Birds of Sevastopol Bays

The article provides information about the species diversity, migrations, seasonal dynamics of populations, and spatial distribution of near-aquatic and aquatic birds on the Sevastopol coast of the Black Sea, from Cape Chersonesus to the village of Kacha. We represent data obtained by the authors during 60 days of observations in different seasons in 2020–2021. In total, 29 sections of the seashore have been surveyed and 34 species of near-aquatic and aquatic birds from to 6 orders have been identified. Also a number of freshwater reservoirs (estuaries of rivers and ponds) and the garbage dump “Pervomaiskaya Balka”, a place of concentration of a significant number of feeding Caspian and black-headed gulls and other birds, have been surveyed. The authors suggest the most convenient locations for photographing birds on the Sevastopol coast in different seasons of the year.

ornithology, biodiversity, bird migrations, animalistic photography, birds of the Crimea, Sevastopol, Black Sea