History of Bird Studies in the Volgograd Region

Amosov, P.N., Fauna pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh zapovednika “Bogdinsko-Baskunchakskii” (Vertebrate Fauna of the Bogdinsko-Baskunchakskii Reserve), Volgograd: Tsaritsyn, 2010. Amosov, P.N., Birds (Aves), in Sostoyanie i mnogoletnie izmeneniya prirodnoi sredy na territorii Bogdinsko-Baskunchakskogo zapovednika (Status and Multiannual Changes in the Environment in the Bogdinsko-Baskunchak Reserve), Volgograd: Tsaritsyn, 2012, pp. 182–211. Amosov, P.N., The avifauna of the Lower Volga region, Russ. Ornitol. Zh., 2015, vol. 24, express issue 1099, pp. 285–289. Antonchikov, A.N., Otchet o rabote: “Uchet chislennosti i vyyavlenie mest kontsentratsii populyatsii drofy i strepeta na territorii Kletskogo, Surovikinskogo, Kalachevskogo munitsipal’nykh raionov Volgogradskoi oblasti” (“Counts and Identification of Aggregation Sites of the Great Bustard and Little Bustard Populations in the Territory of Kletskii, Surovikinskii, and Kalachevskii Municipal Districts of the Volgograd Oblast,” Activity Report), Saratov, 2011. Argiropulo, A.I., Materials to the knowledge of the avifauna of the south of Stalingrad (formerly Tsaritsyn) province, Ezheg. Zool. Muz. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1928, vol. 29, pp. 27–35. Artzibascheff, N., Excursions et observations ornithologiques sur les bords de la Sarpa en 1858, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1859, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 1–108. Artzibascheff, N., Excursions et observations ornithologiques sur les bords de la Sarpa en 1858, Strepet, 2015, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 5–50. Bädeker, F.W., Ornithologisches von der Wolga, J. fur Ornithologie, 1854, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 366–370. Barabash-Nikiforov, I.I. and Semago, L.L., Ptitsy yugo-vostoka Chernozemnogo tsentra (Birds of the Southeast of Black Earth Center), Voronezh: Voronezh. Univ., 1963. Becker, A., Verzeichnis der in Jahren 1849–1852 bei Sarepta beobachten Vogel, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1853, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 239–241. Belik, V.P., Ptitsy stepnogo Pridon’ya: formirovanie fauny, ee antropogennaya transformatsiya i voprosy okhrany (Birds of the Steppe Don Region: Formation of the Fauna, Its Anthropogenic Transformation, and Conservation Issues), Rostov-on-Don: Rostov. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 2000. Belik, V.P., Some general approaches to the work at important bird areas, in Dostizheniya i problemy ornitologii Sev. Evrazii na rubezhe vekov: tr. mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Aktual’nye problemy izucheniya i okhrany ptits Vostochnoi Evropy i Severnoi Azii” (Advances and Problems of Ornithology of Northern Eurasia at the Turn of the Centuries: Proc. Int. Conf. “Current Problems of the Study and Conservation of Birds in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia”), Kazan: Magarif, 2001a, pp. 502–514. Belik, V.P., The ratio of the IBA program and the tasks of faunistics, monitoring, and conservation of birds, in Inventarizatsiya, monitoring i okhrana klyuchevykh ornitologicheskikh territorii Rossii (Inventory, Monitoring, and Protection of the Key Bird Areas of Russia), Moscow: SOPR, 2001b, no. 3, pp. 126–130. Belik, V.P., Vasilii Kondrat’ev and his “information” on the fauna of the steppe Don region, Strepet, 2004, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 5–34. Belik, V.P., Reflections on the nomenclature of Russian eagles, in “12-aya Mezhdunarodnaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiya Severnoi Evrazii “Ornitologicheskie issledovaniya v Severnoi Evrazii,” Tezisy dokladov (12th Int. Ornithol. Conf. of Northern Eurasia “Ornithological Research in Northern Eurasia,” Abstracts of Papers), Stavropol: Stavrop. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 2006, pp. 71–73. Belik, V.P.,The nature of presence of gyrfalcon in the south of Russia, Strepet, 2014, vol. 12, no. 1-2, pp. 182–184. Belik V.P. The impact of Volzhskaya HPP on the fauna and population of birds of the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain (a case study of the Akhtubinskoe Poozer’e IBA), in Inventarizatsiya, monitoring i okhrana klyuchevykh ornitologicheskikh territorii Rossii (Inventory, Monitoring and Protection of the Key Bird Areas of Russia), vol. 7: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskogo soveshchaniya, posvyashchennogo 20-letiyu programmmmy KOTR “Klyuchevye ornitologicheskie territorii Rossii i problemy ikh okhrany” (Proc. Sci.-Pract. Conf. Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the IBA Program “Important Bird Areas of Russia and Problems of Their Protection”), Moscow: SOPR, 2016, pp. 53–65. Belik, V.P. and Gugueva, E.V., The pallid harrier in the steppe Trans-Volga region, Strepet, 2014, vol. 12, nos. 1–2, pp. 177–181. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., Babkin, I.G., Makhmutov, R.Sh., and Mazina, O.V., Golden eagle in the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy 13-i mezhdunarodnoi ornitologicheskoi konferentsii Severnoy Evrazii “Ornitologiya v Severnoi Evrazii” (Proc. 13th Int. Ornithol. Conf. of Northern Eurasia “Ornithology in North Eurasia”), Orenburg: Orenburg. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 2010a, pp. 57–58. Belik, V.P., Vetrov, V.V., Gugueva, E.V., and Babkin, I.G., The eastern imperial eagle in the Kalach bend of the Don River (Volgograd oblast), in Materialy 15-i nauchnoi konferentsii Rabochei gruppy po ptitsam basseina Severskogo Dontsa, posvyashchennoi pamyati I. A. Krivitskogo (Proc. 15th Sci. Conf. Working Group on Birds of the Severskii Donets Basin Dedicated to the Memory of I.A. Krivitskii), Ptitsy Basseina Severskogo Dontsa, Donetsk: Donetsk. Nats. Univ., 2010b, no. 11, pp. 55–69. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., Vetrov, V.V., and Milobog, Yu.V., Demoiselle crane in the North-Western Caspian: distribution, abundance, and breeding success, in Zhuravli Evrazii: Biologiya, rasprostranenie, migratsii, upravlenie (Eurasian Cranes: Biology, Distribution, Migration, and Management), Moscow: Inst. Probl. Ekol. Evol. im. A.N. Severtsova, Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, no. 4, pp. 157–174. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., Vetrov, V.V., and Makhmutov, R.Sh., Bewick’s swan migrations in the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, Casarka, 2012, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 13–29. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., and Makhmutov, R.Sh., Rare species of birds in the Volgograd Sarpa, in Materialy Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii s mezhdunarodnoi uchastiem, posvyashchennoi 20-letiyu Soyuza okhrany ptits Rossii “Okhrana ptits v Rossii: problemy i perspektivy” (Proc. Sci.-Pract. Conf. with Int. Particip. Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the Russian Bird Conservation Union “BirdLife in Russia: Problems and Prospects”), Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2013, pp. 46–52. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., Vetrov, V.V., and Milobog, Yu.V., Birds of prey of the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Khishchnye ptitsy Severnogo Kavkaza i sopredel’nykh regionov: rasprostranenie, ekologiya, dinamika populyatsii, okhrana” (Proc. Int. Conf. “Birds of Prey of the Northern Caucasus and Adjacent Regions: Distribution, Ecology, Population Dynamics, and Conservation”), Rostov-on-Don: Yuzh. Fed. Univ., 2014a, pp. 127–161. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., and Makhmutov, R.Sh., Materialy k faune kulikov severnoi chasti Volgo-Akhtubinskoi poimy v predelakh Volgogradskoi oblasti, in Kuliki v izmenyayushcheisya srede Severnoi Evrazii: materialy IX mezhdunarodnoi nauch. konf. (Proc. IX Int. Sci. Conf. “Waders in a Changing Environment in North Eurasia”), Moscow: Tezaurus, 2014b, pp. 113–118. Belik, V.P., Gugueva, E.V., Pimenov, V.N., and Milobog, Yu.V., Common crane in the Volgograd Trans-Volga region, Inform. Byull. Rab. Gruppy Zhuravlyam Evrazii, 2014c, no. 13, pp. 26–28. Belitskaya, O.N., The effect of artificial forest plantations on the field vertebrate fauna of the Lower Volga region, in Sostoyanie i okhrana biologicheskikh resursov Volgogradskoi oblasti (The State and Conservation of Biological Resources of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1984, pp. 97–98. Belitskaya, O.N., The role of the common species of birds in the forest-agricultural landscape of the southeast of the European part of the RSFSR, in Vsesoyuznaya shkola molodykh uchenykh i spetsialistov “Biologicheskie metody v integrirovannoi zashchite sel’skokhozyaistvennykh kul’tur ot vreditelei, boleznei i sornyakov,” tezisy dokladov ((All-Union School of Young Scientists and Specialists “Biological Methods in an Integrated Crop Protection from Pests, Diseases, and Weeds,” Abstracts of Papers), Chisinau: Vses. Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Biol. Metodov Zashch. Rast., 1985, pp. 84–86. Belitskaya, O.N., Vertebrates of a forest agricultural landscape and the methods of regulation of their composition and abundance, in Ekologiya lesoagrarnogo landshafta (Ecology of a Forest Agricultural Landscape), Volgograd: Vses. Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Agrolesomelioratsii, 1986, no. 2, pp. 74–84. Belitskaya, O.N., Formation of the bird population under shelterbelt conditions, Vestn. Sel’khoz. Nauki, 1988, no. 7, pp. 125–131. Bogdanov, M., Birds and animals of the Black Earth band of the Volga region and the Central and Lower Volga valley (biogeographical materials), Tr. O-va Estestvoispyt. Kazan. Univ., 1871, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1–226. Bogdanov, M., Notes on V.E. Yakovlev’s list of birds of the Astrakhan province, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1874, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 35–39. Bogdanov, M.N., Obzor ekspeditsii i estestvennoistoricheskikh issledovanii v Aralo-Kaspiiskoi oblasti s 1720 po 1874 g. (Overview of Expeditions and Natural History Research in the Aral–Caspian Region from 1720 to 1874, Tr. Aralo-Kaspiiskoi Ekspeditsii, suppl. to Tr. S.-Peterb. O-va Estestvoispyt., St. Petersburg, 1875, vol. 1, pp. 1–53. Bogdanov, A.P., Materials for the history of scientific and applied activities in Russia in zoology and related fields of knowledge mainly in the last thirty years (1850–1888), Izv. O-va Lyubit. Estestvoznan. Antropol. Etnogr., Tr. Zool. Otd.,1891, vol. 70, no. 6. Bostanzhoglo, V.N., Ornitologicheskaya fauna Aralo-Kaspiiskikh stepei (Avifauna of Aral–Caspian Steppes), Moscow: Tipogr. Mosk. Univ., 1911. Bub, H., Observations on the autumn migration in the area between the sea of Azov and the Caspian, Ibis, 1955, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 5–37. Bukreev, S.A. and Chernobai, V.F., Birds of Elton region, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Bioraznoobrazie i problemy prirodopol’zovaniya v Priel’ton’e” (Collected Scientific Papers “Biodiversity and Environmental Management Problems in Elton Region”), Volgograd: PrinTerra, 2006, pp. 59–74. Bukreev, S.A. and Chernobai, V.F., Data on Anseriformes of Volgograd Sarpa, Casarka, 2011, vol. 14: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Guseobraznye Severnoi Evrazii: geografiya, dinamika i upravlenie populyatsiyami” (Proc. Int. Conf. “Anseriformes of Northern Eurasia: Geography, Dynamics, and Population Management”), pp. 223–239. Bykov, A.V., Lindeman, G.V., and Lopushkov, V.A., The role of trees and shrubs for vertebrates of the Elton Nature Park, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Bioraznoobrazie i problemy prirodopol’zovaniya v Priel’ton’e” (Collected Scientific Papers “Biodiversity and Environmental Management Problems in Elton Region), Volgograd: PrinTerra, 2006a, pp. 17–23. Bykov, A.V., Lindeman, G.V., and Lopushkov, V.A., Steppe wildfires in Elton region, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Bioraznoobrazie i problemy prirodopol’zovaniya v Priel’ton’e” (Collected Scientific Papers “Biodiversity and Environmental Management Problems in Elton Region), Volgograd: PrinTerra, 2006b, pp. 112–117. Chernobai, V.F., Helminthological and epizootological role of corvids in the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy XX nauchnoi konferentsii Volgogradskogo pedagogicheskogo instituta (Proc. XX Sci. Conf. Volgogr. Pedagog. Inst.), Volgograd: Volgogr. Pedagog. Inst., 1965, pp. 187–191. Chernobai, V.F., Helminthofauna of corvids of the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy k nauchnoi konferentsii Vsesoyuznogo obshchestva gel’mintologov Akad. Nauk SSSR (Proc. Sci. Conf. All-Union Soc. Helminthologists USSR), Moscow, 1968, part 1, pp. 299–301. Chernobai, V.F., Parasites of corvids of the Lower Volga region, in Paraziticheskie zhivotnye Volgogradskoi oblasti (Parasitic Animals of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Ped. Inst., 1969a, pp. 166–197. Chernobai, V.F., Annual changes in the parasitofauna of corvids, in Materialy XXIII nauchnoi konferentsii Volgogradskogo pedagogichskogo instituta (Proc. XXIII Sci. Conf. Volgogr. Pedagog. Inst.), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1969b, pp. 174–176. Chernobai, V.F., Seasonal changes of ectoparasitic fauna of corvids of the Lower Volga region, in Voprosy morfologii i parazitologii zhivotnykh (Problems of Animal Morphology and Parasitology), Uch. Zap. Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1970a, vol. 31, pp. 146–154. Chernobai, V.F., On the sex differences in the infection of birds with helminths, in Materialy IV zoologichehskoi konferentsii pedagogicheskikh vuzov RSFSR (Proc. IV Zool. Conf. Ped. Univ. RSFSR), Gorky: Gor’k. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1970b, pp. 139–140. Chernobai, V.F., Dependence of the parasitofauna of corvids on their lifestyle and habitat conditions, in Voprosy morfologii, ekologii i parazitologii (Problems of Morphology, Ecology, and Parasitology), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1972, pp. 150–155. Chernobai, V.F., On the abundance and distribution of corvids in the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy nauchnogo soveshchaniya zoologov Pedagogicheskikh Institutov (Proc. Sci. Conf. Zoologists Pedagog. Univ.), Vladimir: Vladimir. Gos. Pedagog. Inst. im. P.I. Lebedeva-Polyanskogo, 1973, pp. 266–267. Chernobai, V.F., Development of urban areas of the Volgograd Region by the ringed turtledove, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na prirodnye kompleksy i ekosistemy (Anthropogenic Impacts on Natural Complexes and Ecosystems), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1978, pp. 111–115. Chernobai, V.F., On the formation of the avifauna of Volgograd, in Novye problemy zoologicheskoi nauki i ikh otrazhenie v vuzovskom prepodavanii (New Problems of Zoology and Their Reflection in University Teaching), Stavropol: Stavrop. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1979a, pp. 354–355. Chernobai, V.F., On the specificity of localization and adaptation of ectoparasites of corvids, in Ekologicheskaya i eksperimental’naya parazitologiya (Ecological and Experimental Parasitology), Leningrad: Leningr. Gos. Univ., 1979b, vol. 2, pp. 113–117. Chernobai, V.F., The avifauna of the residential landscape, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na prirodnye kompleksy i ekosistemy (Anthropogenic Impacts on Natural Complexes and Ecosystems), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1980, pp. 26–44. Chernobai, V.F., On the role of fish ponds and lakes in the Volgograd oblast in the conservation and enrichment of the avifauna, in Sostoyanie i okhrana biologicheskikh resursov Volgogradskoi oblasti (Status and Conservation of Biological Resources of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1981, pp. 82–84. Chernobai, V.F., Demoiselle crane. Bustard. Oystercatcher, in Beregite: ikh ostalos' malo: Redkie i ischezayushchie zhivotnye Donskogo basseina, trebuyushchie okhrany (Take Care of Them, They Are Scarce: Rare and Endangered Animals of the Don Basin That Need Protection). Rostov-on-Don: Kn. Izd., 1983, pp. 104–106. Chernobai, V.F., Birds as a component of urban human environment, in Sbornik kratkikh soobshchenii “Ptitsy i urbanizirovannyi landshaft” (Collected Short Communications “Birds and Urbanized Landscape”), Kaunas: Inst. Zool. Parazitol. Akad. Nauk LitSSR, 1984a, pp. 9–13. Chernobai, V.F., Ways of adaptation of birds to the urban landscape, in Otrazhenie dostizhenii ornitologicheskoi nauki v uchebnom protsesse srednikh shkol i vuzov i narodnom khozyaistve (Reflection of Advances in Ornithology in the Educational Process in Secondary Schools and Universities and in National Economy), Perm: Perm. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1984b, pp. 106–107. Chernobai, V.F., Peculiarities of the formation of the avifauna and bird population of ponds of the steppe zone, in 3-ya Vsesoyuznaya konferentsiya zoologov Pedagogicheskikh Institutov, Tezisy dokladov (3rd All-Union Conf. Zoologists Pedagog. Univ., Abstracts of Papers), Vitebsk: Viteb. