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Afghanistan

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You will notice that there is no introduction to this section yet.

I would like to fill this gap with an introduction from a local birder [or someone who is a frequent visitor] for every on of the geographical pages. The many thousands of birders now regularly using these pages prefer to read something written by someone who can see the place from an insider's point of view. They know the best spots, not just the ones that first time overseas visitors usually visit or that are on the normal birding trip itineraries.

Each introduction carries the e-mail address of the contributor so that birders can get in touch with them if, for example, they are planning a trip [unless the contributor is unable to do this].

Please get in touch if you feel you can contribute an introduction to this page - you don't have to be an expert; I'm not!

numbers

Number of bird species:460

useful reading

* Field Guides & Bird Song

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useful information

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trip reports

Travelling Birder
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The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you cant find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page give them a try!

Afghanistan mountains

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/ebas/index.html?action=EbaHTMDetails.asp&sid=372&m=0
This Secondary Area is defined by the range of Afghan Snowfinch Montifringilla theresae, which is only known to breed in the mountains of Afghanistan (see map, p. 412), although there is a non-breeding record from Turkmenistan (Dement'ev and Gladkov 1970). It has been recorded at several scattered localities in the mountains of Afghanistan (Dathe and Neufeldt 1980), where it is found on open rocky or grassy slopes and in precipitous mountain valleys at 2,450-3,100 m (Paludan 1959, Dement'ev and Gladkov 1970). Two Important Bird Areas, Bande Amir and Dashte Nawar, have been identified for its conservation (Evans 1994).

Birdlife Afghanistan

http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/national/afghanistan/index.html
There is no BirdLife partner for Afghanistan... Considering that Afghanistan is landlocked and mostly quite arid, its avifauna is remarkably rich. Of the 460 species recorded in the country some 235 breed or are assumed to breed; this diversity is due to the Himalayan and Indian-subcontinent species composition of the avifauna over the eastern part of the country, and to the predominantly Central Asian aspect over the northern plains and the Hindu Kush...