ru – rus – Русский – Russian | Around 150 million native speakers in Russia and post-Soviet states | Avionary Species Coverage: 98% | Russian bird names were reviewed on the basis of “Birds of the World: Recommended Russian Names” (non-passerines: 2017, passerines: draft 2019) by Sergey Volkov and Yevgeniy Koblik. Preceding names were derive from Vladimir E. Flint’s ‘Slovarj Nazvanij Zhivotnykh – Ptyci’ (Vocabularium Nominum Animalium – Aves). The Russian names are also listed on the relevant species list G, together with Ukrainian, Belarusian and Turkish: la/uk/be/ru/tr.
