Other tours with Kazakhstan Birdtours

We run a selection of tours to other top birding locations. These are run in conjunction with Birdfinders. For full tour details, photo galleries, tour news and prices follow the full tour details link that will take you to the Birdfinders website.

China – Beidaihe ♦ 8–23 May 2019 Day 1 Overnight flight from London to Beijing. Days 2–3 Beijing and mountains: Ibisbill, Crested Kingfisher, Grey-capped, Grey-faced and Rufous-bellied Woodpeckers, White-cheeked Starling and Black-faced, Tristram's and Yellow-throated Buntings. Days 4–7 Beidaihe and the Great Wall – Mandarin Duck, Pied Harrier, Chinese Egret, Saunders's Gull, Chinese Goshawk, Siberian Blue Robin, Bluethroat, Red-flanked Bluetail, White-throated Needletail, Pale and Siberian Thrushes, Ashy Minivet, Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush, Asian Brown, Green-backed, Mugimaki, Taiga and Korean Flycatchers, Eastern Crowned and Pale-legged Leaf-warblers, Chestnut and Yellow-breasted Buntings. Days 8–9 Old Peak: Koklass Pheasant, Large Hawk-cuckoo, Indian and Oriental Cuckoos, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, White-bellied Redstart, Claudia's and Chinese Leaf-warblers, Asian Stubtail, Manchurian Bush-warbler, Snowy-browed Nuthatch and Bull-headed Shrike. Days 10–15 Beidaihe, Happy Island, Magic Wood, Big Wood: Great Knot, Grey-tailed Tattler, Asian Dowitcher, plus Forest Wagtail, Japanese and Rufous-tailed Robins, Eye-browed and Siberian Thrushes, White-throated Rock-thrush, Daurian Starling, Brown Shrike, Pallas's and Gray's Grasshopper-warblers, Lanceolated and Thick-billed Warblers, Black-browed Reed-warbler and Japanese Grosbeak all possible. Day 16 Travel to Beijing and flight back to London. Full tour details

China – Poyang Lake ♦ 4–19 January 2019 Day 1 Overnight flight from London to Beijing via Zurich. Day 2 Beijing and mountains: Siberian Accentor, Pallas’s Rosefinch and Asian Rosy-finch. Days 3–5 Flight to Yancheng, Yangcheng Nature Reserve: Red-crowned Crane, Reed Parrotbill, Japanese and Yellow-billed Grosbeaks, Long-tailed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie, Pallas’s, Little, Rustic and Yellow-throated Buntings. Day 6 Changle: Black-faced Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Red-necked Stint. Day 7 Fuzhou Forest Park: Black Eagle, Red-headed Trogon, Orange-bellied Leafbird, Scarlet Minivet, Oriental Magpie-robin and Chestnut and Light-vented Bulbuls. Day 8 Drive to Wuyishan Mountains. Days 9–10 Emei Feng: Koklass and Silver Pheasants, Barred Cuckoo-dove, Bay Woodpecker, Lesser Yellownape, Speckled Piculet, White-bellied Erpornis, Black-chinned Yuhina, Huet’s Fulvetta, Mountain Bulbul, Red-flanked Bluetail, Yellow-browed and Yellow-cheeked Tits, Rufous-capped Babbler and Chinese Hwamei. Days 11–12 Poyang Lake: Siberian and Hooded Cranes, Oriental Stork, Taiga and Tundra Bean-geese, Eastern Spot-billed and Falcated Ducks, Black-shouldered Kite, Imperial Eagle, Common Kestrel, Japanese Quail, Pied and White-throated Kingfishers, Oriental Skylark, Marsh Grassbird, Chinese Penduline-tit, Black-collared Starling, Crested Myna and Scaly-breasted Munia. Days 13–15 Wuyuan: Scaly-sided Merganser, Long-billed Plover, Pied Falconet, Yellow-throated Laughingthrush, Greater and Lesser-necklaced Laughingthrushes, Grey-sided Scimitar-babbler, Grey-chinned Minivet, Dusky Fulvetta, Brownish-flanked Bush-warbler, Grey-headed and Short-tailed Parrotbills and Black-throated Tit. Return to Beijing. Day 16 Morning flight back to London via Zurich.

