Articles and publications

Papers by members of the EARAZA programme “Conservation of the Dalmatian and Great White Pelican” and the SciFly team. Full texts are published in Russian; English abstracts and PDFs are available here.

On the current state of Dalmatian and Great White Pelican populations (Pelecanus crispus, Pelecanus onocrotalus) in the Manych region

Аношин Роман Михайлович · 2024

The ranges of the two pelican species living in the European part of Russia are both wide and patchy. This paper examines how breeding and non-breeding groups are distributed across the Kuma-Manych Depression and the Eastern and Western Manych, from Lake Dadynskoye in the east to the channel section of the…

In: Topical Issues in the Study and Conservation of Biological and Landscape Diversity in Southern Russia. Proceedings of the All-Russian conference, Simferopol, 8–11 October 2024, pp. 96–100.

Pelicans of the Volgograd and Kalmyk Sarpa lakes: some data on the distribution and numbers in 2021

Р. М. Аношин, Е. В. Гугуева, В. П. Белик, В. Э. Бадмаев, В. А. Осинская, П. С. Рожков · 2021

Reservoirs located in the Sarpinsk lowland continue to dry out, which is mainly due to climate aridization. In such conditions, reservoirs with anthropogenic-natural type of nutrition are becoming increasingly important for pelicans. Several such reservoirs were examined in the Svetloyarsky district of the Volgograd…

2021, pp. 110–119.

Great White and Dalmatian Pelicans: materials for breeding in captivity (Moscow Zoo) and biology in nature (Manych Lake)

Р. М. Аношин, Н. И. Скуратов · 2019

Great white and Dalmatian pelicans are rare species in nature, but common objects in zoos. At the same time, in the Moscow Zoo, where both of these species have been kept since its foundation in 1864, it was possible to reproduce them only in 2012. Currently, birds independently breed offspring. The success of…

Problems of Zooculture and Ecology, vol. 3. Moscow Zoo / EARAZA, 2019, pp. 14–31.

Pelicans of the Manych: on the factors affecting their well-being

Р. М. Аношин · 2021

The well-being of Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans breeding on the islands of Lake Manych and Manych-Gudilo depends largely on how much water the region holds, on rainfall and on the water management system. The growth in Great White Pelican numbers is driven not only by breeding but also by adult birds moving in,…

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On the EARAZA programme: conservation of the Dalmatian and Great White Pelican

Р. М. Аношин · 2023

The programme “Conservation of the Dalmatian and Great White Pelican” was approved on 20 February 2020 by the President of the Moscow Zoo and the President of the Eurasian Regional Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EARAZA). It has three parts: consolidating the Moscow Zoo's experience of keeping and breeding…

In: Topical Problems of Bird Conservation in Russia. Proceedings of the All-Russian conference marking 30 years of the Russian Bird Conservation Union. Moscow, 11–12 February 2023, pp. 20–23. ISBN 978-5-94018-027-2.

International research and conservation programme “Conservation of the Dalmatian and Great White Pelican”

Р. М. Аношин (координатор программы) · 2020

The full text of the EARAZA conservation programme. It sets out the participants, the rationale, the aims and objectives, and the field methodology for surveying Dalmatian and Great White Pelicans. Participants include the Moscow Zoo, the Chernye Zemli and Rostovsky nature reserves, the Kuban research centre “Wild…

Approved by the EARAZA Presidium, 20 February 2020. Moscow, 2020. Revision 4.