My last bird observations in Kuygan

16. - 26.08.2014

Let's go to my last fieldwork round!
This time Margulan accompanys and helps me. Of corse Viktor is again with us as our driver. But this time we also take two boys, that are somehow related to professor Nurtazin. They have vacations now and should relax in the Balkhash area.

Saiyd in the car on our long drive to Kuygan



The next morning I directly start with my bird observations in Kuygan.



Long-legged buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Adlerbussard



A really nice observation



Sand rat
Psammomys obesus
Sandratte



Isabelline wheatear
Oenanthe isabellina
Isabellensteinschmätzer



Lesser whitethroat
Sylvia curruca
Klappergrasmücke



It takes off.



Bluethroat
Luscinia svecica
Blaukehlchen



Common cuckoo
Cuculus canorus
Kuckuck



Paddyfield warbler
Acrocephalus agricola
Feldrohrsänger



Bearded reedling
Panurus biarmicus
Bartmeise






Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Flussuferläufer



Whooper swan
Cygnus cygnus
Singschwan

At the plot, where I usually camped the night before my observation, because it's so far away. But this time I went alone my boat early in the morning. It's so much more simple, because the boat is not so heavy with only one person inside and I was really fast! Also I got some muscles (;

Siberian Stonechat
Saxicola maurus
Schwarzkehlchen






Turkestan Shrike
Lanius phoenicuroides
Rotschwanzwürger



Carrion Crows
Corvus corone
Rabenkrähen



Paddyfield warbler
Acrocephalus agricola
Feldrohrsänger



Eurasian Golden Oriole
Oriolus oriolus
Pirol



Turkestan Shrike
Lanius phoenicuroides
Rotschwanzwürger






Bluethroat
Luscinia svecica
Blaukehlchen

After our stay in Kuygan, we go to my last bird observation in Basa Delta.

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