Siberian Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Rufous-tailed Nightingale, Red-flanked Bluetail, Dark-throated, Redwing, Siberian, White’s, Red-throated, Dusky and Eye-browed Thrushes, Black, Hazel and Willow Grouses, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Terek Sandpiper, Pintail Snipe, Rufous Turtle Dove, Oriental Cuckoo, Ural, Hawk and Great Grey Owls, Pacific Swift, Three-toed Woodpecker, Richard’s and Olive-backed Pipits, Waxwing, Siberian Jay, Nutcracker, Arctic, Greenish, Yellow-browed, Dusky, Pallas’s, Pallas’s Grashopper, Lanceolated and Blyth’s Reed Warblers, Siberian Tit, Rustic, Pine, Yellow-browed, Yellow-breasted and Little Buntings, Brown Shrike, Red-breasted, Dark-sided, Mugimaki and Brown Flycatchers, Scarlet and Pallas’s Rosefinches, Pine Grosbeak, Two-barred Crossbill and many other Siberian highlights…
11 nights, 12 birding days
Dates:
- May 23 to June 3
- June 3 – 14, 2009
Itinerary in brief
3 June Travel to Krasnoyarsk via Moscow (overnight).
4 June Arrive Krasnoyarsk. Visit to Stolbi Nature Park. Stay overnight.
5 June Stolbi Nature Parc. Second night.
6 June Travel by plane to Bor. Continue to Central Siberian Zapovednik by hovercraft. Overnight.
7 - 11 June Investigation of Middle Taiga region. The last week of May presents us with numerous species of migrating waders and waterfowl; those begin to move upriver from the last week of May. The forest passerines begin to arrive from first week of June until third week (the last arrival is Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler).
12 June Depart for Bor. Visit to surrounding areas. Overnight.
13 June Flight to Krasnoyarsk. Overnight.
14 June Flight back to Moscow and onwards
More details coming soon !