Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts
Meadow ecosystems comprise a significant part of the area of Ukraine, especially in its western regions. Those ecosystems are subjects of concern today because of the active agricultural use and droughts that also threatens the animal population of meadows, including birds. Studies of meadow bird sp...
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| author | Ihor Shydlovskyy Oleksii Dubovyk Petro Hrynyuk Ivan Zahorodnyi Vasyl Matejchyk |
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| description | Meadow ecosystems comprise a significant part of the area of Ukraine, especially in its western regions. Those ecosystems are subjects of concern today because of the active agricultural use and droughts that also threatens the animal population of meadows, including birds. Studies of meadow bird species of western Ukraine are limited to atlases, which results in a lack of precise data. This work was part of an international project on the conservation of the great snipe Gallinago media and allowed us to collect valuable data on the abundance and occurrence of meadow bird species nearby to the Polish and Belarusian borders of Ukraine — territories that are commonly ignored by Ukrainian researchers. The surveys of meadow birds conducted near the Ukrainian-Polish border in 2020 have shown that the general state of the marshes is worse compared to 2019: even close to the Western Bug river, only deep oxbow lakes were wet or contained some water, but minor lakes and wetlands of the valley were found to be dry. In total, we observed 141 bird species belonging to 17 orders. Among them, 26 were common by abundance and frequency, such as the great egret Ardea alba, the white stork Ciconia ciconia, the common quail Coturnix coturnix, the corn crake Crex crex, the northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus, the common redshank Tringa totanus, the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus, the Eurasian skylark Alauda arvensis, the meadow pipit Anthus pratensis, the western yellow wagtail Motacilla flava, the sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, the marsh warbler A. palustris, the great reed warbler A. arundinaceus, the common whitethroat Sylvia communis, the whinchat Saxicola rubetra, the thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia, the common linnet Linaria cannabina, the corn bunting Emberiza calandra, the common reed bunting E. schoeniclus, and 7 more species, which were observed frequently though are not typical marshland species. We have identified the species that can be used as indicators of parameters of marsh ecosystems such as grass height (corn crake, western yellow wagtail, and sedge warbler), moisture (common redshank, common cuckoo, and the sedge and great reed warblers), and habitat type (corn crake, European bee-eater Merops apiaster, sedge warbler, common reed, and corn buntings). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44ded2d62e054ef4b31e0134775ef70a2022-12-22T03:08:05ZengNational Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of UkraineGeo&Bio2617-61572617-61652021-07-012011713410.15407/gb2012Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn OblastsIhor Shydlovskyy0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1003-2562Oleksii Dubovyk1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2936-6383Petro Hrynyuk2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2548-1202Ivan Zahorodnyi3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2621-4202Vasyl Matejchyk4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-1001Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine)Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine)Northern Podillia National Park (Brody, Ukraine)Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine)Roztochia Nature Reserve (Ivano-Frankove, Ukraine)Meadow ecosystems comprise a significant part of the area of Ukraine, especially in its western regions. Those ecosystems are subjects of concern today because of the active agricultural use and droughts that also threatens the animal population of meadows, including birds. Studies of meadow bird species of western Ukraine are limited to atlases, which results in a lack of precise data. This work was part of an international project on the conservation of the great snipe Gallinago media and allowed us to collect valuable data on the abundance and occurrence of meadow bird species nearby to the Polish and Belarusian borders of Ukraine — territories that are commonly ignored by Ukrainian researchers. The surveys of meadow birds conducted near the Ukrainian-Polish border in 2020 have shown that the general state of the marshes is worse compared to 2019: even close to the Western Bug river, only deep oxbow lakes were wet or contained some water, but minor lakes and wetlands of the valley were found to be dry. In total, we observed 141 bird species belonging to 17 orders. Among them, 26 were common by abundance and frequency, such as the great egret Ardea alba, the white stork Ciconia ciconia, the common quail Coturnix coturnix, the corn crake Crex crex, the northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus, the common redshank Tringa totanus, the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus, the Eurasian skylark Alauda arvensis, the meadow pipit Anthus pratensis, the western yellow wagtail Motacilla flava, the sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, the marsh warbler A. palustris, the great reed warbler A. arundinaceus, the common whitethroat Sylvia communis, the whinchat Saxicola rubetra, the thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia, the common linnet Linaria cannabina, the corn bunting Emberiza calandra, the common reed bunting E. schoeniclus, and 7 more species, which were observed frequently though are not typical marshland species. We have identified the species that can be used as indicators of parameters of marsh ecosystems such as grass height (corn crake, western yellow wagtail, and sedge warbler), moisture (common redshank, common cuckoo, and the sedge and great reed warblers), and habitat type (corn crake, European bee-eater Merops apiaster, sedge warbler, common reed, and corn buntings).http://museumkiev.org/public/visnyk/20_2021/gb2012-shydlovskyy.htmlbirdsmeadow ecosystemslviv and volyn oblasts |
| spellingShingle | Ihor Shydlovskyy Oleksii Dubovyk Petro Hrynyuk Ivan Zahorodnyi Vasyl Matejchyk Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts Geo&Bio birds meadow ecosystems lviv and volyn oblasts |
| title | Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts |
| title_full | Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts |
| title_fullStr | Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts |
| title_short | Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts |
| title_sort | avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of lviv and volyn oblasts |
| topic | birds meadow ecosystems lviv and volyn oblasts |
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