tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58986470493675386322024-03-17T00:24:35.924-07:00BIRDING MONGOLIABirds, birdwatching, biodiversity & conservation — by
Axel Bräunlich & Andreas BuchheimUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898647049367538632.post-73211482787311932552017-04-17T13:06:00.000-07:002017-04-17T13:06:12.529-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">22 February 2017</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">text & photos by ABu</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What was once a very common sight inside all riparian forests</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is now extremely rare: tree hole-nesting birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b>, Tuul Gol, UB, Febuary 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The day before I was about to fly back to work I went down to the river to see what is around there. I caught this <b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> singing from his nest site. Thanks to the unsustainable use of the riparian forests along Mongolia’s rivers this is not seen as often as it used to be. Most big trees had been cut down to be used as fuel wood or for the construction of fences and in many areas no larger trees are left. The high grazing/browsing pressure by too much life stock prevents any sapling to grow and it is not difficult to predict that in the nearer future Mongolia will have no riparian forest any more. Does anybody care? No!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pallas’s Rosefinch</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, Febuary 2017</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pallas’s Rosefinch</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, Febuary 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finding birds today way not easy. My stretch of the river was almost devoid of birds and I did not discover any “better” crow among the c50 <b>corvids </b>that were hanging around. A female <b>White-backed Woodpecker</b> stayed well hidden until it suddenly took flight to disappear somewhere in the distance and a <b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker</b> remained always on the far side of the trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a while I flushed a group of six birds, finches according to their jizz, and I recognized the calls of <b>European Greenfinch</b>. The group flew upstream and it took me quite a while to relocate them. The flock consisted of four<b> Pallas’s Rosefinches</b> and a pair of <b>European Greenfinches</b>. The birds were incredibly shy and I only managed to get the female documented.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is already my third sighting here in UB (see here “<a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2012/01/surprise-below-songino-khairkhan-uul.html#links" target="_blank">Surprise below Songino Khairkhan Uul</a>”; and I saw them again in October 2014 at the International School of Ulaanbaatar). With so few sightings it is hard to know whether something is going on or not. Although UB is the base for most local birdwatchers there are no other records. Only the future will tell if they are wintering in the area regularly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHjfLHqEvRHpNHvfWUcHOJkHONMjeG_I8cB5nTXaYNr-y5RYhtdWjrJBrIQw1acglCkHh1D6nWOfOj7Br5gIJBH8GyMM01v05EofXODcpmOumaoOwIFMRtweDvqvTmYPxRuRCarxnlBKz/s1600/04+european-greenfinch.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHjfLHqEvRHpNHvfWUcHOJkHONMjeG_I8cB5nTXaYNr-y5RYhtdWjrJBrIQw1acglCkHh1D6nWOfOj7Br5gIJBH8GyMM01v05EofXODcpmOumaoOwIFMRtweDvqvTmYPxRuRCarxnlBKz/s400/04+european-greenfinch.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">European Greenfinch</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, Febuary 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, Febuary 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17 February 2017</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">text & photos by ABu</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People have nicknamed UB “Utaanbaatar” (Utaan = smoke)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB seen from Bogd Khan Mountain, February 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For me, Bogd Khan Mountain is conveniently located and I can reach the parking lot of the Zaisan Valley within 10 minutes. On 17 February I spent six hours on the mountain by walking up (and later also down) the valley to what is called “West Table Rock” in hope of taking pictures of the birds. The trail in the valley is always very busy with hikers and it was just the same that day. Birds proved to be extremely uncooperative and I ended up in having just a single bird photographed. The jays were cautious and the <b>Bramblings </b>preferred to spend their time on the ground on a big, snow-covered scree on the other side of the valley and hence out of my reach. Even the tits were very successful in avoiding me. Then, near the “Western Table Rock” I spotted a group of <b>Alpine Accentors</b> just in the very moment when a hiker came around the corner and spooked them all (allowing me to count them: 10). I waited for about one hour and as soon as I had decided to climb down I heard them call and they all returned. So I did, but yet again, a hiker spooked them before I could start taking pictures. While walking down I heard the calls of a <b>Goldcrest</b>, a tiny bird that is mostly associated with pine forest. I looked around and quickly found a pair of these hardy birds. By leaving the trail I found myself walking through ankle-deep snow and I could fired a few shots (no sun by then!) before the birds were spooked by something. I couldn’t find them again. These birds are wintering in our forests while others breed here: I found a nest-building female <b>Common Crossbill</b>, a very early breeder, and <b>Grey-headed Woodpeckers</b> as well as <b>Eurasian Treecreepers</b> were already singing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bogd Khan Mountain, UB, February 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bogd Khan Mountain, UB, February 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Birdlist (22 species)</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grey-headed Woodpecker</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great Spotted Woodpecker</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bohemian Waxwing</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Alpine Accentor</b> 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Siberian Accentor</b> 2 (flushed from a dense part of the forest and not seen again)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Goldcrest</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Coal Tit</b> 20, some singing high up in the trees</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Marsh Tit</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Willow Tit</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Nuthatch</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Treecreeper</b> c10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Magpie</b> 2 down in the valley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Jay</b> c9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Spotted Nutcracker</b> c7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> c25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Raven</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c250 at the picnic area</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Brambling</b> c70</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pale Mountain Twite</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Siskin</b> c100</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Crossbill</b> c25</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bogd Khan Mountain, UB, February 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First day out!</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Steam is a problem during the early hours of the day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Foggy morning below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although I had arrived as early as December 2016 the last day of January 2017 was indeed my first day out for bird watching after I had come here for overwintering. I had been occupied by too many other things. But today I had to visit the Immigration Office near the airport and as this is more than half way between my home and the area below Songino Khairkhan Uul, I quickly drove down there and spent a couple of hours birding the berry eaters. This winter the trees carry a full load of berries and this did not only attract the more or less usual number of <b>Bohemian Waxwings </b>(c500) but also a higher than usual number of thrushes. Photographing the <b>waxwings</b> has become a kind of routine and I tried not to take too many photos of them. They had been featured frequently and hopefully also thoroughly enough (see <a href="https://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/12/bohemian-rhapsody-text-photos-by-abu-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Despite this I looked for an adult male with those red waxy plates on the rectrices but failed again in finding one. My search for the Holy Grail of the waxwings, <span style="color: red;">Japanese Waxwing</span>, was also fruitless so I need to come again. As always, the <b>waxwings </b>were very flighty and I surely did not check them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On one hand, wintertime is arguably not the best time for studying <b>thrushes</b>: not much study material is around and the birds are not that social and flocks are rare. Instead they install small territories which are even defended against waxwings. On the other hand, if only a few birds are present, one can fully concentrate on details, much better so than during the peak migration times when hundreds of thrushes can be seen within a single flock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The “gulls” of the thrushes—by the means of causing ID headaches—is a quartet of taxa which interbreed: <b>Red-throated</b> <i>Turdus ruficollis</i> (hereafter <b>RTT</b>) and <b>Black-throated Thrushes</b> <i>T. atrogularis</i> (<b>BTT</b>) are commonly subsumed under the name <b>Dark-throated Thrush</b>. The other pair consists of <b>Naumann’s</b> <i>T. naumanni</i> and <b>Dusky Thrush</b> <i>T. eunomus</i>, which also are sometimes regarded to belong to a single species, <b>Dusky Thrush</b>. The two species of the first mentioned pair are certainly the most common wintering thrushes, whereas of the latter pair only a very few <b>Naumann’s</b> and even fewer <b>Dusky Thrushes</b> have been recorded during winter time. Because hybridization is not only recorded within each species pair but also between members of different pairs, a full array of hybrids must be expected and very often the increasingly desperate observer ends up with the likewise often unanswerable question “Does the bird look like this because of intraspecific variation or because of some degree of gene flow between two (or more) taxa?”. This post will not answer this question, unfortunately, but it will hopefully show that the closer you look, the more disturbing details might come to light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I couldn’t take pictures of all individuals that I saw today and of most I photographed I would have liked to take more pictures, but this I never achieved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Male <b>Black-throated Thrush</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. The same male</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Tail base details of the same male</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. The other side of the tail of the same male</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let’s start with this easy adult male <b>BTT</b> (pictures 3 to 6). No problem with this, or? Both, Lewington et al. (1991) as well as Clement & Hathway (2000) quote that <b>BTT</b> does not show any red or orangey tone to the feathers (apart from the underwing coverts, see picture 5, where such a displaced orange underwing feather shows on the upper side), but Glutz von Blotzheim & Bauer (1988) allow a faint rusty coloration on the outer vanes of all but the central pair of tail feathers. This can be seen in our first bird (pictures 5 and 6). Additionally there is weak orange coloration on the otherwise entirely white undertail coverts which is only visibly from a very short distance. In field this probably would go unnoticed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. Male <b>Black-throated</b> x <b>Red-throated Thrush</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. The same bird, a bit closer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What about the next one (pictures 7 to 11)? Easy as well, eh? From the distance this adult male looks boldly black and white and could be mistaken for <b>Common Magpie</b> or even <b>Rosy Starling</b> by the beginner. Both, of course, would show all-black undertail coverts but in this bird they are white. Some darker spots, created by the darker bases of the undertail coverts shine through, though. Usually the darker parts of the undertail coverts are obscured by the large white tips resulting in a plain all-white look to this part. Luckily the male decided to move in closer and on the second picture the under tail is just white (picture 8, but see also pictures 10 & 11). All feathers of the throat and breast are black with a narrow white margin (which wears off quickly and during the breeding season these parts are very very dark). So it is just another straightforward bird? A clean adult male <b>BTT</b>? Not so fast please! We need to look closer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. The same male jumping down to the ground</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. Right side of this bird</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11. And the left hand side as well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I got a blurry flight shot (picture 9) when the bird dashed down to the ground for a foraging session. Here, the dark bases of the under tail coverts can “clearly” be seen. On the longest coverts these bases are dark, maybe even black, but the shorter coverts have a kind of brownish bases. Obviously, the underside of the tail is not black. Towards the outer pair of tail feathers the brownish hue intensifies. Could these be already hints to some <b>RTT</b> influence? The upperside of the tail shows some orange red on the bases on both sides (pictures 10 & 11). Following Lewington et al. (1991) as well as Clement & Hathway (2000) these orange tail corners are the disqualifiers for being it a pure <b>BTT</b>. Whether the amount of orange shown by this bird would be just OK for being accepted as a pure <b>BTT</b> by Glutz von Blotzheim (1988) is impossible to know as the authors don’t provide an upper limit. So if these birds really are hybrids, a great deal of care needs to be executed to enable someone to pinpoint a true <b>BTT</b>. It would as quite interesting as it would be helpful to know whether red tail corners on adult male <b>BTT</b> or <b>BTT</b>-like hybrids are evenly distributed over the entire breeding range of <b>BTT</b>. Do they occur also in the western part of the <b>BTT</b> range which is far from the breeding range of <b>RTT</b>? If the proportion of red-corned males would increase from west (zero?) to the east (percentage unknown!) this would be a strong point for some genetically leakage of <b>RTT</b> DNA into the <b>BTT</b> population and hence would proof the assumption that any red on the tail safely identifies a hybrid. At present this is all entirely unknown and I am quite sure the above mentioned authors could NOT assure the genetic entity of the birds they had used to draw their respective conclusions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Haffer (1988) and also Clement & Hathway (2000) claim that intermediate birds (=hybrids) look quite similar to same age and sex <b>BTT</b> which implies that the dark coloration is dominant over the red. To proof this it would be necessary to breed these thrushes under controlled conditions, i.e. pairing up pure (DNA tested and with preferably pure parents) parents of either taxon and see how their offspring looks like. I do not think that anybody ever has undertaken such an effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So isn’t it just a matter of detectability? Under the assumption that a pure <b>BTT</b> has no orange on the upperside, any orange (then a sign of hybridism), be it even very small, would be rather obvious and could easily be detected. Because of this easiness many observers are able to identify those individuals as hybrid. In case of a rather <b>RTT</b>-like hybrid the recognition wouldn’t be as easy. A slight reduction of the amount of orange on a <b>RTT</b> would be very difficult to detect, especially as some variation on the amount of dark on the tail feathers has been described. The darker end of this variation could actually indicate the introduction of <b>BTT</b> DNA into the stock of <b>RTT</b> (check pictures 12, 13 and 18 for some examples).