kamchatka_commander_islands_kuril_islands_and_sachalin_mayjune_ Photo Gallery by Kristian Stahl at pbase.com

Russian Far East! This is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular and dramatic parts on our planet. The landscape is the result from the Pacific plate subducting under the North American Plate, creating volcanic and geothermal activity.
The deep trenches, often not far from the coastline, secures perfect conditions for seabirds and cetaceans. We have the chance for some 14 species of Auks, the incredible Steller´s Sea Eagle and plenty of other, very range-limited birds.

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Map Russia flights.png	Map Far East.png	Kuril Islands 20160607.jpg
Petropavlovsk 20160527-2.jpg	Petropavlovsk 20160527-3.jpg	Petropavlovsk 20160527.jpg
Sailing out from Petropavlovsk 20160527-2.jpg	Sailing out from Petropavlovsk 20160527-3.jpg	Open Sea Kamchatka-Commander Islands 20160528.jpg
Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529-2.jpg	Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529-3.jpg	Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529-4.jpg
Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529-5.jpg	Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529-6.jpg	Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529-7.jpg
Professor Khromov at Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529.jpg
MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160530.jpg	MednyCommander Islands 20160530-3.jpg	MednyCommander Islands 20160530-5.jpg
MednyCommander Islands 20160530.2.jpg	Approaching Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.jpg	Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.jpg
Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.2.jpg	Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.3.jpg	Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.4.jpg
Atlasova - Onekotan Kuril Islands 20160602.jpg	Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.2.jpg	Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.jpg
90 knots open sea Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160602-4.jpg	Open sea Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603.jpg	Chumming Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603.2.jpg
Chumming Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603.jpg	Simushir - Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3.jpg	Simushir - Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg
Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-2.jpg	Chirpoy Kuril Islands-3-2.jpg	Chirpoy Kuril Islands-3.jpg
Commander Rodney Chirpoy Kuril Islands-2-2.jpg	Chirpoy Kuril Islands-6.jpg	Chirpoy Kuril Islands-8.jpg
Chirpoy Kuril Islands-19.jpg	Chirpoy Kuril Islands-21.jpg	Urup Kuril Islands 20160605-2.jpg
Urup Kuril Islands 20160605-4.jpg	Urup Kuril Islands 20160605-5.jpg	Iturup Kuril Islands 20160606-3.jpg
Iturup Kuril Islands 20160606-4.jpg	Iturup Kuril Islands 20160606-6.jpg	Roger and Marshall et co Iturup Kuril Islands 20160606.jpg
Roger testing an adult lens Iturup Kuril Islands 20160606.jpg	Kunashir 20160607.jpg	Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607-2.jpg
Rangers on Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607.jpg	Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607-4.jpg	Common Eider Somateria mollissima v-nigrum MednyCommander Islands 20160530-2.jpg
Common Eider Somateria mollissima v-nigrum MednyCommander Islands 20160530.1.jpg	Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-2.jpg	Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg
White-winged Siberian scoter melanitta fusca stejnegeri open sea Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160602.jpg	Black Scoter Melanitta americana Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.3.jpg	Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus l. kamtschatkensis Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.jpg
Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.3.jpg	Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607.jpg	Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Atlasova - Onekotan Kuril Islands 20160602.1.jpg
Laysan Albatross Phoebastria Immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-2.2.jpg	Laysan Albatross Phoebastria Immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-2.3.jpg	Laysan Albatross Phoebastria Immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-2.4.jpg
Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-3-2.jpg	Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-3-3.jpg	Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-3.jpg
Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-4-4.jpg	Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis Simushir - Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg	Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigries imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-2-2.jpg
Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigries imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-5.jpg	Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-10.jpg	Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-12.jpg
Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-14.jpg	Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-19.jpg	Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-20.jpg
Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-22.jpg	Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus imm Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603-23.jpg	Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii MednyCommander Islands 20160530.2.jpg
Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Chirpoy - Urup Kuril Islands-2.jpg	Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160531.jpg	Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Open Sea Kamchatka-Commander Islands 20160528.jpg
Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Open sea Bukhta Russkaya - Kuril Islands 20160601.6.jpg	Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Open sea Bukhta Russkaya - Kuril Islands 20160601.10.jpg	Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii Simushir - Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg
Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii very light ad Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603.2.jpg	Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris approaching Korsakov Zachalin 20160608-2.jpg	Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris approaching Korsakov Zachalin 20160608-3.jpg
Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris Kunashir - Korsakov Zachalin 20160607-2-2.jpg	Fork-tailed Storm-petrel Oceanodroma furcata Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603.1.jpg	Fork-tailed Storm-petrel Oceanodroma furcata Open Sea Kamchatka-Commander Islands 20160528.2.jpg
Fork-tailed Storm-petrel Oceanodroma furcata Open Sea Kamchatka-Commander Islands 20160528.3.jpg	Leachs Storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa Onekotan-Simuchir Kuril Islands 20160603.4.jpg	Leach´s Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa off Simushir Kuril Islands 20160604.jpg
Red-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax urile Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529.5.jpg	Red-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax urile Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529.jpg	White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Chirpoy Kuril Islands-3.jpg
White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Chirpoy Kuril Islands-6.jpg	Steller´s Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus imm Chirpoy Kuril Islands-2-4.jpg	Steller´s Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus outside Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.3.jpg
Steller´s Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.1.jpg	Steller´s Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.2.jpg	Steller´s Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.3.jpg
Steller´s Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.7.jpg	Mongolian Sand-plover Charadrius stegmanni Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.2.jpg	Mongolian Sand-plover Charadrius stegmanni Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.jpg
Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.1.jpg	Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.1.jpg	Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis MednyCommander Islands 20160530.15.jpg
Rock sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis quarta Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.1.jpg	Rock sandpiper Calidris ptilocnemis quarta Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.2.jpg	Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus Open sea Bukhta Russkaya - Kuril Islands 20160601.jpg
Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160530.jpg	Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus second summer MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160531.1.jpg	Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus ad summer MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160531.1.jpg
Common Murre Uria aalge Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia Chirpoy Kuril Islands-3.jpg	Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia Chirpoy Kuril Islands-4.jpg
Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia Chirpoy Kuril Islands-6.jpg	Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia Chirpoy Kuril Islands.jpg	Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba MednyCommander Islands 20160530.3.jpg
Kuril Guillemot Cepphus columba snowi Chirpoy Kuril Islands.jpg	Kuril Guillemot Sepphus columba snowi Chirpoy Kuril Islands 20160605.jpg	Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo Chirpoy Kuril Islands-3.jpg
Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix approaching Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.1.JPG.jpg	Anicient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus Chirpoy Kuril Islands-2.jpg	Parakeet Auklet Aethia psittacula MednyCommander Islands 20160530.jpg
Whiskered and Crested Auklet Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg	Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-2.jpg	Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3-2.jpg
Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3-3.jpg	Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3-4.jpg	Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella and Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3.jpg
Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella and Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-6.jpg	Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3.jpg	Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-4.jpg
Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-5-2-2.jpg	Crested Auklet Aethia cristatellaYankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-5-2.jpg	Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-6.jpg
Crested Auklet Aethia cristatella Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg	Crested- and Whiskered Auklet off Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-2.jpg	Crested- and Whiskered Auklet off Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg
Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata Chirpoy Kuril Islands-3.jpg	Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607-2.jpg	Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata MednyCommander Islands 20160530.1.jpg
Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata MednyCommander Islands 20160530.1-2.jpg	Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata MednyCommander Islands 20160530.jpg	Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata off Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.jpg
Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata Open sea approaching Bering Island 20160529-3.jpg	Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata Open sea approaching Bering Island 20160529.1.jpg	Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata Open sea approaching Bering Island 20160529.2.jpg
Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata Open sea approaching Bering Island 20160529.4.jpg	Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata outside Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.5.jpg	Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla pollicaris Chirpoy Kuril Islands 20160605.jpg
Red-legged Kittiwake rissa brevirostres Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529.1.jpg	Kamchatka Gull Larus Canus kamtschatschensis Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.jpg	Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus ad summer Chirpoy - Urup Kuril Islands 20160605.jpg
Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus ad summer Iturup Kuril Islands 20160605.jpg	Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus ad Simushir Kuril Islands 20160604-2.jpg	Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus ad Simushir Kuril Islands 20160604.jpg
Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus Atlasova - Onekotan Kuril Islands 20160602.jpg	Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus second summer Simushir Kuril Islands 20160604.jpg	Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagusYankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg
Glaucous-winged Gull Larus Glaucescens ad Summer Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529-2.jpg	Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens ad summer Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens First summer MednyCommander Islands 20160530.2.jpg
Glaucus-winged Gull Larus glaucescens second summer Open sea approaching Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Glaucus-winged Gull Larus glaucescens third summer Open sea approaching Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.5.jpg
Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.6.jpg	Aleutian Tern Onychoprion aleuticus Zhapanova River Kamchatka 20160531.10.jpg	Common Tern Sterna hirundo longipennis Petropavlovsk 20160527.1.jpg
Pacific Swift Apus pacificus Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607-3.jpg	Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus peale Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-2.jpg	Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus peale Yankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604.jpg
Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos Iturup Kuril Islands 20160606.jpg	Japanese Bush-warbler Horornis diphone Urup Kuril Islands 20160605-3.jpg	Kamchatka Leaf warbler Phylloscopus examinandus Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.2.jpg
Kamchatka Leaf warbler Phylloscopus examinandus Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.1.jpg	Kamchatka Leaf warbler Phylloscopus xanthodryas Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.4.jpg	Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa Sibirica Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.1.jpg
Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607.jpg	Siberian Rubythroat Calliope calliope Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.1.jpg	Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607.3.jpg
Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607.9.jpg	Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina Kunashir Kuril Islands 20160607.10.jpg	Red-billed Starling Sturnus sericeus Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.1.jpg
Red-billed Starling Sturnus sericeus Atlasova Kuril Islands 20160602.jpg	Black-backed wagtail Motacilla alba lugens Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.jpg	Black-backed Wagtail Motacilla alba lugens Petropavlovsk 20160527.jpg
Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160531.6.jpg	Rustic Bunting Emberiza Rustica MednyCommander Islands 20160530.jpg	Gray-crowned Rosy-finch Leucosticte tephprocotis maxima MednyCommander Islands 20160530.1.jpg
Gray-crowned Rosy-finch Leucosticte tephprocotis maxima MednyCommander Islands 20160530.jpg	Long-tailed Rosefinch Uragus sibiricus Urup Kuril Islands 20160605.jpg	Arctic Fox Alopex lagopus Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529-2.jpg
Arctic Fox Alopex lagopusYankicha Kuril Islands. 20160604-3.jpg	Red Fox Vulpes vulpes Petropavlovsk 20160527.jpg	Sea Otter Enhydra lutris outside Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.1.jpg
Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus Open Sea Kamchatka-Commander Islands 20160528.1.jpg	Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus Nikol´skoye Bering Island 20160529.jpg	Orca Orcinus orca Atlasova - Onekotan Kuril Islands 20160602.1.jpg
Orca Orcinus orca Atlasova - Onekotan Kuril Islands 20160602.2.jpg	Orca Orcinus orca Atlasova - Onekotan Kuril Islands 20160602.jpg	Sperm Whale Physter macrocephalus MednyCommander Islands - Zhapanova Kamchatka 20160530.jpg
Steller´s Sea Lion Eumetopias jubatus Arijkarma Bering Island 20160529.1.jpg	Steller´s Sea Lion Eumetopias jubatus outside Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.3.jpg	Steller´s Sea Lion Eumetopias jubatus outside Bukhta Russkaya Kamchatka 20160601.6.jpg

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