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Middle current of Ile river.


2009-05-23| Askar Isabekov

Today we went to the places where I was last week. The birds were the same I saw previous time. Many Pied Wheatears and Red-headed Buntings. Pied Wheatears fed the juveniles. Today I saw how neatly female Pied Wheatear caught the butterfly and gave it to juvenile. Jackdaws, Rollers, Lesser Kestrels flew by. Several times we saw flights of Black Kites. Almost all time the flocks of Rosy Starlings flew by. In the gorge the nesting places of Rosy Starlings are well appreciable by the white from the dung rocks. New birds. The male Monatgu's Harrier, later we saw it in steppe. The Rock Nuthatch appeared, it isn't cry actively as yet. Also we saw Egyptian Vulture. The news in the nest of Golden Eagles is there too. Today we saw two nestlings, one of them all white but another one has many black feathers.


1. Chukar Partridge ( Alectoris chukar falki )


2. Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos daphanea) on the nest


3. Red-headed Bunting ( Emberiza bruniceps )


4. Calandra Lark ( Melanocorypha calandra psammochroa )


5. Egyptian Vulture ( Neophron percnopterus )


6. Pied Wheatear ( Oenanthe pleschanka )


7. Pied Wheatear ( Oenanthe pleschanka )


8. Rosy Starlings ( Sturnus roseus )


9. Common Whitethroat ( Sylvia communis )

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