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12. Young male <b>Black-throated</b> x <b>Red-throated</b> Thrush</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13. The same bird from the other side</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next guy shows a bright reddish supercilium, rufous cheeks and lots of orange in the tail (picture 12). When seen head on (picture 13) the uneven length of the greater upperwing coverts illustrate that this is a 2cy <b>thrush </b>(the outer and shorter feathers being juvenile feather and the longer ones had been already moulted but this is not always as easy to see as in this individual). The solidly darkish breast makes it a male. To me, the breast feathers are too dark for a pure <b>RTT</b> but I am not so sure whether the amount of dark on all of the visible tail feathers is too much for a pure <b>RTT</b>. So is it a just a darker <b>RTT</b> or has some foreign DNA crept in? I don’t know. For the time being I booked this as a <b>BTT</b> x <b>RTT</b> hybrid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14. <b>Black-throated</b> x <b>Red-throated Thrush</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If the bird in picture 14 is a 2cy individual-and the white tips to the outer greater coverts which are also shorter than the two inner one suggest this—it should be a male (but some females may show a very distinct breast shield!). Its supercilium is suffused be red and the underside of the tail shows red as well so my conclusion is: <b>BTT</b> x <b>RTT</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15. <b>Black-throated</b> x <b>Red-throated Thrush</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">16. The same bird from the side</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXu7vzGqTnrjV9QaJr0rEIu24cLxIUp5PkH_zHSyT_bMH3279JshdfEfByrgU4w3brJpdSUGLUzKp4LTM4iT98CYLYe2TBV58it54c-cpCFc7sZs9duQZjOdfSKCRACh1etS8mdHVSya8D/s1600/17+atro-X-rufi-female-c.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXu7vzGqTnrjV9QaJr0rEIu24cLxIUp5PkH_zHSyT_bMH3279JshdfEfByrgU4w3brJpdSUGLUzKp4LTM4iT98CYLYe2TBV58it54c-cpCFc7sZs9duQZjOdfSKCRACh1etS8mdHVSya8D/s400/17+atro-X-rufi-female-c.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17. And the same bird again in a heavily cropped image</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now (pictures 15 to 17) another female (?) thrush with a distinct supercilium and a large white throat area but a solid brownish and blackish breast shield. Already when see head-on (picture 15 and the heavily cropped picture 17) the breast looks neither good for a pure <b>BTT</b> nor for a pure <b>RTT</b>. It even has a reddish area on the neck sides and its tail show red, but not as much as I would expect in a pure <b>RTT</b>. This should be just another <b>BTT</b> x <b>RTT</b> hybrid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGI_yo_Et8Fn4PC4bY4DC_VG5VuNB69DZbRduaXSisYs6cjpN3Vu16aG1UrPDzs1V4g3BY7dga9spysw9i04EiOOJmSk5PkRfRNvbvyk-RRpJbbQnExifWvG_KSgILAAvvDYi1jAkGL86/s1600/18+btt+x+rtt.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGI_yo_Et8Fn4PC4bY4DC_VG5VuNB69DZbRduaXSisYs6cjpN3Vu16aG1UrPDzs1V4g3BY7dga9spysw9i04EiOOJmSk5PkRfRNvbvyk-RRpJbbQnExifWvG_KSgILAAvvDYi1jAkGL86/s400/18+btt+x+rtt.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18. <b>Black-throated</b> x <b>Red-throated Thrush</b>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What about the bird in picture 18? It also doesn’t show lots of red in the tail and its breast looks almost red free. Is it within the variation of RTT or not? I identified this one as a <b>BTT</b> x <b>RTT</b> but I am totally unsure about this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It seems that there were almost no pure birds around that day. But I photographed at least two thrushes that can be safely identified as pure young female <b>BTT</b>. These are shown in the pictures 19 and 20. As can be seen in the latter there were some easy to identify thrushes around: <b>Fieldfare</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19. Female <b>Black-throated Thrush</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20. Female <b>Black-throated Thrush</b>, background: <b>Fieldfare</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul, UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">21. <b>Fieldfare </b>below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibK72VU1mkSCgbDSatiZxBOjSai2biD7duKy8-fvFQUmdvd3j6ovoaa41W7pz4iRIAwTZ9SQEMez-tEDGnKqEfn-U3GHN0eAup_iCW5QcQjAsIfrHv3aRFAIkQs0zkA_wOcuBX5HZMzftg/s1600/22+fieldfare.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibK72VU1mkSCgbDSatiZxBOjSai2biD7duKy8-fvFQUmdvd3j6ovoaa41W7pz4iRIAwTZ9SQEMez-tEDGnKqEfn-U3GHN0eAup_iCW5QcQjAsIfrHv3aRFAIkQs0zkA_wOcuBX5HZMzftg/s400/22+fieldfare.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">22. <b>Fieldfare </b>below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQQTrHimluN1GSZ71yRRf2VeL7zBRb-NcI1qqZYI2SFC3D7nDBpoFG4BXJouiJyN9U4FfQ7xzKg0kq7zM-QKakIh0oTni-qxiaTZmOWsJ4Dec1IO49BCMjCCNIvd_d4Zk11JPTh0qst_n/s1600/23+fieldfare.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQQTrHimluN1GSZ71yRRf2VeL7zBRb-NcI1qqZYI2SFC3D7nDBpoFG4BXJouiJyN9U4FfQ7xzKg0kq7zM-QKakIh0oTni-qxiaTZmOWsJ4Dec1IO49BCMjCCNIvd_d4Zk11JPTh0qst_n/s400/23+fieldfare.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">23. <b>Fieldfare </b>below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">24. <b>Fieldfare </b>below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaviwO_9f7Btjjm7bLKG1NcDpwo2otxaBBZWCOcrqY5x5LPJ1oIy-XwZxbSqrEOd08nY4GZjZYmeHfhx4olFCii3KlCoNp1OJGElL_PxPudxozqUb-WV2tg-Xvk9AIJVwWGpKH3ywVlrhO/s1600/25+RTT+x+Naumanns+thrush.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaviwO_9f7Btjjm7bLKG1NcDpwo2otxaBBZWCOcrqY5x5LPJ1oIy-XwZxbSqrEOd08nY4GZjZYmeHfhx4olFCii3KlCoNp1OJGElL_PxPudxozqUb-WV2tg-Xvk9AIJVwWGpKH3ywVlrhO/s400/25+RTT+x+Naumanns+thrush.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">25. Putative <b>Red-throated</b> x <b>Naumann’s Thrush</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But there was also this thrush (picture 25) of which I managed to get a single shot from the distance. If a thrush shows an obvious supercilium behind the eye alarm bells start ringing as I take this always as an indicator for <b>Naumann’s</b> or <b>Dusky Thrush</b> influence (if it is not a pure of one of those). The orange underside of the tail plus the almost plain pale orange undertail coverts are good for a <b>Naumann’s Thrush</b> but the entire upperparts point more towards <b>RTT</b>, especially because of the reddish spot on the neck side. The multiple rows of tiny dark-centered orange spots along the breast and down the flanks are unusual for either of these candidates. For me this looks like a <b>RTT</b> x <b>Naumann’s</b> hybrid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are really headache-causing birds and any expertise intellectual input on this topic, be it on ageing, sexing or even general, would be very highly welcomed, especially if the captions would have to be corrected!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just for pleasure I include some <b>Bohemian Waxwings</b>. Can you find the only female and the bird, which cannot be aged?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">26. <b>Bohemian Waxwing</b> below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">27. <b>Bohemian Waxwing</b> below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">28.<b> Bohemian Waxwing</b> below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">29. <b>Bohemian Waxwing</b> below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">30. <b>Bohemian Waxwing</b> below Songino Khairkhan Uul</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Literature cited:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clement P & Hathway R (2000): Thrushes. Christopher Helm, London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lewington I, Alström P & Colston P (1991): <i>A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe</i>. HarperCollins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Glutz von Blotzheim UN & Bauer KM (1988): <i>Handbuch der Vögel Mitteleuropas</i>. Vol. 11/II Turdidae. AULA-Verlag, Wiesbaden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Haffer J (1988): Geografische Variation. In: Glutz von Blotzheim UN & Bauer KM (1988): <i>Handbuch der Vögel Mitteleuropas</i>. Vol. 11/II Turdidae. AULA-Verlag, Wiesbaden: 968-969.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">31. Dark morning below Songino Khairkahn Uul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, January 2017</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Solution: The only female (almost white outer tips of the primaries, no waxy tips to the secondaries, a blurred lower border of the dark throat and a narrow yellow tail tip) can be seen in picture 29 and the bird in picture 27 cannot be aged because the upperside of the primaries is not visible.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB Ponds: full day!</span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19 September 2016</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">text & photos by ABu</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not without reason this site is called “green ponds”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by my fellow Mongolian birdwatchers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ulaanbaatar has a traffic issue. Several traffic experts had been invited by the city government and they all have come to the very same conclusion: it is neither the number of cars nor the total length of all streets and also it is not the parking situation that causes traffic jams almost everywhere. Instead the experts identified the mindset of the drivers as the main reason. Apparently, smart people in the city government understood that it would take too long to change the mindset of a whole country—this would be possible by a combination of measures like education, law enforcement and high fines, according to the experts-and put driving restrictions by the license plate numbers into effect. That means that our car is not allowed to run on Mondays, roughly in the time between 08:00 and 20:00 hrs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To avoid fining I left our home at 06:30 hrs in the morning and drove across the city to UB ponds where then I had to stay the whole day-good for me! I returned after my full day at the site well after 20:00 hrs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This time I used a different strategy to get pictures of the birds: Instead of restlessly wandering around and chase up all birds I stayed all day laying underneath a bush on the water’s edge and waited for the birds to come. The first things which came were no birds but several rain showers (actually also containing hail stones making the first part of my stay quite unpleasant) so I mainly had to keep my gear dry. Photographing anyway wasn’t possible during the first hours of my visit because of the thick cloud cover. Only after a few hours it slowly started clearing up and I could achieve some pictures. The wind increased during the day and in the afternoon it was blowing from the south at c. 5 Bft (29-38 km/h). All day I witnessed a permanent stream of <b>raptors </b>flying or even migrating southwest. By doing so the lower flying birds caused quite a stir among the <b>ducks</b> and <b>waders</b> allowing me to get some flight pictures as well. The most numerous raptors were <b>Black-eared Kites</b> and I stopped counting when the number had risen to 450 in the early afternoon. I had missed too many chances for taking pictures by focusing too much on counting the raptors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some of the flying ducks can be found in the pictures. Compare their respective underwing patterns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, the underwings of <b>Northern Pintail</b> and <b>Baikal Teal</b> are completely different whereas their respective upperwings are quite alike. The underwings of <b>Baikal</b> and <b>Common Teals</b> do not differ so much but note the former’s broader white trailing edge and the darker leading edge. <b>Baikal Teal</b> is a little larger as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Birdlist (66 species)</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Greylag Goose</b> a family of 2 adults plus their single juvenile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ruddy Shelduck</b> c170</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mallard</b> c70</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Gadwall</b> c105</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Northern Pintail</b> 18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Northern Shoveler</b> 35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Wigeon</b> 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Teal</b> c260</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Garganey</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Baikal Teal</b> 22, sometimes all together</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Falcated Duck</b> 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Wigeons</b>, underwing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A flock of <b>Northern Shoveler</b> and a <b>Gadwall</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Common Teal</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Teal</b> and <b>Baikal Teals</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Baikal Teals</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Baikal Teal</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Baikal Teals</b>, Part of the flock when they were all together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Baikal Teal</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Pochard</b> c50</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Tufted Duck </b>c30, still some chicks partially in downs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Goldeneye</b> 10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Goldeneye</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Common Goldeneye</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Common Goldeneye</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Common Goldeneye</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Goosander/Common Merganser</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Great Crested Grebe</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Little Grebe</b> (ssp <i>poggei</i>) 1, supposedly the same I saw before</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adult female <b>Tufted Duck</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Tufted Duck</b>, a partly downy chick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 fully grown juv. <b>Tufted Ducks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Great Cormorant</b> 15, only 3 adults</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grey Heron</b> c. 60</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Black Stork</b> 2 + 4 migrating south</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Osprey</b> 1 migrating south and too far away to be aged</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b> 1, pale morph</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> I counted 450 but easily there were several hundred more on the move after I had stopped counting them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Marsh Harrier</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Upland Buzzard</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Kestrel</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Peregrine Falcon</b>, ssp. <i>calidus</i> one 2cy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Saker Falcon</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Hobby</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Coot</b> 30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Moorhen</b> 4 adults, 3 juveniles and 3 pulli</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Little Grebe</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Little Grebe</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Little Grebe</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Little Grebe</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pacific Golden Plover</b> 1 juv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Northern Lapwing</b> c25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Spotted Redshank</b> c45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Greenshank</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Snipe</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Red-necked Phalarope</b> 2 juv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mongolian Gull</b> c25, only 3 juv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Black-headed Gull</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Turtle Dove</b> 1</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eurasian Coot</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eurasian Coot</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eurasian Coot</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mongolian Horned Lark</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Barn Swallow</b> c200, all I could check belonged to ssp. <i>tytleri</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Richard’s Pipit</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Red-throated Pipit</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>White Wagtail</b> c20, including a flock of 5, consisting only of the ssp. <i>ocularis</i>, 1 juv <i>leucopsis</i> and the rest <i>baicalensis</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Redstart</b> 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Red-throated Thrush</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pallas’s Warbler</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> 7</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8vjrsynYO4MuDJwL7XWZFUsLk35J476bLgyW6FNt-idODHXdBmU77XM4PqPQC25pCsYODILg-pwmTjwWmk4dJNWMvU2xaACLr7rSkqFNWZHEE7yLLFgOhXcf5xzUXu_BVI13se2q-LXr/s1600/29+booted-eagle-pale-morph.