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    total species: 200
    total photos: 517
    total videos: 0
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    1. Carrion Crow (2026-01-04)
    2. Great Tit (2026-01-05)
    3. Azure Tit (2026-01-06)
    4. Black-throated Thrush (2026-01-06)
    5. Golden Eagle (2026-01-08)
    6. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2026-01-09)
    7. Long-tailed Tit (2026-01-13)
    8. Common Chaffinch (2026-01-14)
    9. Eastern Buzzard (2026-01-14)
    10. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2026-01-14)
    11. Eurasian Blackbird (2026-01-15)
    12. Eversmann's Redstart (2026-01-17)
    13. Brambling (2026-01-17)
    14. Common Mynah (2026-01-21)
    15. Goldcrest (2026-01-25)
    16. Red-fronted Serin (2026-01-27)
    17. Lammergeier (2026-02-11)
    18. White-winged Grosbeak (2026-02-14)
    19. Eurasian Magpie (2026-02-15)
    20. Mistle Thrush (2026-03-05)
    21. Cinereous Vulture (2026-03-15)
    22. Himalayan Vulture (2026-03-15)
    23. Caspian Gull (2026-03-19)
    24. White Wagtail (2026-03-19)
    25. Black-headed Gull (2026-03-19)
    26. Hooded Crow (2026-03-19)
    27. Common Shelduck (2026-03-21)
    28. Common Teal (2026-03-21)
    29. Northern Shoveler (2026-03-21)
    30. Gadwall (2026-03-21)
    31. Common Pochard (2026-03-21)
    32. Northern Lapwing (2026-03-21)
    33. Great White Pelican (2026-03-21)
    34. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2026-03-21)
    35. Grey Heron (2026-03-21)
    36. Garganey (2026-03-21)
    37. Northern Reed Bunting (2026-03-21)
    38. House Sparrow (2026-03-21)
    39. Tree Sparrow (2026-03-22)
    40. Mute Swan (2026-03-23)
    41. Merlin (2026-03-23)
    42. Calandra Lark (2026-03-24)
    43. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2026-03-24)
    44. Steppe Eagle (2026-03-25)
    45. Grey Partridge (2026-03-25)
    46. Common Starling (2026-03-25)
    47. Common Kestrel (2026-03-25)
    48. Steppe Grey Shrike (2026-03-25)
    49. Long-eared Owl (2026-03-25)
    50. Eurasian Jackdaw (2026-03-26)
    51. Desert Finch (2026-03-26)
    52. Isabelline Wheatear (2026-03-27)
    53. Great Cormorant (2026-03-28)
    54. Slender-billed Gull (2026-03-28)
    55. Common Coot (2026-03-28)
    56. Citrine Wagtail (2026-03-28)
    57. Marsh Sandpiper (2026-03-28)
    58. Ruff (2026-03-28)
    59. Little Stint (2026-03-28)
    60. Eurasian Wigeon (2026-03-28)
    61. Western Marsh-Harrier (2026-03-28)
    62. Hen Harrier (2026-03-31)
    63. Common Chiffchaff (2026-03-31)
    64. Bluethroat (2026-04-01)
    65. Northern Wheatear (2026-04-01)
    66. Pallid Harrier (2026-04-01)
    67. Long-legged Buzzard (2026-04-02)
    68. Rough-legged Buzzard (2026-04-03)
    69. Pied Avocet (2026-04-04)
    70. Black-winged Stilt (2026-04-04)
    71. Red-crested Pochard (2026-04-04)
    72. Tufted Duck (2026-04-04)
    73. Gull-billed Tern (2026-04-04)
    74. White-headed Duck (2026-04-04)
    75. Lesser Whitethroat (2026-04-05)
    76. Common Sparrowhawk (2026-04-05)
    77. Hoopoe (2026-04-06)
    78. White-winged Tern (2026-04-06)
    79. Hawfinch (2026-04-06)
    80. Eurasian Collared Dove (2026-04-06)
    81. Kentish Plover (2026-04-07)
    82. Crested Lark (2026-04-07)
    83. Pied Wheatear (2026-04-08)
    84. Desert Wheatear (2026-04-09)
    85. Greater Short-toed Lark (2026-04-09)
    86. Common Sandpiper (2026-04-11)
    87. Yellow Wagtail (2026-04-11)
    88. Green Sandpiper (2026-04-11)
    89. Dunlin (2026-04-11)
    90. Glossy Ibis (2026-04-11)
    91. Paddyfield Warbler (2026-04-11)
    92. Northern Pintail (2026-04-11)
    93. Great White Egret (2026-04-11)
    94. Ruddy Shelduck (2026-04-11)
    95. Barn Swallow (2026-04-11)
    96. Long-tailed Duck (2026-04-12)
    97. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2026-04-12)
    98. Purple Heron (2026-04-12)
    99. Common Redshank (2026-04-12)
    100. Whinchat (2026-04-12)
    101. Great Crested Grebe (2026-04-12)
    102. Willow Warbler (2026-04-12)