Georgia ♦ 2–8 May 2019 Day 1 Flight from London to Tbilisi via Kiev and overnight in Tbilisi. Day 2 Kazbegi village in the Terek River valley: Egyptian Vulture, Eurasian Griffon-vulture, Peregrine, Lammergeier, Shore (Horned) Lark (penicillata), Common Redstart (samamisicus), Twite (brevirostris) and White-winged Snowfinch. Days 3–5 Kazbegi – valleys, gorges and mountain slopes: European Honey-buzzard, Montagu's and Pallid Harriers, Western Marsh-harrier, Steppe Buzzard, Black Kite, Steppe Eagle, Red-footed Falcon, Northern Goshawk, Wallcreeper, Red-billed and Yellow-billed Choughs, Alpine Accentor, Water Pipit, Black Redstart, Fire-fronted Serin, White-winged Redstart, Great Rosefinch, Mountain (Caucasian) Chiffchaff, Green Warbler, European Bee-eater, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Red-backed and Lesser Grey Shrikes, Red-throated Pipit, Yellow Wagtail and Ortolan Bunting. Day 6 Leave Kazbegi and drive back to Tbilisi birding en-route. Day 7 Early morning departure back to the airport for our return flight home via Kiev. Full tour details

Uzbekistan ♦ 11–18 May 2019 Day 1 Flight from London to Tashkent. Day 2 Tien Shan Mountian foothills: Eurasian and Himalayan Griffons, Cinereous Vulture, Booted Eagle, Oriental and European Honey-buzzards, Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush, Blue Whistling-thrush, Hume’s Whitethroat, Greenish Warbler, Hume’s Leaf-warbler, European (Grey-capped) Goldfinch and Rock Bunting. We also may find the highly range-restricted Yellow-breasted and Black-breasted Tits and White-capped Bunting which, during the last 20–30 years, have expanded their range from the east of the Tien Shan Mountains. Lesser Grey Shrike, Indian Golden Oriole, Blyth’s Reed-warbler, European Bee-eater, Red-rumped Swallow, White-crowned Penduline-tit, White-winged Woodpecker and Turkestan Tit. Day 3 Journey via Tashkent to Samarkand: Crested Lark, European Roller, White Stork, Long-tailed Shrike, Common Myna, Rosy Starling, Pied and Variable Wheatears. Days 4–5 Takhtakaracha Hills and Bukhara: White-throated Robin, Upcher’s, Eastern Olivaceous and Eastern Orphean Warblers, Asian Paradise-flycatcher, Persian Nuthatch, Rock Petronia, Red-headed Bunting, Hume’s Lark and White (Masked) Wagtail, Finsch’s Wheatear, Chukar, Shikra, Eurasian Hobby, White-throated Dipper leucogaster, Rufous-tailed (Turkestan) Shrike. Day 6 Kyzyl-Kum desert: Turkestan Ground-jay, Short-toed Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard, Brown-necked Raven, Macqueen’s Bustard, Eurasian Thick-knee, Little (Hutton’s) Owl, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Isabelline Wheatear, Scrub Warbler, Asian Desert Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat halimodendri, Desert Whitethroat, Southern (Steppe) Grey Shrike, Desert Finch, Spanish Sparrow, House Sparrow bactrianus. Day 7 Wetlands around Bukhara: Pygmy Cormorant, Purple Heron, White-tailed Lapwing, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Pied Bushchat, Clamorous (Indian) Reed-warbler and Ferruginous and Marbled Ducks, Eurasian Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, Red-crested Pochard, Western Marsh-harrier, Slender-billed and Caspian Gulls, Whiskered Terns, Oriental Lark, Citrine and Yellow (Black-headed) Wagtails, Bearded Tit, Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin and Moustached and Sykes’s Warblers, Eurasian Reed-warbler fuscus and Reed Bunting pyrrhuloides. Day 8 Morning flight back to the UK, arriving in the evening. Full tour details

