Welcome to the website of Central Asia Birding
Central Asia Birding offers all-inclusive, high quality bird watching and nature
holidays in Central Asia. We organise fixed departure tours as well as private, customized
tours for small groups. All tours are lead by local experts or European top-ornithologists,
including Arend Wassink author of the book ‘Birds of Kazakhstan’. Central Asia offers
various types of interesting habitat, endless steppes, stony and sandy desert, wetlands,
rivers, alpine meadows, coniferous forests, Turanga forests and enormous mountain
ranges. Being located on the border of two subdivisions makes the avifauna of the
countries in Central Asia very attractive for bird watchers and nature enthusiasts
in general. Many superb and rare western Palearctic species are relatively easy to
spot. Known examples are Steppe Eagle, Pallid Harrier, Sociable Lapwing, Caspian
Plover, Black Lark, Güldenstädt’s Redstart and Azure Tit. Great extras are Himalayan
Snowcock, White-tailed Rubythroat, White-browed Tit Warbler, Asian Paradise Flycatcher,
Yellow-breasted Azure Tit, Asian Crimson-winged Finch and Pander’s Ground Jay!
Ecotourism and protection of habitat is important to us therefore we follow guidelines
set up by the International Tourism Society. Secondly we work hand in hand with the
ACBK, Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan.
This full-colour book brings together invaluable information on status, habitats,
distribution and migration on the birds of Kazakhstan, packed into 288 pages. All
498 species recorded in Kazakhstan (up to early 2007) are covered, and more than
900 maps and graphs give their breeding and temporal distribution. The Birds of Kazakhstan
is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in the avifauna of Kazakhstan
and Central Asia
The Birds of Kazakhstan
by Arend Wassink and Gerald J Oreel
