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Taldykurgan


2017-03-22| Askar Isabekov
duration 1,5 часа
weather солнечно, небольшой ветер
rout пруды-отстойники
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# species number comment

1Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)2

2Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)20

3Great White Egret (Egretta alba)1

4Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)1

5Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)10

6Common Teal (Anas crecca)5

7Gadwall (Anas strepera)50

8Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope)5

9Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)20

10Garganey (Anas querquedula)2

11Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)15

12Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)50

13Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)10

14Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca)15

15Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)20

16Black Kite (Milvus migrans)20

17Western Marsh-Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)1

18Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus)1

19Upland Buzzard (Buteo hemilasius)1

20Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis)10

21Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)3

22Common Coot (Fulica atra)40

23Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)10

24Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)

25White-Winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus)1

26Common Mynah (Acridotheres tristis)

27Black-Billed Magpie (Pica pica)

28Eurasian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)

29Rook (Corvus frugilegus)

30Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)30

31Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)

32Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)2

33Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis)2

34Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)3

35Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)1

36Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)10

37Azure Tit (Parus cyanus)3

38Great Tit (Parus major)

39Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)10

40Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)2

41European Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)1

42Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus)1

43Pine Bunting (Emberiza leucocephala)10

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rare birds records


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).


Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos)

© Aldiyar Saparbayev
2024-01-26
Outskirts of Uralsk

The first photographic record of a rare species for the region. In the past, it nested in places around Ilek and the Urals, and by the 60s of the 20th century only vagrants were encountered in the summer (Korelov, 1962). There is information about record of two single birds on September 18 and September 19, 2007 in the area of the Karachaganak gas condensate field (V.A. Kovshar, 2008).

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