Isles of Scilly ♦ 13–20 October 2018 12–19 October 2019 Day 1 Flight or boat from Penzance to St Mary's. Days 2–7 Isles of Scilly: migrants might include Jack Snipe, Spotted Crake, Yellow-browed, Barred, Melodious and Icterine Warblers, Richard's and Tawny Pipits, Rose-coloured Starling, Common Rosefinch, Eurasian Wryneck, Red-backed Shrike, Greater Short-toed Lark, Firecrest, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Ortolan, Snow and Lapland Buntings. Rarities might include Upland Sandpiper and American Golden-plover, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Red-eyed Vireo, Blackpoll Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak from the west and Dusky, Pallas's and Radde's Warblers, Red-throated and Olive-backed Pipits and Eyebrowed Thrush from the east. Day 8 Morning birding then afternoon flight back to Penzance. Full tour details

Russia, Polar Urals ♦ 15–23 June 2019 Day 1 Overnight flight from London to Moscow. Night in Moscow. Day 2 Salekhard: Eastern Palearctic birding around the River Ob. Day 3 Train to Polyarnyy north of the Arctic Circle. Search for Pintail Snipe, Siberian Accentor, Pechora Pipit and Pallas’s Bunting. Days 4–6 Polar tundra: Arctic Loon, Tundra Bean-goose, Common and White-winged Scoters, Long-tailed Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Wigeon, Rough-legged Hawk, Golden Eagle, Rock and Willow Ptarmigans, Common Snipe, European Golden-plover, Eurasian Dotterel, Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Temminck’s Stint, Long-tailed Jaeger, Mew Gull, Red-throated Pipit, Citrine Wagtail, Yellow-browed Warbler, Lapland Longspur, Hoary Redpoll and White-winged Crossbill Day 7 Return to Salekhard birding en route. Day 8 Morning birding followed by flight to Moscow. Day 9 Morning flight to London. Full tour details

United Arab Emirates ♦ 18–26 February 2019 Day 1 Overnight flight from London to Dubai. Days 2–3 Al Ain: Egyptian Vulture, Bonelli's Eagle, Barbary Falcon, Sand Partridge, Grey Francolin, Red-wattled Lapwing, White-tailed Lapwing, Temminck's Stint, Laughing Dove, Green Bee-eater, Desert Lark, Purple Sunbird, Red-tailed, Hume's and Hooded Wheatears, White-cheeked, Yellow-vented and Red-vented Bulbuls, Rock Martin, Isabelline (both Daurian and Turkestan) and Southern Grey Shrikes, Black Redstart, Blue Rock-thrush, Graceful Prinia, Lesser (Desert) Whitethroat, Ménétries's Warbler, Plain Leaf-warbler, Indian Silverbill, Brown-necked Raven, House (Striated) Bunting. Day 4 Khor Kalba: Indian Pond-heron, Striated Heron, Western Reef-heron, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, kalbaensis Collared Kingfisher, Clamorous Reed-warbler and Sykes's Warbler. Day 5 Dibba: Socotra Cormorant, Caspian, Lesser Black-backed (Heuglin's), Steppe, Great Black-headed and Sooty Gulls, Common, Sandwich, Lesser Crested, Greater Crested, Bridled and Saunders's Terns, Egyptian Nightjar, Indian Roller and Red-rumped Swallow. Day 6 Masafi, Digdaga and Hamraniyah: Pallid and Montagu's Harriers, Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse, Long-billed Pipit, Steppe Grey and Woodchat Shrikes, Arabian Babbler, Hume's Lesser Whitethroat, Bank and Common Mynahs and Rose-coloured Starling. Day 7 Dubai Pivot Fields and Wimpey Pits: Great Egret, Eurasian Spoonbill,Greater Flamongo, Greater Spotted Eagle, Osprey, Western Marsh-harrier, Terek, Broad-billed and Curlew Sandpipers, Greater and Lesser Sandplovers, Purple Swamphen, Red-knobbed Coot, Common and Pintail Snipes, Greater Short-toed Lark, Red-throated, Tree, Blyth's and Buff-bellied Pipits, Citrine and Yellow Wagtails of several races. Day 8 Al Jazeerah Khor, Khor al Beidah and Ghantoot: Crab Plover, Great Knot, Terek Sandpiper, Lesser Sandplover, Cream-coloured Courser and Pacific Golden-plover, Striated Scops-owl, Hypocolious, Asian Desert, Eastern Orphean and Ménétries's Warblers. Day 9 Return flight to London. Full tour details