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8vjrsynYO4MuDJwL7XWZFUsLk35J476bLgyW6FNt-idODHXdBmU77XM4PqPQC25pCsYODILg-pwmTjwWmk4dJNWMvU2xaACLr7rSkqFNWZHEE7yLLFgOhXcf5xzUXu_BVI13se2q-LXr/s400/29+booted-eagle-pale-morph.jpg" width="400" /></a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pale morph <b>Booted Eagle</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy <i>calidus</i> <b>Peregrine Falcon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The same <b>Peregrine</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> 22</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Magpie</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Jackdaw</b> 19</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Rook</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Common Raven</b> 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Red-billed Chough</b> c25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Rosefinch</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Rustic Bunting</b> 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Vl2ekXUvDhGFa9B4slbv9PT8KK4zcVR8H8n4p6li3Gi7uZilgLIzDRsuPhq3XvHwliz3yJWayCrLJbeK3kKPhQVh4tLJBMrc7QRCZCnYqTwcWuAnV5G4-Uu-93BTgK8gFeTMjExPJgRH/s1600/32+spotted-sandpiper.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Vl2ekXUvDhGFa9B4slbv9PT8KK4zcVR8H8n4p6li3Gi7uZilgLIzDRsuPhq3XvHwliz3yJWayCrLJbeK3kKPhQVh4tLJBMrc7QRCZCnYqTwcWuAnV5G4-Uu-93BTgK8gFeTMjExPJgRH/s400/32+spotted-sandpiper.jpg" width="400" /></a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Juvenile <b>Spotted Redshank</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvWEG6lucVu6Vrqgk7fFXnRtFyyun7orpxWrf4VBEmx1Kim7BiXgyCV-pe9DHAgPFV1q1hXgPpBIHs2NC5Rup2rPgmlbFNHK3mBJ-UDWPrGE5qUy0eR5cJH3GKt2sp64oEAx8UVRBL5df/s1600/33+spotted-redshank-headon.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggvWEG6lucVu6Vrqgk7fFXnRtFyyun7orpxWrf4VBEmx1Kim7BiXgyCV-pe9DHAgPFV1q1hXgPpBIHs2NC5Rup2rPgmlbFNHK3mBJ-UDWPrGE5qUy0eR5cJH3GKt2sp64oEAx8UVRBL5df/s640/33+spotted-redshank-headon.jpg" width="426" /></a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Juvenile <b>Spotted Redshank</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZA_nl8_oBXGV11Q5EVykqBni1fPvb7gMxXx8WebSEPD0VGismqp0afFWuAg62Mjb_CNXQVDbjSoepU1xk6O_RMZK3LYFz29OEeX2VuO6Tm2fbNVmp_f4FqMLDYh5hLL9b0-1DorJ-fZw/s1600/34+northern-pintail-group.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZA_nl8_oBXGV11Q5EVykqBni1fPvb7gMxXx8WebSEPD0VGismqp0afFWuAg62Mjb_CNXQVDbjSoepU1xk6O_RMZK3LYFz29OEeX2VuO6Tm2fbNVmp_f4FqMLDYh5hLL9b0-1DorJ-fZw/s400/34+northern-pintail-group.jpg" width="400" /></a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Northern Pintails</b>, would you have recognized them?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Juv. <b>Pacific Golden Plover</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Out of the blue I heard a <b>Pacific Golden Plover</b> call and I imitated its calls. After a few seconds the bird</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">—</span>a naive juvenile</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">—</span>dropped down in front of me and was intensely looking for what it thought to be a companion. It soon realized that it had fallen into my audio trap and left right away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What a fantastic day! The perfect final before going back to work and sorry for no songbirds this time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CU next time so please keep visiting us at <b>Birding Mongolia</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">part five: <b>plantation of lords</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(links to <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/07/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 1</a>, <a href="https://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/12/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 2</a>, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/12/gulling-east-part-three-text-and-photos.html#links" target="_blank">part 3</a>, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2017/01/gulling-east-part-four-plantation-of.html#links" target="_blank">part 4</a>) </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">singing (!) <b>Forest Wagtail</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the few days (26 to 29 May) in the Khalkhgol plantation I searched for rare species every day. I turned each and every <b>warbler </b>and did the same with <b>flycatchers</b>, but the big hit—that would be a national first like <span style="color: red;">Blue-and-white Flycatcher</span> or a second for the country like <span style="color: red;">Eastern-crowned Warbler</span>—was unfortunately not among them, or I just didn't find it. On my first walk I found several rare or kind of rare birds though ("teasers": <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/07/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">see here</a>): about the 5th record for Mongolia of <b>Forest Wagtail</b> (teaser 3), a female <b>White-throated Rock Thrush</b> (teaser 4) and a female <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b> (teaser 5). The light was very poor but luckily all three of them stayed for more than one day, enabling me to get better shots. Since this was already my second <b>Forest Wagtail</b> (see <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2011/08/some-eastern-specialities-and-more-tour_24.html#links" target="_blank">here </a>for the other one, 2011), out of three visits to the Far East of Mongolia during spring, it seems that the species is not a real rarity and the singing bird suggests that they might even breed somewhere nearby. If not in Mongolia, which does not have the right habitat (?), then across the border.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Female <b>White-throated</b> Rock Thrush, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the same <b>White-throated Rock Thrush</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The well-skulking <b>White-throated Rock Thrush</b> is likewise not often seen in the country but if, then it is mostly in the east. This female was not so approachable but as it couldn't hide away inside the degraded plantation that easily, I managed to get half-decent pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And the <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b>? Since territorial males are recorded every now and then, it cannot be regarded as a rarity, at least in the east. There is a single record from UB even, but further west not a single individual has ever been seen. A few should be on show to those observers taking the effort traveling to eastern Mongolia during spring and summer. I photographed three individuals, all of which behaved a bit skittish, naturally!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy female <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy female <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy male <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy male <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ad male <b>Yellow-rumped Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While I was on my walk through the plantation on 28 May I saw a bird in the air crossing a wide open space. It looked strange but fortunately it chose to land in the lonely dead tree (can a dead tree be lonely?) in front of me: it was a 2cy male <b>Mugimaki Flycatcher</b>. It decided to press on almost immediately so I got only a single shot (in much too harsh light). This species is recorded only very infrequently within Mongolia's boundaries although it might even breed in the taiga. It took me almost 30 visits over a period of 12 years to get it on my list. Surprising, indeed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two more species I got photographed that I would consider rare or more precisely: rarely seen follow. <b>Eye-browed Thrush</b> is one of them. Actually it is a regular migrant in small numbers but it also breeds in Gorkhi-Terelj National Park not far from UB. It is a rather shy thrush and thus quite often overlooked and, even more often, not photographed. During the storm a group of 8 foraged between the rows of bushes. They must have been quite exhausted to let me get that close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy <b>Mugimaki Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eye-browed Thrush, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other species was a common migrant and breeder in Asia but is now on the brink of extinction: <b>Yellow-breasted Bunting</b>. I saw 2 birds in the plantation and could take photos of a 2cy female. The other was an adult female. It is a pity that such a beautiful bird is still being caught in huge numbers in China, where it is called "rice bird" for a very obvious reason: they are eaten! Now it is really a rare sight in Mongolia, even on migration and you need a great deal of luck to find one during a spring trip. Only tiny "left-over" breeding population pockets are currently known. Wake up, neighbours, and stop eating them all up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2cy <b>Yellow-breasted Bunting</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I saw only two other rarer birds, actually it was only one that I saw alive: on 26 May found a bunch of <b>oriole </b>feathers under a bush, but they were only those small bright yellow body feathers that gave no clue to which oriole species had been killed. <b>Black-naped Oriole</b> is the more likely species, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On 28 May an adult <b>Striated Heron</b> flew down river but disappeared too quickly. They breed in very low numbers in the Far East of Mongolia. This time I could not find more rarities and did not even see a single <span style="color: red;">Chinese Grey Shrike</span>, a species that has bred in the plantation, but not this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We headed back to the west on 29 May but this part of the journey will be covered in the next post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On 30 June 2016 Otgonsuren Avirmed and I were measuring <b>Elm</b> <i>Ulmus pumilo</i> trees at the Undai River in Khanbogd soum, Umnugobi province (42.6734ºN 106.9606ºE). This was part of an ongoing survey by the <a href="https://programs.wcs.org/mongolia/" target="_blank">Wildlife Conservation Society of Mongolia</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I looked up I saw a strange bird which was mainly white, grey and black. It was feeding slowly within the canopy of the trees and I quickly took two photographs. I could not identify it at the spot so pictures were sent to Gankhuyag Purev-Ochir, Purevsuren Tsolmonjav, Amarkhuu Gungaa and Batmunkh Davaasuren for checking. It turned out that we had found Mongolia's first <b>Ashy Minivet</b>! We could not check the site the next day so it remains a one-day wonder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Khanbogd, southern Mongolia, 30 June 2016</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comment by <b>BirdingMongolia</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Ashy Minivet</b> has been on our "next for the country list" for long. It breeds from Amurland in Russia's Far East and NE China south to Korea and also in Japan. Its non-breeding range lies mainly in SE Asia, on the Greater Sundas and in the Philippines, and it occurs also regularly India. Given this range the species has been expected to visit Mongolia on migration for some time! Congrats guys! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Early morning of 17 Sep 2016 I picked up Augusto and Jonathan and the three of us went to Gorkhi Terelj National Park to try our luck on <b>Black-billed Capercaillie</b>, aka <b>BBC</b>. We parked the car near the village of Terelj and next was a 3-hour ascent up to a plateau 500 m higher than the parking lot. Apparently, not many have ever tried to seek these birds out during this time of the year and our expectations to find a <b>BBC</b> were not high. The main reason for this was the fact that we were not alone in the forest. Nutters, who collect pine nuts by banging huge wooden hammers against the trees, causing not only the nut-containing cones to fall down, but also damage the trees and cause a lot of disturbance, were on the move as well. Luckily the collecting season was almost over and the forest was not shaken by the hammering sound. Most numerous were <b>Eurasian Red Squirrel</b> <i>Sciurus vulgaris</i> of which we easily saw more than 100, including 2 or 3 of the locally rare red-colour morph. The only other mammal we saw, also in larger numbers, was <b>Northern Red-backed Vole</b> <i>Myodes rutilus</i> (thanx for the pic Augusto!). They also were collecting pine nuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 2016, © Augusto Faustino</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once on the plateau we spread out and combed the forest. It did not take long until we flushed the first <b>BBC</b>, a stately male. Our views, however, were not satisfactorily. So we went on and by the time we returned to the car we had seen about 5 or 7 males and 1 female. Although some of them took flight from branches directly above us, photographing them proved impossible, once again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, it seems that autumn is a rather good time for finding the species as they get somehow accustomed to the presence of humans allowing a closer approach. The main problem still is to see them before the take off. Some males were already singing, which also helped in locating them. We also checked the air above the Valley of the Turtle and a complete list of the birds seen can be found below. We returned to UB in the evening: Mission accomplished</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-billed Capercaillie</b>: 6 to 8, one even seen walking on the ground but even this one sneaked away with ease</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Buzzard</b>: 2, actually the only birds photographed that day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bearded Vulture</b>: 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Black Vulture</b>: 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Goshawk</b>: 1 immat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Juvenile <b>Eastern Buzzard</b>, Gorkhi Terelj NP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2cy <b>Eastern Buzzard</b>, Gorkhi Terelj NP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Spotted Woodpecker</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Redstart</b>: c.10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b>: c.30</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eye-browed Thrush</b>: 2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Autumn colours, Gorkhi Terelj NP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">September 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">part four: <b>plantation of commons</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>text and photos by ABu</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(links to <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/07/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 1</a>, <a href="https://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/12/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 2</a>, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/12/gulling-east-part-three-text-and-photos.html#links" target="_blank">part 3</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The degraded Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post will feature some of the commoner birds I encountered and photographed while staying in the Khalkhgol plantation (26 to 29 May). Eastern Mongolia is probably the most under-watched part in this generally under-watched country! So especially for "half rare" species it is difficult to draw the line between what is considered to be common and what is considered to be rare. My selection of common species can be found below. Common does not necessarily mean that I saw larger numbers of the mentioned species but it characterizes species that are commonly seen in Mongolia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The plantation, a former site for agricultural research, had almost become totally destroyed: The fence, already mainly fallen down when we first visited this site in 2011 <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2011/08/some-eastern-specialities-and-more-tour_17.html#links" target="_blank">(see here</a>) was now fully gone and every day lots of livestock entered for grazing (and to a much lesser extent for browsing). The quality of the bushes had changed accordingly: Not many sites to hide away are left. It is only a matter of time until the whole plantation will be gone. Repeatedly, cars were crossing the plantation causing disturbance to the birds and their observer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male <b>Amur Falcon</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Female <b>Taiga Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2cy male <b>Taiga Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Amur Falcons</b> breed in the plantation and I counted 15 pairs that had started to prepare for this year's breeding season. Most eye-catching was the abundance of <b>flycatchers </b>on 26 May (with about 60 <b>Taiga</b>, 25 <b>Asian Brown</b> and 5 <b>Dark-sided</b>) and again on 28 May (about 20 <b>Taiga</b>, 160<b> Asian Brown </b>and 180 <b>Dark-sided</b>) but almost zero of each on 27 May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dark-sided Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dark-sided Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dark-sided Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dark-sided Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dark-sided Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dark-sided Flycatcher</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also witnessed a fall of <b>leaf warblers</b> on 28 May with c.200 each of <b>Arctic</b> and <b>Two-barred Warblers</b>. Naturally I turned them all, both, the warbler and the aforementioned flycatchers, twice to find the odd one but no success, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All <b>Brown Shrikes</b> (up to 22 counted on a single day) belonged to the nominate subspecies and I wondered how regular <i>lucionensis</i> might be (<a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/10/part-seven-brown-shrike-mixture-text-by.html#links" target="_blank">compare here</a>) and whether it could be a later arriving taxon. On 27 May a group of 350 <b>Bean Geese</b> migrated north but they had been too distant to allow a more detailed ID (i.e. which taxa was/were involved).