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Geographical Connectivity, Migration Routes, and Wintering Grounds of the Common Crane in the Northern Moscow Region

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The results of a 3-year tracking of a common crane equipped with a GPS-GSM transmitter have made it possible to better understand the geographical connectivity, migration routes, and key sites of summer stays and migration stopovers of individuals of this species that nest in the center of the European part of Russia. Flyways and wintering sites have been traced and key and short-term migration stopovers have been identified in the arid areas of Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, and Ethiopia. It has been established that the crane used different wintering grounds in different years. It has been revealed that immature cranes of the Dubna premigratory gathering (Moscow Region) can use areas where other premigratory gatherings are formed, in particular, in Smolensk Region. Successful nesting of a common crane at the age of 3 years noticed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank V.Yu. Ilyashenko (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences) for the work on catching and tagging the common crane, as well as A. Rubanovich and A. Sevryugin (volunteers of the Zhuravlinaya Rodina Reserve) for participation in field work in 2018, E. Mudrik (Vavilov Institute of General Genetics) for determining the sex of the crane, and S. Pekarsky (Institute of Life Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and O. Pershin (amateur photographer) for kindly providing the photographs of encounters with Ryzhik. We are also grateful to employees of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (Germany) W. Fiedler and B. Vorneweg and of the University of Konstanz (Germany) G. Heine for providing the transmitter, as well as I. G. Pokrovsky for preparing the permitting documents. We thank the Crane Conservation Germany for providing ELSA plastic colored rings.

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The work by Sviridova was performed within the topic Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects of Animal Behavior and Communication, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, state registration no. AAAA-A18-118042690110-1, state assignment no. 0089-2021-0004; the work by Ilyashenko was performed within the topic Fundamental Problems of Wildlife Protection and Rational Use of Bioresources (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences), state registration no. AAAA-A18-118042490055-7, state assignment no. 0089-2021-0010; and the work by Grinchenko was performed within the topic Studies of Geoecological Processes in Hydrological Land Systems, the Formation of the Quality of Surface and Ground Waters, and Problems of Water Resource Management and Water Use under Conditions of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Effects, Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences (no. FMWZ-2022-0002), state registration no. 122041100236-4.

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  1. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 19071, Moscow, Russia

    T. V. Sviridova & E. I. Ilyashenko

  2. Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333, Moscow, Russia

    O. S. Grinchenko

  3. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315, Radolfzell, Germany

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Sviridova, T.V., Grinchenko, O.S., Wikelski, M. et al. Geographical Connectivity, Migration Routes, and Wintering Grounds of the Common Crane in the Northern Moscow Region. Arid Ecosyst 13, 196–207 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079096123020142

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