The documents for the “birds’” Red Book of the Russian Federation conducting were the Law “About the Animal World” in 1995, and a government Decree № 158 from 19.02.1996. These acts edition together with the Red Book of the Russian Federation was the ground for the conservation and protection of flora and fauna, in particular birds. The Red List of Threatened Species of the Russian Federation is a scientific program of measures for rescue and recovery of the endangered species.
The regional lists of birds have to be protected are composing on the basis of birds list of the Red Book of the Russian Federation. Thus, in the Far East there are white-eye, ashy minivet, mandarin duck, hazelhen. These and other birds listed in the Red Book are objects that need a special protection.
The last list of wild animals approved by the State committee Russian Federation on Environmental Protection in 1997 contains 128 birds taxons. Most of them are predators: eagles, falcons, gyrfalcons, sea eagles, vultures. There are green pages with lists of restored species at the end of the Red Book. Among them are Chinese sparrowhawk, snow goose, totally – 23 species of birds.
Red List of Birds Threatened Species of the Russia
Aleutian tern
Aquatic warbler
Asian dowitcher
Asian paradise flycatcher
Azure tit
Baer’s pochard
Baikal teal
Bald eagle
Bar-headed goose
Bearded vulture
Bewick’s swan
Black brant
Black stork
Black-capped kingfisher
Black-throated loon
Black-winged pratincole
Black-winged stilt
Blakiston’s fish owl
Brant goose
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Canada goose
Caspian plover
Caspian tern
Cattle egret
Caucasian grouse
Chinese egret
Chinese nuthatch
Cinereous vulture
Crested ibis
Crested kingfisher
Crested shelduck
Dalmatian pelican
Daurian partridge
Demoiselle crane
Dunlin
Eastern imperial eagle
Egyptian vulture
Emperor goose
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian eagle-owl
Eurasian oystercatcher
Eurasian spoonbill
Eurasian stone-curlew
European golden plover
European shag
Far Eastern curlew
Ferruginous duck
Glossy ibis
Golden eagle
Great bustard
Great grey shrike
Great white pelican
Greater flamingo
Greater spotted eagle
Grey-faced buzzard
Griffon vulture
Gyrfalcon
Hooded crane
Houbara bustard
Intermediate egret
Ivory gull
Jankowski’s bunting
Japanese murrelet
Kittlitz’s murrelet
Latham’s snipe
Lesser kestrel
Lesser spotted eagle
Lesser white-fronted goose
Levant sparrowhawk
Little bustard
Little tern
Long-billed plover
Long-legged buzzard
Mandarin duck
Marbled duck
Marbled murrelet
Marsh grassbird
Middle spotted woodpecker
Mongolian lark
Mountain hawk-eagle
Nordmann’s greenshank
Oriental stork
Osprey
Pallas’s fish eagle
Pallas’s gull
Pallid harrier
Peregrine falcon
Pied avocet
Purple swamphen
Pygmy cormorant
Red kite
Red-breasted goose
Red-crowned crane
Red-legged kittiwake
Reed parrotbill
Relict gull
Rock sandpiper
Ruddy-breasted crake
Rufous-bellied woodpecker
Saker falcon
Saunders’s gull
Scaly-sided merganser
Short-tailed albatross
Short-toed snake eagle
Siberian crane
Siberian grouse
Slender-billed curlew
Sociable lapwing
Spoon-billed sandpiper
Steller’s sea eagle
Streaked shearwater
Swan goose
Swinhoe’s rail
Swinhoe’s storm petrel
Tawny eagle
Tundra swan
Watercock
White-headed duck
White-naped crane
White-tailed eagle
White-throated bush chat
Willow ptarmigan
Yellow-billed loon