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1984c. pp. 178–179. Chernobai, V.F., Fishery ponds of the steppe zone—an important reserve for the conservation of waterfowl resources, in Vsesoyuznyi seminar “Sovremennoe sostoyanie resursov vodoplavayushchikh ptits,” tezisy dokladov (All-Union Workshop “The Current Status of Waterfowl Resources,” Abstracts of Papers), Moscow: Vses. Nauchno-Issled. Inst. Prirody, 1984d, pp. 293–294. Chernobai, V.F., The role of fishery ponds of the steppe zone in the formation of the avifauna of the region, in Sostoyanie i okhrana biologicheskikh resursov Volgogradskoi oblasti (Status and Conservation of Biological Resources of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1984e, pp. 95–96. Chernobai, V.F., Some patterns of formation of the avifauna and bird population of fishery ponds in the steppe zone, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Antropogennye vozdeistviya na populyatsii zhivotnykh” (Collected Scientific Papers “Anthropogenic Impacts on Animal Populations”), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1986a, pp. 90–106. Chernobai, V.F., Fishery ponds of the steppe zone as a reserves of avifauna of the region, in I S"ezd Vsesoyuznogo ornitologicheskogo obshchestva i IX Vsesoyuznaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiya “Izuchenie ptits SSSR, ikh okhrana i ratsional’noe ispol’zovanie,” Tezisy dokladov (I All-Union Congr. Ornithol. Soc. and IX All-Union Ornithol. Conf. “The Study of Birds of the USSR, Their Conservation and Sustainable Use,” Abstracts of Papers), Leningrad: Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1986b, pp. 319–320. Chernobai, V.F., Wintering birds of urbanized landscapes of the northern areas of the Lower Volga region, in Materialy IV mezhotraslevoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii “Sostoyanie i okhrana biologicheskikh resursov Volgogradskoi oblasti” (Proc. IV Interdiscipl. Sci.-Pract. Conf. “Status and Protection of Biological Resources of the Volgograd Oblast”), Volgograd, 1987, pp. 133–135. Chernobai, V.F., Fish farms as bird habitats in the northern areas of the Lower Volga region, in Vsesoyuznoe soveshchanie po probleme kadastra i ucheta zhivotnogo mira, Tezisy dokladov (All-Union Conf. on the Problem of Cadastre and Registration of the Fauna, Abstracts of Papers), Ufa: Bashkir. Kn. Izd, 1989, part 3, pp. 244–246. Chernobai, V.F., Nature of Volgograd, in Soveshchanie zoologov pedagogogicheskikh institutov “Regional’nye ekologo-faunisticheskie issledovaniya kak nauchnaya osnova faunisticheskogo monitoringa i ratsional’nogo ispol’zovaniya zhivotnykh,” Tezisy dokladov (Conf. Zoologists Pedagog. Univ. “Regional Environmental and Faunal Studies As a Scientific Basis of Faunal Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Animals,” Abstracts of Papers), Kursk, 1990, pp. 107–108. Chernobai, V.F., Rare and endangered vertebrates, in Krasnaya kniga: Redkie i okhranyaemye rasteniya i zhivotnye Volgogradskoi oblasti (The Red Data Book: Rare and Protected Plants and Animals of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogradinform-pechat', 1992, pp. 96–106. Chernobai, V.F., Phenotypic structure of micropopulations of the common pigeon in different conditions of the Volgograd oblast, in I Mezhdunarodnaya i IV Vserossiiskaya nauchno-prakticheskaya konferentsiya “Ekologiya i okhrana okruzhayushchei sredy,” Tezisy dokladov (I Int. and IV All-Russia Sci.-Pract. Conf. “Ecology and Environmental Protection,” Abstracts of Papers), Ryazan: Ryazan. Gos. Univ. im. S.A. Esenina, 1994, pp. 184–186. Chernobai, V.F., Ptitsy v gorode: ekologicheskoe partnerstvo (Birds in the City: Environmental Partnership), Materialy 3-i Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii “Ekologiya goroda” (Proc. 3rd Int. Sci. Conf. “Ecology of a City”), Ecoman, 1995, special issue, p. 156. Chernobai, V.F., Waterfowl and semiaquatic birds of the Volgograd oblast, in Bioraznoobrazie vodnykh ekosistem yugo-vostoka evropeiskoi chasti Rossii (Biodiversity of Aquatic Ecosystems of the Southeast of the European Part of Russia), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 2000a, part 2, pp. 226–243. Chernobai, V.F., White stork in the Volgograd oblast, in Belyi aist v Rossii: dal’she na vostok (White Stork in Russia: Further Eastwards), Kaluga: Tsentr “Kadastr”, 2000b, p. 183. Chernobai, V.F Progressive expansion of cormorants on the water bodies of the South of Russia, in Ptitsy Yuzhnoi Rossii: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi ornitologicheskoi konferentsii “Itogi i perspektivy razvitiya ornitologii na Severnom Kavkaze v 21 veke”, posvyashch. 20-letiyu deyatel’nosti Severo-Kavkazskoi ornitologicheskoi gruppy (Birds of Southern Russia: Proc. Int. Ornithol. Conf. “The results and prospects of development of ornithology in the North Caucasus in the 21st century,” Devoted to the 20th Anniversary of the North-Caucasian Ornithological Group). Rostov-on-Don: Rost. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 2002, pp. 94–100. Chernobai, V.F., The great bustard and the little bustard in the Volgograd oblast, Drofinye Ptitsy Rossii Sopred. Stran, 2003, no. 2, pp. 108–118. Chernobai, V.F., Ptitsy Volgogradskoi oblasti (Birds of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Peremena, 2004a. Chernobai, V.F., Terrestrial vertebrates of the Volgo-Akhtubinskaya Poima Nature Park, in Prirodnyi park “Volgo-Akhtubinskaya poima”: Prirodno-resursnyi potentsial (The Volgo-Akhtubinskaya Poima Nature Park: The Natural Resource Potential), Volgograd: Tsentr Oper. Poligr., 2004b, pp. 130–141. Chernobai, V.F., On the distribution, ecology, and abundance of owls in the Volgograd oblast, in Sovy Severnoi Evrazii (Owls of Northern Eurasia), Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2005, pp. 260–263. Chernobai, V.F., The demoiselle crane: disaster in the Volgograd Lower Volga region, in Zhuravli Evrazii: biologiya, rasprostranenie, migratsii, upravlenie (Eurasian Cranes: Biology, Distribution, Migration, and Management), Moscow: Inst. Probl. Ekol. Evol. im. A.N. Severtsova, Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2011, no. 4, pp. 570–574. Chernobai, V.F. and Bukreev, S.A., On the distribution of the eastern imperial eagle in the Volgograd Trans-Volga region, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Korolevskii orel: rasprostranenie, sostoyanie populyatsii i perspektivy okhrany orla-mogil’nika (Aquila heliaca) v Rossii“ (Collected Scientific Papers “Royal The Imperial Eagle: Distribution, Population Status, and Prospects for the Conservation of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) in Russia”), Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 1999, pp. 81–82. Chernobai, V.F. and Gugueva, E.V., The status e and problems of conservation of cranes in the Volgograd oblast, in Zhuravli Evrazii: biologiya, rasprostranenie, migratsii (Eurasian Cranes: Biology, Distribution, and Migrations), Moscow: Mosk. Zoopark, 2008, no. 3, pp. 258–264. Chernobai, V.F. and Nikitina, N.V., Birds of the Shcherbakovskaya bend, in Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Fauna i ekologiya pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh v antropogennykh usloviyakh” (Interinstitutional Collection of Scientific Papers “Fauna and Ecology of Vertebrates in Anthropogenic Conditions”), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1990, pp. 58–74. Chernobai, V.F. and Shvedov, V.G., Long-term dynamics of the avifauna of the forest-park area of Volgograd and adaptations of birds to anthropogenic changes in their habitats, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na ekosistemy i ikh komponenty (Anthropogenic Impacts on Ecosystems and Their Components), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1982, pp. 120–136. Chernobai, V.F., Galitsyna, V.P., and Podkupnova, Z.I., On the zonal distribution of helminths of corvids in the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy XXI nauchnoi konferentsiiVolgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta (Proc. XXI Sci. Conf. Volgogr. State Pedagog. Inst.), Volgograd, 1966, pp. 161–163. Chernobai, V.F., Kubantsev, B.S., Kobyshev, N.M., and Romanenko, N.M., The impact of urbanization on the composition, abundance, and distribution of birds in recreational areas of Volgograd and its environs, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na prirodnye kompleksy i ekosistemy (Anthropogenic Impacts on Natural Complexes and Ecosystems), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1976, pp. 66–73. Chernobai, V.F., Shvedov, V.G., and Kolyakin, N.N., On the problem of urbanization of birds of the Volgograd oblast, in Sostoyanie i okhrana biologicheskikh