Relationship between birds and glacial landscapes of the Putorana Plateau (Central Siberia)

Abstract

Article contains results of the ornithological researches on a plateau
of Putorana (Average Siberia). The data on numerical, high-rise and landscape distribution of
birds in glacial landscapes of a plateau of Putorana is presented. In the end of the Pleistocene
this area was a center of mountain-integumentary glaciers of Average Siberia. The freezing was
represented a mosaic of glaciers and free balds. The ecological space was created after thawing
of ices. This space consists of former glacial surfaces, balds, hollows and valleys, which
have defined the present distribution of various kinds of birds. Most of them nest on the glacial
forms of a relief. The smaller part prefers the balds, which are not processed by a glacier. Flat
kinds have settled in glacial valleys in the conditions of softer climate: gemiarctic, hypoarctic,
borral-hypoarctic etc. kinds