Birds - 701
Mammals - 57
Reptilies - 28
Amphibians - 3
Ray-finned Fishes - 2
Insects - 184
Arachnids - 8
Malacostracans - 2
One only day of our trip without rainy forecast. We go from Arys to Kyzylkum desert. Driving by Koksarai reservoir we watched flock of Greater White-fronted Geese of about 15 birds, then several flocks of Gulls. Good fact, it's means there are birds in Koksarai, at least we have a hopeness, especially after yesterday's Shashkakol which really disappointed.
We crossed Syrdaria river using Bairkum bridge. Landscape in that side of the river is plain desert with Saka's mounds in the beginnig, then after the turn to west it became saxaul forest, which became as denser and higher as we more drive to west. Commonly birding in desert is not in not so rich main habitat, but mostly in tracts, in our case means wells and rocks. We started in well named Les (means 'forest'). There are several high tall Elm trees and corral with a lot of cattle's manure here, which attract birds. Here we recorded Desert Finches, Chaffinch, Black and Eversmann's Redstart, Chiffchaff, Pied Wheatear, Common Starlngs, Hoopoe etc. Water of well is very warm, it's able to comfortable take bath here. Also in warm stream the Toads put the eggs. This time we saw threads of eggs, but also the copulation of Toads. Totally under the broken branches of tree there are about ten couples. Actually, it turns out male and female of Toad are well distinguished. Female is big, smooth with clear contrast spots, but male is less than female, with warts, spots are present in legs only.
The next birding spot is Tabakbulak well, here we took a lunch, than dispersed around the area where everyone take photos of something. In the end we will have a little of similar photos and a big number of birds species, it's of course good. Of the recorded species I can note three couples of Marsh Harriers (breeding birds, but not of all birds), Short-toed Snake Eagles, Gadwalls, Red-crested Pochard, Water Rail (resident), Desert Finches (residents), Spanish Sparrow, Reed Buntings, Desert Weatears. Unfortunately we didn't find Little Owls.
Murunkarak rock was he next birding spot for us. As we have a limit of time we had birding here only during one and half hour. It's really a bit of time. In this time most of us could just to watch and take photo of Finsch's Wheatear, the main of local target birds. Totally we counted seven Finsch's Wheatears, including one female collecting nest materials. The rest birds were males which had display flying and chased one to another in their own territory. I shot other birds either in case they were flying by me (Egyptian Vulture, Black Vulture, Demoiselle Cranes) or in case they came close to me (Black Redstart, Tree Pipit). But Alexander could to make a middle-distance walk, and saw Little Owls, Grey Partridges, Blue and Common Rock Thrushes. Of course Murunkarak is the spot need more time for birding, more time for walking and more time for waiting.
After Murunkarak I was feeling that situation normalized. All birds are present, all is in their own placed. We also visited the well adjoined to rare saxaul forest. Sandgrouses, Plovers and other birds com to drink water to this well. But today birds are absent. Local farmer said 5 days ago all around was covered even not by snow but by ice, and shown us broken due the heave weight of ice the branches of trees. Despite the absence of birds it was very nice and calmly here.
While we have a sun light we started to go back, hoping to birds of prey resting in power line poles. But we took photo of nothing excluding one only Imperial Eagle with nice white shoulders, and already in the dark we went to spend night to Arys.