resursov Volgogradskoi oblasti (The Status and Conservation of Biological Resources of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1981, pp. 14–16. Chernobai, V.F., Mazina, O.V., and Sokhina, E.N., Dynamics of the abundance of the great bustard in the Volgograd oblast (1960–2010), in Sbornik statei “Izuchenie i sokhranenie estestvennykh landshaftov” (Collected Papers “the Study and Conservation of Natural Landscapes”), Moscow: Planeta, 2011, pp. 77–82. Chuikov, Yu.S., On the possible record of the sacred ibises in the Volga Delta and on many other things (from the correspondence of V.A. Khlebnikov and M.A. Menzbir), Russ. Ornitol. Zh., 2012, vol. 21, express issue 731, pp. 391–407. D’yakonov, V.N., Kobyshev, N.M., Kubantsev, B.S., and Chernobai, V.F., Biotopic distribution and abundance of birds and rodents in the forest ecosystems of the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain depending on the degree of expllitation of the territory by humans, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na prirodnye kompleksy i ekosistemy (Anthropogenic Impacts on Natural Complexes and Ecosystems), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1976, pp. 94–104. Danilenko, E.A., Krivenko, V.G., Kuzyakin, V.A., Sokhina, E.N., and Chernobai, V.F., The Volga–Akhtuba floodplain, in Vodno-bolotnye ugod’ya Rossii (Wetlands of Russia), Moscow: Wetlands International, 2000, pp. 139–141. Devyatko, T.N. and Dzhamirzoev, G.S., Katalog ornitologicheskoi kollektsii Muzeya prirody Khar’kovskogo natsional’nogo universiteta imeni V.N. Karazina (Kavkaz, yuzhnye regiony Rossii i Ukrainy, Srednyaya Aziya, Kazakhstan) (Catalogue of the Ornithological Collection of the Museum of Nature of the Karazin Kharkiv National University Named (Caucasus, the Southern Regions of Russia and Ukraine, Central Asia, and Kazakhstan)), Kharkiv: Khark. Nats. Univ., 2012. Dinesman, L.G., Prevention of harmful activities of the common rosefinch (Erythrina erythrina) in the southern Trans-Volga region, in Soobshcheniya kompleksnoi nauchnoi ekspeditsii po voprosam polezashchitnogo lesorazvedeniya (Reports of the Complex Scientific Expedition on the Problem of Field-Protective Afforestation), Moscow: Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1952, no. 1, pp. 76–77. Dinesman, L.G., The avifauna of forest plantations in the northwestern part of the Caspian Depression in dry years, Tr. Inst. Lesa, 1955, vol. 25, pp. 212–238. Dinesman, L.G., Izmenenie prirody severo-zapada Prikaspiiskoi nizmennosti (Changes in the Nature of the Northwest of the Caspian Depression), Moscow: Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1960. Eversmann, E., Addenda ad celeberrimi Pallasii Zoographiam Rosso-Asiaticam. Aves, Uch. Zap. Kazan. Univ., 1835, book II, pp. 313–372. Eversmann, E., Addenda ad celeberrimi Pallasii Zoographiam Rosso-Asiaticam. Fasciculus II, Uch. Zap. Kazan. Univ., 1841, pp. 154–167. Eversmann, E., Addenda ad celeberrimi Pallasii Zoographiam Rosso-Asiaticam. Fasciculus III, Uch. Zap. Kazan. Univ., 1842, pp. 1–19. Eversmann, E., Einige Beiträge zu Mammalogie und Ornithologie des Russischen Reichs, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1848, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 186–227. Eversmann, E., Kurze Bemerkungen über das Vorkommen und die Verbreitung einiger Säugethiere und Vögel in den Volgo-Uralischen Gegenden und den Steppen der Kirgisen jenseits des Uralflusses, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1855, vol. 10, no. 16, pp. 265–281. Eversmann, E.A., Natural history of birds of Orenburg krai, in Estestvennaya istoriya Orenburgskogo kraya (Natural History of Orenburg Krai), Kazan, 1866, part 3. Eversmann, E., Eversmann’s Addenda ad celeberrimi Pallasii Zoographiam Rosso-Asiaticam, London, 1876. Fadeev, I.V., Kollektory GDM (State Darwin Museum Collectors), Tr. Gos. Darvin. Muz., Moscow, 2007, no. 10, pp. 23–66. Galushin, V.M., Konovalenko, Yu.A., and Moseikin, V.N., Some remarks on the nesting of the eastern imperial eagle and steppe eagle in the contact zone of their ranges in the south of the Volga Uplands, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Korolevskii orel: rasprostranenie, sostoyanie populyatsii i perspektivy okhrany orla-mogil’nika (Aquila heliaca) v Rossii” (Collected Scientific Papers “Distribution, Population Status, and Prospects for the Conservation of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) in Russia”), Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 1999, pp. 79–81. Gavrilov, E.I., Shevchenko, V.L., Naglov, V.A., and Fedosenko, A.K., On the avifauna of the Volga–Ural interfluve, Tr. Inst. Zool. Akad. Nauk KazSSR, 1968, vol. 29, pp. 153–190. Gmelin, S.G., Rariorum avium expositio, Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, 1771, vol. 15, pp. 439–484. Gmelin, S.G., Puteshestvie po Rossii dlya issledovaniya trekh tsarstv estestva. Ch. 1. Puteshestvie iz Sankt-Peterburga do Cherkaska, glavnogo goroda Donskikh kazakov v 1768 i 1769 godakh (Journey through Russia to Study of Three World of Nature. Part 1: Journey from St. Petersburg to Cherkask, the Main Town of the Don Cossacks in 1768 and 1769), St. Petersburg: Imper. Akad. Nauk, 1771. Gmelin, S.G., Puteshestvie po Rossii dlya issledovaniya trekh tsarstv prirody. Ch. 2. Puteshestvie ot Cherkaska do Astrakhani i prebyvanie v sem gorode: s nachala avgusta 1769 po pyatoe iyunya 1770 g. (Journey through Russia to Study of Three World of Nature. Part 2. Journey from Cherkask to Astrakhan and the Stay in This Town from the Beginning of August 1769 to June 5, 1770), St. Petersburg: Imper. Akad. Nauk, 1777. Golov, B.A. and Osmolovskaya, V.N., Biology and economic value of the magpie in natural and artificial forest plantations in the southeast of the European part of the USSR, Tr. Inta Geogr. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1955, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 252–273. Golovanova, E.N., Larks in the Volgograd oblast, Ornitologiya, 1967, no. 8, pp. 342–244. Golovanova, E.N., Mir ptits (The World of Birds), Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1985. Gruzdev, V.V., The avifauna of the Dyakovo forest as a source of population of forest plantations in the Trans-Volga region by birds, Tr. Inst. Lesa, Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1955, vol. 25, pp. 239–254. Gugueva, E.V. and Belik, V.P., Results of inventory of rare species of birds of the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii s mezhdunarodnoi uchastiem, posvyashchennoi 20-letiyu Soyuza okhrany ptits Rossii “Okhrana ptits v Rossii: problemy i perspektivy” (Proc. Sci.-Pract. Conf. with Int. Particip. Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the Russian Bird Conservation Union “BirdLife in Russia: Problems and Prospects”), Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2013, pp. 68–73. Gugueva, E.V. and Belik, V.P., The oystercatcher in the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy 10-i yubileinoi konferentsii Rabochei gruppy po kulikam Severnoi Evrazii “Voprosy ekologii, migratsii i okhrany kulikov Severnoi Evrazii” (Proc. 10th Anniversary Conf. of Working Group on Waders of Northern Eurasia “Problems of ecology, migration, and conservation of waders in Northern Eurasia”), Ivanovo: Ivan. Gos. Univ., 2016, pp. 143–146. Gugueva, E.V., Belik, V.P., and Chernobai, V.F., Birds of prey of the northern part of the Volga–Akhtuba floodplain, in Materialy 5-i mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii po khishchnym ptitsam Severnoi Evrazii “Izuchenie i okhrana khishchnykh ptits Severnoi Evrazii” (Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia “Study and Conservation of Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia “), Ivanovo, 2008, pp. 215–218. Gugueva, E.V., Belik, V.P., and Il’yashenko, E.I., On the distribution of the common crane in the Volgograd oblast, Russia, Inform. Byul. Rab. Gruppy Zhuravlyam Evrazii, Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2013, no. 12, pp. 34–37. Gugueva, E.V., Belik, V.P., Pimenov, V.N., and Milobog, Yu.V., Counts of the demoiselle crane in the Volgograd Trans-Volga region in 2013 and 2014, Inform. Byul. Rab. Gruppy Zhuravlyam Evrazii, Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2014, no. 13, pp. 14–18. Hablizl, Beobachtungen welche über die Zugvögel in Astrachan angestellt worden sind, Neue Nordische Beiträge, 1782, vol. 3, pp. 8–17. Hencke, Die befiederten Sänger der Kirgisensteppe, in Bezirke Narün, Ornithol. Monatsschr., 1882, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 150–156; no. 7, pp. 174–179. Il’yashenko, E.I., Counts of the demoiselle crane in the Volgograd Trans-Volga region, Russia, in 2011, Inform. Byul. Rab. Gruppy Zhuravlyam Evrazii, Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2013, no. 12, pp. 37–39. Kandaurov, E.K., All-Russia census of the great bustard and little bustard, in Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov Tsentralnoi Nauchno-Issledovatelskoi Laboratorii Glavokhoty RSFSR “Drofy puti ikh sokhraneniya” (Collected Scientific Papers of the Central Reseach Laboratory of Game Management and Reserves of the Russian Federation “Greeat Bustards and Methods for Their Conservation), Moscow, 1986, pp. 58–61. Kazeev, S., There is a town of Sarepta, Partner, 2009, no. 6 (141). http://www.partner-inform.de/partner/detail/2009/6/ 231/3701. Accessed November 22, 2015. Khlebnikov, V.A., Checklist of birds of the Astrakhan Province, Protok. Zased. O-va Estestvoispyt. Kazan.Univ., 1890, vol. 22, suppl. 