FAUNA Information Research Center

Established: 17.12.1990

Key qualifications: Zoology (ornithology), GIS technology, birdswatching.

Specific experience:

Country	Date (month/year)		Description (customer or partners):
Country	From	To	Description (customer or partners):
Sakhalin Island, Russia	6/2002	7/2002	Monitoring Lunskiy and Dagi bays in northeast Sakhalin. Developing GIS maps.
Sakhalin Island, Russia	9/2001	11/2001	Monitoring bays in northeast Sakhalin. Developing GIS maps. (Sakhalin Energy)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	6/2000	6/2001	Ornithology research at the southern Sakhalin terminal. (Sakhalin Energy)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	6/2000	12/2000	Inspected bays in northeast Sakhalin. Created GIS maps. (Sakhalin Energy)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1999	1999	Atlas of Important Habitats of the Southern Kurile Islands (WBSJ)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	9/1998	9/1999	Organized public monitoring of tern colonies in northeast Sakhalin bays (Rockefeller Brothers Foundation)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1/1998	8/1999	Zoned bays in northeast Sakahalin (MacArthur Foundation)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	5/1998	5/1999	Prepared Sakhalin Oblast Red Book for publication (SREF)
USA, Alaska	6/1998	7/1998	Monitoring of Prince William Sound Bay. (FWS)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	8/1998	4/1999	Background status of waders along pipeline routes. (Sakhalin Energy)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1998	1998	Inspected and described Wrangel Island Natural Monument (SREF)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1998	1998	Established Nogliki Sanctuary (WWF)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1997	1997	Atlas of Important Habitats of Northeastern Sakhalin (SREF)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1996	1996	Inspected and described Chaika Island Natural Monument (SREF)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	1996	1996	Inspected and described the Lyarvo Island Natural Monument (SREF)
Sakhalin Island, Russia	8/1995	1/1996	Prepared report “Birds of Chaivo Bay.” Background status of marine birds in northeast Sakhalin (Exxon)

SREF - Sakhalin Region Ecological Foundation

WBSJ – Wild Birds Society of Japan

Others:

Participated in joint projects to inspect the Southern Kurile Islands (WBSJ –Wild Birds Society Japan) and monitor important bird habitats on Sakhalin
Prepared a comprehensive zoological map of Sakhalin Island
Licensed to GIS using and prepare zoology and botany sections of feasibility studies.

Membership of professional bodies:

Member, Socioecological Alliance (international organization of IUCN members)
Member, Russian Bird Protection Alliance
Member, Sandpiper Working Group
Member, Goose Working Group

Publications:

Zykov V.B., Masterov V.B., Revyakin Z.V. 1990. Prospects for the Use of Fish-eating Raptors as Indicators of the Status of Littoral Ecosystems// Ekologicheskiye osnovy ratsionalnogo prirodopolzovaniya na Sakhaline i Kurilskikh ostrovakh [Ecological Foundation for Conservation on Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands]. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. pp. 106 - 107.

Masterov V.B., Zykov V. B. 1992, Distribution and Number of White Shouldered Sea Eagles (Haliaeetus pelagicus P.M.) on the Northeast Coast of Sakhalin // Biol. nauki, No. 5, pp. 71 –76.

Zykov V., 1995. Shorebird Habitats and Important Wetlands of Sakhalin // Report East Asia Migratory Bird Route Tour ’95. P. 3-7.

Zykov V. B., Revyakina Z.V. 1996 à, Swan Migration on Sakhalin // Ptitsy presnykh vod i morskikh poberezhiy yuga Dalnego Vostok Rossi i ikh okhrana [Birds of the Fresh Waters and Seacoasts of Russia’s Southern Far East and Their Protection]. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, ñ. 226 – 227.

Zykov V. B., Revyakina Z.V. 1996 b, Tern Migrations in northeast Sakhalin // Birds of the Fresh Waters and Seacoasts of Russia’s Southern Far East and Their Protection. Vladivostok. Dalnauka, pp. 205 – 213.

Revyakina Z.V., Zykov V. B. 1996. Migration of Anseriforms at Lunskiy Bay (Sakhalin Island)// Birds of the Fresh Waters and Seacoasts of Russia’s Southern Far East and Their Protection. Vladivostok. Dalnauka, pp. 170-178.

Zykov V., 1997. Wader Migration on northeastern Sakhalin Island based on Observation in Lunskiy Bay // Shorebird Conservation in the Asia-Pacific Region. P.141-148.

Zykov V. B. 1997, Population Status and Condition of White Shouldered Sea Eagles on Sakhalin Island // Vestnik Sakhalinskogo muzeya, No. 4, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, pp. 279 – 280.