No Synonyms

Description

Numerous passage migrant. Stops on saline soil or sandy and muddy shore of lakes, pounds and other big and small reservoirs, on river sand banks and on other shallow water. Spring records from end March – early May up to end May – mid June. Main migration observed in May in groups of several birds, but sometimes up to five hundred. In autumn adults appear in early – mid-July, main migration in end July – early August, when juveniles begin flight too. Most of them migrate in August, latest birds recorded in end September in northern areas, and in mid-October in southern ones.

Distribution

On migration occurs in plain Kazakhstan everywhere, and occasionally in mountains, on Markakol’ lake.

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005
Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999.