Birds of Siberia. Rare Birds Records.

rare birds records

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Slender-billed Gull (Larus genei)

© Igor Fefelov

Selenga River delta, Kabansk District, Buryatia

The 2nd registration in the Selenga River delta. In total, only less than twenty records are known in the Eastern Asia east from the breeding range of this species.

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

© Aleksandr Gontcharov

The first observation in Kemerovo Region after 1926.

Sociable Lapwing (Chettusia gregaria)

© Nadezhda Orlova

Sychevka, Altai Krai

The first photo record of this species for the eastern part of Altaiski Krai.

Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)

© Valerii Bogdanovich

Buryatia. Selenginsky region, Gusinoe lake.

A rare vagrant in Transbaikalia. First foto-proof for Republic of Buryatia. These birds may be arrived migrants or may have spent winter in the open water close to the electric plant.

Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)

© Sofia Buntovskaya

Listvyanka, Irkutsk Oblast', Lake Baikal

A rare vagrant in the southern part of the Lake Baikal area. The first wintering trial.

Japanese Waxwing (Bombycilla japonica)

© Yuri Karpov

Slyudyanka, Irkutsk Region

A rare record much west from the species range.

Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)

© Sergey L. Volkov

Vitimsky nature reserve, Northern Transbaikalia

Rare vagrant in northern Trans-Baikal area

Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

© Konstantin Samodurow

Reliable winter photo registration in the Tomsk region. Earlier, finches were observed several times in last days of November, but the nature of their further staying remained in question.

Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

© Alexandr Belyaev

Altajskij kraj, Kosihinskij r-n, p. Ukrainskij

A host of this Cuckoo fledgling is Grasshopper Warbler. An occasional nest paratisism by Cuckoo on this species, which is not mentioned in the known list of Cuckoo's host species.

Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)

© Yuri Karpov

Slyudyanka, Irkutsk Region

The first record of this species in Irkutsk Region.

Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)

© Sergey L. Volkov

Vitimsky nature reserve, Northern Transbaikalia

The northeasternmost registration of this species in the East Siberia. It's also interesting the birds seems to belong to the western subspecies gibraltariensis.