Birders and ornithologists

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Charles Mills wrote:

> I am trying to help a colleague -- an ornithologist specializing in Waxwings
> -- who would like to meet a Russian counterpart in his field.  In particular
> he is interested the "Japanese Waxwing" (a.k.a. Bombycilla Japonica), known
> in Russian as "Vostochnoaziatskii sviristel", encountered in Amur.  If you
> know any Russian bird specialists (especially from the Far East) and would
> like to help, please contact me (cmills at knox.edu) or my friend directly
> (jmountjo at knox.edu).  His name is Jim Mountjoy, a biologist at Knox.  Thanks
> so much.

I realize the details of my answer will be of little or no interest to
the list, but I thought the techniques used might be...

No hits at all on Russian Google for
        свиристель восточноазиатский
(no pages contain both words).

However, Russian Google did yield nine hits for
        "Bombycilla japonica" свиристель
and FYI most of these have свиристель японский or амурский.

        (This usage is confirmed by Словарь названий животных: Птицы/
        Dictionary of Animal Names in Five Languages: Birds, by V. Ye.
        Sokolov. Moscow: Russky yazyk, 1994. 11,060 names in Latin,
        Russian, English, German & French.)

Some of these hits may be useful. For example,
<http://www.fegi.ru/PRIMORYE/ANIMALS/bird2.htm> looks like a simple
catalog, but if you hack back to <http://www.fegi.ru/PRIMORYE/ANIMALS/>
you are redirected to <http://www.fegi.ru/PRIMORYE/ANIMALS/bpi.htm>, and
clicking on "Партнеры" <http://www.fegi.ru/primorye/partner.html> gives
a list of links to various institutions studying the region:

Информационные партнеры:
    Институт биологии моря ДВО РАН
    Биолого-почвенный институт ДВО РАН
    Институт истории, археологии и этнографии народов Дальнего Востока
ДВО РАН
    Тихоокеанский институт биоорганической химии ДВО РАН
    Ботанический сад-институт ДВО РАН
    Комитет по туризму и санаторно - курортному делу Администрации
Приморского края
    Департамент здравоохранения Администрации Приморского края
    Управление народного образования Администрации Приморского края
    Комитет по природопользованию и сельскохозяйственной политике Думы
Приморского края
    Приморский государственный объединенный музей им.В.К.Арсеньева
    Дальневосточный государственный технический университет
    Владивостокско-Приморская епархия Русской православной церкви
    Дальневосточный государственный университет

You get the idea. If the Google hit list were longer, I would say it's a
lot of work, but for nine hits they're worth a look.

One other possibility: There's a major oil project on and off Sakhalin
Island (this is no secret), and of course the consortium has had to do
various environmental impact studies covering the entire region,
including the mainland. We might have some luck going through Exxon if
we can figure out who to talk to. I'll see.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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