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nominate <b>Brown Shrike</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Female <b>Garganey</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Female <b>Garganey</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male <b>Garganey</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male <b>Garganey</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male <b>Gadwall</b>, Khalkhgol plantation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other common species encountered were: <b>Garganey</b>, <b>Gadwall</b>, <b>Eurasian Spoonbill</b>, <b>Oriental Turtle Dove</b>, <b>Siberian Blue Robin</b> (seen daily with up to 7), <b>Common</b> and <b>Long-tailed Rosefinches</b>, including an orange-plumaged male of the former, <b>Oriental Greenfinch</b> (probably breeding as they behaved quite secretly and one bird was always singing from the same tree) and several flocks of eastern <b>Yellow Wagtails</b> (either <i>macronyx</i> or <i>thunbergi</i>, or both).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orange male <b>Common Rosefinch</b>, Khalkhgol plantation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male <b>Siberian Blue Robin</b>, Khalkhgol plantation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Male <b>Siberian Blue Robin</b>, Khalkhgol plantation,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It remained windy with force 7 (bft) winds and chilly night temperatures down to 2°C (35.6°F) which meant that I could not erect any mist nets and therefore daily walked the area twice in search for birds. As mentioned before, finding birds when everything is moving is already a difficult task, but taking pictures is even more difficult. Unless a bird is on the ground (which ideally should not shake…) the twigs, branches and trees were shaken to death by the gale force winds and keeping my arms steady was almost impossible, too. From my trashy photos I extracted the best ones and hope they are, although very flycatcher-biased, pleasing enough. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rare species will be covered in the next post so stay tuned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(links to <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/07/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 1</a>, <a href="https://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/12/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 2</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Right then, now to the <b>gulls</b>. We drove up to the small lake called Bulangijn Tsagaan Nuur (nuur = lake), a little northeast of Buir Nuur and when we arrived on 22 May, it became clear that I probably would not be able to catch as many gulls as intended. Thanks to the previous disappointment at the first (former) colony, I had not expected much. Despite this it came quite as shock to see that this colony which we had also found in 2014, when about 250 pairs were breeding on three small islands, was almost completely gone. This lake was nearly dry and two of the islands did not exist anymore because the water level had dropped so much. Although the remaining island was still occupied by <b>Mongolian Gulls</b>, the number of nests was small. It turned out that there were only 30 nests containing eggs. Many of the <b>gulls </b>on the island were non-adults, strongly indicating that the more experienced <b>gulls </b>had left already. But not completely so: one adult <b>Mongolian Gull</b> that bred on the island was already wing-tagged. It had been individually marked as an adult by my team and me in 2004 some 250 km to the north west, hence it was at least 16 years old and hence not a at the beginning of its life as a breeding <b>gull</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Upon arrival, an upcoming thunderstorm gave us the priority to pitching tents and I decided to catch and check the <b>gulls </b>during the next days. I had a lot of time to do the latter as the thunderstorm developed into straight rain that lasted for the next two days, preventing me from any ringing. I spent most of the days inside my tent and watched the <b>gulls </b>from the distance. Every evening between 400 and 500 <b>gulls</b>, mostly immatures, gathered near the island. So I checked them with the aid of my scope and paid particular attention to those not going conform to my idea of a <i><b>mongolicus</b></i>. After the rain had weakened and I tried to take record shots of some of the suspicious gulls I had found. It was still rather dark and windy so the long range (!) shots I achieved are of an awful quality and of course, I could not document all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Luckily a <b>gull </b>that had immediately caught my eyes on our first day at the lake was still around: it was an adult<b> large white-headed gull</b> but it was obviously darker than any of the accompanying <b>Mongolian Gulls</b>. Further, it was not in primary moult and also showed very bright lemon yellow legs. This combination ticked my virtual boxes for <b>Heuglin’s Gull</b>. With the aid of my scope I found that it showed some smaller black markings on its 4 outer primary coverts (in the flight picture this black area looks bigger than it actually was because of blurring) but this does not necessarily mean that it wasn’t adult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adult <b>Heuglin’s Gull</b> between mostly adult <b>Mongolian Gulls</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adult <b>Heuglin’s Gull </b>between mostly immature <i>Mongolian Gulls</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were other <b>gulls </b>which did not moult. They not only differed in this from the <b>Mongolian Gulls</b> of the same age. The odd birds fell into two groups: most of them (4 birds) showed rather white heads with a neck stola and many new feathers on the mantle and wing, giving them a rather fresh look. One bird of these four I considered to belong to <i>heuglini </i>not only because it was as dark (only adult like feathers compared, of course) as the adult (seen side by side once). It also showed a bright orangey pinkish bill with a black tip (like the bill of a young <b>Glaucous Gull</b>). Unfortunately I could not take any pictures of it. The others must have come from the breeding grounds along the arctic as well. For the summer time we are still beginning to get ideas about the ID of immature of those taxa breeding along the coasts of the Asian part of the Arctic Ocean (<b><i>heuglini</i></b>, <b><i>taimyrensis</i></b>, <i><b>birulai </b></i>and <i><b>vegae</b></i>; listened by the location of their respective breeding ranges from west to east) so I am not sure about their ID. It would be easiest to call all of them <i><b>heuglini </b></i>but probably much more honest to leave them unidentified.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presumed 2cy <b>Heuglin’s Gull</b> landing behind <b>Mongolian Gulls</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Possible 2cy <b>Heuglin’s Gull </b>(different bird) between <b>Mong.G<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ulls</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other “group” consisted actually of only a single individual. This one showed an almost evenly streaked head and its belly was also streaked just like those <b>Herring Gulls</b> I know from Europe. All newly replaced feathers of its mantle and wings weren’t plain just as I would expect from a <i><b>vegae</b></i>. Of this bird I also could not take any pictures so my observation cannot be recognized as a proper record (due to the previously mentioned uncertainties and no proof).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gulls </b>of these two kinds can be found in almost any larger gathering of immature <b>gulls </b>during spring and summer here and many of them have previously been attributed to <i><b>heuglini</b></i>. Based on our current non-knowledge on the variation of immature plumages of the aforementioned taxa (plus <i><b>barabensis</b></i>) only the most typical (what is typical in large white-headed gulls?), if any, might be identifiable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For many years to come all future observers of such <b>gulls </b>are<u><b> kindly requested to fully document them by means of photographs (preferably showing the bird also in flight from above and below), or ideally, DNA-sampling</b></u>, as individuals which just have been photographed we might never be able to safely assign the documented gull to one of the taxa in question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <b>Relict Gull </b>entertained me and some <b>Kentish Plovers </b>for quite a while although the little plovers didn’t like that as much as I did. After the rain had stopped I could start ringing. In the end I caught 15 gulls which all got their set of wing-tags. Please watch out for them!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mongolian Gull</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Relict Gull</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Relict Gull</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Relict Gull </b>and <b>Kentish Plovers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Relict Gull</b> and <b>Kentish Plover</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because I got tired to sit and sit inside my tent I walked around each day just during the very few rain breaks, but mostly without my camera. Although migration was slow I found some more or less noteworthy birds:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 23 May:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A flyby <b>Eurasian Whimbrel </b>(unclear which subspecies), c. 120 <b>Spotted Redshanks</b>, c. 300 <b>Red-necked Stints</b>, 9 <b>Sanderlings</b>, some of them sporting their sometimes very bright red breeding plumage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 24 May:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A nice flock of 6 <b><i>taivana </i>Yellow Wagtails</b> (<b>Green-crowned</b>/<b>Green-headed Yellow Wagtail</b>), 3 <b>Little Curlew</b>s, an <b>Eurasian Bittern</b> and 4 <b>Caspian Terns</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 25 May:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A male <b>Amur Falcon</b> dashing through the air towards the east, a dark morph <b>Booted Eagle</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, on 26 May, we went on to the famous Khalkhgol plantation a little further up the river and shortly before we arrived a group of 7 <b>Siberian Cranes</b> was seen feeding on the banks of the Khalkh river. Here, many waders were busily foraging: among others I saw c. 1,600 <b>Red-necked Stints</b>, 13 <b>Asian Dowitchers </b>and 65 <b>Curlew Sandpipers</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More about the birds that I saw in the plantation will be reported next!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2cy male <b>Mongolian Reed Bunting</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2cy male <b>Mongolian Reed Bunting</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last light <b>Pied Avocet</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“tripod”<b> Pied Avocet</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 of the 7 <b>Siberian Cranes</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(link to <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/07/gulling-east-text-and-photos-by-abu.html#links" target="_blank">part 1</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right from the beginning of my visits to Mongolia, ringing (banding) <b>gulls</b>, especially <b>Mongolian Gulls</b>, has been my prime motive and this year’s first expedition was meant to be entirely devoted to wing-tag adult <b>Mongolian Gulls</b>. I had chosen to visit two colonies in the east of the country. Both colonies had been found during the famous “Swamprunner Tour 2014”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started on 20 May and hoped to reach to first colony by evening the same day. For several reasons, among them heavy traffic between UB and Nalaikh (the next bigger city to the east), we did not make it that far and camped on the banks of the Kherlen River a little east of the town formerly called Öndörkhaan, which has been renamed “Chinggis City” recently. It was very windy and we had only 15°C (59°F). During the fading light I walked around the camp and photographed some of the few birds around. A late <b>Hen Harrier</b> was noteworthy but bird of the day was doubtlessly a 2cy male <b>Siberian Thrush</b>. Unfortunately it was quite elusive and I could not even take a record shot. Teaser 1 of the first part was photographed on this evening and another photograph of this 2cy male <b>Taiga Flycatcher</b> can be seen below. Before we left after a cold (-2°C/28.4°F) and windy night I digitally got some more <b>Taiga Flycatchers</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we went on to the colony, but when we arrived we had to learn that planning ahead is rather difficult in this country: The lake was dry and no gulls around (180 breeding pairs two years ago). This led us to press on and we reached our regular camp ground near Choibalsan by the afternoon of 21 May. As it was impossible to set up mist nets, thanks to the strong winds (this spring was extremely windy and cold, even for Mongolian standards!), I went for birding. Under these windy conditions it is not easy to find birds within the bushes that grow along the river. Every twig, every leaf is moving and catching an unusual movement (which ideally should be a bird, but sometimes is just a falling leaf or a butterfly) was a real challenge. Just before it got dark I found a male <b>Mugimaki Flycatcher</b> which posed for the teaser picture number 2. All the pictures I took that day were more or less blurred and I hoped that the bird would give me another chance the next day. Birds don’t move during unfavorable conditions like strong headwinds and if they have problems to feed (not many insects available when it is cold). So luckily the bird still was around the next day (22 May). The thick cloud cover didn’t help in photographing it well but at least I got some half decent shots. It was mostly feeding out in the steppe and not within the bushes which helped to keep track on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Male <b>Mugimaki Flycatcher </b>(teaser 2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Male <b>Mugimaki Flycatcher</b> (teaser 2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pair of “Stoliczka’s” <b>White-crowned Penduline Tits</b> was busily building their nest. I only could take some picture of the male which still did not show the dark band across its nape. Only if seen from behind this area looked dark (see lowermost penduline tit picture). The pale tips to these feathers have to wear off so early in spring almost no male shows this dark band. Other birds along the river were 3 <b>Eastern Spotbills</b> and several <b>Siberian Blue Robins</b>. Generally there were not many birds around (or they were too good in hiding).