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Kokpek gorge


2022-05-08| Gennadiy Dyakin

По дороге на озеро Тузколь проезжали Кокпекское ущелье. Разумеется, не могли проехать не остановившись у заветного отщелка, где всегда смотрим овсянку Стюарта. Были овсянки и в этот раз, но совсем мало и пели как-то совсем уж малоактивно. Интересно было так же наблюдать два токующих самца синего каменного дрозда. Еще пели горные овсянки, горные славки, летали скальные ласточки, свой боевой пост занял кеклик. Вот в общем то и все птицы, которых увидели за короткое посещение.


1. White-capped Bunting


2. Blue Rock Thrush


3. Blue Rock Thrush


4. Rock Bunting


5. Hume's Whitethroat


6. Common Nightingale


# species number

1Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar)1

2Eurasian Crag Martin (Ptyonoprogne rupestris)

3Hume's Whitethroat (Sylvia althaea)

4Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)

5Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius)2

6Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)1

7White-capped Bunting (Emberiza stewarti)

8Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia)

comments:
2022-05-28. Виктория Звягинцева:

Неплохо


2022-06-05. Елбосын Бабалык:

Супер!
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