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Sorbulak

2020-11-28 | Askar Isabekov

Trip to Sorbualk. Yesterday weather forecast promised rain and snow of 94% probability, but nobody paniced. Gennady explained his calm by the words that here never be a long time rain, even it will be present just only during two hours. In real the forecast was true, but rain and snow were only during one and half hours. The weather in morning was cold (-2C), then it became warmer all day. Sky of course was cloudy, but after the snowfall sky was slightly opened, and the sunset was very nice. All day was windy, therefore Sorbulak was heavy stormed. In the way we discussed the wish-list, but it was short due the season, with the Gulls in the top, probably because my Caspian 'lifers' depended to it. Gulls were our first birds in Sorbulak, along the first dam there was a flock of about one and half hundreds birds, which I firstly considered as a Mew Gull due the rounded heads and short bills. But they was not Mew Gulls but one of the former 'argentatus' group, but definitly not Caspian Gulls [...... read more ]


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Гости

2020-11-21 | Natali Kim

На привычном месте, где жители каждый год в зимнее время подкармливают уток, прилетели три красавца! Держатся уже пару дней, их с удовольствием все кормят! Пара домашних гусей окольцованы, белый вроде нет. [...... read more ]


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Мангышлак. 4-12 ноября.

2020-11-12 | Askar Isabekov

4 ноября. Лечу на Мангышлак. В самолете в очередной раз посмотрел «Большой год», все-таки отличный фильм. Здорово, что авторы фильма не путают названия птиц, а еще в конце в титрах показывают все 755 видов, которые за год увидел Бостик. К обеду прилетел в Актау, и прямо около аэропорта достал камеру, потому что между редкими и низкорослыми карагачами увидел группу кормящихся птиц, среди которых были и дрозды - рябинники и, что интереснее, певчие. Несколько кадров и бердинг на Мангышлаке начался. Далее заезд в Актау на обед, и после дорога до Курыка (70 [...... read more ]


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Кызылкум-Аральское море. 21 октября - 6 ноября 2020 г.

2020-11-07 | Svetlana Baskakova

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rare birds records


Naumann's Thrush (Turdus naumanni)

© Alexey Timoshenko
2024-04-02
kostanay reg.

The second record of the species on the territory of Kazakhstan. Previously, one bird was photographed in the southeast in the lower reaches of the Turgen River on November 5, 2016 (I. Bevza, kz.birds.watch).


Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)

© Muhammed-Rahim Boranbaev
2024-03-04
Tasorpa, Kyzylsay natural park, Mangystau

A very rare wintering species for Mangystau, known only from the remains of the skin obtained from the vicinity of Fort Aleksandrovsky in 1892/93. (Zarudny, 1896).


Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)

© Galina Rosenberg
2019-11-22
g.Altai.Vostochno-Kazachstanskaia oblast

The first registration of the species in the mountainous part of Altai.


White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis)

© Serg Silan
2024-02-28
Kazakhstan

The first record of the White-winged Snowfinch in Western Altai. Photo recording was made in the southern spurs of the Ulbinsky ridge in the valley of the Urankhaika River at an altitude of less than 800 m above sea level. The White-winged Snowfinch was previously not known for the Kazakh part of Altai, but was first recorded in Southern Altai on January 26, 2017 in the upper reaches of the Tautekeli River at an altitude of 2400 m, where it was subsequently recorded on March 10, 2021, and there were also several sightings in January and February 2023 in the Sarykora tract (Vorobiev, 2023).

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unidentified birds


2024-04-19

Андрей Коваленко: Канюк.

2024-04-18

Никита Канунников: Кеклик, тут без вариантов.

2024-04-18

Андрей Коваленко: Зяблик.

2024-04-18

Андрей Коваленко: Степной орел.

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