Пернатые хищники и их охрана (May 2019)

Results of the Second Phase of the Project on Supplemental Feeding of Vultures in Ustyurt State Nature Reserve in 2018, Kazakhstan

  • Mark V. Pestov,
  • Zhaskayrat E. Nurmukhambetov,
  • Aktan T. Mukhashov,
  • Vladimir A. Terentyev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2019-38-179-194
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 38
pp. 179 – 194

Abstract

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The article highlights new monitoring data on three vulture species: Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus); Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) – on the territory of Ustyurt State Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan; obtained during the second phase of the project on vulture supplementary feeding in 2018. The project is supported by the Rufford Foundation. The data obtained confirmed the numbers of breeding vultures within Ustyurt State Nature Reserve: 4 pairs of Cinereous Vulture and 2 pairs of Egyptian Vultures. During the implementation of the project; camera traps for the first time registered the presence of a Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in the Ustyurt Reserve.

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