Pavel is the Head of Ornithology Department of Zoological Museum, Moscow State University. He studies Ecology Systematics, Evolution of waders in the Arctic since 1973. In the 1980’s he spent three summers studying the ecology of the spoon-billed sandpiper in northern Chukotka, Siberia. Since 2000 he has participated in the surveys of spoon-billed sandpiper in various parts of Chukotka and population monitoring in the Meinypilgyno area since 2009. His role in the expedition in 2011 was to continue the monitoring and to help find nests of SBS for the captive breeding programme.
Some of the colour marked Spoon-billed Sandpipers recorded in Bangladesh over the past few years. White & Lime flagged birds were marked in Russia and Yellow ones were marked China. The White ones are head-started/hand-reared in Russia.
