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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

You see, I promised several months ago to do a presentation on the birds of Kazakhstan for the Queens County Bird Club on Wednesday, 15 February. Unexpectedly, it turns out that 15 February is only two days away and I had better get to it!

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Well, for one it inhabits high mountain terrain from the northern part of the Middle East all the way to the Himalayas and the central Asian mountain ranges, reaching 3,200 m above sea level in Kazakhstan. It remains there year-round, with slight altitudinal movements in winter.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Then of course, Chukars have style as they’ve chosen landscapes like this for them to roam… Kazakhstan’s Mangghystau province. Birds chukars introduced species Kazakhstan' If your place doesn’t look anything like this, then you shouldn’t be seeing Chukars! Chattanooga Chukar.

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MAY 11, 2013

It took a trip to Kazakhstan to see more pink finches. On a single wonderful day to the semi-desert of eastern Kazakhstan I added two pink finches to my life list, the Mongolian Finch at the top of this post and the Desert Finch above. Someday I hope to go back and add Trumpeter Finch to my Central Asian pink finch sightings.

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JULY 16, 2012

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

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

What I actually meant to say with this introduction is that I spent a few very enjoyable days in Kazakhstan’s far East at the end of September, and that one of the birding highlights for me was the chance to see and study Siberian Chiffchaffs at length and repeatedly.

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MARCH 6, 2016

Things get a bit confusing however once we move 2,500 km (or 1,500 miles) east across Kazakhstan towards the foothills of the Altai mountains. This is lake Bukhtarma in far eastern Kazakhstan. All is well on the following images: the coast of the Caspian Sea, and the gulls of the Caspian Sea – Caspian Gulls.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Further north, in Poland, they used to write off all Ruddy Shelducks recorded, assuming they were escapees, until they found one ringed in Kazakhstan! In the end, were they escapees, or the real McCoy?

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JULY 13, 2011

For the record, I’ve only ever had one theft from airport security and that was my Go Girl when I was in Kazakhstan…and their staff was neither black nor Mexican. This can’t stand if we want more people of color to join us. If you hear it, call it out like it is: racism.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Fortunately, though Caspian Terns are not common in Queens, they are common around the world (in fact, up until I saw these two birds I had seen as many Caspian Terns in Kazakhstan as I had seen in Queens), and are considered a Species of Least Concern by BirdLife International because of their enormous range and large and growing population.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 11, 2009

This was made for KARE , an animal rescue center in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This is a small video that was made to help prevent the irresponsible actions of pet owners. It’s message is universal though, and hopefully people will remember that we are responsible for the animals in our lives.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

American Dipper – Yes, I have seen Brown Dipper in Kazakhstan and White-capped Dippers in Ecuador but somehow I am missing the only dipper found in the United States, the American Dipper. This bird is approaching nemesis status both because of the failures to see and because it is such an outstanding and amazing bird to see.

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MAY 10, 2015

A male probable member of the indicus group (foreground) and a male domesticus House Sparrow in western Kazakhstan. The males can be distinguished from domesticus House Sparrows by a more extensive black throat and upper breast and almost entirely white cheeks, while the females of most forms tend to be much paler than domesticus females.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I do have to say that when I was traveling to Kazakhstan a few years ago, the GoGirl was an item that ended up missing from my checked luggage. Based on the bathrooms , I could understand why it was so irresistible to whomever took it.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

You can’t even see my visit to Trinidad and Tobago on this map but you definitely notice Kazakhstan !). my world birding map from eBird (Pro tip: visit big countries to make your map seem more full. Looking at a map of my bird sightings also makes me want to fill in gaps. Look at how much of the world I haven’t birded yet!

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AUGUST 31, 2014

I am pretty sure this is a migrant Blyth’s, seen in Kazakhstan in May. Heck, even bird banders / ringers get around 7 % of the Reed Warblers they handle wrong ! Option two: abandon bird. The primary projection appears rather short as does the supercilium, and I really needed Blyth’s for my year list. Good enough.

