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Tajikistan. Hoja Obigarm.


2008-08-29| Askar Isabekov

The day in the shadow of large walnuts was very successful at birdwatching outlook. I saw many birds and photographed most of them. Birds didn't present all together but changed one after another. And I just quiet sat and watched the birds. On the walnut trees I saw Carrion Crows, Magpies, Mynahs, the pair of Blue Whistling Thrushes, Turkestan Tits, one Black-breasted Tit, Oriental Turtle Doves, the pair of White-winged Woodpeckers, Asian Paradise Flycatcher. All birds searched the feed, probably this time it's easy to find the eats in the shadow gorge than on open places. Also it's very cool under the walnut trees, Oriental Turtle Doves just sat to branches and rested from heat.

To the briars bushes Lesser Whitethroats, Streaked Laughingthrushes, Yellow-breasted Tits, Common Rosefinches, Hume's Warbler, Rufous-tailed Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatchers, Blyth's Reed Warblers flew. On the next little river I saw same Blue Whistling Thrushes, Grey Wagtails, Blyth's Reed Warblers, Common Rosefinches, heard Rock Nuthatches.


1. Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)


2. Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus)


3. Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)


4. White-Winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus)


5. Turkestan Tit (Parus bokharensis)


6. Black-breasted Tit (Parus rufonuchalis)


7. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi)


8. Yellow-breasted Tit (Parus flavipectus)


9. Streaked Laughingthrushes (Garrulax lineatus)


10. Blyth's Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus dumetorum)


11. Asian Brown Flycatcher (Muscicapa dauurica)


12. Rufous-tailed Flycatcher (Muscicapa ruficauda)

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