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Urban Birding. Алматы. Площадь Республики.


2014-04-29| Askar Isabekov

Во время перелета птицы на площади меняются каждый день, и даже если прийти на площадь в разное время одного дня, то можно увидеть разных птиц. А уж после дождя надо идти смотреть птиц обязательно. Даже вечером. Что я и сделал. Увидел двух самцов черноголового чекана, достаточно осторожных. Раньше почему-то мне казалось, что к чеканам можно подойти чуть ли не в упор, сейчас же чуть что - чеканы прячутся под елку, или в елку. Заметны также были пеночки и славки-завирушки. А напоследок увидел еще и туркестанского жулана.


1. Common Stonechat | Saxicola torquata maura


2. Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita


3. Turkestan Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides


# species number

1Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)

2Turkestan Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)1

3Common Mynah (Acridotheres tristis)

4Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)

5Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)

6Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)

7Hume's Warbler (Phylloscopus humei)

8Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus)3

9Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)

10Great Tit (Parus major)

11European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)

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