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Animal Person

JULY 4, 2009

I read this book over a year after The Omnivore's Dilemma , despite it having been published first, and I feel strongly about recommending it because of what it teaches about culture, greed, history, and.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Kazakhstan. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times. More >> Places. New York City. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog). Click on Project Treadstone above and see what happens!

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MAY 24, 2016

In fact, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , “The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world – it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.” ” The bird is massive.

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AUGUST 14, 2012

The eastern form breeds as far away as Kazakhstan, through India and the Middle East into Egypt’s Nile Valley, and migrates southwards to East and South Africa. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g. Morocco and Algeria) and migrates to tropical West Africa.

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APRIL 30, 2018

The ones in 2009, the only previous Wood Sandpipers I’d ever seen, were in Kazakhstan. I drove up, parked my car, walked up to the very extensive scope line, and spotted the bird. Easy peasy, the best type of twitch! My first Wood Sandpiper since 2009.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The site was where northern Kazakhstan is now, the culture was called Botai and the date was around 3500 B.C. The Botai did not just herd horses for meat. Scientists found bit-wear marks on Botai horses’ teeth — a clear sign the animals were being ridden.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Talk about Big Sky Country – One of Corey’s 10 Views from a Van in Kazakhstan Tags: march , weekend • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? I hope you, dear reader, have better plans… Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Get yours today!

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MARCH 15, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Striped Basilisk Lizard Lore Herps in Rockland County and Orange County Diamondback Terrapin at Jamaica Bay The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) Lizards of Kazakhstan About the Author Dale Forbes Dale got his first pair of binoculars for a very early birthday after his dad realized that it was the only way to be left in peace.

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MARCH 16, 2011

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JUNE 25, 2017

In 1996, during my university days at Greifswald, I was invited to join an excursion to eastern Kazakhstan, travelling along the Chinese border from Almaty to lake Zaissan and back. This was where the Cold War hit home, more direct and unjust than all the nuclear threats in the world could ever do. Then, times changed.

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JUNE 13, 2016

I’d only ever seen Garganey once before, way back in 2009 in Kazakhstan. What if we missed it? But before we get into the search I’d like to touch briefly on the bird itself. Its a Eurasian bird, migrating from Africa and south Asia every spring.

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MARCH 4, 2011

These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The other two neighbors that banned them are Kazakhstan and Belarus). Great news! But I'm not exactly sure why RUSSIA would ban them. Apparently, some claim about 90 percent of Canadian sales are to Russia. Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

And here, for the heck of it, is an image of the last Northern Wheatear I saw – a breeding plumaged bird in May of 2009 in Kazakhstan. Seeing a species in New York that is much more common in Eurasia and that only has North American breeding grounds in far northeastern Canada was pretty awesome. And I even got to work on time!

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Stopping spring shooting and educating hunters about these endangered birds has helped reduce the pressure on the species, but many threats still remain.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

I saw my all-time favourite bird species again after not seeing it for more than 10 years, a splendid Bearded Vulture (well, even two) in the Tien Shan mountains above Almaty, Kazakhstan in June. However, I am in a fierce and highly emotional year list competition with Corey, and it looks like I will lose against him.

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JUNE 4, 2011

During the course of a business trip to western Kazakhstan in early April I flew from Germany to Aqtau, right at the coast of the Caspian Sea. Well, it wasn’t: While 02:00 am Kazakhstan time was 11:00 pm German time and thus easily manageable, 06:00 am in Aqtau was 03:00 am in Germany. A reasonably good plan, I thought.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

There were frustrations, as my golden rule was that my clients should be able to look at the bird, or birds, through my scope before I attempted to take any photographs, but I did take many pictures that at the time I found pleasing.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or Kazakhstan, as was frequently the case during the last few years. Just four days after I had seen it, and after it had been around that pasture for nearly a month, it buzzed off presumably to Kazakhstan.

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JANUARY 19, 2014

In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan: Mangghystau province at the Caspian Sea shore, probably in May. Germany: extensive trips comparable to 2013.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

Nearly a year ago I wrote the following about birds that were becoming nemesis birds : Yes, I have seen Brown Dipper in Kazakhstan and White-capped Dippers in Ecuador but somehow I am missing the only dipper found in the United States, the American Dipper.

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