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The water level of the river was about 1 m below what I think could be the average and it was quite murky, so we went into the city to bunker drinking water. There I saw more <b>Siberian Blue Robins</b> and two adult <b>Siberian Thrushes</b> in the (inaccessible so no pictures) gardens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Male <b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2cy male <b>Siberian Blue Robin</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016, © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then went on toward Buir Nuur and arrived at the second of the chosen gull colonies in the late afternoon after a rather eventless journey through the steppes of Menengijn Tal. Only hundreds of <b>larks </b>and very few migrants like <b>Isabelline Shrikes</b> and an <b>Eastern Buzzard</b> were around. A colony of <b>Pied Avocet</b> consisted of c100 pairs. Three <b>Whimbrels</b> flew over so I could not identify the subspecies they belonged to. And then… more next so come back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, Mai 2016, <span style="text-align: center;">© Andreas Buchheim</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>text by Thomas Langenberg</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( links to previous posts:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/10/japanese-marsh-warbler-top-pallass.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">1</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/12/part-two-special-broad-billed-sandpiper.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/01/part-three-way-to-choibalsan-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/01/part-four-incredible-buir-nuur-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/02/part-five-waders-at-buir-nuur-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/03/part-six-along-khalkh-gol-plantation.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/10/part-seven-brown-shrike-mixture-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">7</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/09/part-eight-along-khalkh-gol-south-of.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">8</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/11/part-nine-japanese-waxwing-bombycilla.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">9</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/11/part-ten-dollarbird-eurystomus.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">10</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/11/part-eleven-pit-stop-sumber-text-by-abu.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">11</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ,</span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/12/part-twelve-first-field-pictures-of.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">12</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/12/part-13-along-khalkh-gol-north-of.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">13</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/01/part-14-drongasm-forest-text-by-armin.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">14</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/02/part-15-nomrog-text-by-mathias-putze.html#links" target="_blank">15</a>, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/03/part-16-ikh-tashgai-text-by-kirsten.html#links" target="_blank">16</a>, <a href="https://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/09/part-17-transfer-days-text-by-abu-links.html#links" target="_blank">17</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Entrance gate in the rain, Gorkhi Terelj NP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jun 2014 © Matze Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jun 2014 © Armin Schneider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inside the forest, Gorkhi Terelj NP</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jun 2014 © Matze Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jun 2014 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 15 June we travelled the short way up from Gun Galuut to the famed Gorkhi Terelj National Park. The NP is well developed but as we wanted to camp undisturbed we went into the forest for the rest of the trip. Our aim was to see some forest species. As the NP lies at the southern fringe of the Siberian taiga we hoped for Siberian birds like <b>Siberian Tit</b> (known as <b>Gray-headed Chickadee</b> in North America) and <b>Siberian Jay</b> plus the difficult <b>Black-billed Capercaillie</b> (<b>BBC</b>). Upon our arrival the forest was quiet, no wonder as the rain continued for several hours. But soon after the rain had ceased <b>Orange-flanked Bluetails</b>, <b>Pallas’s</b> and <b>Two-barred Warblers</b> and <b>Olive-backed Pipits</b> started to sing, mostly from the tree tops. On an escarpment we found an occupied nest of <b>Eurasian Black Vulture</b> and just above our kitchen tent a pair of <b>Taiga Flycatchers</b> was busily feeding their chicks, nice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Matze Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Thomas Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Andreas Buchheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Thomas Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the next two days we explored the forest, mostly by hiking up the valley which was quite exhausting. The reward was to see up to 15 <b>BBC </b>per day. These birds proofed to be impossible to get photographed. As soon as we saw one, the bird took flight and dashed through the forest so our cameras had no chance to track them for a shot. A bit more cooperative birds we came across on one of our walks: A family of <b>Spotted Nutcracker</b>, though venturing off straight away, and finally we saw also <b>Siberian Tit</b> and <b>Siberian Jay</b>. Another good one to discover was an <b>Ural Owl</b> in tree not far from our camp. Sönke checked out the distress calls of <b>Red-throated Thrushes</b> and by doing so he found the owl. Well done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Armin Schneider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Armin Schneider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Thomas Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Armin Schneider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Thomas Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, Jun 2014 © Thomas Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorkhi Terelj NP, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jun 2014 © Thomas Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our last day it started to rain again and we packed our wet tents to dry them in our hotel in UB later. With <b>more than 210 species</b> seen during this trip, and lots of goodies among them, we returned back to Germany very satisfied! We will come back!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was birding the <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/11/ub-ponds-soon-lost-to-industry-15.html#links" target="_blank">UB Ponds on 15 Sep 2016</a> a strange looking duck caught my eyes. It was within a small flock of <b>Baikal Teal</b> and somehow resembled them. But the duck also differed from the <b>Baikal Teals</b> in a few points. It was clearly bigger and also longer. The general coloration was paler and it had a kind of diluted <b>Baikal Teal’s</b> face pattern. Its bill was longer and showed much more grey than can be seen on young <b>Baikal Teals</b>, which usually show only a small grey triangular patch on the base of the bill sides. After I had taken the record shots below, the flock slowly swam away to disappear behind the bushes and I could not relocate the ducks, so the two pictures here are all we got.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back home I checked the photographs on the computer screen. This more or less convinced me that my initial field ID was right (as right as it can be with these hybrids when the parents are not known for sure): <b>Northern Pintail x Baikal Teal</b>. To get the opinion of experts I contacted Osao and Michiaki Ujihara, authors of <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/01/birdingmongolia-review-2-osao-ujihara.html#links" target="_blank">this book</a>, and they swiftly replied: a juvenile hybrid <b>Northern Pintail x Baikal Teal</b>. Generally this hybrid combination is quite well known and is recorded every now and then, but</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—according to the Ujiharas—juveniles of this combination have not yet been documented anywhere so far.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only illustration of a female of this hybrid is a painted female in their book. Males are also known because they are much more obvious and hence more often found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My thanks go to Osao and Michiaki Ujihara for their expertise and to Nial Moores of <a href="http://www.birdskorea.org/BK-Startpage.shtml" target="_blank">Birds Korea</a> who draw my attention to this hybrid combination many years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Juvenile hybrid <b>Northern Pintail x Baikal Teal</b> with <b>Baikal Teals</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Juvenile hybrid <b>Northern Pintail x Baikal Teal</b> with <b>Baikal Teals</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Industry has come very near. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A well visited stake-out for waterbirds and more are the UB Ponds, aka Green Ponds (in Mongolian). These ponds are under severe threat: The city government concluded that they pose a risk for the planes which start from or land at the airport and in addition to this different companies have decided to make a “better” use of this “useless” land. Industrial encroachment has started a few years ago and more and more ponds had been filled up meanwhile. Other ponds had only been fenced off so far but it will not take long until we have lost this site. The sewage stream had recently been cut off from the main pond which is now almost dry. We will see how many water birds will still winter here in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I visited the ponds for a few hours on 15 September. Unfortunately it was very cloudy and it even rained during my visit. This meant that photographing was more a less just documenting the birds by achieving nothing more than record shots. Try to enjoy my shot which had been taking by hand-held equipment and excuse the poor quality of the pictures.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goosander</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goosander</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Juv. <b>Falcated Duck</b> framed by 2 <b>Baikal Teals</b>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mallard</b> and <b>Northern Pintail</b> in the back</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Falcated Duck</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">leading <b>Falcated Duck</b> plus 3 <b>Gadwalls</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Falcated Duck</b> following 3 <b>Gadwalls</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Whooper Swan</b> 7 (a family)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Swan Goose</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Greylag Goose</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ruddy Shelduck</b> c220</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mallard</b> c140</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gadwall</b> c80</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Pintail</b> 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Falcated Duck</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Shoveler</b> c25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Wigeon</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Baikal Teal</b> 15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Teal</b> c90</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Garganey</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Pochard</b> 17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tufted Duck</b> c45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Goldeneye</b> 12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Merganser</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Crested Grebe</b> 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Little Grebe</b> 1 (ssp <i>poggei</i>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Cormorant</b> 18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Heron</b> c70</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> c450</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b> 1 dark morph juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Saker Falcon</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Moorhen</b> heard only</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Coot</b> c30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Lapwing</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Temminck’s Stint</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Spotted Redshank</b> 14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Black-tailed Godwit</b> 1 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Greenshank</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Snipe</b> c10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-headed Gull</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mongolian Gull</b> 7</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">landing <b>Baikal Teal</b>. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Little Grebe</b> (background: <b>Spotted Redshank</b>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Snipe</b> trying to hide behind a very thing twig</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Barn Swallow</b> 17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Red-throated Pipit</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>White Wagtail</b> c35, mostly juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 2 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Citrine Wagtail</b> 2 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Yellow Wagtail</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Redstart</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two-barred Greenish Warbler</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c250</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>“Stoliczka’s” White-crowned Tit</b> c10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>White Wagtail</b>. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b>. UB Ponds, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Raven</b> 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Magpie</b> c15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Jackdaw</b> 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eastern Rook</b> c35</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b> 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Reed Bunting</b> 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I must try this site again in better weather!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Autumn has arrived. Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A bright sunny day followed yet another cold night and when I was at the river it was still only 3°C (37.4°F). Despite the fantastic light, today was a very frustrating day. On arrival I came across a flock of <b>dabbling ducks</b>, mainly consisting of <b>Mallards</b> and <b>Common Teals</b>. One bird stood out immediately: a (the?) juvenile <b>Mandarin Duck</b>. Despite my most careful approach the <b>Mandarin</b> slowly swam into dense cover and through the bushes I could only take very poor record shots of it while the other ducks took flight right away. As I didn’t take my scope with me and because of the bad quality of the pictures the sex of this bird remains unclear, still.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next was a group of about 120 <b>Little Buntings</b>. Although I literally was surrounded by them I could not achieve good shots. Apparently they knew exactly when they had to fly off: in the very moment my camera got the focus on them. The <b>Little Bunting</b> picture in this blog is that of a single bird. And so it went on all the 6 hours I walked around. Apart from the buntings there wasn’t much and sometimes I walked for a while without seeing a single bird.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there was that late <b>Lanceolated Warbler</b> which ran through the grass just a meter in front of me. Sounds good, eh? No, it isn’t. That is too close for photographing with my long lens! Anyway it would have been probably nothing more than a record shot of a small thing behind a lot of vegetation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally the few <b>penduline tits</b> around preferred to stay inside the young bushy <b>Siberian Elms</b>. Only once, shortly after the <b>Northern Sparrowhawk</b> had flown along they came out for a brief check and I could manage to get a single bird documented.