1. Steppe Grey Shrike
2. Eastern Imperial Eagle
3. Yellow Ground Squirrel
4. Black Redstart of phoenicuroides subspecies (black back)
5. Black Redstart of murinus subspecies (grey back)
6. Eversmann's Redstart
7. well Les
8. European Green Toads
9. Long-legged Buzzards
10. Crested Lark
11. Spanish Sparrow
12. Gennady Dyakin
13. first Snake Eagle of this year
14. first Egyptian Vulture of this year
15. Rapid Racerunner
16. Gennady, Marina, Olga
17. parking in Murunkarak
18. Today is Wheatears day, we saw five spceies of this birds a day, first one is Isabelline Wheatear
19. Pied Wheatear
20. Northern Wheatear
21. Desert Wheatear
22. Finsch's Wheatear
23. Tulipa buhseana
# | species | number | |
1 | Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) | 5 | |
2 | Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) | 20 | |
3 | Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) | 2 | |
4 | Common Teal (Anas crecca) | 15 | |
5 | Gadwall (Anas strepera) | 1 | |
6 | Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) | 2 | |
7 | Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina) | 2 | |
8 | Smew (Mergellus albellus) | 1 | |
9 | Black Kite (Milvus migrans) | 1 | |
10 | Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) | 1 | |
11 | Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) | 2 | |
12 | Western Marsh-Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) | 10 | |
13 | Common Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) | 1 | |
14 | Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus) | 15 | |
15 | Short-toed Snake-Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) | 5 | |
16 | Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) | 30 | |
17 | Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) | 2 | |
18 | Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) | 1 | |
19 | Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus) | 2 | |
20 | Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) | 5 | |
21 | Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar) | 3 | |
22 | Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) | 2 | |
23 | Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) | 2 | |
24 | Common Crane (Grus grus) | 5 | |
25 | Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo) | 20 | |
26 | Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) | 1 | |
27 | Macqueen's Bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii) | 3 | |
28 | Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) | 1 | |
29 | Pallas's Gull (Larus ichthyaetus) | 10 | |
30 | Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) | 70 | |
31 | Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) | голос | |
32 | Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) | ||
33 | Little Owl (Athene noctua) | 2 | |
34 | Common Swift (Apus apus) | 1 | |
35 | Hoopoe (Upupa epops) | 5 | |
36 | Crested Lark (Galerida cristata) | ||
37 | Greater Short-toed Lark (Calandrella brachydactyla) | ||
38 | Calandra Lark (Melanocorypha calandra) | ||
39 | White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) | 1 | |
40 | Masked Wagtail (Motacilla personata) | 5 | |
41 | Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) | 1 | |
42 | Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis) | 1 | |
43 | Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) | 15 | |
44 | Turkestan Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides) | 1 | |
45 | Steppe Grey Shrike (Lanius pallidirostris) | 5 | |
46 | Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) | 15 | |
47 | Common Mynah (Acridotheres tristis) | 10 | |
48 | Black-Billed Magpie (Pica pica) | ||
49 | Eurasian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) | ||
50 | Rook (Corvus frugilegus) | ||
51 | Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) | ||
52 | Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) | ||
53 | Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) | 2 | |
54 | Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) | 5 | |
55 | Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka) | 15 | |
56 | Finsch's Wheatear (Oenanthe finschii) | 8 | |
57 | Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) | 10 | |
58 | Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) | ||
59 | Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis) | 1 | |
60 | Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius) | 1 | |
61 | Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) | 10 | |
62 | Eversmann's Redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus) | 2 | |
63 | Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) | 1 | |
64 | Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) | 2 | |
65 | Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) | 1 | пели утром |
66 | Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) | 5 | |
67 | Turkestan Tit (Parus bokharensis) | 2 | |
68 | Spanish Sparrow (Passer hispaniolensis) | 1 | |
69 | Rock Sparrow (Petronia petronia) | 5 | |
70 | Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) | 5 | |
71 | Desert Finch (Rhodospiza obsoleta) | 8 | |
72 | Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia) | 1 | |
73 | Northern Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) | 1 | |
Спасибо, Аскар, за интересный рассказ! Снова побывал в знакомых местах, пусть и онлайн...
Фотографии шикарные.
Прошлом году когда был 9 марта Мурнкараке не далеко курганник плотно сидел на кладке, а в этом году они только спаривается.... все поздно...
Аскар, когда вы там были в этих местах никакой тюльпаны не цвели?
Спасибо, Сергей, Малик. Тюльпанов никаких не видели нигде.
Малик, оказывается тюльпаны были, Виктория прислала фото тюльпана Бузе с Мурункарака.
Серых журавлей было 5. Еще у артезиана Лес была камышовая овсянка и минимум 2 теньковки.
спасибо, Гена, подкорректировал
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2021-02-28
Uzunagach, Almaty oblast.
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Sorbulak lake system. Almaty oblast.
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Komsomol. Sorbulak lake system. Almaty oblast.