121, pp. 1–32. Khlebnikov, V.A., List of birds of the Astrakhan krai with their distribution by the type of stay in the krai, Mater. Poznan. Prirody Astrakhan. Kraya, Astrakhan, 1928, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 1–39. Khlebnikov, V.A., Birds of the Astrakhan krai, Ezhegodnik Astrakh. Kraevedcheskogo muzeya. Katalog muzeya. Zool. otd.: Ptitsy (Year Book of Astrakhan Local Lure Museum, Museum Catalogue, Zoological Department: Birds), 1930, pp. 1–51. Khodashova, K.S., Prirodnaya sreda i zhivotnyi mir glinistykh polupustyn' Zavolzh’ya (Natural Environment and Fauna of Clay Semideserts of the Trans-Volga Region), Moscow: Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1960. Klimov, S.M., Sarychev, V.S., Mel’nikov, M.V., and Zemlyanukhin, A.I., Fauna ptits basseina Verkhnego Dona: Nevorob’inye (The Avifauna of the Upper Don Basin: Nonpasserines), Lipetsk: Lipets. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 2004. Klyuchevye ornitol. territorii Rossii (Important Bird Areas of Russia), vol. 1: Klyuchevye ornitologicheskie territorii mezhdunarodnogo znacheniya v Evropeiskoi Rossii (Important Bird Areas of International Importance in the European Part of Russia), Sviridov, T.V. and Zubakin, V.A., Ed., Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 2000. Kobyshev, N.M., Foraging and infestation with helminths of birds of prey of the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy XX nauchnoi konferentsii Volgogradskogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta (Proc. XX Sci. Conf. Volgogr. Pedagog. Inst.), Volgograd, 1965, pp. 119-122. Kobyshev, N.M., Data on the parasitic fauna of birds of prey of the Volgograd oblast, in Voprosy ekologii i parazitologii zhivotnykh (Problems of Ecology and Parasitology of the Animals), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1966, pp. 33–39. Kobyshev, N.M., The parasitic fauna of birds of prey of the Volgograd oblast, in Paraziticheskie zhivotnye Volgogradskoi oblasti (Parasitic Animals of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1969a, pp. 137–158. Kobyshev, N.M., Involvement of birds of prey in the distribution of parasites in poultry, in Materialy XXIII nauchnoi konferentsii Volgogradskogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta (Proc. XXIII Sci. Conf. Volgogr. Pedagog. Inst.), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1969b, pp. 131–135. Kobyshev, N.M. and Chashchina, L.N., Blood parasites of birds of prey in the Volgograd oblast, in Voprosy morfologii, ekologii i parazitologii (Problems of Morphology, Ecology, and Parasitology), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1972, pp. 128–136. Kobyshev, N.M., Nefedov, V.N., and Beilinson, E.A., Ectoparaasites of birds of prey of the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy IV nauchnoi konferentsii zoologov Pedagogogicheskikh institutov (Proc. IV Sci. Conf. Zoologists Pedagog. Inst.), Gorky, 1970, pp. 93-94. Kolenov, V.V., Data on the distribution of semiaquatic birds in the Volgograd oblast, in Razmeshchenie i sostoyanie gnezdovii okolovodnykh ptits na territorii SSSR (Location and State of Breeding Areas of Wading Birds in the Territory of the USSR), Moscow: Nauka, 1981, pp. 98–99. Kondrat’ev, V., Systematic description of animals in the Don Army composed in 1822, Kazachii Vestn., gaz. Novocherkassk, 1885, no. 48–59. Korol’kova, G.E., Activities of migratory insectivorous birds of Dzhanybek station, in Zhivotnye iskusstvennykh lesnykh nasazhdenii v glinistoi polupustyne (Animals of Artificial Forest Plantations in a Clay Semidesert), Moscow: Nauka, 1971, pp. 152–177. Kosareva, N.A., Mukhin, V.A., and Chernobai, V.F., Data on the diet of corvids in the Lower Volga region, in Materialy XXII nauchnoi konferentsii Volgogradskogo instituta (Proc. XXII Sci. Conf. Volgogr. Inst.), Volgograd, 1968, pp. 150–154. Kracht, W., Vogelleben und Vogelzug von Tschorny-Jar an der unteren Wolga, J. für Ornithologie, 1919, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 322–331. Kracht, W., Vogelleben und Vogelzug von Tschorny-Jar an der unteren Wolga, Strepet, 2014, vol. 12, nos. 1–2, pp. 5–9. Krasnaya kniga Volgogradskoi oblasti (The Red Data Book of the Volgograd Oblast), vol. 1: Zhivotnye (Animals), Volgograd: Volgograd. Kn. Izd., 2004. Krivenko, V.G., Rusanov, G.M., Kuzyakin, V.A., Danilenko, E.A., Sokhina, E.N., and Chernobai, V.F., The Volgo–Akhtuba Floodplain, in Vodno-bolotnye ugod’ya Rossii, rekomendovannye dlya vneseniya v spisok vodno-bolotnykh ugodii, okhranyaemykh Ramsarskoi konventsiei (Wetlands of Russia Recommended for Inclusion in the List of Wetlands Protected by the Ramsar Convention), Moscow: Wetlands International, 1999. Kubantsev, B.S. and Chernobai, V.F., Ptitsy severnykh raionov Nizhnego Povolzh’ya (ikh okhrana i izuchenie v shkole i pedagogicheskom institute): ucheb. posobie (Birds of the Northern Areas of the Lower Volga Region (Their Conservation and Study at School and Teacher’s Training College): A Textbook), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1982. Kubantsev, B.S. and Kobyshev, N.M., On the abundance and diet of birds of prey in some areas of the Volgograd oblast, in Materialy 3-i konferentsii zoologov Pedagogicheskikh Institutov (Proc. 3rd Conf. Zoologists of Teacher’s Training Colleges), Volgograd, 1967, pp. 420–424. Kubantsev, B.S. and Kolyakin, N.N., The impact of anthropogenic pollution on the abundance and distribution of animals of urban ecosystems, in I mezhdunarodnaya i IV Vserossiiskaya nauchno-prakticheskaya konferentsiya “Ekologiya i okhrana okruzhayushchei sredy,” Tezisy dokladov (I Int. and IV All-Russia Sci.-Pract. Conf. “Ecology and Environmental Protection,” Abstracts of Papers), Ryazan: Ryazan. Gos. Univ. im. S.A. Esenina, 1994, pp. 19–22. Kubantsev, B.S. and Kolyakin, N.N., The spatial differentiation of the animal component of the ecosystems of an industrial city, Ekologiya, 1995a, no. 2, pp. 140–145. Kubantsev, B.S. and Kolyakin, N.N., Spatial variability and dynamics of birds population of an industrial city, in Regional’nye ekologo-faunisticheskie issledovaniya kak nauchnaya osnova faunisticheskogo monitoringa (Regional Ecological and Faunal Studies as a Scientific Basis for Faunal Monitoring), Ul’yanovsk: Ul’yanov. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 1995b, pp. 147–149. Kubantsev, B.S. and Kosareva, N.S., New data on the distribution and abundance of some species of animals in the Volga–Don interfluve area, Volgograd oblast, Uch. Zap. Volgogr. Pedagog. Inst., 1964, no. 16, pp. 90–98. Kubantsev, B.S. and Vasil’ev, I.E., The composition, distribution, and abundance of birds in the fields of crops in the northern regions of the Lower Volga region, Ekologiya, 1982, no. 5, pp. 62–65. Kubantsev, B.S., Uvarova, V.Ya., and Kosareva, N.A., Zhivotnyi mir Volgogradskoi oblasti. Nazemnye pozvonochnye zhivotnye (The Fauna of the Volgograd Oblast: Terrestrial Vertebrates), Volgograd: Volgogr. Kn. Izd., 1962. Kubantsev, B.S., Belitskaya, O.N., and Vasil’ev, I.E., The role of artificial plantations in steppes of the South-East of the RSFSR in the formation of the fauna of terrestrial vertebrates, in 3-ya Vsesoyuznaya konferentsiya zoologov Pedagogicheskikh Institutov, Tezisy dokladov (3rd All-Union Conf. Zoologists of Teacher’s Training Colleges, Abstracts of Papers), Vitebsk: Viteb. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1984, part 1, pp. 94–95. Kubantsev, B.S., Belitskaya, O.N., and Vasil’ev, I.E., Artificial forest plantations as a factor of formation of bird population of agricultural lands of the steppe zone, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na populyatsii zhivotnykh (Anthropogenic Impacts on Animal Populations), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1986a, pp. 107–115. Kubantsev, B.S., Chernobai, V.F., Belitskaya, O.N., and Vasil’ev, I.E., Changes in the avifauna and bird population of steppes of the Lower Volga region under the influence of some form of economic exploitation of the territory, in Problemy regional’noi zoologii (Problems of Regional Zoology), Stavropol: Stavrop. