SOLITARY SNIPE (GALLINAGO SOLITARIA): ELEMENTS OF ECOLOGY NOT STUDIED SPECIES IN BAIKAL RIFT-ZONES
Article is devoted to ecology of Solitary Snipe which is not studied species of fauna of Russia. Solitary Snipe is a unique settled Snipe of our fauna. Vertical migrations to nesting places in mountains of the Baikal region begin in March and April. On northern slope of Munku-Sardyk (East Sayan mountains) the sexual behaviour of Solitary Snipe is marked in the end of June. Solitary Snipe nests on damp subalpine meadows. All found nests settled down in a thick layer of last year's leaves of Salix. In the beginning of winter Solitary Snipe move in a bottom belt of mountains where of nonfreezing areas of the rivers along coast are kept. These rivers have an impurity thermal, mineral or antropogenyc waters. In places with the small factor of anxiety of wintering of Solitary Snipe many years are stable.