During an expedition arranged by the Finval Research Centre in summer 2015 to the Khatanga Bay in the Laptev Sea a Swedish ornithologist Alexander Hellquist found a Ring-Billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), a bird species that is new for Russia. The nearest places where this species occurs are Alaska (4500 km) and Canada (5000km). There are records of this species in Kamchatka, but they are not proved by good-quality photos… A Ring-Billed Gull is the nearest one to the camera man on the photo. A black ring on the yellow bill is clearly seen.

Krasnoyarsk All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (Russia 1) produced and showed on the TV the “Finval in the Laptev Sea” film telling about our expedition in summer 2015 to the western part of the Laptev Sea. The film was made by the TV groupdirected by a well-known film director Sergey Gerasimov and was based on the shooting of the expedition participant and art photographer Michael Vershinin. The film is available here.