As we continued east from Almaty the air got drier and drier and the landscape got more and more desolate. We passed a town...
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On the fourth day in Kazakhstan I awoke early and, in the drizzlymist, once again birded the grounds of the hotel in Almaty. The...
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Though I have already done a post on the Desert Finch of the Kazakhi deserts I felt that the similar Mongolian Finch (Rhodopechys mongolicus),...
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After leaving Big Almaty Lake, the site of our Ibisbill dip, we continued uphill to the Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory where lunch was distributed...
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Big Almaty Lake, about thirty kilometers south of the city of Almaty, is a glacial-fed lake situated at just over 2,500 meters in the...
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Seeing any bird with the word “Himalayan” in its name is going to be a thrill. Ditto for any bird named with any variation...
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After the pre-breakfast birding whetted my appetite for some seriously good birds I couldn’t wait to get up into the the snow-capped Tien Shan...
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After our two days birding the flat lands near Astana we flew to Almaty late at night and made our way to the Hotel...
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