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Due to its diverse habitats, its relatively mild climate, and the presence of undisturbed areas, the zakasnik Pribaikalsky is rich in game resources. According to annual inventories, the zakasnik provides habitat for 21 game species and 6 other rare and endangered animal species. The latter include otter (Lutra lutra) and 5 bird species: black stork (Ciconia nigra), big bittern (Botaurus stellaris), whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus), osprey (Pandion haliaetus haliaetus), and white-tailed eagle (Haliaetus albicilla albicilla).

Although many game animals are found dispersed throughout the zakasnik, the river valleys, flood lands and peat lands attract most of this fauna, and in particular the highly valued deer species such as elk, Manchurian deer and roe deer. Hence, the major game habitats in the zakasnik are described by river valleys.

The entire Malaya Sukhaya river valley provides habitat for elk and Manchurian deer in both summer and winter. The peat lands (kaltus) in the lower valley attract large numbers of wild ungulates. In the upper reaches of the river basin, there are many stands of cembra pine, providing excellent habitat for sable.

The Cheremshanka river valley provides good habitat for elk and Manchurian deer, with a high density of roe deer in its peat lands. Sable inhabits the river valley and along its tributaries.
The Talanchanka river valley harbours only few elk, while Manchurian deer is found from the middle part of the river down to the lake coast. Sable is found along the river, its tributaries and various natural springs.

The Peschanka river valley, the fauna of which is similar to Talanchanka river valley.

The flood lands along all the Rossypnaya river provide habitat for Manchurian deer. Elk and roe deer are also found. Sable populations thrive along tributaries and natural springs.

Most of lake Dukhoviye and its environs contain swamps and peat lands, providing year-round habitat for elk and Manchurian deer, and summer habitat for roe deer.

The Gorevaya river valley, provides year-round habitat for elk and Manchurian deer, and summer habitat for roe deer.

The area from lake Kolok up to the middle parts of the Bolshaya river consists mostly of peat lands. Elk and Manchurian deer are found along the entire river valley, while roe deer is mainly restricted to the environs of lake Kolok.

The valleys of the Itantsy, Sergeevka and Priamaya rivers; the springs of Sukhoy and Pasmurny, the peat lands, and the area to the north of Kolok all the way down along the Bolshaya river provides good year-round habitat for elk, Manchurian deer and roe deer. Sable is found along the rivers and springs.

The size of the deer populations is mainly defined by the area of winter habitats, which are limited in its turn by the height of snow cover and the availability of food in winter. The maximum acceptable depth of snow cover for elk is 90 cm, for Manchurian deer 70 cm and for roe deer 45 cm. In case of very high snow cover, animals tend to go further down the lower parts of the river valleys. Hence the migration routes are primarily determined by snow cover.

 

Brown bear

The master of the taiga - this is the way a brown bear is called. This ravenous and strong wild animal is a main character of many Siberian legents. A bear feeds on animal and vegetable food. It feeds on cedar nuts, berries, rhizomes and juicy stalks. It looks for chipmunks, mice and other small animals in their burrows, here and there it kills animals of livestock, cuts wild ungulates, eats carrion. A bear is shortsighted but it has a well developed sense of smell.

Meeting with the bear. When meeting with the bear you need to be very careful, you had better hold your breath and stand still where you are. If the bear leaves, do not prevent him. You shouldn’t try to approach it or to pursue it in order to take photographs that you think are rare. Never run away from a bear: it runs faster than a man and can catch up with you in any case. If you see cubs somewhere it means that their mother-bear is not far from them. Bear-cubs are curious and can try to play with a man. Never linger over them, just run away. In case of your encounter do be resolute. The bear is afraid of sharp sounds, shouts, noise, rumbling by metallic mess-tins or pails. When you resolutely move towards the bear banging, for instance, on the empty mess-tins at that, it usually leaves the man. The bear is also afraid of smoke and fire.

Wolf

It is widespread on the territory of the Pribaikalsky district. It is a strong, clever and beautiful beast known as a formidable and harmful predator. Wolves feed on various large and medium-size animals but nearly everywhere its main food is ungulates (roe deers, deers, elks etc). Wolf hunting is permitted all the year round

Sable

Sable’s habitat is forests and mountains of East Siberia. At present a sable is found throughout the taiga area of Russia from the Urals up to the Pacific ocean. Owing to its beautiful, strong and expensive fur a sable is called a tsar of wild furs - "soft gold". The darker a sable is the more expensive its fur pelt is valued. The Barguzin sable is the darkest of all known species and is particularly valued at international fur auctions.

The sable is most active in the morning and at night. It seldom rises up to tree crowns but more often keeps to the ground in the thickets of low trees, amongst the stone heaps. It often lives in cedar forests in upper reaches of mountain rivers.

Fox
In the Pribaikalsky district a fox is widespread nearly everywhere. It’s habitat is thinned out woods, coppices, fields, river valleys. It feeds on various kinds of food, but its main food is mouse-like rodents. A fox is a valuable game fur-bearing animal. The pelt of a fox is used for making fur garment.

Otter

The otter’s habitat is of an exclusively discrete nature. Due to its injurious extermination in the past and worsened habitat its number is decreasing. The otter breeds in various water bodies abundant in fish. It’s favorite place are banks of woodland streams with never frozen polynias, shoals, steep banks. It keeps to the shores of the Baikal and some other lakes.