India – Bharatpur and Ranthambhore ♦ 9–21 February 2019 Day 1 Overnight flight to Delhi. Day 2 Drive to Bharatpur: Black (Black-eared) Kite, Common and Bank Mynas, Black Drongo, Laughing Dove, Pied Bushchat, Indian Robin, Little Swift and Ring-necked Parakeet. Days 3–6 Bharatpur: Bar-headed Goose, Sarus Crane, Asian Openbill and Black-necked, Painted and Woolly-necked Storks, Little and Indian Cormorants, Oriental Darter, Black-headed Ibis, Black Bittern, Lesser Whistling-duck, Comb, Ferruginous and Spot-billed Ducks, Red-crested Pochard, Cotton Pygmy-goose, Ruddy Shelduck, Red-headed Vulture, Bonelli's, Crested Serpent, Eastern Imperial, Great Spotted, Indian Spotted, Steppe and Tawny Eagles, Bronze-winged and Pheasant-tailed Jacanas, Purple Swamphen, White-breasted Waterhen, Grey Francolin, White-tailed, Red-wattled and Yellow-wattled Lapwings, Indian Skimmer, Black-bellied, River and Whiskered Terns, Dusky Eagle-owl, Indian Scops-owl, Brown Hawk-owl, Spotted Owlet, Large-tailed Nightjar, Indian Courser, Orange-headed Thrush, Greenish, Hume's, Smoky, Brooks's and Yellow-browed Warblers, Small Minivet, Common Woodshrike, Brahminy Starling, Marshall's Iora, Bluethroat, Siberian Rubythroat. Day 7Taj Mahal and the Red Fort: River Lapwing, Great Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Hoopoe, Dusky Crag-martin, Brown Rock-chat. Day 8 Chambal River: Great Thick-knee, Black-bellied and River Terns, Indian Skimmer and Sand Lark. Day 9 Travel to Ranthambhore. Days 10–11 Ranthambhore: Crested Honey-buzzard, White-eyed Buzzard, White-backed Vulture, Black Eagle, Shikra, Chestnut-bellied and Painted Sandgrouse, Common Peafowl, Painted Spurfowl, Jungle Bushquail, Great Thick-knee, Brown Fish-owl, Jungle Nightjar, Alexandrine and Plum-headed Parakeets, Stork-billed Kingfisher, Common Hawk-cuckoo, Yellow-legged Green Pigeon, Ashy-crowned Sparrow-lark, Rufous-tailed Lark, Bay-backed Shrike, White-bellied Drongo, Large Cuckoo-shrike, Rufous Treepie, Tickell's Blue and Asian Paradise-flycatchers, Indian Roller, Indian Grey Hornbill and Greater Coucal. Day 12 Return to Delhi via Jaipur. Day 13 Early morning transfer to the airport. Late morning arrival in London at the end of the tour. Full tour details