    103. Pied Flycatcher (2026-04-16)
    104. Song Thrush (2026-04-16)
    105. Wood Pigeon (2026-04-19)
    106. Black Kite (2026-04-19)
    107. Common Buzzard (2026-04-19)
    108. Eurasian Roller (2026-04-26)
    109. Demoiselle Crane (2026-04-26)
    110. Grey Wagtail (2026-04-26)
    111. Turkestan Shrike (2026-04-26)
    112. Black Tern (2026-04-26)
    113. Common Tern (2026-04-26)
    114. Little Ringed Plover (2026-04-26)
    115. Common Greenshank (2026-04-26)
    116. Siberian Stonechat (2026-04-26)
    117. Great Reed Warbler (2026-04-26)
    118. Spanish Sparrow (2026-04-26)
    119. Peregrine Falcon (2026-04-26)
    120. Eurasian Hobby (2026-04-26)
    121. Common Moorhen (2026-04-26)
    122. Pygmy Cormorant (2026-04-26)
    123. Dalmatian Pelican (2026-04-26)
    124. Black-tailed Godwit (2026-04-26)
    125. Common Snipe (2026-04-26)
    126. Masked Wagtail (2026-04-26)
    127. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2026-04-26)
    128. Barred Warbler (2026-04-26)
    129. Black-headed Wagtail (2026-04-26)
    130. Tree Pipit (2026-04-26)
    131. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2026-04-28)
    132. Hume's Warbler (2026-04-28)
    133. Blue Whistling Thrush (2026-04-30)
    134. Eurasian Crag Martin (2026-05-01)
    135. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2026-05-01)
    136. White-capped Bunting (2026-05-01)
    137. Rock Bunting (2026-05-01)
    138. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2026-05-01)
    139. Rosy Starling (2026-05-01)
    140. Northern House Martin (2026-05-01)
    141. Corn Bunting (2026-05-01)
    142. Tawny Pipit (2026-05-01)
    143. Eurasian Linnet (2026-05-01)
    144. Mongolian Finch (2026-05-01)
    145. Indian Sparrow (2026-05-01)
    146. Grey-necked Bunting (2026-05-01)
    147. Chukar Partridge (2026-05-01)
    148. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2026-05-01)
    149. Horned Lark (2026-05-01)
    150. Rock Sparrow (2026-05-01)
    151. Spotted Redshank (2026-05-08)
    152. Ferruginous Duck (2026-05-08)
    153. Wood Sandpiper (2026-05-08)
    154. Common Oystercatcher (2026-05-08)
    155. Common Kingfisher (2026-05-08)
    156. Shikra (2026-05-08)
    157. Brown-necked Raven (2026-05-08)
    158. Black-headed Penduline Tit (2026-05-08)
    159. Lesser Grey Shrike (2026-05-08)
    160. Little Bustard (2026-05-08)
    161. Oriental Turtle Dove (2026-05-08)
    162. Common Cuckoo (2026-05-09)
    163. Temminck's Stint (2026-05-09)
    164. Pallid Scops Owl (2026-05-09)
    165. European Bee-eater (2026-05-09)
    166. White-Winged Woodpecker (2026-05-09)
    167. Bimaculated Lark (2026-05-09)
    168. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2026-05-09)
    169. Spotted Flycatcher (2026-05-09)
    170. Cetti's Warbler (2026-05-09)
    171. Ortolan Bunting (2026-05-09)
    172. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2026-05-09)
    173. Red-backed Shrike (2026-05-09)
    174. Red-headed Bunting (2026-05-09)
    175. Rufous Bush Robin (2026-05-09)
    176. Turkestan Tit (2026-05-09)
    177. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2026-05-10)
    178. Saxaul Sparrow (2026-05-10)
    179. Common Whitethroat (2026-05-13)
    180. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2026-05-14)
    181. Common Swift (2026-05-14)
    182. Whiskered Tern (2026-05-16)
    183. White-tailed Lapwing (2026-05-16)
    184. Collared Pratincole (2026-05-16)
    185. Greater Sand Plover (2026-05-16)
    186. Lesser Kestrel (2026-05-17)
    187. Eurasian Whimbrel (2026-05-17)
    188. Eurasian Redstart (2026-05-18)
    189. Sand Martin (2026-05-19)
    190. Common Rosefinch (2026-05-21)
    191. Sedge Warbler (2026-05-22)
    192. Terek Sandpiper (2026-05-23)
    193. Bearded Tit (2026-05-23)
    194. Curlew Sandpiper (2026-05-23)
    195. Greater Ringed Plover (2026-05-24)
    196. Garden Warbler (2026-05-26)
    197. Syke's Warbler (2026-06-05)
    198. Sky Lark (2026-06-10)
    199. Caspian Tern (2026-06-11)
    200. Greenish Warbler (2026-06-22)

