White-naped
crane in Ulz river basin, MONGOLIA
After Ute Bradter
and Gomboo's first contact, they decided to write the cooperative research project on
breeding biology, habitat use and disturbance factors to the White-naped crane in
Ulz river basin, Mongolia. Between
1999-2001, White-naped
crane research project was successfully organized by
Mongolian-German-American scientists in Ulz river basin, North-East Mongolia.
During field seasons, Tracy Grazia, a biologist of the Mississippi Sandhill
Crane Wild Refuge, USA joined us in the Mongolian steppe. We have had
very interesting and fruitful results for
White-naped crane conservation. The project was
also educationally significant for undergraduate students of the National
University of Mongolia.
Ch.Uuganbayar, D.Davaakhuu
and Saranchimeg, who were undergraduate students from the University in 1999 and
2001, participated as assistant biologists for the project. They learnt field
data collection, improved his English and got a excellent experience to work
together with foreign scientists in the field. A total two scientific papers and
a presentation paper of White-naped crane survey results published in scientific
journals and proceedings of the Conference between 2002-2006.
"Time budget of White- naped crane in
Ulz river basin" paper was published in the proceeding of Biodiversity of Mongolia
International Conference, was held in Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA in 2002. We have planned to continue the research near future.
We thanked
very much to Deriilaa who was our driver in field, lives in the Dornod aimag for his
help and advice.
