Dzika Rosja Odcinek 2: Primorye

The Manchurian-Pacific region of Ussuriland houses forests unrivalled outside the tropics. Russia’s Far East is home to the world’s biggest cat – the Siberian tiger – and the world’s rarest –the Amur leopard. Follow the Leopard as it hunts and feeds on prey during the spring or summer months. We will also see them interacting with their young. It is a strange and very “un-Russian” background for the entrance of the tiger and Amur leopard as well as for the colourful Caerulean paradise flycatcher and the world’s biggest owl, the Blakiston’s fish owl. This Kakapo like owl hunts for fish at holes in the ice, wading in shallows. The owls aren’t the only water lovers here….Harlequin ducks split their time between their nests in the Taiga and a life down at the ocean. They are experts at feeding under the torrents of fast moving rivers and we find out what it’s like spending time below the surface. The weird Chinese Soft-shelled turtles can be found at the lake edges here. Tiny hatchlings live and hide in the drift line of the old lake, Chanka. They live in this a zone where sand and water are constantly on move, tumbling like leafs almost invisible to their numerous predators of fish, frogs, birds and even their parents! Exotic birds like the chestnut-flanked white eye, the Siberian blue robin, the dollarbird, the scaly-sided merganser, and the oriental honey buzzard round off the impressive winged wildlife. Exotic representatives of the reptile world such as the Amur rat snake and Fire-bellied toads are here too. Rare mammals like the Asiatic black bear patrol the ginseng forest, while Sika deer, and the goral, a rare species of wild goat, do their best to stay right out the way. At the Pacific shores, the biggest continent and the biggest ocean of this planet meet and the influence and warmth of the Pacific Ocean and the regular monsoon rains have turned it into a varied and exotic land. The landscape is dominated by rich mixed forests, full moon maple, bamboo plants, lotus fields and Pacific monsoon forests.