page_title: Khingan Nature Reserve
section_title: Flora and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Khingan Nature Reserve / Flora and fauna
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: マナヅル 愛媛県西条市にて English: White-naped Crane at Saijo,Ehime
context_page_description: Khingan Nature Reserve is a Russian 'zapovednik', located in the extreme south-east of the Amur River region of the Russian Far East. The reserve covers two types of habitat: the flat Arkharinskaya lowlands with abundant wetlands, and forested spurs of the Lesser Hinggan mountains. In particular, Khingan Reserve was created to protect steppe and forest-steppe landscapes, and nesting sites of the endangered Red-crowned crane and the vulnerable White-naped crane. The reserve is situated in the Arkharinsky District of Amur Oblast.
context_section_description: The vegetation and animals of the Khingan Reserve is marked by the interpenetration of different floristic groups, with a wide variety of growing conditions and microclimate, in the intersection of plains grassland, wetlands (including sphagnum bogs), and larch and cedar-broad-leaf forest habitats.  The plains section of the reserve exhibit Far Eastern forest-steppe type terrain, typically sedge, reed grass, and mixed grass meadows interspersed with islands of birch forest.  The mountainous section exhibits Far East broad-leaf forest terrain.
  Animals in the reserve are a mixture of the typical residents of both East Siberian forests and the Manchurian region: large ungulates (roe deer, wapiti, wild boar) and forest dwellers (chipmunk, squirrel, wolf, fox, brown bear, sable, elk).   Over 290 species of birds have been recorded, both waterfowl for the wetland habitats and predators of the forests.  The most common fish in the lakes are carp, minnow and loach, in the rivers the most common fish are grayling.
caption: White-naped crane
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