Kazakhstan

The world is still turning, the blog didn’t crash, no anonymous threats against my family on social media … I…

Yes, that’s right. I’ve got bad news for you, provided you do or have or will live and bird and…

One of the pleasures of birding through a landscape no man has gone before is that one has frequent encounters…

The Chukar is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all the partridges that scientists assigned to the…

Kazakhstan – May 2009 After our excellent time at the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve we bid a fond farewell to…

What may look like a cheesy title is a way of pointing out that the bird of this post is usually…

  The wonderful Tien Shan mountains south of Almaty / Kazakhstan, with Big Almaty Lake in the background. Aside from…

This is all Dale’s fault, with his defection to team Dendroica just because he saw a couple’ colourful birds at…

Kazakhstan, May 2009 During the two days spent out in the steppe in Kazakhstan I couldn’t help but notice the…

The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe…