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Kazachka gorge. Ile Alatau National park.


2013-01-27| Askar Isabekov

Family trip to the mountains. Morning is so overcast and birds are a bit that I thought I can write one paragraph to each bird I saw. To the moment of this think I saw 1 Eastern Buzzard was chased by 1 Carrion Crow, 1 White-bellied Dipper, 2 restless Blackbirds. Further I watched 1 Magpie, 2 Great Tits, 4-5 Coal Tits feeding on birch-tree. But then sun came out and pessimism went out, though only flocks of Red-fronted Serins, female Red-mantled Rosefinch and two Long-tailed Rosefinches are added to the list. So there are a bit of birds in the mountains.


1. Eastern Buzzard (Buteo japonicus)


2. Red-mantled Rosefinch (Carpodacus rhodochlamys)


3. Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus)

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2013-01-27. Шефер Владимир:

А у нас , Аскар, еще меньше. Был на Комсомольском острове, только рябинники,синицы, да под конец повезло снять оляпку.



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