Weasel

The weasel is the smallest representative of marten family and predators in general. It dwells in the varied areas everywhere where there are lots of mice, it is often found in the fields, in haystacks, in household buildings and inhabitted places. Its commercial value is insignificant.

 

Wildlife of Lake Baikal

Baikal seal

The only representative of mammals is a seal. The otter is assumed to have got here from the Arctic Ocean along the Yenisey and the Angara rivers in the glacial period, when the rivers were covered with ice drawing over from the north. Some scientists do not exclude the possibility of its migration along the Lena river, into which, as they suppose, there was a flow from the Baikal.

The oldest age seals in the Baikal live up to is known as 56 years for female seals and 52 for males. The average weight of a seal is near 50 kg. When there is nothing to disturb it the seal swims at the speed of 10-15 km/hour. A seal is able to sink as deep as 200 m.

Omul

It has been assumed that the omul got into the Baikal relatively not long ago, probably, in the glacial or post-glacial period. It got well used to new ecological niche and became Baikal. In the Baikal it underwent significant changes and can be considered now an endemic fish. It is found at the depth of 300-350 m.

Baikal big golomyanka

It is the most interesting and in many respects unknown fish. Golomyankas, big and small, live in the Baikal only. They are small in size – only 25 centimetres long, without scales, translucent. They contain up to 35 % of highly vitaminized fat. It is an only viviparous fish in these latitudes. The golomyanka is the most numerous fish in the Baikal, but it does not form shoals and dwells apart in the whole water body, including greater depths.

Baikal Epishura

It is the most numerous inhabitant of the Baikal it plays an exclusive role in the substance circulation. Being a main consumer of plankton algae it is capable to absorb bacterias and, thereby, it serves as a biological filter ensuring the purity of Baikal waters.

White Owl

The white owl’s habitat is found all over the republic. The white owl prefers half-open space. One can meet it in fields, steppe, on lake shores and river banks, in swamps and woods. It avoids completely open spaces and taiga. The white owl hunts for small prey like mice, pica and small birds. Sometimes it attacks bigger animals like hare or grouse. The white owl is a rare species. It migrates here from tundra zone in winter.

Big Bittern

Lives in the swampy valleys of big rivers and along the Baikal shores it reaches the north. It feeds mainly on frogs, tadpoles, fish and some larger insects. There is an entry on it in the Red Book of Buryatia

Peregrine falcon

It is a rare nesting bird. It can be found on coastal terraces of the Baikal with sparse vegetation, in the Chivyrkuy Gulf, on the Svyatoy Nos (Holy Nose) Peninsula. A peregrine falcon preys on birds of mainly medium size - pigeons, sea gulls, crows, snipes, various ducks. In Russia a peregrine falcon is a widespread species, but it has become rare and its number keeps on reducing. It is included in the Red Books of Russia and Buryatia.

Crane

Its habitat is of a mosaic-insular character. It is a migrant bird and lives in wide valleys, in steppes where feather-grass and wormwood grow and along shingled sides and islets of open lakes. The crane feeds chiefly on plant seeds, rarely on tadpoles, locust, and various small insects.

Swan

The swans feed on ground water-plants and various invertebrates. For nesting the swans choose large lakes overgrown by vegetation as well as remote forest or flood-plain lakes.

Brown owl
Its habitats are fixed. It is a migrant but seldom met bird. Owl is an inhabitant of coniferous forests and prefers high dark coniferous taiga. It feeds on small animals: voles, shrews

Eagle
It is found as a migrant and nesting bird. These birds make their enormous nests on top of a standing out large tree at forest edges and on high peaks. Their food in the Baikal area is long-tailed gophers. It is a rare and endangered species tending to further reduction of its number. It is found in the Red Books of Russia and Buryatia

Bald eagle
Bald eagle makes its nest on tree tops, on shores of large water bodies far from settlements. Its main food is fish, rodents; it does not neglect carrion. Bald eagle is a very rare bird, it is found in the International Red Book, in the Red Books of Russia and Buryatia.

Piebald Harrier

It breeds on fresh water bodies and particularly prefers lake coasts densely overgrown by the reed, where they make their nests. It feeds on small animalsl: rodents, birds, frogs and large insects. It is a rare sporadically spread species.

Porzana pusilla

It lives on overgrown banks of rivers and lakes, on marshes. It feeds on various water insects, worms, mollusks, spiders.

Osprey

It feeds only on fish (2-3 kg a day), namely: grayling, tymain. When its fish hunting is impeded because of nasty weather or flood with turbid water the osprey hunts for different rodents: gophers, voles, chipmunks, sometimes small birds, frogs. It is a very rare nesting species, its number keeps on reducing. It is entered in the Red Books of Russia and Buryatia.

Eagle-owl

For nesting it chooses dry ground in the recesses and caves of mountain foots, in gorges, in forest ravines, on river banks. The eagle-owl feeds mainly on rodents of small and medium sizes. It can attack crows and rooks spending nights on the tree crowns, pigeons, partridges and other birds.It can attack even sables, kolinskies. The eagle-owl is a very rare, settled bird. In this and in number of foreign countries it is under protection.

Black mallard

It is a rare migratory and nesting bird. In the region its rare nests have been found in Chivyrkuy Gulf. The birds keep to river mouths and open lakes. It is entered in the Red Book of Buryatia.

 

 

 

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