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Gerasimovka. Eastern Kazakhstan.

2016-11-08| Askar Isabekov

Short story. Trip to Gerasimovka. There are not so much birds as at last visit. I think because firstly the sunflower field was mowed and secondly snow. Most of the time it had been snowing probably stopping only at half an hour, when birds appeared. The most of birds was finches (Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinches, Hawfinch, Goldfinch) + Yellowhammers + Thrushes (Fieldfares, Black-throated Thrushes, Redwings). I heard the voice of the Grey-headed Woodpecker, and saw Great Grey Shrike.

Significant records: two Wood Pigeons, Common Kestrel over the field, 4 Common Starlings feeding on silverberry tree together with Filedfares.

1. Hawfinch

2. Long-tailed Rosefinch

3. There are a lot of Sivlerberries

4. Snow

5. Great Grey Shrike over the snow

6. Redwing identified only on photo

7. Mallard

8. Not departed Starling

9. Fieldfare is the most popular bird tiday


#	species	number

1	Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)	1

2	Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)	1

3	Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)	2

4	Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)	300

5	Grey-Headed Woodpecker (Picus canus)	1	слышал

6	Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor)	1

7	Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)	4

8	Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)	15

9	Rook (Corvus frugilegus)	4

10	Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)	1

11	Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)	20

12	Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)	30

13	Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis)	2

14	Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)	200

15	Redwing (Turdus iliacus)	2

16	Azure Tit (Parus cyanus)	3

17	Great Tit (Parus major)	2

18	Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)	5

19	European Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)	100

20	Eurasian Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)	1

21	Long-tailed Rosefinch (Uragus sibiricus)	5

22	Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)	2

23	Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)	30

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