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1986b, pp. 43–55. Kubantsev, B.S., Belitskaya, O.N., and Vasil’ev, I.E., The significance of different forms of agricultural land use in the formation of the fauna and population of vertebrate animals of the steppe zone, in Sostoyanie i okhrana biologicheskikh resursov Volgogradskoi oblasti (Status and conservation of biological resources of the Volgograd oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1989, pp. 93–94. Kubantsev, B.S., Chernobai, V.F., and Prilipko, N.I., The economic use of the Volga–Akhtuba Floodplain and the long-term dynamics of its bird population, in Mezhdunarodnaya konferentsiya ”Ekologicheskie problemy basseinov krupnykh rek,” Tezisy dokladov (Int. Conf. “Environmental Problems of the Major River Basins,” Abstracts of Papers), Tolyatti: Inst. Ekol. Volzhsk. Bass., Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1998, pp. 75–76. Kubantsev, B.S., Chernobai, V.F., and Prilipko, N.I., Long-term changes in the composition, distribution, and abundance of birds in the north of the Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain as a result of its economic use, Povolzh. Ekol. Vestn., 1999, no. 5, pp. 52–58. Kukish, A.I., Zhivotnyi Mir Kalmykii: Ptitsy (The Fauna of Kalmykia: Birds), Elista: Kalm. Kn. Izd., 1982. Kuleshova, L.V., Types of bird population of the Lower Volga valley and adjacent areas of the North Caspian, Ornitologiya, 1965, no. 7, pp. 235–243. L’vov, I.A., The current state of the little bustard in the Rostov and Volgograd oblasts, in VII Vsesoyuznaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiya, Tezisy dokladov (VII All-Union Ornithol. Conf., Abstracts of Papers), Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1977, part 2, pp. 233–234. Lepekhin, I., Dnevnye zapiski puteshestviya doktora i Akademii nauk ad"yunkta Ivana Lepekhina po raznym provintsiyam Rossiiskogo gosudarstva, 1768 i 1769 godu (Day Notes of the Journey of Ivan Lepekhin, Doctor and Adjunct of the Academy of Sciences, in Different Provinces of the Russian State in 1768 and 1769), St. Petersburg: Imper. Akad. Nauk, 1795, part 1. Lindeman, G.V., Birds of artificial forest plantations in the clay semidesert of Northern Caspian region, in Zhivotnye iskusstvennykh lesnykh nasazhdenii v glinistoi polupustyne (Animals of Artificial Forest Plantation in a Clay Semidesert), Moscow: Nauka, 1971, pp. 120–151. Lindeman, G.V., On the flyways of birds of prey in the Volga–Ural interfluve area, in Migratsii ptits v Azii (Migrations of Birds in Asia), Alma-Ata: Nauka KazSSR, 1976, pp. 223–226. Lindeman, G.V., The steppe eagle in the Volga–Ural interfluve area, in 7-ya Vsesoyuznaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiya, Tezisy dokladov (7th All-Union Ornithol. Conf., Abstracts of Papers), Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1977, part 2, pp. 226–228. Lindeman, G.V., Changes in the population of birds and mammals of semideserts of the Trans-Volga region, in Antropogennye faktory v istorii razvitiya sovrem. ekosistem (Anthropogenic Factors in the History of Development of Modern Ecosystems), Moscow: Nauka, 1981, pp. 98–108. Lindeman, G.V., The long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus Cretzschm.) in the Volga–Ural interfluve area, Byul. Mosk. O-va Ispyt. Prir., Otd. Biol., 1985, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 27–37. Lindeman, G.V. and Lopushkov, V.A., The little bustard in the semidesert Trans-Volga region, Ornitologiya, 2004a, no. 31, pp. 108–113. Lindeman, G.V. and Lopushkov, V.A., Long-term dynamics of the population of skylarks in the Trans-Volga clay semidesert, Ornitologiya, 2004b, no. 31, pp. 114–122. Lindeman, G.V. and Lopushkov, V.A., Long-term changes in the species composition and abundance of birds of Elton region and adjacent areas, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Bioraznoobrazie i problemy prirodopol’zovaniya v Priel’ton’e” (“Biodiversity and Land Use Problems in Elton Region”), Volgograd: PrinTerra, 2006, pp. 74–80. Lindeman, G.V. and Zaletaev, V.S., On the periodic changes in the species composition of gulls in a breeding colony, in Materialy soveshchaniya “Kolonial’nye gnezdov’ya okolovodnykh ptits i ikh okhrana” (Proc. Conf. “Nesting Colonies of Semiaquatic Birds and Their Protection”), Moscow: Nauka, 1975, p. 84. Lindeman, G.V. and Zaletaev, V.S., On the distribution of rare species of gulls in Western Kazakhstan, in Redkie i ischezayushchie zveri i ptitsy Kazakhstana (Rare and Endangered Animals and Birds in Kazakhstan), Alma-Ata, 1977, pp. 199–201. Lindeman, G.V., Abaturov, B.D., Bykov, A.V., and Lopushkov, V.A., Dinamika naseleniya pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh Zavolzhskoi polupustyni (Population Dynamics of Vertebrates of the Trans-Volga Semidesert), Moscow: Nauka, 2005. Lopushkov, V.A. and Lindeman, G.V., Cranes of Lake Elton environs (Volgograd oblast), Ornitologiya, 2003, no. 30, pp. 153–155. Lorets, V.F., Checklist of birds of Sarepta environs, Izv. Sarat. O-va Estestvoispyt., 1928, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 73–95. Lugovoi, A.E., Birds of the Volgi River delta, in Fauna i ekologiya ptits del’ty Volgi i poberezhii Kaspiya (The Fauna and Ecology of Birds of the Delta of the Volga and the Caspian Sea Coasts), Tr. Astrakhan. Zapov., 1963, no. 8, pp. 9–185. Luk’yanov, A.M., Birds of prey in the south of the forest–steppe in the northern part of the Lower Volga region, in Sbornik studencheskikh nauchnykh rabot biologo-khimicheskogo fakul’teta Moskovskogo pedagogicheskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (Collected Scientific Papers of Students of the Biological–Chemical Faculty of Moscow State Teacher’s Training College), Moscow: Mosk. Pedagog. Gos. Univ., 1999a, pp. 37–43. Luk’yanov, A.M., Birds of prey in the south of the forest–steppe in the northern part of the Lower Volga region, in Materialy 3-i konferentsii po khishchnym ptitsam Vostochnoi Evropy i Severnoi Azii (Proc. 3rd Conf. on Birds of Prey of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia): Stavropol: Stavrop. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 1999b, pp. 96–97. Mal’chevskii, A.S., The fauna of vertebrates of narrow shelter belts of the Trans-Volga region, Extended Abstract of Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Dissertation, Leningrad, 1941. Mal’chevskii, A.S., On the biology of the red-headed bunting, Priroda (Moscow, Russ. Fed.), 1946, no. 6, p. 71. Mal’chevskii, A.S., The role of birds in the forest shelter belts of the Trans-Volga region, Vestn. Leningr. Univ., 1947, no. 4, pp. 28–39. Mal’chevskii, A.S., Nesting of birds in forest belts of the Trans-Volga region, Uch. Zap. Leningr. Univ., Ser. Biol. Nauki, 1950, no. 25: Tr. Lesostep. Nauchno-Issled. Stn. Les naVorskle, pp. 208–227. Markov, V.I., Changes in the avifauna in the Tsimlyansk Reservoir area, in Vtoraya Vsesoyuznaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiya, Tezisy dokladov (Second All-Union Ornithol. Conf., Abstracts of Papers), Moscow: Mosk. Gus. Univ., 1959, part 2, pp. 68–69. Markov, G.S. and Chernobai, V.F., Blood parasites of corvids of the Lower Volga region, in Materialy XXII nauchnoi konferentsii Volgogradskogo pedagogicheskogo instituta (Proc. XXII Sci. Conf. Volgogr. Inst), Volgograd: Volgograd. