The hot, sunny day. The road from Kapchagai to Bakbakty is sharply separated into two different parts. Before Malaisary pass the landscape is steppe zone with elm roadside thickets, behind the pass - the sandy desert with spots of undersized saxaul groves. In a steppe zone during the road there and back I noticed Kestrels, a lot of Rosy Starlings, the pair of Black-bellied Sandgrouses, Black Kites, Red-headed Buntings, Lesser Grey and Turkestan Shrikes, Rollers, one Long-legged Buzzard. In the deserted zone the birds were much less; only soaring Black Kites, some Rollers, two-three Eurasian Bee-eaters, sometimes Rosy Starlings (but not a lot) are appreciable. The most appreciable and numerous birds in the deserted zone were Gull-billed Terns. The flight of about three-four hundreds Gull-billed Terns had a rest on the grassless sand nearby the big pool at the well. Some of Terns flew to drink to the pool, other ones hunted away from the rest spot.
In Bakbakty on the sunset I watched several groups of Black-crowned Night Herons flying by in one way (to north-east), some birds moved alone, but the majority of ones flew in flocks of 3-4 birds. Other birds I saw in Bakbakty: Mynahs, Hobbies, Kestrels, Common Terns, Lapwings, Common Sandpipers,Collared Doves, Masked Wagtails, Rooks, Tree and House Sparrows.
1. Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
2. Gull-billed Terns (Gelochelidon nilotica)
3. Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
4. Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
5. Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax)
6. Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
7. Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
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