India – Goa ♦ 1–16 November 2019 Day 1 Flight from London Gatwick to Goa. Days 2–3 Goa: Brahminy Kite, Red-wattled Lapwing, White-breasted Kingfisher, Asian Koel, Black Drongo, Green Bee-eater, Malabar and Greater Short-toed Larks, Pied Bushchat, Long-tailed Shrike, Blyth's, Paddyfield and Richard's Pipits, Nutmeg Mannikin, White-rumped Munia, Baya Weaver, Cinnamon Bittern, White-breasted Waterhen, Pin-tailed Snipe, Greater Painted-snipe, Indian Pitta, Rufous Woodpecker, Blue-faced Malkoha, White-bellied Sea-eagle, Indian Roller, Common Iora, Purple and Purple-rumped Sunbirds, Red-whiskered and Red-vented Bulbuls, Brown-cheeked Fulvetta, Coppersmith Barbet, Indian Tit, Rose-ringed and Plum-headed Parakeets, Rufous Treepie and Spotted Dove. Day 4 Carambolim Lake: Indian Pond-heron, Cotton Pygmy-goose, Lesser Whistling-duck, Comb Duck, Pheasant-tailed and Bronze-winged Jacanas, Grey-headed Swamphen, Oriental Darter, Little Cormorant, Indian Cormorant, Black-headed Ibis, Asian Openbill, Woolly-necked Stork, Purple Heron and Small Pratincole, with Great Spotted, Indian Spotted and Steppe Eagles, Osprey and Ashy Woodswallow. Day 5 Chorao Island and Mayem Lake: Terek and Broad-billed Sandpipers, Black-capped Kingfisher, Brown Fish-owl, Grey Nightjar, Orange-breasted Pigeon, Indian Scimitar-babbler, Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, Bronzed and Greater Racket-tailed Drongos, Grey-bellied Cuckoo, Puff-throated Babbler, Indian Blackbird, Long-billed Sunbird, Little Spiderhunter, Crested Serpent-eagle and Changeable Hawk-eagle. Day 6 Morjim Beach and Pilerne Lake: Caspian, Lesser Black-backed (Heuglin's), Pallas's and Brown-headed Gulls and Great Crested, Lesser Crested, Caspian and Gull-billed Terns, Greater and Lesser Sand-plovers, Black-crowned Night-heron, Bay-backed Shrike, Brahminy Starling, Stork-billed Kingfisher. Day 7 Saligao: White-bellied Drongo, Indian Paradise-flycatcher, Tawny-bellied Babbler, Jungle and Plain Prinias, Greenish Warbler, White-throated Fantail, White-cheeked Barbet, Greater Coucal, Brown Wood-owl. Day 8 Divar Island: Temminck's Stint, Western Reef-heron, Western Marsh-harrier, Montagu's and Pallid Harriers. Day 9 Zuari River: White-collared Kingfisher, alongside other kingfisher species, Lesser Adjutant and Slaty-breasted Rail. Day 10 Last day at the coast revsiitng various sites. Day 11 Journey to Backwoods Camp: Orange-headed Thrush, Malabar Whistling-thrush, Tickell's Blue-flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Black-naped Monarch, Asian Fairy-bluebird, Black-rumped, Common and Greater Flamebacks, Malabar Grey Hornbill, Dark-fronted Babbler, Forest Wagtail and Crimson-backed Sunbird. Days 12–15 Western Ghats: Grey Junglefowl, Red Spurfowl, Spot-bellied Eagle-owl, Jungle Owlet, White-bellied and Heart-spotted Woodpeckers, Speckled Piculet, Malabar Trogon, Black-hooded and Black-naped Orioles, Yellow-browed, Black-crested and Grey-headed Bulbuls, Malabar Pied and Great Hornbills, Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Black-backed and Blue-eared Kingfishers, Brown-breasted Flycatcher, White-bellied Blue Flycatcher, Indian Blue Robin, White-rumped Needletail, Mountain Imperial-pigeon, Crested Goshawk, Besra, Black and Rufous-bellied Eagles, Legge's Hawk-eagle, Oriental Honey-buzzard and Peregrine (Shaheen) Falcon, White-naped Woodpecker, Blue-faced Malkoha, Common Hawk-cuckoo, Forest Wagtail, Jungle Babbler, White-browed Bulbul, White-rumped Shama, Blue-capped Rock-thrush, Indian Swiftlet, Crested Treeswift, Brown-capped Woodpecker, Chestnut-tailed Starling, and six species of drongo. Other species possible around the camp and at Bondla include Verditer Flycatcher, Square-tailed Bulbul, Brown-headed and Malabar Barbets, Malabar Parakeet, Vernal Hanging-parrot, Chestnut-headed and Blue-bearded Bee-eaters, Malabar Woodshrike, Large and Black-headed Cuckooshrikes, Scarlet and Small Minivets, Jerdon’s and Golden-fronted Leafbirds, Western Crowned Leaf-warbler, Nilgiri and Thick-billed Flowerpeckers, Nilgiri Wood-pigeon, and Asian Emerald Dove Day 16 Return to the airport for the flight back home. Full tour details