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Definitively I have to go again! Not only to get better shots of the Mandarin Duck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Bird List</span> (46 species)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ruddy Shelduck</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mallard</b> 12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gadwall</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Teal</b> 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Garganey</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mandarin Duck</b> 1 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Merganser</b> 1 juv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Cormorant</b> 9 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Heron</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> 4 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b> 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Sparrowhawk</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Kestrel</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Hobby</b> 1 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Spotted Redshank</b> 1 (heard only)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Snipe</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black Woodpecker</b> 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Red-throated Pipit</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> c15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Citrine Wagtail</b> 2 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bluethroat</b> 1 ad. male</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Redstart</b> 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Siberian Chiffchaff</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> c15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lanceolated Warbler</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Taiga Flycatcher</b> 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c120</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> c. 30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>"Stoliczka’s" White-crowned Penduline Tit</b> 7</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Raven</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Magpie</b> c10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Red-billed Chough</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Jackdaw</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Rosefinch</b> six 1cy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Rosefinch</b> c10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pine Bunting</b> c40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b> c300</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-faced Bunting</b> c10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Meadow Bunting</b> 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a cloudy night I went once more down to the river to see whether any new birds were around. There were, but not many. One of the first birds I saw that morning—I spent 5 hours along the Tuul—was a juvenile <b>Goosander/Common Merganser</b>. Unfortunately the light was still too poor and so are the two shots below. At around noon I heard a familiar call and tried looking for the bird. It took my quite a while to spot it circling fairly high above my head. Because this species, <b>Japanese Sparrowhawk</b>, has not been mentioned on our blog often, I include a composite picture of the juvenile female. Please excuse the awful quality of these shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Composite picture of the <b>Japanese Sparrowhawk</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, photographing birds proved too difficult in the vast majority of the cases so in the end I was taken even more pictures of the <b>"Stoliczka’s" White-crowned Penduline Tits</b>. Please note that the adults did not yet complete their moult. On some pictures the growing and still short secondaries are poking out. In case you find any <b><span style="color: red;">Chinese Penduline Tit </span></b>among those pictures, please let BirdingMongolia know! The <b>Long-eared Owl</b> that I flushed disappeared not to be found again. This applies to many other birds likewise. Else the bushes had not been overly crowded with birds and I had to criss-cross the area to get the birds on the day list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Bird List </span>(42 species)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ruddy Shelduck</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mallard</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Wigeon</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Northern Shoveler</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Common Merganser</b> 3 juv</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Great Cormorant</b> 2 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b> 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Japanese Sparrowhawk</b> 1 juv. female</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Common Kestrel</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Northern Lapwing</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Spotted Redshank</b> 2 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Long-eared Owl</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker</b> 4</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8hln9m8EGXis6al2oJccDPGzi1D7ORnnly6PXGUZ_hGaQIdYTPKAa_8odv43qbPgo3cthtiPy0Pj6ngNiFgSjmLuYiSh6zVt_0QvRXaMb6kn5_oHkr2yNEIIwb2Totv6LdpABloVcDhXP/s1600/5+black-eared-kite-sep-2%25C3%259F16-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8hln9m8EGXis6al2oJccDPGzi1D7ORnnly6PXGUZ_hGaQIdYTPKAa_8odv43qbPgo3cthtiPy0Pj6ngNiFgSjmLuYiSh6zVt_0QvRXaMb6kn5_oHkr2yNEIIwb2Totv6LdpABloVcDhXP/s640/5+black-eared-kite-sep-2%25C3%259F16-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnebmCDQMDlsa2mbg2uSkw_hRmLbOCxkJr1ylCq4L2YhCqvu7S9TMn-VTk6ogttCSAd29QItSiMpPV6rLK81tnh-kXcFZ16a_qRea37dHT9L1peD7__D4Ac4WXnTRQHGFOM0hcMVf0LeQo/s1600/6+common-magpie-leucoptera-sep-2016-tuulgol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnebmCDQMDlsa2mbg2uSkw_hRmLbOCxkJr1ylCq4L2YhCqvu7S9TMn-VTk6ogttCSAd29QItSiMpPV6rLK81tnh-kXcFZ16a_qRea37dHT9L1peD7__D4Ac4WXnTRQHGFOM0hcMVf0LeQo/s400/6+common-magpie-leucoptera-sep-2016-tuulgol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Common Magpie</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Red-throated Pipit</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Siberian Rubythroat</b> 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bluethroat</b> one 1cy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Redstart</b> 2 females</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">presumed <b>Siberian Lesser Whitethroat</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Siberian Chiffchaff</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> c25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Arctic Warbler</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> c15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Taiga Flycatcher</b> 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> c50</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit</b> 10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">presumed <b>"Stoliczka’s" White-crowned Penduline Tit</b> c50</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz15muQ-YbQcfIT2vYtxJDBZmW7yOfy74EKOgt6VzFnn0kcmx2mcSDiXsYBpjkD8z3p-cqjIlDCtazNrezUxoRo4r6d54JSQbWu7-KC4-f3IhXyuatcdeMo-8-XGnWoWq91uiie0o0GtNc/s1600/7+wc-penduline-tit-m-moult-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz15muQ-YbQcfIT2vYtxJDBZmW7yOfy74EKOgt6VzFnn0kcmx2mcSDiXsYBpjkD8z3p-cqjIlDCtazNrezUxoRo4r6d54JSQbWu7-KC4-f3IhXyuatcdeMo-8-XGnWoWq91uiie0o0GtNc/s640/7+wc-penduline-tit-m-moult-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5HGgiiNZSRmnrc4-U0AOLVTJ6iGhwPeMDtU9ixTFiFhIq20aZ3s67ZH9RMDmEaIuGIlyUTh4UWdzfkPHhsx1loJXx2pQz7IPeljQaq6dIpG8OZcYMbRwy5y4fC_I77P3M8pdoNkMyenk1/s1600/8+wc-penduline-tit-picking-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5HGgiiNZSRmnrc4-U0AOLVTJ6iGhwPeMDtU9ixTFiFhIq20aZ3s67ZH9RMDmEaIuGIlyUTh4UWdzfkPHhsx1loJXx2pQz7IPeljQaq6dIpG8OZcYMbRwy5y4fC_I77P3M8pdoNkMyenk1/s640/8+wc-penduline-tit-picking-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4rerxUiFXCctMvO9WRZ3JNmcDJMqjbc-eO7q5AEwpxCcjsJN8faYFjWxC0vWd9-w1_Pu1xBIZS-13iMRdYd_OCFsCMRgIM9-rufpNFjTCQimIDBRM9kD7QMeRWWF6a-wqrrWjROvydtIB/s1600/9+wc-penduline-tit-hindneck-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4rerxUiFXCctMvO9WRZ3JNmcDJMqjbc-eO7q5AEwpxCcjsJN8faYFjWxC0vWd9-w1_Pu1xBIZS-13iMRdYd_OCFsCMRgIM9-rufpNFjTCQimIDBRM9kD7QMeRWWF6a-wqrrWjROvydtIB/s400/9+wc-penduline-tit-hindneck-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIpXnmkHMBwM5j4RGm6uyxjfqD2iGkL1KOb0iy_gtjLLi8qGsnIwulgHTwpZnnf-u75E0tdSDlCtzWC5tTu01UBma_ALH2Umgahhnu1UXNVq79_PRqFGZJnXSYX0hvHOdSPuCcgKRPgP3x/s1600/10+wc-penduline-tit-f-primary-moult-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIpXnmkHMBwM5j4RGm6uyxjfqD2iGkL1KOb0iy_gtjLLi8qGsnIwulgHTwpZnnf-u75E0tdSDlCtzWC5tTu01UBma_ALH2Umgahhnu1UXNVq79_PRqFGZJnXSYX0hvHOdSPuCcgKRPgP3x/s400/10+wc-penduline-tit-f-primary-moult-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO0FS_IYjJrrhEM7YuzmueGyT8O05LLxBUjcYzlrnPo1flRXIH4ODORn_AXrJtJEkgaoTzfOPagbzMLlm0UVnvyjyXS_DGPkjQkBAcjF9-uwUvl_etBrEOE97rCABQuQDISKztJoH-wnkd/s1600/11+wc-penduline-tit-lateral-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO0FS_IYjJrrhEM7YuzmueGyT8O05LLxBUjcYzlrnPo1flRXIH4ODORn_AXrJtJEkgaoTzfOPagbzMLlm0UVnvyjyXS_DGPkjQkBAcjF9-uwUvl_etBrEOE97rCABQuQDISKztJoH-wnkd/s640/11+wc-penduline-tit-lateral-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii7QWlmmJ9_GHHRs2xzy_HP2SPoXXC7lBtOvW34dIVQIR84M9WgfetBwU0_nIzCkuhwvF0cMUGLfjiU16wjnwPZkJnJvMrOD58oAExpS7QY8IG_DlJBjUhnl0ybq8VB8Rf5HN7ZTYUWdz/s1600/12+wc-penduline-tit-ad-primary-moult-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhii7QWlmmJ9_GHHRs2xzy_HP2SPoXXC7lBtOvW34dIVQIR84M9WgfetBwU0_nIzCkuhwvF0cMUGLfjiU16wjnwPZkJnJvMrOD58oAExpS7QY8IG_DlJBjUhnl0ybq8VB8Rf5HN7ZTYUWdz/s400/12+wc-penduline-tit-ad-primary-moult-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oMXzzSX8OVjSyTdxr9vNYVKFVPVbmCQlx1VgGHQmMoIV5Lwb52fCC0RsrgAw_QNtjbilkQYDBuZWc4agqKkEIMLjwfujGjhjf1SI0U5CRTY42GdR5Ta2xcpAeibXO5XbCjCeTJI0cFP9/s1600/13+wc-penduline-tit-frontal-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1oMXzzSX8OVjSyTdxr9vNYVKFVPVbmCQlx1VgGHQmMoIV5Lwb52fCC0RsrgAw_QNtjbilkQYDBuZWc4agqKkEIMLjwfujGjhjf1SI0U5CRTY42GdR5Ta2xcpAeibXO5XbCjCeTJI0cFP9/s640/13+wc-penduline-tit-frontal-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4EH6U4Rq92j8MlMV0CIHANUJ2TnSkmQO4C0txdjwIe5LWX8fHcLx5uKfNdXgYVTckkmYkmNcFJ7tsmZ_GThndj-MQQrQ9GFKyYpqmLqpOHJiponf8IS3TroevmXXsaWGMg2Jlq2vfnsT/s1600/14+wc-penduline-tit-head-on-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH4EH6U4Rq92j8MlMV0CIHANUJ2TnSkmQO4C0txdjwIe5LWX8fHcLx5uKfNdXgYVTckkmYkmNcFJ7tsmZ_GThndj-MQQrQ9GFKyYpqmLqpOHJiponf8IS3TroevmXXsaWGMg2Jlq2vfnsT/s640/14+wc-penduline-tit-head-on-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0bZH7Gc73U6a4ini3qpmFffwSpGkv_E1pJ9Cz9MTnWUS8vKH2cT_1QeglX0zKz4p2POPdg1fE1EOQ5z80ia74gRZpsHYq2SfVIRBls8XC6VuP_vhnHcY437LYdVR7gZjHLh1sixfEWP1P/s1600/15+wc-penduline-tit-portrait-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0bZH7Gc73U6a4ini3qpmFffwSpGkv_E1pJ9Cz9MTnWUS8vKH2cT_1QeglX0zKz4p2POPdg1fE1EOQ5z80ia74gRZpsHYq2SfVIRBls8XC6VuP_vhnHcY437LYdVR7gZjHLh1sixfEWP1P/s400/15+wc-penduline-tit-portrait-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Nuthatch</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Northern Raven</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Magpie</b> c10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Red-billed Chough</b> c40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Daurian Jackdaw</b> c30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Common Rosefinch</b> two 1cy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Rosefinch</b> c25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Pine Bunting</b> c20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b> c90</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Black-faced Bunting</b> c20</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCe2tBEiAXrZ5SFzMaesOGjRDgI1Ts06082fR67MaNvpCuTtqSahpBYp1sKRKEP0QFmVNxbhOhpzu_gPYFNjzbv81YEYlbNLLgpt-3t5UxyvWlcbfER6vLCud7cIg4OcE1YGdQgmd-ExAW/s1600/16+little-bunting-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCe2tBEiAXrZ5SFzMaesOGjRDgI1Ts06082fR67MaNvpCuTtqSahpBYp1sKRKEP0QFmVNxbhOhpzu_gPYFNjzbv81YEYlbNLLgpt-3t5UxyvWlcbfER6vLCud7cIg4OcE1YGdQgmd-ExAW/s640/16+little-bunting-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9UAISF6Dgnx3bCuQ7eB1N5Tiz4zQKbcVKWq2vYXZ4-kFjdklwq2kU-cgVX2vHjvi26ZvnQLJDI-LrlYV8xeCJUCLkJUCbMbwXq4pkpO27pl5BOLINdnvpJ7X4RBOvte47ULmNTZm4Ptr/s1600/1+oxbow-lake-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9UAISF6Dgnx3bCuQ7eB1N5Tiz4zQKbcVKWq2vYXZ4-kFjdklwq2kU-cgVX2vHjvi26ZvnQLJDI-LrlYV8xeCJUCLkJUCbMbwXq4pkpO27pl5BOLINdnvpJ7X4RBOvte47ULmNTZm4Ptr/s400/1+oxbow-lake-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The largest oxbow lake along my birding stretch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet another attempt to take pictures of the birds, but this time I found fewer birds. The night before my visit had been clear and that might have urged the birds to move on. And so I tried my luck on the dragonflies instead (not much luck, though).</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5sp1fYdmWpBOzInSk9iRM2T8wDZCuBO7h64v7lQr44pxNGTkJx5xrOO8m0t5emPYiqFxrY6EqjL2EBncbBcHGjCJWl9yBcpmjcfQEX1LNY_c-NA_TUkCeYJDJ2UFMfeH9-fLJYBHXq9Ag/s1600/2+booted-eagle-adult-dark-morph-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5sp1fYdmWpBOzInSk9iRM2T8wDZCuBO7h64v7lQr44pxNGTkJx5xrOO8m0t5emPYiqFxrY6EqjL2EBncbBcHGjCJWl9yBcpmjcfQEX1LNY_c-NA_TUkCeYJDJ2UFMfeH9-fLJYBHXq9Ag/s400/2+booted-eagle-adult-dark-morph-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Cormorant</b> 5 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b> 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Kestrel</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Hobby</b> 1 ad. and 1 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper </b>1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Snipe</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker</b> 4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Richard’s Pipit</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> c.25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>White Wagtail</b> 2, taxon/taxa unclear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Siberian Whitethroat</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Siberian Chiffchaff</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> c.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hume’s Warbler</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> c.25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Taiga Flycatcher</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Asian Brown Flycatcher</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> c.40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stoliczka’s White-crowned Tit </b>c.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Raven</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Magpie </b>5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Red-billed Chough</b> c.10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> c.20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Rosefinch</b> c.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pine Bunting</b> c.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b> c.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-faced Bunting</b> 6</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tandem of ovipositing <b>Black Darters</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Sympetrum danae</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">male <b>Banded Darter</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Sympetrum pedemontanum</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well camouflaged pair of <b>Banded Darter</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>S. pedemontanum</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Moustached Darter</b> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Sympetrum vulgatum</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">text & photos by ABu</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inside the vegetation—as dark as it gets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7Mxvfi0oWDkFVrwyJWW__tZYZMfBWjyn6xEg0AxgQ1wJ7G_3N-d6zPZISJi-31n1QVCxzv7-JE74b8UIc8fu-j4puC4ZvN3c_y94zWxpah99hdvU9qREyi91F4AqZY1YHbpDfyWOZm_N/s1600/2+thicket-birding-2-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7Mxvfi0oWDkFVrwyJWW__tZYZMfBWjyn6xEg0AxgQ1wJ7G_3N-d6zPZISJi-31n1QVCxzv7-JE74b8UIc8fu-j4puC4ZvN3c_y94zWxpah99hdvU9qREyi91F4AqZY1YHbpDfyWOZm_N/s400/2+thicket-birding-2-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of view-blocking twigs and leaves, too…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja99n_ocwpPfhJ7I1DVr3I20PgN6i9DI7GdqfZ9i1P4G3Henl6JTVRexjAu2_v8mU5St8ovJFjN930YWsVZ_mv5UycjMUTEWGTayGTBHF4MqByUE80wUszUyja5DzOgpLhBnEReRXrDE7E/s1600/3+Myricaria+longifolia-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja99n_ocwpPfhJ7I1DVr3I20PgN6i9DI7GdqfZ9i1P4G3Henl6JTVRexjAu2_v8mU5St8ovJFjN930YWsVZ_mv5UycjMUTEWGTayGTBHF4MqByUE80wUszUyja5DzOgpLhBnEReRXrDE7E/s400/3+Myricaria+longifolia-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Long-leafed False Tamarisk</b> <i>Myricaria longifolia</i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQU4_S521etjBdNt8P11r-22dsIwe6wrrdajwEQlMIvu6dDQ99HmglZiNPe-LYIwi9gfELSWsMnfYRRz97yLQ0sM7drMAGGUDlSVFXbWnmLc1YFQ6oELY06CqAve0Vtg_WI3Dfh3LFC5Sl/s1600/4+heteropappus-hispidus-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQU4_S521etjBdNt8P11r-22dsIwe6wrrdajwEQlMIvu6dDQ99HmglZiNPe-LYIwi9gfELSWsMnfYRRz97yLQ0sM7drMAGGUDlSVFXbWnmLc1YFQ6oELY06CqAve0Vtg_WI3Dfh3LFC5Sl/s400/4+heteropappus-hispidus-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Heteropappus hispidus</i> (?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjTCkdRhzEAKuW72hsYCOgWuxaUs9NPBz_LSZvlLNisT6NcoSkUQHFMSmh7qHfOwe1CTxCigghU1sTK5iRyNEU2KoGl43eOgpwSw3eP64sE61YBXQAGQ0K_YvGChWrFuTilXPCtBU7hEm/s1600/5+algae-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjTCkdRhzEAKuW72hsYCOgWuxaUs9NPBz_LSZvlLNisT6NcoSkUQHFMSmh7qHfOwe1CTxCigghU1sTK5iRyNEU2KoGl43eOgpwSw3eP64sE61YBXQAGQ0K_YvGChWrFuTilXPCtBU7hEm/s400/5+algae-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Algae. Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I went out this day to get more photos of the <b>penduline tits</b> and immediately on my arrival at the river it was obvious that more birds, mostly <b>buntings</b>, were around. Once again, it turned out that most of the birds outsmarted me with ease. For 5.5 hours I crawled (sometimes) through the near impenetrable vegetation in pursuit of birds. At my early start it was only plus 5°C (41°F) which is obvious in the pictures of the fluffy (presumed) <b>Stejneger’s Stonechat</b>. Many leaves had turned into the brighter autumn colours but not many of them had been dropped. The plant (is it indeed a <b>False Tamarisk</b>, <i>Myricaria</i>?) on which the penduline tits preferred to search for food had turn dark orange. Some flowers, such as the presumed <i>Heteropappus hispidus</i> (?), were on full show still! At some stretches of the river algae were still growing. Usually these slimy algae indicate lots of organic input but this species, I believe, does not. It grows very patchily and normally the waste-water indicating algae grow everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the now higher vegetation available, the <b>Eurasian Red Squirrel</b>, which is not red at all in this country, had returned. I found two but could “capture” only the young individual with my camera. Birds were, as already mentioned, much more difficult, but a few I got get a grip on, see yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All pictures shown here had been taken with a handheld digital camera.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWkK5l5Js55Nn92WgjoIAjHVUrtnHZns03bFmh-zOU7GVe_rEaM6Q95rj_kIHDLCjiT6oEAVVRaWUWA5M8rQ076XixVpuinEYQ6qgCIy3bX1rOO2wgbTqERO_UWGqhpClkdbYtcW1LlQH/s1600/6+eurasian-red-squirrel-young-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWkK5l5Js55Nn92WgjoIAjHVUrtnHZns03bFmh-zOU7GVe_rEaM6Q95rj_kIHDLCjiT6oEAVVRaWUWA5M8rQ076XixVpuinEYQ6qgCIy3bX1rOO2wgbTqERO_UWGqhpClkdbYtcW1LlQH/s640/6+eurasian-red-squirrel-young-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Red Squirrel</b> <i>Sciurus vulgaris altaicus</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Bird List </span>(41 species)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mallard </b>9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Goosander</b> 1 female</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Cormorant</b> 2 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> 5, only 1 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Booted Eagle</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Kestrel</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Snipe</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hoopoe</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker</b> 2</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXF4feD83-Dus9XuTnWxeFQtr7no6CBbrsLk9ZfaEGeM-VRqzJQ3_xxGw_oeQ-IJWqyVx5ld1yWbsqQKI9sQCTu11UP5Rp6INiYdcogC2H-Ja0o5hWAnh_f9kwpvJEaGf7UFhbnv34OZPi/s1600/7+steinegers-stonechat-male-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXF4feD83-Dus9XuTnWxeFQtr7no6CBbrsLk9ZfaEGeM-VRqzJQ3_xxGw_oeQ-IJWqyVx5ld1yWbsqQKI9sQCTu11UP5Rp6INiYdcogC2H-Ja0o5hWAnh_f9kwpvJEaGf7UFhbnv34OZPi/s400/7+steinegers-stonechat-male-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stejneger’s Stonechat</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stejneger’s Stonechat</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stejneger’s Stonechat</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Richard’s Pipit</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> c.25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>White Wagtail</b> 2, taxon/taxa unclear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stejneger’s Stonechat </b>6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Siberian Whitethroat</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pallas’s Warbler</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> c.20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hume’s Warbler </b>1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Arctic Warbler </b>c.40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Two-barred Greenish Warbler</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> c.70</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Taiga Flycatcher</b> c.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c.150</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> c.40</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit </b>5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Tit</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stoliczka’s White-crowned Tit</b> c.40</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White-crowned Penduline Tit</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White-crowned Penduline Tit</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZwSSEQ9dbmwcQ3Wx5Q5Il_dr_a3iQaP9DGpyFhyphenhyphenEDGo3V5AG8k0dsPjCd_WIpcpEFYiJCSobbjEOK4RfQv4PnGzeZsi46ENdaRJhQP0tR38BXO3tr6S7UVyLpp6_Ha21b4Z443nYbNLX/s1600/12+wc-penduline-tit-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZwSSEQ9dbmwcQ3Wx5Q5Il_dr_a3iQaP9DGpyFhyphenhyphenEDGo3V5AG8k0dsPjCd_WIpcpEFYiJCSobbjEOK4RfQv4PnGzeZsi46ENdaRJhQP0tR38BXO3tr6S7UVyLpp6_Ha21b4Z443nYbNLX/s400/12+wc-penduline-tit-sep-2016-tuul-gol-abu.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White-crowned Penduline Tit</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White-crowned Penduline Tit</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, September 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Brandt’s Jay</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Raven</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Magpie</b> c.10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Red-billed Chough</b> c.25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Crow</b> c.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Brown Shrike</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Isabelline Shrike </b>2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Rosefinch</b> 6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Rosefinch</b> c.20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pine Bunting</b> c.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting</b> c.50</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-faced Bunting</b> c.10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Decades of relentless trampling by livestock has caused the parallel lines across the slope; but obviously, higher vegetation is now slowly coming back; this is because of encroachment and the subsequent fencing off of almost the complete bottom of the slope; of course, all of the encroachment here, in Mongolia’s first National Park, established as protected area as early as 1778 (!), is illegal!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As regular readers of <b>BirdingMongolia</b> probably know, I do bird walks along the Tuul Gol (gol = river) that flows through the south of Ulaanbaatar (see label “Ulaanbaatar observations” at the sidebar). My chosen stretch lies east of the Marshall Bridge and covers the northern bank upstream for about 5 to 7 km. In summer it is not easy or even impossible to cross the river as it is untamed and quite deep, but during the winter time I also try to count the birds on the southern bank, simply because there are much fewer birds to count in total.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the past years, I witnessed a slight change in the vegetation along “my” stretch. Grazing (and browsing) has come almost to a complete halt. Consequently, the bushes returned and meanwhile, many formerly open areas are overgrown and all the bushes have now grown very dense. Though it is actually very good to see the recovering of the riparian woodland, at least at this small part of the river, while the rest of the country is still severely suffering from overgrazing, the bird watching got increasingly difficult. No more I just have to follow the paths trampled by the live stock, I now have to navigate through the shrubs and bushes by finding a way through the thick undergrowth. Stalking a bird has become now almost impossible, but sometimes I catch the unwary one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a few very cold nights—yes, autumn is approaching—with the lowest temperature of -4°C (24.8°F) two nights before, I was keen to see what birds were on stopover. So I set out for a patrol at 09:00h at a still quite cold 5°C (41°F). By noon the temperature had risen to 22°C (71.6°F) which is much more comfortable, but the wind had picked up and had driven more clouds in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As usual I tried to avoid double counts but this is very hard to achieve, so please treat the numbers given in the list below just as very rough “best guesses” rather than most accurate count data! In total, I spent 5 hours in the thickets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most birds gave me a wide berth hence I could only get two species of bird photographed: <b>Siberian Rubythroat</b> and <b>"Stoliczka’s" White-crowned Penduline Tit</b> <i>Remiz coronatus stoliczkae</i>. Concerning the latter my ID is not fully sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"Stoliczka’s" White-crowned Penduline Tit</b> (hereafter <b>SWCPT</b>) is the eastern subspecies of <b>White-crowned PT</b> and breeds along many Mongolian rivers where it is not rare. Even birds breeding along the Kherlen Gol in Choibalsan, that is in the east of Mongolia, belong to this taxon (Harrap & Quinn 1996, and pers. obs.). Whether or whether not birds breeding along the Khalkh Gol (in the Far East of the country) also represent this taxon remains unclear. Despite several visits to that region we never came across any <b>Chinese Penduline Tit</b> (hereafter <b>CPT</b>) <i>Remiz consobrinus</i> but most if not all birds were heard only and not seen, let alone being photographed or even mist-netted. So there is still something to be discovered in the east and not only there, indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although there are officially no other <b>penduline tits</b> than <b>SWCPT</b> on the Mongolian Bird List, <b>CPT</b> once has been claimed for the country (in June 2004 along the Kherlen Gol few km north of Choibalsan). Unfortunately this record was not backed up by any means of evidence so the taxon remains off the country list. The species could, however, straggle to Mongolia and why not during its fall migration? But is it possible to identify <b>CPT</b> in autumn here in Ulaanbaatar? I have absolutely no idea!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only paper dealing with this subject is that by Bot <i>et al.</i> 2011. Unfortunately, is does not at all deal with the ID of fall migrants. In fact the authors only focus on face mask differences. Either there are no other features in which the taxa differ, but this is not mentioned, or it simply did not matter to the authors. They visited the breeding grounds and did never face such a non-breeding season ID-challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A quick check of photos of both taxa in question, assuming, all birds had been correctly identified, available on the much recommended <a href="http://orientalbirdclub.org/" target="_blank">Oriental Bird Club’s</a> bird image database <a href="http://www.orientalbirdimages.org/" target="_blank">Oriental Bird Images</a> did not reveal any certain criteria. Only there is tendency for a slight difference in the pattern of the greater coverts. These are less rufous in <b>CPT</b> and the pale tips eat along the outer fringe much more in <b>CPT</b> than in <b>SWCPT</b>. Most of the pictures had not been taken in autumn though and some did show only a frontal view of the bird which is of no help in regards of finding differences on the wings and upper side. The degree of variation, be it individual, seasonal or sex related, is another still unclear point that needs urgent treatment by birdwatchers. It seems quite likely that there is a huge overlap in the coloration and pattern of the greater coverts of the two species.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After their breeding season <b>PT</b> form flocks and these flocks could potentially come from far away so the chance of finding a <b>CPT</b> within Mongolia during migration should not be dismissed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several questions remain unanswered and bird watchers could contribute to solve this ID problem by scrutinizing all <b>PT</b> they come across. For the time being it seems reasonable to treat all <b>PT</b> in this post as <b>SWCPT</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As always, comments of the ID of the birds (any objections about the <b>SWCPT</b>?), plants (here: On which bush are the two <b>PT </b>in picture 2 foraging? <i>Myricaria longifolia</i>? Or is it belonging to the true tamarisks?) and other wildlife shown on this blog, are most welcome. All pictures shown here had been taken with a handheld digital camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Bird List</span> (42 species)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mallard </b>c.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Teal </b>17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Garganey </b>2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mandarin Duck</b> 1 female or juvenile (or both)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Heron </b>1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-eared Kite</b> 1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Hobby </b>1 ad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Tern</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Green Sandpiper </b>1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Sandpiper</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pintail/Swinoe’s Snipe</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Oriental Turtle Dove</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lesser Spotted Woodpecker </b>1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>White-crowned Penduline Tit</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, August 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Richard’s Pipit</b> c.40</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> c.20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Grey Wagtail</b> 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stejneger’s Stonechat</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Siberian Rubythroat</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Thick-billed Warbler</b> 9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Whitethroat</b> 1 juv.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Siberian Whitethroat</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pallas’s Warbler</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-browed Warbler</b> 3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Arctic Warbler</b> 1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dusky Warbler</b> c.60</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Taiga Flycatcher</b> c.20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Tree Sparrow</b> c.130</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Azure Tit</b> 7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Great Tit</b> 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">presumed <b>Stoliczka’s White-crowned Tit</b> c.60, biggest flock 22</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Northern Raven</b> 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Eurasian Magpie</b> 16</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Brown Shrike</b> 4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Common Rosefinch</b> 18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Long-tailed Rosefinch</b> c.20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Yellow-breasted Bunting</b> 1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Little Bunting </b>9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Black-faced Bunting </b>c.30</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tuul Gol, UB, August 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just had eaten a spider, Tuul Gol, UB, August 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bot, S., Brinkhuizen, D., Pogány, Á., Székely, T. & van Dijk, R. 2011. Penduline tits in Eurasia: distribution, identification and systematic. <i>Dutch Birding</i> 33: 177-187.