Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1816-9775 (Print)
ISSN 2541-8971 (Online)


sedimentary layers

Features of Nesting Birds of Riverside’s Precipices and Slopes of Ravines of Privolchskie Venzi

There are 17 nestbird species at the Volga River riverside’s precipices and slopes of right-bank ravines in the south of Saratov district in 1996–2007 were found. Spatial location of the species along the riversides is determined by sedimentary layers interchange: sands of senoman, chalks of thuron, flasks and marls of santon, flasks of palaeogene, clays of neogene.