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Находки редких птиц в Китае
Получил письмо от бердвотчеров Синьцзяна с информацией, которая возможно будет кому-нибудь интересна. Они сообщают, что в эту зиму.. 1. они нашли малого баклана на северных склонах Тянь-Шаня, численностью более 100 птиц (от себя добавлю, что это новый вид для…
Дутыш найден в Синьцзяне на границе с Казахстаном
В конце сентября в долине Или, в Синьцзяне был сфотографирован дутыш (Calidris melanotos). Точка встречи интресна тем, что находится недалеко от границы с Казахстаном. Кроме того, как верно заметил Олег Белялов, в эту точку дутыш мог попасть только через терри…
Tundra Swan in Xinjiang
Tundra Swan with neck-ring transmitter earlier found by Oleg Belyalov near Almaty right now found in Xinjiang by Mo Bei in XinYuan according to Gou Jun, the leader of Xinjaing Birdwatcher Society. Thanks!
XinJiang. Birding in Shihezi.
Two days in Shihezi the city at two hours road from Urumqi. Shihezi is is a sub-prefecture-level city. Population of Shihezi is about 600 thousands people, very large city in our understanding. In Shihezi there are birdwatchers very well knowing and photograph…
XinJiang. Back to Urumqi.
The day of coming back to Urumqi. But in first we visited Bosten Lake the second in size lake in China. The lake is large and is tourist attractions. Tourists visit lake by tickets; for local people there is rest zone with Aqua Park. But we interested birds of…
Taklamakan desert. Tarim Babbler.
We woke up before sunrise and went to XinJiang Ground Jay. Morning time we are dressed to sweaters. Sanzhar waited violent heat and several times said that we are in the one of the hottest places of the world in the middle of the summer. But we are dressed to…
Taklamakan desert. XinJiang Ground Jay.
Went to south with Lee Tao and Liang Yong. Weather is rainy and cold, but the road is long, probably the weather in final destination will be sunny. On roadside I noticed Mynah and said about it to our local friends. They said that Mynah is rare but occurs to…
XinJiang. Mongolian Ground Jay.
Yesterday I found out that Azure-winged Magpie breeds in Urumqi. This Magpie’s breeding range expands to westward but in Urumqi Magpie was introduced by people. In China there is a good tradition to release birds into the wild. Especially Magpies, because Magp…
Birding in XinJiang. First day.
The first day of our (with Sanjar Abdikhalyk) trip to XinJiang. Our main targets are birding and meeting with Gou Jun, Allan Linn and other members of XinJiang Birwatching Society. Today morning we started birding in Wutonggou, the protected area in desert lan…
Birding in Beijing
Last year I visited Beijing on late autumn (http://birds.kz/v2blogentry.php?l=ru&a=20151203000501), when there actually was uncharacteristic for Beijing cold and snowly winter. This year I was in Beijing in July, not the best time for birding neither. It was h…