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1968, pp. 163–168. Menzbir, M.A., Ptitsy Rossii (Birds of Russia), 2 vols., Moscow: Tipo-litografiya T-va I.N. Kushnerev i K, 1895, vols. 1–2. Mlíkovsky, J., Nomenclatural and taxonomic status of birds (Aves) collected during the gmelin expedition to the Caspian Sea in 1768–1774, J. Natl. Mus. (Prague), Nat. History Ser., 2011, vol. 180, pp. 81–121. Moeschler, H., Bericht aus Sarepta an H. F. Moeschler in Herrnhut, Naumannia: Archiv für die Ornithologie, vorzugsweise Europa’s, 1853a, no. 4, pp. 296–307. Moeschler, H., Einige Notizen über die in der Umgegend der Kolonie Sarepta vorkommenden seltneren Vöogel. Aus einem Briefe an H. Moeschler, nebst Anmerkungen von Dr. J. F. Naumann, Naumannia: Archiv für die Ornithologie, vorzugsweise Europa’s, 1853b, no. 3, pp. 23–30. Moseikin, V.N., Ecology and conservation of the little bustard in the Saratov oblast, in Drofy i puti ikh sokhraneniya (Bustards and Methods of Their Conservation), Moscow: Tsentr. Nauchno-Issled. Lab. Glavokhoty RSFSR, 1986, pp. 71–86. Moseikin, V.N., Distribution and abundance of demoiselle crane in the Lower Volga region, in Zhuravl’-krasavka v SSSR (The Demoiselle Crane in the USSR), Alma-Ata: Gylym, 1991a, pp. 12–14. Moseikin, V.N., Rare breeding birds of prey of the Volga–Ural interfluve area, in Materialy 10-i Vsesoyuznoi ornitologicheskoi konferentsii (Proc. 10th All-Union Ornithol. Conf.), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, 1991. Moseikin, V.N., Changes in the saker falcon population in the Lower Volga region in the last twenty years, in Materialy 3-i konferentsii po khishchnym ptitsam Vostochnoi Evropy i Severnoi Azii (Proc. 3rd Conf. On Birds of Prey of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia), Stavropol: Stavrop. Gos. Pedagog. Univ., 1998, part 1, pp. 88–89. Moseikin, V.N., The eastern imperial eagle in the Lower Volga region, in Sbornik nauchnykh trudov “Korolevskii orel: rasprostranenie, sostoyanie populyatsii i perspektivy okhrany orla-mogil’nika (Aquila heliaca) v Rossii” (Collected Scientific Papers “Imperial Eagle: Distribution, Population Status, and Prospects for the Protection of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila Heliaca) in Russia”), Moscow: Soyuz Okhrany Ptits Rossii, 1999, pp. 25–29. Moseikin, V.N., New ornithological findings in the Saratov oblast, Russ. Ornitol. Zh., 2000, express issue 104, pp. 3–7. Moseikin, V.N., Birds of prey and climate, Mir Ptits: Inform. Byull. Soyuza Okhr. Ptits Rossii, 2003, no. 2 (23), pp. 24–25. Moseikin, V.N., Dynamics of populations of the white-tailed eagle in the Volga–Ural interfluve area, in Materialy 5-i mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii po khishchnym ptitsam Severnoi Evrazii “Izuchenie i okhrana khishchnykh ptits Severnoi Evrazii” (Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia “Research and Conservation of Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia”), Ivanovo, 2008, pp. 276–277. Moseikin, V.N. and Moseikin, E.V., The lesser kestrel in the Volga–Ural interfluve area, Kavkaz. Ornitol. Vestn., 2000, no. 12, pp. 150–159. Mozgina, A.A., On the helminthofauna of some fish-eating birds of the Volgograd oblast, in Voprosy ekologii i parazitologii zhivotnykh (Problems of Ecology and Parasitology of Animals), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1966, pp. 85–90. Mozgina, A.A., Gel’mintofauna chernogolovogo khokhotuna Volgogradskoi oblasti, in 5-ya Nauchnaya konferentsiya Ukrainskogo Respublikanskogo nauchnogo obshchesva parazitologov “Problemy parazitologii,” Tezisy dokladov (5th Sci. Conf. Ukr. Rep. Sci. Soc. of Parasitologists “Problems of Parasitology,” Abstracts of Papers), Kiev, 1967, pp. 175–176. Mozgina, A.A., Epizootic role of birds of Laridae and Ardeidae families on the Tsimlyansk Reservoir, in Paraziticheskie zhivotnye Volgogradskoi oblasti (Parasitic Animals of the Volgograd Oblast), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1969, pp. 159–165. Muzaev, V.M. and Poznyak, V.G., Fauna pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh Respubliki Kalmykiya: metod. ukazaniya dlya studentov (Vertebrate Fauna of the Republic of Kalmykia: Methodological Guidelines for Students), Elista: Kalm. Gos. Univ., 2014. Nikolaev, V.I., On the avifauna of the north of the Astrakhan oblast, Berkut, 1995, vol. 4, no. 1-2, pp. 92–93. Nomikosov, S., Statisticheskoe Opisanie Oblasti Voiska Donskogo (Statistical Description of the Don Cossack Army Land), Novocherkassk: Obl. pPravl. Voiska Donskogo, 1884. Numerov, A.D., Class Aves (Birds), in Prirodnye resursy Voronezhskoi oblasti. Pozvonochnye zhivotnye: Kadastr (Natural Resources of the Voronezh Oblast. Vertebrates: An Inventory), Voronezh: Biomik, 1996, pp. 48–159. Ognev, S.I., Poezdka v del’tu Volgi (Doklad, prochitannyi v zasedanii Imperatorskogo russkogo obshchestva akklimatizatsii zhivotnykh i rastenii 20 noyabrya 1912 g.) (A Trip to the Volga Delta (Lecture Delivered at the Meeting of the Imperial Russian Society of Acclimatization of Animals and Plants November 20, 1912)), Moscow: Tip. O.L. Somovoi, 1913. Ognev, S.I. and Vorob’ev, K.A., Fauna pozvonochnykh Voronezhskoi gubernii (Vertebrate Fauna of the Voronezh Province), Moscow: Novaya Derevnya, 1923. Orlov, E.I. and Kaizer, G.A., Game and commercial role of Prieruslanskie sands of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Uch. Zap. Sarat. Gos. Univ., 1933, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 111–157. Osmolovskaya, V.N., The role of birds in the destruction of insect pests of forest plantations in the Stalingrad area, Zool. Zh., 1950, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 243–249. Osmolovskaya, V.N., Insectivorous birds of the Lower Volga region and their role in forest pest control, in Polezashchitnoe lesorazvedenie na kashtanovykh pochvakh (Shelterbelt Afforestation on Chestnut Soils), Moscow: Mosk. Gos. Univ., 1961, no. 1, pp. 224–261. Pallas, P.S., Puteshestvie po raznym provintsiyam Rossiiskogo gosudarstva (Journey in Various Provinces of the Russian State), St. Petersburg: Imper. Akad. Nauk, 1788. Pallas, P.S., Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, Petropolis: Officina Caes. Academiae Scientiarum, 1811a, vol. 1. Pallas, P.S., Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, Petropolis: Officina Caes. Academiae Scientiarum, 1811b, vol. 2. Pimenov, V.N. and Belik, V.P., The long-legged buzzard in the Volgograd Trans-Volga region, in Materialy 13-i mezhdunarodnoi ornitologicheskoi konferentsii Severnoi Evrazii “Ornitologiya v Severnoi Evrazii” (Proc. 13th Int. Ornithol. Conf. of Northern Eurasia “Ornithology in Northern Eurasia”), Orenburg: Orenb. Pedagog. Univ., 2010, p. 250. Pimenov, V.N. and Belik, V.P., The long-legged buzzard in the Volgograd Trans-Volga region, Strepet, 2015, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 120–144. Polyakov, G.I., E.V. Tarasov, Ornitol. Vestn., 1915, no. 3, pp. 209–210. Ptushenko, E.S., On the population of shelterbelt plantings of the Stalingrad area by birds, Okhrana prirody (Nature Conservation), Moscow: Vses. O-vo Okhrany Prirody, 1949. Rall’, Yu.M., Nature and wildlife of the Tsymlyansk Peninsula, Izv. VGO, 1953, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 382–392. Reutskii, N.D., An annotated checklist of birds of the Astrakhan oblast with specification of their distribution by natural territorial complexes, Astrakh. Vestn. Ekol. Obraz., 2014, no. 1 (27), pp. 159–208; no. 2 (28), pp. 121–159; no. 3 (29), pp. 91–153; no. 4 (30), pp. 109–180. Reutskii, N.D., An annotated checklist of birds of the Astrakhan oblast with specification of their distribution by natural territorial complexes, Astrakh. Vestn. Ekol. Obrazov., 2015, no. 1 (31), pp. 75–108. Rusanov, G.M., Ptitsy Nizhnei Volgi (Birds of the Lower Volga Region), Astrakhan: Volga, 2011. Samorodov, Yu.A., Birds of the Sarpa River, an ancient canal of the Volga River, and adjacent areas of the North-West Caspian region, in Zhivotnyi mir Kalmykii, ego okhrana i ratsional’noe ispol’zovanie (Fauna of Kalmykia, Its Conservation and Management), Elista: Kalm. Gos. Univ., 1982, pp. 47–101. Satunin, K.A., A journey to Lake Elton, Priroda Okhota, 1897, vol. 12, pp. 18–32. Seebohm, H., Notes on the birds of Astrakhan, Ibis, 1882, Ser. 4, no. 6, pp. 204–232. Severtsov, N.A., Periodicheskie yavleniya v zhizni zverei, ptits i gad Voronezhskoi gubernii (Periodic Phenomena in the Life of Animals, Birds, and Reptiles of the Voronezh Province), Moscow, 1855. Severtsov, N., Notes on the checklist of birds of the Astrakhan province compiled by V.E. Yakovlev, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1874, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 39–41. Shergalin, E.E., Dr. Hans Bub (1922–1995) and his observations of the flight of birds of prey between the Azov and the Caspian Seas in 1942/1943, in Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Khishchnye ptitsy Severnogo Kavkaza i sopredel’nykh regionov: rasprostranenie, ekologiya, dinamika populyatsii, okhrana” (Proc. Int. Conf. “Birds of Prey of the Northern Caucasus and Adjacent Regions: Distribution, Ecology, Population Dynamics, and Conservation”), Rostov-on-Don: Yuzh. Fed. Univ., 2014, pp. 308–312. Shevchenko, V.L., Gavrilov, E.I., Naglov, V.A., Fedosenko, A.K., and Tatarinova, O.M., On the avifauna of the Volga–Ural interfluve area (birds of prey and owls), in Biologiya ptits v Kazakhstane (Biology of Birds in Kazakhstan), Tr. Inst. Zool. Akad. Nauk KazSSR, 1978, vol. 38, pp. 100–114. Shevchenko, V.L., Debelo, P.V., Gavrilov, E.I., Naglov, V.A., and Fedosenko, A.K., On the avifauna of the Volga–Ural interfluve