rare birds records
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Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria)© Qanatbek Kenzhegulov
2022-11-27
A rare wintering species in the western part of Kazakhstan. In the Mangistau region, it has been recorded three times before. At the Tushchibek spring A.P. Moiseev caught a female on February 6, 1967 (Karpov, Kovshar, 2011), one bird was encountered on a stream near the Khangababa mosque on November 13, 2007 (Belyalov, 2008), at the non-freezing stream in the Tamshaly tract - one bird on February 2, 2014 (Belyalov, 2014).
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Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus)© Natalia Melnikova
2022-10-20
Shetpe
The second record of the Red-flanked Bluetail in the west of Kazakhstan, the first for the Mangistau region. Before that, it was noted by Andrey Kovalenko on October 12, 2017 on the artificial island of Kairan in the northeastern Caspian (see birds.kz gallery).
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Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)© Viktor Kolesnikov
2022-10-05
VKO
Rare entry into East Kazakhstan region from main flyways.
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Shikra (Accipiter badius)© Andrey Kovalenko
2022-06-22
Atyrau.
The northernmost nesting record in the Caspian region. Prior to this, since 2015, the Shikra has been found nesting in the Mangistau region of Aktau (see the birds.kz gallery), on April 22, 2019, one bird was photographed north of Aktau - in the city of Fort Shevchenko (A. Kydyr, birds.kz ).
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White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)© Vladimir Vorobyov
2022-06-03
VKO Katon-Karagay
A new species for the Katon-Karagai National Park. A flock of 12 birds was recorded on May 20, 2022 in the floodplain of the middle reaches of the Bukhtarma in the Taylakova Yama tract, one bird on May 27, 2022 in the valley of the middle reaches of the Kara-Kaba on Lake Shoptykol, on June 3, 2022 in the Karazher tract, June 6 on the lake Yazevoe. Воробьёв В.М. 2022. Встреча белокрылой крачки Chlidonias leucopterus в среднем течении реки Бухтармы на Южном Алтае // Рус. орнитол. журн. 31 (2191): 2376-2379.
unidentified birds
2022-12-01
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Alexandr Mesiats: Да, безусловно, согласен с Вами, но следует ли из этого, что чернушке, как "скальнику" (и практически "чистому" синатропу) легче приспособится
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2022-11-23
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Игорь Фефелов: Тоже за дерябу, расцветка физиономии очень характерная.
2022-11-21
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Игорь Фефелов: На мой взгляд, перепелятник и есть, форма крыльев вполне похожа в этой позиции.
