Miksture - Bird and Wildlife Travels in Central Asia

05/04/2024

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26/03/2023

NEW! Made for business partner, but Im sure there is space for You and your friends. If interested - pls contact me. Ill guide. Uzbekistan - great birds in amazing surroundings; Samarkand and Bukhara; beautiful Silkroad cities. And birds…yes, plenty: Target-arter: Black Vulture, Bearded Vulture, Black-eared Kite, Short-toed Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard, Eurasian Griffon, Himalayan Griffon, Marsh Harrier, Booted Eagle, Egyptian Vulture, Shikra, Lesser Kestrel, Eurasian Hobby, White Stork, Black Stork, Pygmy Cormorant, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Great White Egret, Purple heron, Glossy Ibis, Little Bittern, Red-crested Pochard, Marbled Duck, Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Ferruginous Duck, Laughing Dove, Rufous Turtle Dove, European Turtle Dove, Slender-billed Gull, Caspian Gull, Gull-billed Tern, Black-winged stilt, Collared Pratincole, Eurasian Hoopoe, Yellow-breasted Azure Tit, Rufous-naped Tit, Hume’s Whitethroat, White-winged Woodpecker, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, White-capped Bunting, Rock Bunting, Red-headed Bunting, Blue Whistling Thrush, Pied Wheatear, Variable Wheatear, White Wagtail (Masked), Siberian Stonechat, Great Grey Shrike (Steppe), Lesser Grey Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, European Roller, Indian Golden Oriole, Bluethroat, Crested Lark, Red-rumped Swallow, Rose-coloured Starling, Alpine Swift, Common Myna, Chukar, Hume’s Short-toed Lark, Isabelline Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, White-throated Robin, Blue Rock thrush, Turkestan Tit, Rock Sparrow, Pheasant (ssp zerafshanicus), Pied Bushchat, White-crowned Penduline Tit, Cetti’s Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Syke’s Warbler, Common Nightingale, Clamorous Reed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler, Blyth’s Reed Warbler Upcher's Warbler, Desert Warbler, Streaked Scrub Warbler, Eastern Orphaen Warbler, Saxaul Sparrow, House Sparrow (‘Indian Sparrow’ ssp bactrianus), Indian Golden Oriole, Masked Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail, Crested Lark, Pander’s Ground Jay, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, White-tailed Lapwing, Kentish Plover, Black-winged Stilt, Greater Sand Plover, Little Owl (Hutton’s), Desert Ficnch, Asian Short-toed Lark, Lesser Whitethroat, Ménétries’s Warbler, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin, Asian Desert Warbler Blyth’s Reed Warbler, Upcher’s Warbler, Greater Short-toed Lark, Lesser Whitethroat, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Calandra Lark, Black-headed Yellow Wagtail (ssp feldegg), Oriental Skylark, Citrine Wagtail, etc.

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Michaels mail: mic(a)miksture.com

06/03/2023

Still using very much time producing tours and update. Happy to announce more joint venture projects: Japan - winter birds photography tour for photographers to Kyushu and Hokkaido in January and February 2024 with Mojo (Morten Jørgensen), and a ‘pure’ birdwatching tour to Japan with Ole Zoltan Göller. Its really a joy to cooperate and coguide together. And of course, a row of birdwatching tours in Central Asia; I really hope Turkmenistan soon will be welcoming us again… And not to forget - Snow Leopard and Pallas Cat to Mongolia in August! I still cannot understand how it’s possible to observe a Snow Leopard without heavy winter gear and in plus Celcius degrees. But it is… Mongolia is amazing - and btw - many good birds in August as well in Mongolia. Have a look! www.miksture.com

13/10/2022

The KAKI 2022 (Mikstures birdwatching tour in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) was again this spring an success, and we got all target birds, plus two new species for Kyrgyzstan. This tour is the way to go, if you and your birding pals wish to experience the majority of Classical Central Asian bird species! We have done this tour since 2003, and know the habitats, the species, landscapes and conditions all around. We know where to find the target birds - and not only as ’tick’ on your birding list, but seen and experienced best possible. The KAKI tour comprise, steppe, semi-deserts and mountain habitats, hence the list of species is awesome. Join us in 2023 - no valid and reasonable reason NOT to join us! Here is peace, friendliness and beautiful, beautiful landscapes - and the birding is second to none in Central Asia.
Always joined by friends and team: special thanks to Marina Mironchik and Misha Danichkin

Images shown in this post, is just a fraction of the birds seen and photographed.

Majority of the beautiful images are photographed by Aziza Азиза Абдурахманова and some by me. If you are interested in more images from the tour we recommend to watch the images of Lisbeth Bech, Hugo Boelsmand Pedersen and Mads Elley

Tour report soon finished and will be available at cloudbirders.com or by Miksture

Enjoy - and join us in 2023!

Tour date and program on www.miksture.com

12/10/2022

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Miksture Birding Tours proudly offers quality birdwatching adventures in Central Asia, guided by our professional tour leaders. We have more than 25 years experience in the regions prime birding areas, and we can custom design your dream birding vacation in all the -stans, Mongolia and Siberia.

27/08/2022

26/07/2022

Tajikistan - ‘in quest of the Large-billed Reed Warbler’ 20.06 - 29.06.2023 with Miksture Ornithological Expeditions. Program, info and prices at www.miksture.com

03/07/2022

Read along! We are busy in Miksture - updating tours and programs. Have a look at our website www.miksture.com - especially proud to present “Birding Eastern Mongolia- 19.05 - 03.06.2023

21/06/2022

Miksture are collecting a birdwatching group for Eastern Mongolia and last details are almost done, ultimo May 2023. Siberian, Mongolian and top-bird species like Jankokowski’s Bunting, White’s and Siberian Thrushes, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Siberian Blue Robin, Radde’s Warbler, etc etc - it is really an eldorado! interested keep me informed (few seats!) and/or keep an eye on www.miksture.com

18/06/2022

New Miksture website is online. Welcome!
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10/06/2022

KAKI 2023. Birdwatching Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
We have one scheduled departure in 2023 (01.05 - 17.05.2023) but you are welcome with your own group/birding pals for an departure. We arrange from 4 to 12 participants i. e. choosing your own tour period (May to medio July). Our KAKI is a genuine product where you get all habitats important for these two countries: Steppe, semi desert (Turenga forest incl.) and Kyrgyzstans magnificent Mountains. In other words - this is the best Birdwatching tour in Central Asia, and is a genuine tour. Period! Our 2022 really went fine! And our travel report soon finished is a proof. Contact us for an offer: [email protected] and get a program, also available at www.miksture.com

05/06/2022

It has been an magnificent KAKI (Birdwatching Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) 2022. We have reached amazing birdwatching, all target species and right now we research whether we got number 2 New Species for Kyrgyzstan on this tour! Post-pandemic has been tough... but Miksture managed and we are strong. We have several upcoming tours and If You wish to join our KAKI 2023, I advise fast booking. Our tour report from KAKI 2022 will be ready around 1.th July. Today we got 2 Himalayan Snowcock, 15+ Gülden Redstarts and day is not finished