area, in Fauna i biologiya ptits Kazakhstana (Fauna and Biology of Birds of Kazakhstan), Almaty: Nauka, 1993, pp. 7–103. Shishkin, V.S., Annual and seasonal fluctuations in the abundance of larks in the northwestern Kazakhstan, Zool. Zh., 1976, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 402–407. Shishkin, V.S., Features of breeding of larks in the semidesert of the Northern Caspian, Ornitologiya, 1982, no. 17, pp. 83–90. Sokhina, E.N., Chernobai, V.F., and Lin’kov, A.B., Sarpa lakes and Lake Deed-Hulsun, in Vodno-bolotnye ugod’ya Rossii (Wetlands of Russia), Moscow: Wetlands International, 2000, p p. 198–204. Spangenberg, E.P., Avifauna of the Ilovlya River as a source of population of shelterbelt plantings, Zool. Zh., 1949, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 509–514. Sukhorukov, V.D., Statisticheskoe Opisanie zemli Donskikh kazakov, sostavlennoe v 1822–1832 gg. (Statistical Description of the Land of the Don Cossacks Drawn Up in 1822–1832), Novocherkassk: Obl. Pravlenie Voyska Donskogo, 1891. Tarasov, E.V A essay about birds of the Volga River delta, Ornitol. Vestn., 1914, no. 4, pp. 267–271. Törne, H., Jagdfalken (Falco rusticolus) als Gäste in Süd-Russland, Vogelzug, 1940, vol. 11, no. 3. Tsapko, N.V., Khokhlov, A.N., and Il’yukh, M.P., Ornitofauna Kalmykii (Aviddauna of Kalmykia), Stavropol: Sev.-Kavkaz. Gos. Tekhn. Univ., 2009. Semenov-Tyan-Shanskii, A., Vasilii Evgrafovich Yakovlev (28.I.1939–2.VIII.1908) Moscow: Tipografiya Gerol’d, 1910. Uvarova, V.Ya., Species composition of birds of forest belts of collective farms of Demino Machine and Tractor Station, Stalingrad oblast, Tr. Stalingr. S.-Kh. Inst., 1955, vol. 6, pp. 146–151. Uvarova, V.Ya On the formation of the avifauna of forest shelterbelts of Stalingrad oblast, in 3-ya Pribaltiiskaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiya, Tezisy dokladov (3rd Baltic Ornithol. Conf., Abstracts of Papers), Vilnius: Inst. Biol. Akad. Nauk Lit. SSR, 1957, pp. 108–110. Uvarova, V.Ya., Population by birds of forest belts of collective farms of Demino Machine and Tractor Station, Stalingrad oblast, Tr. Stalingr. S.-Kh. Inst., 1959a, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 265–278. Uvarova, V.Ya., Changes in the avifauna of shelterbelt forest plantations caused by incorrect cleaning cuttings, in 2-ya Vsesoyuznaya ornitologicheskaya konferentsiiya, Tezisy dokladov (2nd All-Union Ornithol. Conf., Abstracts of Papers), Moscow: Mosk. Gos. Univ., 1959b, part 3, pp. 112–113. Uvarova, V.Ya., On the formation of the avifauna of shelterbelt plantings of the Stalingrad oblast, in Trudy 3-i Pribaltiiskoi ornitologicheskoi konferentsii (Tr. Proc. 3rd Baltic Ornithol. Conf.), Vilnius: Inst. Biol. Akad. Nauk Lit. SSR, 1959c, pp. 305–310. Vasil’ev, I.E., The impact of anthropogenic disturbance on the species composition and abundance of birds of fields and shelterbelts plantings of Volgograd environs, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na prirodnye kompleksy i ekosistemy (Anthropogenic Impacts on Natural Complexes and Ecosystems), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1980, pp. 44–50. Vasil’ev, I.E., On the role of the bird population of natural and agricultural biotopes in the formation of the avifauna of settlements in the dry steppe zone, in Antropogennye vozdeistviya na ekosistemy i ikh komponentov (Anthropogenic Impacts on Ecosystems and Their Components), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1982, pp. 100–104. Vasil’ev, I.E. and Kubantsev, B.S., Birds of agricultural fields in the northern areas of the Lower Volga region, in Fauna i ekologiya pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh v antropogennykh usloviyakh (Fauna and Ecology of Vertebrates in Anthropogenic Environments), Volgograd: Volgogr. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1990, pp. 83–85. Vetrov, V.V., On the breeding of the pallid harrier in the Volgograd and Rostov oblasts, in Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii “Redkie, malochislennye i maloizuchennye ptitsy Severnogo Kavkaza” (Proc. Sci.-Pract. Conf. “Rare, Scanty, and Insufficiently Studied Birds of Northern Caucasus”), Stavropol: Stavrop. Gos. Pedagog. Inst., 1990, pp. 34–35. Vetrov, V.V., Breeding of the pallid harrier in the Volgograd and Rostov oblasts, in Sovremennaya ornitologiya (Modern Ornithology), Moscow: Nauka, 1992, pp. 262–263. Vietinghoff, A., Zum Vogelleben des Astrachaner Gouvernements (von Tschorny Jar), J. für Ornithologie, 1920, vol. 68, nos. 3–4, pp. 341–344. Volchanetskii, I.B., The biological bases of organization of game areas on Kamysh–Samara lakes, Uch. Zap. Sarat. Univ., 1934, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 21–40. Volchanetskii, I.B., On the avifauna of the Volga–Ural steppe, Tr. Naucho-Issled. Zool.-Biol. Inst. Khar’k. Univ., Sekt. Ekol., 1937, vol. 4, pp. 23–78. Volchanetskii, I.B., On the distribution of red- and black-headed buntings, Priroda (Moscow, Russ. Fed.), 1950, no. 8, pp. 70–71. Volchanetskii, I.B. and Yal’tsev, N.P., On the avifauna of the Prieruslanskaya stepi of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Uch. Zap. Sarat. Univ., 1934, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 63–93. Volchanetskii, I.B., Kapralova, N.I., and Lisetskii, A.S., On the avifauna of Lake Elton area of the Trans-Volga region and its reconstruction in connection with the shelterbelt planting, Zool. Zh., 1950, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 501–512. Vorob’ev, K.A., Data on the avifauna of the Volga River delta and adjacent steppes, Tr. Astrakh. Zapov., 1936, no. 1, pp. 1–60. Yakovlev, V., Materials for natural history of the Saratov krai. I. Rodents. II. Insectivores. III. Carnivores. Artiodactyla, Sarat. Gub. Vedom., 1860, no. 42, pp. 353–357; no. 43, pp. 366–367; no. 44, pp. 375–376. Yakovlev, V., Materials for natural history of the Saratov krai. V. Ground squirrels, Sarat. Gub. Vedom., 1861, no. 9, pp. 78–79. Yakovlev, V., Materials for natural history of the Saratov krai. VI. Hedgehog, corsac fox, and beaver, Sarat. Gub. Vedom., 1862, no. 6, pp. 63–65. Yakovlev, V.E., Checklist of birds occurring in the Astrakhan province, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1872, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 323–361. Yakovlev, V., A few words on the essay by M.N. Bogdanov, Bull. Soc. Naturalistes de Moscou, 1874, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 383–393. Yakovlev, V.Ya., Essays on some birds of the Astrakhanskoi fauna, Priroda (Moscow, Russ. Fed.), 1877, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 132–133. Yakovlev, V.E., Checklist of birds occurring in the Astrakhan province, Strepet, 2015, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 5–28. Yudin, K.A., Characteristics of the avifauna of the Valuiskaya experimental land reclamation station (Stalingrad area), Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1952, vol. 11, pp. 235–264. Zav’yalov, E.V., Shlyakhtin, G.V., Tabachishin, V.G., Yakushev, N.N., and Khrustov, I.A., Ptitsy severa Nizhnego Povolzh’ya (Birds of the North of the Lower Volga Region), in 5 books, book 1: Istoriya izucheniya, obshchaya kharakteristika i sostav ornitofauny (The History of Research, General Characteristics, and Composition of the Avifauna), Saratov: Sarat. Univ., 2005a. Zav’yalov, E.V., Shlyakhtin, G.V., Tabachishin, V.G., Yakushev, N.N., Khrustov, I.A., and Mosolova, E.Yu., Ptitsy severa Nizhnego Povolzh’ya (Birds of the North of the Lower Volga Region), in 5 books, book 2: Sostav ornitofauny (The Composition of the Avifauna), Saratov: Sarat. Univ., 2005b. Zav’yalov, E.V., Shlyakhtin, G.V., Tabachishin, V.G., Yakushev, N.N., Mosolova, E.Yu., and Ugol’nikov, K.V., Ptitsy severa Nizhnego Povolzh’ya (Birds of the North of the Lower Volga Region), in 5 books, book 3: Sostav ornitofauny (The Composition of the Avifauna), Saratov: Sarat. Univ., 2007. Zav’yalov, E.V., Tabachishin, V.G., Yakushev, N.N., Mosolova, E.Yu., Shlyakhtin, G.V., Koshkin, V.A., Khuchraev, S.O., and Ugol’nikov, K.V., Ptitsy severa Nizhnego Povolzh’ya (Birds of the North of the Lower Volga Region), in 5 books, book 4: Sostav ornitofauny (The Composition of the Avifauna), Saratov: Sarat. Univ., 2009. Zav’yalov, E.V., Mosolova, E.Yu., Tabachishin, V.G., Shlyakhtin, G.V., and Yakushev, N.N., Ptitsy severa Nizhnego Povolzh’ya (Birds of the North of the Lower Volga Region), in 5 books, book 5: Sostav ornitofauny (The Composition of the Avifauna), Saratov: Sarat. Univ., 2011. Zhitkov, B.M., On hunting and conservation of birds in the Volga River delta, Mater. Poznan. Russk. Okhot. Dela, 1914, no. 4, pp. 1–56.