To the structure of the population of small falcons in the pine forest Tersek-Karagai of the Naurzum Reserve
The paper provides information on the species composition, population structure and distribution of small falcons nesting in the territory of the pine forest Tersek-Karagai of the Naurzum Reserve (Kazakhstan) according to censuses and spatial distribution of nests in 2007-2009. The dependence of the number of nests of studied species of falcons with the number of suitable nests of corvids was shown. The distribution pattern of nests of small falcons depends on a set of requirements as to their breeding and foraging sites for birds and tolerance for each other