Preliminary assessment of the study of ornithological population in the Middle- Volga integrated biospheric reservation
For the first time the data received by researchers for different sites of the Middle-Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve are generalized: the Samarskaya Luka, Racheiskiy and Muranskiy pine forests, city forests of Toglyatti city and the cove of the Zhigulyovskoe Reservoir at the northern border of the Reserve. The first data on the number of nesting bird species of Racheiskiy and Muranskiy pine forests are presented. The present list of the birds population of the Reserve includes 202 species from 130 genera, 45 families, 18 orders.