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P re fac e In the original book by Schaanning each essay started with the Latin name of the species of which many are no longer in use, either. To make reading eas ier, the titles were complemented with the Russian, English, and modern Latin names together with the author’s Latin term. The original arrangement of essays is not compliant with the modern classification approaches but we considered reasonable to retain it as it was. We considered it necessary to give the book an analytical conclusion. It describes the bird fauna status early in the XXI century, shows the changes of bird fauna in Pasvik and in the border area, generally, referred to as East Finnmark by Schaanning. The book contains annexes useful both for professionals and amateurs. They facilitate perception of the text and encourage interest in the history of our border area, its languages and culture. Besides the table of toponyms, we added a comparative taxonomic multi lingual table including the modern bird species list of the Pasvik River Valley, Schaanning’s list, the old (outdated) and modern Latin, and synonyms in Russian, English and Norwegian (Annex 3). This table shows the biodiversity of species and families, but also follows the taxonomic changes over the years, demonstrates differences in the Russian and international approaches, and allows using names of species in different languages which facilitates com munication between scientists. It also presents etymological interest. The part of East Finnmark where the Norwegian ornithologist collected the major amount of information became the foundation for the toponymic enumeration system. The selected toponyms are marked on the map series (Annex 5) according to their numbers in the table (Annex 4). Living and working in Pasvik, Schaanning laid down the traditions of pro fessional ornithological research activities in this area but also became an encouraging example for the constantly growing number of nature lovers who are willing to spend all their free time watching birds or devoting their cre ative arts to them. This is described in the article «Hans Schaanning and development of amateur ornithology in the Trilateral transboundary park «Pasvik-Inari»». Both the Reserve specialists and invited experts took part in preparation of the book. Hans Schaanning’s descendents did not object to the publication. His great-grandson Rolf Schaanning-Kollstrom agreed to participate person ally, and prepared a small reminiscence story about his famous relative pro viding several photos from the family archive. Our Norwegian colleagues and friends from the Bioforsk Svanhovd environment research center assisted in addressing many problematic issues. Thus, Tor-Arne Bjorn provided all pos sible help and consulting in the course of work, and also assisted in search of information. Steinar Wikan, the famous ecologist, writer, regional ethnogra pher and expert in Pasvik history and nature provided valuable advice in the work with the manuscript and gave clarification on certain ancient toponyms 1 4 1