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Pictures Study 2000 'Sea of Okhotsk': Falk Hüttmann
(Ph.D., Diplom-Forstwirt univ.)
Postdoc Fellow, Simon Fraser University
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Falk Hüttmann
Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Biology Dept.
8888 University Drive, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Tel: 604 291 5618 Fax: 604 291 3496
Email: huettman@sfu.ca
- (I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE, THIS PAGE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION; I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY FEEDBACK, COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS!)
- Photo 1: Entry documents to Russia: Passport with Visa + Scientifc Invitation.
Photo 2: Some of the shorebirds we are after (e.g. Great Knot and Red Knot)
Photo 3: Edge of Interior Forest in Kamchatka due to Pipeline Development
Photo 4: Landscape of interior Kamchatka
Photo 5: Summer vegetation in Kamchatka
Photo 6: The narrow spit of Ust Bolshetsk (left river, right Sea of Okhotsk)
Photo 7: At the camp
Photo 8: A campsite overlooking a mudflat
Photo 9: Field crew preparing dinner
Photo 10: Tundra vegetation near the camp
Photo 11: Path of bears in the tundra
Photo 12: Shore of a lake with brakish water
Photo 13: View of a sandy mudflat
Photo 14: Classical tundra habitat (tussock)
Photo 15: Flowers in the tundra near the camp
Photo 16: A salmon fished for 'ikra' (russian for salmon caviar) and left behind
Photo 17: More salmon and fish left behind
Photo 18: View of 'small scale fishery operations' (fishing with industrial cranes) in the river
Photo 19: Mudflats and fishing cranes in the background
Photo 20: A Grashopper Warbler (Locustella spp) in the reed
Photo 21: A Siberian Ruby-throat (Luscinia calliope)
Photo 22: A flycatcher (Ficedula parva)
Photo 23: View of Magadan
Photo 24: The famous statue 'Mask of Sorrow' in Magadan
Photo 25: A mural in Magadan
Photo 26: Our field truck for a trip to Yana river
Photo 27: A view of the road near Yana river
Photo 28: A chipmunk at Yana river delta
Photo 29: Low tide at Yana river (2km upriver)
Photo 30: Shorebirds at Yana river
Photo 31: Seals on a beach near Yana village (northern shore Sea of Okhotsk)
Photo 32: A forest road near Old lagoon into the coastal forest
Photo 33: A migratory Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminuta; center of image) in Old Lagoon
Photo 34: A typical flock of shorebirds feeding intensively at low-tide near mussel beds on crustaceas at the mouth of Ola Lagoon/northern Sea of Okhotsk
Photo 35: Drawing of a native hunter (photo taken at Ola village local museum)
Photo 36: Craft from natives (photo taken at Ola village local museum)
Photo 37: A capercaillie (photo taken at Ola village local museum)
Photo 38: A carved tooth of a walross, native art from Chukotka (credits to I. Dorogoy)
Photo 39: Old Lagoon in the mist
Photo 40: Back from a shorebird survey: Me at the public bus stop in Ola village
Photo 41: View of the 'Golden Horn' (downtown harbour) in Vladivostok
Photo 42: Building of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Vladivosotok, Russian Far East
Photo 43: Terminal of the Transsiberian Railway in Vladivostok
Photo 44: Russian timber on its way to Japan: harbour in Vladivostok
Photo 45: Siberian Tiger, rare giant of the Usurski Forests
Acknowledgements:
Server: GeoCities
Photos: Falk Huettmann
General: Julia Linke
