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Branta Cover Language of the article: Ukrainian Cite: Arkhipov, O. M., Fesenko, H. V. (2022). The first record of the Black-throated Accentor (Prunella atrogularis) and new finding of the Siberian Accentor (Prunella montanella) in Ukraine and possible reason for them. Branta: Transactions of the Azov-Black Sea Ornithological Station, 24, 5-14 Keywords: the Siberian Accentor, the Black-throated Accentor, Odesa region, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, climate change Views: 84 Branta copyright Branta license

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The first record of the Black-throated Accentor (Prunella atrogularis) and new finding of the Siberian Accentor (Prunella montanella) in Ukraine and possible reason for them

O. M. Arkhipov 1, H. V. Fesenko 2

1 – Matrosova St., 2, village Kuchurhan, Rozdilna district, Odesa region, 67450, Ukraine
2 – Schmalhausen Institute for Zoology, NAS of Ukraine

The article contains a new report on the caught individual of the Siberian Accentor (Prunella montanella) in Ukraine in 2016, namely in November near Kharkiv, that is, during the influx of this species to Europe. Ultimately, in November and December 2016, five individuals were recorded at four sites within the territory of Ukraine, data on three of which were published earlier. So, in the last two months of that year, more birds were trapped than 30 years before when in 1985 in Ukraine one individual of this accentor was caught for the first time. There is information about one individual noted on 2 November 2021 near the Lymanske village, which is not far from the Kuchurhan lyman in the Odesa region. This is the first reliable registration of the Siberian Accentor in this region for more than 180 years from the time when the first suppose about the presence of the species within Odesa was published. In addition, on 3 December 2021 an individual of the Black-throated Accentor (Prunella atrogularis) was observed for the first time within Ukraine also near the Kuchurhan lyman in the vicinity of the Kuchurhan village. This individual was recorded there again several times during winter 2021/22, and last time on 23 March 2022. In discussing the factors that determined the 2016 influx, a number of experts (Sikora & Ławicki, 2019) previously suggested the key role of such weather and climatic phenomena and their consequences as massive wildfires in Siberia with significant smoke, eastern winds and early winter. In terms of the scale of forest fires in Siberia, where the breeding areas of both species are located, 2021 became a record year in the current century (Forest fires…, 2021). These fires were caused by abnormal heat, dry and windy weather, a small amount of moisture accumulated in the winter period, i.e. in this year, arrivals of the observed individuals in Ukraine could be due to factors associated with climate warming.

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