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harrap, S. & Quinn, D. 1996. <i>Tits, Nuthatches & Treecreepers</i>. A & C Black. London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A birding hotspot of the Gobi Desert: Boon Tsagaan Nuur</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with the Gobi Altai Mts in the background, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">( links to previous posts: <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/06/birding-trip-around-khangai-mts-central.html" target="_blank">part one</a>, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/12/birding-trip-around-khangai-mts-central.html" target="_blank">part two</a> )</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 31 July we left the nomadic family of our driver’s brother to go birding at Boon Tsagaan Nuur, the largest of the Gobi lakes. The change from mountain to desert birdlife already began at the southernmost hills of Khangai Mts. Here we saw the first birds of desert habitats. We found a group of <b>Mongolian Finches</b> in a dry river valley, probably the breeding ground of these birds and also a pair of <b>Isabelline Shrikes</b>. Not far from this place, a female <b>Chukar</b> with one chick crossed our way. Surprisingly we also discovered three <b>Henderson's Ground Jays</b> and a single juvenile <b>Desert Wheatear</b>, both species we expected not until we reached the proper Gobi Desert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">South part of Khangai Mts, Jul 2013, © B. Möckel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">South part of Khangai Mts, Jul 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">South part of Khangai Mts, Jul 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">South part of Khangai Mts, Jul 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the short crossing of the Gobi Desert we saw good numbers of <b>Pallas’s Sandgrouse</b>, including a family with one chick and some flocks of several hundreds of birds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gobi Desert, Jul 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then, in the afternoon we arrived at one of the birding hotspots of our trip, the famous Boon Tsagaan Nuur. Here we stayed until 2 August. In this time we made some interesting observations. The greatest concentration of birds was at the estuary of Baydrag Gol in the north-eastern part of the lake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A minimum of 15,000 <b>Black-headed Gulls</b> were here, furthermore 1,100 <b>Spoonbills</b>, 800 <b>Cormorants</b>, 800 <b>Caspian Terns</b>, and 500 <b>Pallas’s Gulls</b>. Mongolians fourth <b>Slender-billed Gull</b> was one of the top species we saw here. Also, 25 <b>Relict Gulls</b>, eleven <b>Greater Sand Plovers</b>, two <b>Pallas’s Fish Eagles</b> and singles of <b>Grey-tailed Tattler</b>, <b>Terek Sandpiper</b> and <b>Little Tern</b> provided further nice observations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © B. Möckel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Boon Tsagaan Nuur, Aug 2013, © B. Möckel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gobi Altai Mts., Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good bye, Boon Tsagaan Nuur… Aug 2013, © T. Hallfarth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/10/japanese-marsh-warbler-top-pallass.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">1</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2014/12/part-two-special-broad-billed-sandpiper.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">2</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/01/part-three-way-to-choibalsan-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">3</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/01/part-four-incredible-buir-nuur-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">4</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/02/part-five-waders-at-buir-nuur-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">5</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/03/part-six-along-khalkh-gol-plantation.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">6</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/10/part-seven-brown-shrike-mixture-text-by.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">7</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/09/part-eight-along-khalkh-gol-south-of.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">8</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/11/part-nine-japanese-waxwing-bombycilla.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">9</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/11/part-ten-dollarbird-eurystomus.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">10</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/11/part-eleven-pit-stop-sumber-text-by-abu.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">11</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ,</span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/12/part-twelve-first-field-pictures-of.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">12</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2015/12/part-13-along-khalkh-gol-north-of.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">13</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/01/part-14-drongasm-forest-text-by-armin.html#links" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">14</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/02/part-15-nomrog-text-by-mathias-putze.html#links" target="_blank">15</a>, <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2016/03/part-16-ikh-tashgai-text-by-kirsten.html#links" target="_blank">16</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Menengijn Tal. Jun 2014 © A. Schneider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Menengijn Tal, Jun 2014 © M. Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We travelled back westwards through the steppe of Menengijn Tal, stayed a night near Choibalsan, then headed to Gurmijn Nuur, a beautiful lake with a horrible water quality, where we spent another night, continued to try our luck at Gun Galuut (one night) and drove on to our final destination: Gorkhi-Terelj National Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Menengijn Tal we found more <b>Short-eared Owls</b>, which are very likely to breed there and had a very relaxed <b>Mongolian Gazelle</b>, much to the liking of Thomas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Menengijn Tal. Jun 2014© T. Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Near CB, Jun 2014 © T. Langenberg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After having set up the camp on the banks of the Kherlen River just a little out of CB, we realized how much we had been under tension during the mosquito days in the Far East. Although there were lots of mossies, it was nothing compared to the other sites and all of us felt very much relieved. The <b>Common Crossbill</b> in the willows at our campsite was unexpected but was not very cooperative. So the photographers were quite happy for the hundreds of <b>Common</b> and <b>Pacific Swifts</b> that were on offer downtown CB. Thomas and Matze used the shopping time for firing bursts of shots as the swifts were flying low over the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CB, Jun 2014 © Matze Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our way to Gurmijn Nuur (see <a href="http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.de/2011/07/some-eastern-specialities-and-more-tour.html#links" target="_blank">here </a>for our visit of 2011 when there were no nomads and no livestock but lots of ducks), our next campsite, we stopped every now and then for birds but apart from the <b>Golden Eagle</b>, which we observed eating a <b>Tolei Hare</b>, nothing noteworthy turned up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Gurmijn Nuur, where we had hoped to have a swim and an evening at the beach, we just did some birding, mainly because the water turned out to be too much of the livestock’s restroom, awfully smelling and full of floating dung. The more than 150 <b>Swan Geese</b> did not care this however. Armin and Matze proved to be the only tough guys of us and walked up the hill to the SW of the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Camp at Gurmijn Nuur. Jun 2014 © Matze Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gurmijn Nuur, Jun 2014 © Matze Putze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gurmijn Nuur, Jun 2014 © Armin Schneider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gun Galuut was once again quite disappointing: no <b>Siberian Crane</b> and inside the reserve we found that hundreds of horses had grazed down the meadows making it almost impossible for the bigger of the local breeders to find shelter. It seems that this reserve is a reserve for domestic horses only. Despite all this a pair of <b>White-naped Crane</b> was guarding its chicks through the herds. 27 <b>Asian White-winged Scoters</b> as well as two <b>Ruddy Turnstones</b> plus a set each of waterfowl and waders were found on the biggest lake. At one of the smaller ponds we encountered a <b>White’s Thrush</b>, quite late, but the bird was slightly injured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next post will be the last one of the swamprunner series and you will read about our visit to the famous Gorkhi Terelj National Park, so visit us again soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Courtesy of the Oriental Bird Club (OBC), an article about the first <b>JANKOWSKI'S BUNTINGS</b> in Beijing for 75 years, just published in BirdingASIA, is now available as a <a href="https://birdingbeijing.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/jankowski-bunting.pdf" target="_blank">downloadable PDF</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more great articles like this about Asia's birds, please consider joining the <a href="http://orientalbirdclub.org/" target="_blank">OBC </a>- they are doing fantastic work to celebrate and protect the birds in this wonderful continent!</span><br />
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The above has been copied from the fabolous<a href="https://birdingbeijing.com/" target="_blank"> Birding Beijing</a> blog<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After three months of fieldwork within the <a href="http://amurbirding.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amur Bird Project</a> in Far East Russia my visa expired and I had to cross the Russian border. This time Ramona and I decided to go to Mongolia, getting rid of the swamps and enjoying dry steppes, free of mosquitoes. We crossed the border on the 29th of June 2016 in Altanbulag from where we went by foot to the Delgerkhaan uul hills. Then we headed back to the steppes around the city of Sukhbataar and took the train back “home”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This area just south of Lake Baikal is not only the political border region between Mongolia and Russia, it furthermore separates many western from eastern bird taxa. Starting with the pine forests, we found several eastern species to be very common—like <b>Amur Falcon</b>, <b>Olive-backed Pipit</b> and <b>Pine Bunting</b>. But during the night, the “western” <b>Nightjar</b> (i.e. <b>European/Eurasian Nighjar</b>) was calling, and we observed <b>Spotted Flycatchers</b> as well as <b>Common Swifts</b>. The latter species seemed to breed in tree holes made by <b>Great Spotted Woodpecker</b>, like the many <b>Willow Tits</b> we saw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the inner forest the songs of <b>Eye-browed Thrush</b> and <b>Siberian Blue Robin</b> were heard. On slopes with sparse tree cover we found <b>Northern Wheatears</b> feeding their fledged chicks, <b>Hoopoes </b>and a pair of the <b>Siberian Meadow Bunting</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately we did not see <b>Black Grouse</b>, only their remnants. More excitement was caused by a pack of <b>Grey Wolves</b> that was howling very close to our tent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But since we were running out of water we had to return to the valley the next day, where we found a spring that supplied us not only with drinks but also with some nice birds: <b>Gadwall</b>, <b>Eastern Marsh Harrier</b>, <b>Northern Lapwing</b>, <b>Marsh Sandpiper</b>, <b>Common Snipe</b>, <b>Japanese Quail</b>, <b>Citrine Wagtail</b> as well as <b>Richard´s Pipit</b> and <b>Pallas´s Grasshopper Warblers</b> were most likely local breeders of the wet meadows, whereas <b>Common Greenshanks</b> and <b>Green Sandpipers</b> were probably early southbound migrants. The water of the spring flew into a smaller river, which fed a beautiful lake east of the city of Sukhbataar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A fly-by of <b>Ruddy Shelducks</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dozens of <b>Ruddy Shelducks</b> already had big chicks, and <b>Eurasian Coots</b> as well as numerous ducks were present—including <b>Northern Shoveler</b>, <b>Eurasian Teal</b>, <b>Tufted Duck</b>, <b>Common Pochard</b>, three <b>Ferruginous Ducks</b> (!), a <b>Smew</b> and some <b>Common Goldeneyes</b>. In the reeds, where <b>Oriental Reed Warblers</b> were singing loudly, a family of <b>Whooper Swans</b> with five chicks was hiding. <b>Pied Avocet</b> and <b>Spotted Redshank</b>, most likely females on their way back to wintering grounds, were added to our list of waders. There was also a <b>Black-headed Gull</b> and several <b>Black-necked Grebes</b> which might have bred there as well. Some former lakes close by were dried out, covered by layer of salt. A pair of <b>Little Ringed Plovers</b> was warning, and <b>Greater Short-toed Larks</b> continued singing in the heat. Not far from this, we spotted a first family of <b>Demoiselle Cranes</b>—the night before, we already had heard them calling while they were flying over our tent. The two chicks immediately were hiding themselves on the ground when they spotted us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some <b>Black-eared Kites</b> and four <b>Cinereous Vultures</b> watched them from the sky. In the dry steppe vegetation around, <b>Eurasian Skylark</b> and <b>Isabelline Wheatear</b> were found to be the most common breeding birds. Along the road back to town <b>Daurian Jackdaw</b> fledglings were sitting on pylons and an <b>Upland Buzzard</b> was looking after <b>Long-tailed Ground Squirrels</b>. What a nice set of species in a beautiful landscape with friendly people in such a relaxed country! And indeed, (almost) no mosquito bites during five days—this really felt like holidays. The ultra-slow train ride along the Selenga River brought us not only back but even some more species— a second-year <b>Golden Eagle</b> in the mountains north of Sukhbataar and a <b>Swan Goose</b> on the river itself, already on the Russian side. Hope to visit Mongolia soon again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I returned from a gull ringing trip to the eastern part of Mongolia. Since I was leaving for the north of the country very soon after I just put together some "teasers" of a few of the non-gulls I saw. More on these will be reported on the blog later, so check again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>teaser 1</b>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>teaser 2</b>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>teaser 3</b>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eastern Mongolia, May 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">White morph <b>Gyr Falcon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Khentii Aimag, October 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Gyr Falcon</b> had been mentioned as wintering in Mongolia by Davaa <i>et al.</i> (1994). Gombobaatar & Monks (2011) stated that “<span style="background-color: white;">Recent winter records were in lower Ulz River valley, Hentii Mountain Range (Tseveenmyadag et al., 2005) and Borig del and Altan els of Uvs province (Sh. Boldbaatar pers. comm.).</span>” Yet, none of the above claims had been substantiated by any form of evidence. Furthermore, Potapov & Sale (2005) wrote the following in their Gyr Falcon monograph: “<span style="background-color: white;">In Mongolia two records exists for November visits by Gyrfalcons (Bold and Boldbataar 1999). However, having discussed these observations with the authors, we are convinced that both were of Saker Falcons.</span>”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The accompanying pictures had been taken “somewhere” (location withheld) in Khentii Aimag in north-(eastern) Mongolia on 25 October 2014. These comprise the first documented occurrence of a <b>Gyr Falcon</b> for the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Khentii Aimag, October 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is very likely that <b>Gyr Falcons</b> are indeed regularly taking winter residence in the vast steppes of Mongolia, but so far no proof had been made available. This poor bird however, was documented properly although its fate wasn’t so nice. As our readers can see, it was taken by a falconer and subsequently sold to a falcon keeper in Arabia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We sincerely hope that not all <b>Gyr Falcons</b> which come to Mongolia will share this bird’s doom. Our thanks go to Amarkhuu Gungaa of the Mongolian Birdwatching Club for providing the info about this remarkable record.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Khentii Aimag, October 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>References</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gombobaatar, S. & Monks, E.M. eds. 2011. <i>Mongolian Red List of Birds</i>. Regional Red List Series Vol. 7. Zoological Society of London, National University of Mongolia & Mongolian Ornithological Society, London & Ulaanbaatar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dawaa, N., Busching, W.-D., Sumijaa, D., Bold, A. & Samijaa, R. 1994. <i>Kommentierte Checkliste der Vögel und Säuger der Mongolei</i>. Teil 1: Vögel. Köthen, Germany: Naumann-Museum. [in German]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Potapov, E. & Sale, R. 2005. <i>The Gyrfalcon</i>. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, UK.</span><br />
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