    recent uploads

    2026-06-22. Greenish Warbler, Azure Tit.

    2026-06-21. Azure Tit, Eurasian Scops-Owl.

    2026-06-14. Azure Tit.

    2026-06-11. Caspian Tern, Slender-billed Gull, Common Shelduck, Black Tern.

    2026-06-10. Syke's Warbler, Sky Lark.

    2026-06-09. Steppe Lesser Short-toed Lark, Steppe Grey Shrike, Calandra Lark, Calandra Lark, Steppe Grey Shrike.

    2026-06-06. Syke's Warbler, White Wagtail, Pied Wheatear.

    2026-06-05. Calandra Lark, Garden Warbler.

    2026-06-04. Pied Wheatear.

    2026-06-03. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater.

    2026-06-02. White-headed Duck, Paddyfield Warbler, Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Steppe Grey Shrike, Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Kentish Plover, Kentish Plover.

    2026-06-01. Pied Wheatear, Eurasian Roller.

    2026-05-31. Whiskered Tern, Black-headed Gull, White-winged Tern, Black-headed Wagtail, Northern Wheatear.

    2026-05-29. Blyth's Reed Warbler, Red-headed Bunting, Lesser Grey Shrike, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2026-05-28. White Wagtail.

    rare birds records


    Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)

    © Andrey Kovalenko
    2026-06-06
    Almaty area, Sorbulak.

    Second registration of the species on Lake Sorbulak. The first was more than 40 years ago, when two birds were discovered among Grey Herons on June 30, 1982 (Erokhov, 1991). According to available data, this is the easternmost point of flight of the yellow heron from its main range.

    Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

    © Vasilii Bastaev
    2026-05-08
    Karakol lake, Mangystau

    The second record of a rare migratory species this season.

    Great Snipe (Gallinago media)

    © Qanatbek Kenzhegulov
    2026-04-14
    Aktau, Mangystau region

    A rare passage species in Kazakhstan. The most recent photographic record in the country was made on 21 April 2022 in the Suzak District of Turkestan Region (Martin Grienenberger; see the website gallery). In Mangystau Region, only two records supported by photographic evidence are known from recent decades of the 21st century: 20–24 May 2009 in the Kenderli area (Neve et al., 2010) and the present observation.

    Northern Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

    © Alexandr Fedulin
    2026-03-30

    A new species for the Teniz-Korgalzhinsky region. The first photographic confirmation on the website for the Kazakh Uplands. Recorded on March 28 and 30 in different parts of the village.
    more rarities...

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    Common Kestrel
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    Great Cormorant
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    2025-08-31
    Spotted Flycatcher
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    2025-07-01
    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
    Grey-Headed Woodpecker
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    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
    (Anna Yasko)
    Common Kestrel
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    2025-03-23
    Common Sparrowhawk
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    Great Tit
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    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
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    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

    2025-01-07
    Eurasian Penduline Tit
    (sergey izoya)

    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    more video...

    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

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    2026-06-21

    Андрей Коваленко: По фото вряд ли, но в это время там только луговые...
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    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна и Андрей.
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    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна.
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