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Urban Birding. Площадь Республики.


2014-04-22| Askar Isabekov

Солнечно, хороший западный ветер. Теньковки десятками, слышал в основном «веселых», но один раз было слышно и «грустную». Видел 4 жуланов, одного буланого, трех туркестанских (самец и 2 самки), все четверо кормились на одном участке. Прилетела славка-завирушка, пока одна. Кружил коршун, разок на восток пролетели рыжепоясничные ласточки. Остальное – как обычно.


1. Turkestan Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides


2. Turkestan Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides


3. Lesser Whitethroat | Sylvia curruca halimodendri


4. Squirrel


5. Squirrel


6. Turkestan Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides


7. Daurian Shrike | Lanius isabellinus speculigerus


# species number

1Black Kite (Milvus migrans)1

2Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)

3Red-rumped Swallow (Hirundo daurica)3

4Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus)1

5Turkestan Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)3

6Common Mynah (Acridotheres tristis)

7Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)

8Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)1

9Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)1

10Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)50

11Hume's Warbler (Phylloscopus humei)слышал

12Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)

13Great Tit (Parus major)

14House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

15European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)

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rare birds records


Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

© Vasilii Bastaev
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Karakol lake, Mangystau

The second record of a rare migratory species this season.


Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

© Qanatbek Kenzhegulov
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A rare passage species in Kazakhstan. The most recent photographic record in the country was made on 21 April 2022 in the Suzak District of Turkestan Region (Martin Grienenberger; see the website gallery). In Mangystau Region, only two records supported by photographic evidence are known from recent decades of the 21st century: 20–24 May 2009 in the Kenderli area (Neve et al., 2010) and the present observation.


Northern Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

© Alexandr Fedulin
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Northern Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

© Margarita Davydova
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