In mid-January 2018 in the coastal areas of the Ukrainian Black Sea Region, as part of the LIFE project “Conservation of the Red-breasted Goose on the Global Flyway,” a teams of ornithologists conducted census of Red-breasted Goose and other waterbirds. Such monitoring was conducted just before the cyclone that had come from the Balkans.
Red-breasted Geese in Kherson region/ photo: A. Nastachenko
In the course of the monitoring, the rarest bird, the Red-breasted Goose in the Odessa region, were registered only 40 Redbreast on the territory of the Tuzlovsky Limans. Most of the geese – over 3000 individuals were counted in the Kherson region, in the zone of the Sivash Bay and near the biosphere reserve “Askania Nova”. In addition to the Redbreasts, almost 20,000 Greater White-fronted Geese were found in the region of the Ukrainian Black Sea coast, 3,500 Mute and Whooper Swans were recorded. Other interesting observation was the first recorded wintering of a young Great Flamingo and more than 7000 Shelducks in the water area of the NPP “Tuzlovsky Limans”.
