My 2019 birding tour to Kazakhstan was one of the best I have led over the last few years; incredible landscapes and non-stop fantastic birds made it hard not to enjoy every moment. Species such as Asian Crimson-winged Finch, Eversmann’s Redstart, White-headed Duck, Black Lark, White-winged Lark, Sociable Lapwing, White-winged Woodpecker, White-capped Bunting, Asian Desert Warbler, [...]
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Top 5 Birds of Kazakhstan Birding Tour 2019 | Kazakhstan Birding
June 25th, 2019 
Nick 
Posted in Birdwatching in Kazakhstan, Birdwatching Trips, Nature 
Tags: bird watching, Bird watching in Kazakhstan, kazakhstan birding, kazakhstan birding tours, kazakhstan birding trip 
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Black-crowned Night Herons at Wat Phutta Bucha – Thailand Birding
June 22nd, 2019 Nick Wat Phutta Bucha is a fairly typical Buddhist temple, similar to thousands of others around Thailand, but one that happens to be fairly close to where I live and with hidden secret around the back of the temple complex. A canal forms the boundary of the temple grounds at the rear and a group of [...]
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Hotel Grounds & Golf Course Birds – Thailand Birding
June 18th, 2019 Nick Much gets written about the prime birding spots in Thailand such as Kaeng Krachan, Doi Lang, Pak Thale and others but there are a vast amount of other locations, both national parks and otherwise, that do not get talked about much. Many visitors to Thailand are accompanied by non-birding friends or family and cannot get [...]
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Raptors | Kazakhstan Birding
June 3rd, 2019 Nick Vast landscapes of mountains, farmland, stony plains, semi-desert and steppe have been the backdrop for the last few weeks in Kazakhstan where the birds have been superb in some amazing settings incredible for their scale. Before the trip I was asked if we would see many raptors on this birding tour of Kazakhstan and it [...]
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Birding the Steppe near Astana | Kazakhstan Birding
June 1st, 2019 Nick I am currently sitting in a hotel room in Almaty, looking back on the last few days of the recent Kazakhstan birding tour that I have just finished leading. Our trip ended in the capital city of Kazakhstan, Nur Sultan (recently renamed from Astana), where we spent a few days birding in steppe and wetlands, enjoying [...]
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Birding & Hiking near Shymbulak | Kazakhstan Birding
May 17th, 2019 Nick I have just finished a three-night stay in Ile-Alatau National Park in the snow-capped Tien Shan mountains just outside of Almaty, Kazakhstan. I wanted to spend some time walking in the mountains and taking some photos of birds, not really being fussy about which species I saw, just enjoying the scenery and clean air. I [...]
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Winter Woodpeckers of Korea – South Korea Birding
May 9th, 2019 Nick Woodpeckers are one of my favourite groups of birds so I was very happy to see six species of them on the 2019 winter tour of South Korea in January, particularly as two of them were among my favourites; the friendly Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker and the impressive Black Woodpecker. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker is widespread and [...]
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