23 May 14:50
In the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a large colony of black-headed gulls was discovered – a rare species that usually nests in Khakassia. Victoria Temerova, a senior lecturer at the Department of Hunting Resource Studies and Conservation Management at Siberian Federal University, told TASS about this.
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The birds settled in the area of the Tuba Bay of the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir. There are about 700 individuals in the colony. Previously, this species was considered vagrant to the Krasnoyarsk Territory and did not settle here.
Experts consider the appearance of a new colony as an expansion of the nesting area, although they do not exclude a simple redistribution of colonies within their usual area. According to Temerova, it is possible that in the Trekhozerki tract in Khakassia, due to rising water, the usual nesting areas of laughing gulls were flooded and the birds went to look for other suitable places.
The black-headed gull is a large gull that mainly lives on the shores of the Caspian and Mediterranean seas. Occasionally nests on lakes in the Omsk, Kurgan regions and Altai. The bird is listed in the Red Book of Russia. Laughing Gulls are monogamous: they live in pairs and raise their chicks together. For nesting, they need small open islands on steppe reservoirs, where humans cannot reach.
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