As we continued east from Almaty the air got drier and drier and the landscape...
On the fourth day in Kazakhstan I awoke early and, in the drizzlymist, once again...
Though I have already done a post on the Desert Finch of the Kazakhi deserts...
After leaving Big Almaty Lake, the site of our Ibisbill dip, we continued uphill to...
Big Almaty Lake, about thirty kilometers south of the city of Almaty, is a glacial-fed...
Seeing any bird with the word “Himalayan” in its name is going to be a...
After the pre-breakfast birding whetted my appetite for some seriously good birds I couldn’t wait...
After our two days birding the flat lands near Astana we flew to Almaty late...
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