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After an absence of several years, five pairs of Relict Gulls* nested again this spring at their regular spot on an island in Alakol Lake! On 11th June, a group of Belgian birdwatchers leaded by Hugues Dufourny and Andrey Kovalenko (on tour with Kazakhstan Birdtours) saw four adult Relict Gulls resting on a peninsula of Alakol Lake. Kazakhstan Birdtours is the only tour company arranging birdwatching tours to the Alakol area for Relict Gull. Photographs by Andrey Kovalenko.
* Information kindly provided by Kazakhstan senior ornithologist Nikolai Berezovikov.
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On 22 June this year, Andrey Kovalenko took this photograph in the Sorbulak area. This is the fourth consecutive year this sought-after species has been found by Kazakhstan Bird Tours groups and leaders. Two Kazakhstan Birdtours groups saw Pallas’s Fish-eagle at the end of May in 2007 when our Belgian group saw and photographed sub-adult bird in Sorbulak area whilst Birdfinders watched a 4th year bird over the Taukum desert. Kazakhstan Birdtours leaders also observed this species at the beginning of May 2005 (adult in the Sorbulak area) and at the beginning of May 2006 (adult over the Taukum desert). The 2005 and 2006 records have been accepted in the Kazakhstan ornithological bulletin, with the 2007 records pending.
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