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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «BIOLOGIYA. ECOLOGIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «BIOLOGY. ECOLOGY»
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List of issues > Series «Biology. Ecology». 2024. Vol 50

First Find of a Brood of the Thrush (Oriental) Nightingale Luscinia luscinia (Linnaeus, 1758) in Eastern Siberia

Author(s)
Yu. I. Mel’nikov
Abstract
Based on long-term (2009–2024) research, it was proven that the thrush (eastern) nightingale is an extremely rare vagrant species of Southern Baikal (right bank of the Angara River source, Kamenushka spring). However, on July 13, 2024, we found a brood of this species that had just taken flight. In the area of its usual encounters in the middle reaches of the small Kamenushka River (visual registrations and songs), approximately 500 m from the ski lift route to “Chersky Stone”, 4 fledglings were scared out of the grass and one of them was caught by hand. The characteristic coloring of the chick and its oral cavity, used to identify different species of thrushes, clearly indicate that we caught a chick of the common (eastern) nightingale. In the same season, we recorded the song of this species on the edge of a small swamp in the floodplain of a spring flowing into a small river Nikolskaya Bannaya in the area of a high-voltage line going to Bol'shiye Koty settl. The distance from the place of the new meeting of the species to the place of the previously established area of its habitat is not less than 7.0 km. Consequently, a very slow and gradual development of suitable habitats by this species is observed. Thus, on the basis of new data, reliable, most likely episodic, nesting of this species in the southwestern part of the basin of Lake Baikal has been established. At the same time, its constant encounters in the same area over several years may indicate that this is a very small nesting new species of the region, which appeared here only in the last decade. Further observations will allow us to clarify this issue.
About the Authors
Mel’nikov Yuriy Ivanovich, Candidate of Sciences (Biology), Head of Postgraduate Studies, Baikal Museum SB RAS, 1 Akademicheskaya st., Listvyanka Settl., Irkutsk Region, 664520, Russian Federation, e-mail: yumel48@mail.ru
For citation

Mel’nikov Yu.I. First Find of a Brood of the Thrush (Oriental) Nightingale Luscinia luscinia (Linnaeus, 1758) in Eastern Siberia. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Biology. Ecology, 2024, vol. 50, pp. 48-53. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3372.2024.50.48 (in Russian)

Keywords
Angara River source, Kamenushka spring, thrush (eastern) nightingale, occasional nesting.
UDC
598.288:502.05
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3372.2024.50.48
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