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bibliography: Шидловський, І., Дубовик, О., Гринюк, П., І Загородний, І., Матейчик, В. 2021. Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts. Geo&Bio, 20: 117–134. (In Ukrainian) title: Avifauna of meadow ecosystems in borderland areas of Lviv and Volyn Oblasts Орнітофауна лучних екосистем у прикордонних районах Львівщини та Волині doi: http://doi.org/10.15407/gb2012 authors (with orcid and affiliation): Ihor Shydlovskyy, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine) Oleksii Dubovyk,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine) Roztochia Nature Reserve (Ivano-Frankove, Ukraine) Petro
Hrynyuk, Northern Podillia National Park (Brody, Ukraine) Ivan Zahorodnyi, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine) Vasyl Matejchyk, Roztochia Nature Reserve (Ivano-Frankove, Ukraine) summary: Meadow ecosystems comprise a significant part of the area of Ukraine, especially in its western regions. Those ecosystems are subjects of concern today because of the active agricultural use and droughts that also threatens the animal population of meadows, including birds. Studies of meadow bird species of western Ukraine are limited to atlases, which results in a lack of precise data. This work was part of an international project on the conservation of the great snipe Gallinago media and allowed us to collect valuable data on the abundance and occurrence of meadow bird species nearby to the Polish and Belarusian borders of Ukraine — territories that are commonly ignored by Ukrainian researchers. The surveys of meadow birds conducted near the Ukrainian-Polish border in 2020 have shown that the general state of the marshes is worse compared to 2019: even close to the Western Bug river, only deep oxbow lakes were wet or contained some water, but minor lakes and wetlands of the valley were found to be dry. In total, we observed 141 bird species belonging to 17 orders. Among them, 26 were common by abundance and frequency, such as the great egret Ardea alba, the white stork Ciconia ciconia, the common quail Coturnix coturnix, the corn crake Crex crex, the northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus, the common redshank Tringa totanus, the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus, the Eurasian skylark Alauda arvensis, the meadow pipit Anthus pratensis, the western yellow wagtail Motacilla flava, the sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, the marsh warbler A. palustris, the great reed warbler A. arundinaceus, the common whitethroat Sylvia communis, the whinchat Saxicola rubetra, the thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia, the common linnet Linaria cannabina, the corn bunting Emberiza calandra, the common reed bunting E. schoeniclus, and 7 more species, which were observed frequently though are not typical marshland species. 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