The scientific and educational expedition to Mongolia arranged from May 12 till June 15, 2017 has been successfully completed. Total length of the car route constituted approximately 7000 km. The expedition team consisted of a zoologist, botanists, a mycologist, geographers, an ethnographer, sociologists as well as travellers and wild nature lovers from different cities and towns of Russia. Major part of the expedition took place in the remote, isolated regions of the country. The expedition participants were delighted by plenty of birds, wild animals, reptiles, plants, unique archaeological and historical monuments every day. What a wonderful and beautiful country!
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New article.
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e article «First record of Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis for Russia” was published in 25th issue of the «BirdingASIA” magazine (Great Britain). The Ring-billed Gull was found and photographed by a Swedish ornithologist Alexander Hellquist during the expedition to the Arctic Regions arranged by the “Finval” Research Centre in summer 2015. The article will be soon available on the website “BirdingASIA”.
RESEARCH EXPEDITIO
N TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS IN SUMMER 2016 “LOST WORLDS OF ISLANDS”
Expedition route: Khatanga settlement — the Khatanga River — Khatanga Bay (West Coast) — Preobrashenia Island — East Coast of the Taimyr Peninsula — Mariya Pronchishcheva Bay – Psov Island — the Saint Peter Islands — Saint Andrew Island — the Faddey Islands – the Vilkitsky Islands – Chelyuskin cape – Osten-Sakena cape — Rastorguyeva (Kolchak) Island — Taimyr Strait — De-Colonga’s Peninsula — Rykachyova Island — cape Vilida — Mikhaylov’s Peninsula — Kolosov’ Island — Kosterina Island — Dickson settlement
