Vivid diversity in Kuygan

13. - 16.07.2014

We are off to our next fieldwork round.
This time Clare and me have company and help for our data collection from Margulan, Talgar and Viktor.

On the road trip from Almaty to Kuygan we see camels.



Camel
Camelus spec.
Kamel

The next morning while my bird observation, I see some nice specimen.

Lesser Whitethroat
Sylvia halimodendri
Klappergrasmücke



Isabelline Wheatear
Oenanthe isabellina
Isabellensteinschmätzer



Long-legged Buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Adlerbussard






In the steppe of Kuygan






Turkestan Shrike
Lanius phoenicuroides
Rotschwanzwürger






Tamarix shrubs are popular perchs for birds.






As I come back to our accommodation, the boys are still sleeping.



We have a bad as an unintentional subtenant.

In the afternoon Clare and me have to do some vegetation specification for our supervisor Niels.

Clare is messing around (:
There won't come a car anyway ...



Grashopper
Grashüpfer



Here was once an agricultural field.



I'm using the time to birdwatch again!

We finished the vegetation recording! It's really hot and we walked for about 5 km. The boys are waiting for us in the car at the side of the road. We are waving and shouting to show that they should pick us up, but the don't see or hear us. So we have to walk back the whole way ... Thanks boys ...

Everywhere in the village and along the road lies around much garbage,



but to see this dead cow is extreme ...

Tomorrow we are moving on to the Kunawski Bridge again. There Clare is leaving me, because she will fly back to Germany the next days. That means the next weeks I will stay only with the kazakh boys until I come back to Almaty ...

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