Tajikistan. Vakhsh river. From Nurek to Baipaza.

Vakhsh river from Nurek to Baipaza spreads widely. There is not valley of the river but along the coast it's a lot of greenery. The landscape is rocks. At the Nurek in a gulf I saw two Coots. On wires Laughing Doves, one European Turtle Dove, Rollers sat. Further birds were a much, but the number of species was very limited. I saw three Pied Wheaters, three Rock Nuthatches, about six Spotted Flycatchers, but mostly I saw only European Bee-eaters.

At last I well beheld and even photographed Paradise Flycatcher. A bird wasn't very wild. Nearby children amassed brushwood but Flycatcher almost did not pay to them attention. But on shouts of children the bird flew on the next tree. As well as common Spotted Flycatcher Paradise one preferred to keep to the bottom branches.

1. European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

2. European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

3. European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

4. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)

5. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)

6. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)