Russian Federation

• Jeff Gordon

  | jeffandolga@gmail.com

• Andrey N. Baykalov

  http://birds.sfu-kras.ru

• Number of bird species: 780

  (As at December 2018)

• Number of endemics: 1

  Siberian Grouse Falcipennis falcipennis

• A Field Guide to the Birds of Russia and Adjacent Territories

  | (former USSR) | By VE Flint, RL Boehme, YV Kostin & AA Kutnetsov | Princeton University Press | 1989 | Paperback | 353 pages, 48 col plates, 71 line drawings, 303 maps | ISBN: 9780691024301 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan

  | (Non-Passerines, Loons to Woodpeckers) | by Norman Arlott | Princeton University Press | 2009 | Paperback | 240 pages, 80 plates with colour illustrations, 700 colour distribution maps | ISBN: 9780691136851 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan

  | (Passerines, Tyrant Flycatchers to Buntings) | by Norman Arlott | Princeton University Press | 2007 | Paperback | 240 pages, 80 plates with colour illustrations; 706 colour distribution maps | ISBN: 9780691133720 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Where to Watch Birds in Europe & Russia

  | By Nigel Wheatly | Christopher Helm | 2000 | Paperback | 416 pages, 50 illustrations, 100 maps | ISBN: 9780713648706 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• State Darwin Museum of Natural History - Moscow

  The museum has an extensive bird collection.

• The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic

  In November 1930 the museum was founded by the order of the Soviet Government as a Department of the Arctic Research Institute called the Arctic Museum, based on exhibits and material of Polar Exhibitions which were held in Leningrad, Moscow, Arkhangelsk during 1923.Marata 24a, The Russian State museum of Arctic and Antarctic, St.Petersburg, Russia, 191040 Phone: +7 812 1131998. Fax: +7 812 1646818. E-mail: vicaar@mail.wplus.net Director: Dr. Victor I. Boyarsky

• Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  Zoological Museum includes collection of Russian birds

• BirdsRussia

  Website
  BirdsRussia is a voluntary non-profit public Association created for joint activity on protection and study of birds of the Russian Federation.

• RBCU - Russian Bird Conservation Union

  Website
  Shosse Entuziastoy 60, Building 1, Moscow 111123. + 7 095 1761063; rbcu@online.ru RBCU) was established on7 February 1993. Russian Bird Conservation Union (RBCU) is a non-governmental public organization which activity is focused on informing, education and joining wide circles of people to the protection of Russian bird diversity

• RRRCN - Russian Raptor Research & Conservation Network

  Website
  Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network is a non-governmental association of ornithologists, birdwatchers, ornithological and environmental organizations, which in cooperation seek to learn the birds of prey and owls that live in the vast territory of Russia and neighboring countries and promote their conservation. Anybody, who is interesting to observe birds of prey, any organization, whose activities are connected with the study and conservation of raptors, may become a member of the Network

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• Russian National Parks

  WebsiteSatellite View
  Linka and write-ups on a number of parks…

• Wetlands

  WebpageSatellite View
  The Russian Federation currently has 35 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites), with a surface area of 10,323,767 hectares.

• Ecological Travel Centre

  Tour Operator
  Birdwatching Tours in various parts of European and Asia Russia and Siberia

• Rubythroat Birding Tours

  Tour Operator
  Rubythroat Birding Tours is a fully specialized all-inclusive tour company with ventures throughout Central Asia and Russia. Rubythroat Birding Tours Ltd., Aitykova 8, Ust-Kamenogorsk, BIN 130740019834 mailto:machiel@rubythroatbirdingtours.com

• 2014 [09 September] - Vincent van der Spek - Lithuania & Kaliningrad

  PDF Report
  ...The Curonian Spit, shared by Lithuania and the Russian enclave Kaliningrad, is a great destination for every one interested in visible migration. Every year millions of migrants pass this 97 km long spit, that is nowhere over 3,6 km wide. In September 2014 my Waternet colleague Luc Geelen and I attendend a Coastal and Marine (EUCC) conference at Klaipėda University, Lithuania....

• 2016 [07 July] - Janne Aalto

  Report
  It was already late spring and we had no real holiday plans with Hanna. Luckily I found out that my old friend Pierre-André Crochet was searching participants for their trip to Russia, Polar Ural. Immediately I sent a message to “PAC” and also to Eric Didner who was also going and after a week, we knew we were in! On the previous summer we had been in South and Central Ural on a trip that we had planned with Oleg Demyanenko from Ural Expeditions & Tours and he was our contact again. We had then also been planning a trip to Polar Ural but we had discussed that it would probably be after some years. Now it was going to happen much sooner!

• 2016 [07 July] - Machiel Valkenburg - Russia & Mongolia

  PDF Report
  The tour commenced in the Russian city of Barnaul in the lobby of the Barnaul Hotel at 7am on the 16th of June, where the participants met with their guides for this tour, Machiel, Lena and Bonny. The diverse group of birders from The Netherlands, Norway, England and the USA introduced each other. We immediately began the long drive towards the Seminskiy Pass in the Altai Mountains.

• Bird Year Bird Chuvashia

  Website

• Indian Birds Club

  Website
  The site of Indian Birds fans from Russia...

• Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences - History of Ornithology

  Website
  The most important basis for the research done at the Department of Ornithology is its rich collection obtained due to hard effort of many generations of zoologists. These are bird skins, alcohol specimens, skeletal and paleontological materials. The richness, diversity and completeness of the Department

• Library - Russian Wildlife Photograph Library

  Gallery
  Lots of excellent images