The zoogeographic originality of the local avifauna is caused by a combination of the elements of the Far Eastern islands, Pacific, Siberian, and Chinese faunistic complexes, Siberian–American and widespread species, and Japanese island endemics. The avifauna of Urup Island, which is formed in a system of common zonal–landscape and altitudinal–belt patterns, unites the ecological groups of marine and terrestrial, including mountain (n = 9), species. The glaucous-winged gull, Pacific swift, nutcracker, Siberian rubythroat, Middendorff’s grasshopper warbler, Arctic warbler, Japanese bush warbler, American pipit, and masked bunting dominate in the population of forest and shrub habitats. The harlequin duck, glaucous-winged gull, black-legged kittiwake, Pacific swift, Asian house martin, American pipit, and Kamchatka wagtail dominate numerically in the population of the coast and adjacent sea area. In open sea areas, black-footed and Laysan albatrosses, the northern fulmar, the short-tailed shearwater, common murre, and tufted puffin are the most common.

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The authors are grateful to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian Geographical Society for organizing the expedition.

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This study was performed within the Development Program of the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational School of Moscow State University “The Future of the Planet and Global Environmental Changes.”

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  1. Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Romanov

  2. Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 125009, Moscow, Russia

    Ya. A. Redkin, E. A. Koblik, D. R. Zhigir & I. A. Murashev

  3. Menzbier Russian Society for the Conservation and Study of Birds, 109052, Moscow, Russia

    V. O. Yakovlev

  4. Department of Zoology and Physiology, Tver State University, 170001, Tver, Russia

    A. A. Vinogradov

  5. Department of Applied Ecology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    I. Yu. Popov

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Romanov, A.A., Redkin, Y.A., Koblik, E.A. et al. Analysis of the Fauna and Bird Population of Urup Island and Adjacent Water Areas (Greater Kuril Chain). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 50, 1875–1885 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359023080228

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