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    total species: 228
    total photos: 743
    total videos: 0
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    1. Great Tit (2025-01-01)
    2. Carrion Crow (2025-01-04)
    3. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-05)
    4. Brambling (2025-01-08)
    5. Eastern Buzzard (2025-01-13)
    6. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-01-13)
    7. Mallard (2025-01-19)
    8. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-19)
    9. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-01-19)
    10. Hooded Crow (2025-01-19)
    11. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-25)
    12. Common Mynah (2025-01-25)
    13. Azure Tit (2025-02-15)
    14. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-02-26)
    15. European Greenfinch (2025-03-13)
    16. Tree Sparrow (2025-03-14)
    17. Common Raven (2025-03-14)
    18. Blue Tit (2025-03-14)
    19. Desert Finch (2025-03-14)
    20. Red-crested Pochard (2025-03-18)
    21. Common Shelduck (2025-03-18)
    22. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-03-19)
    23. Common Starling (2025-03-19)
    24. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-03-19)
    25. Mute Swan (2025-03-21)
    26. Rock Pigeon (2025-03-21)
    27. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-21)
    28. House Sparrow (2025-03-21)
    29. Common Pochard (2025-03-22)
    30. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-03-22)
    31. Caspian Gull (2025-03-22)
    32. Garganey (2025-03-22)
    33. White-headed Duck (2025-03-22)
    34. White Wagtail (2025-03-23)
    35. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-03-24)
    36. Steppe Eagle (2025-03-26)
    37. Calandra Lark (2025-03-26)
    38. Redwing (2025-03-27)
    39. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-03-27)
    40. Pied Avocet (2025-03-29)
    41. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-03-29)
    42. Common Teal (2025-03-29)
    43. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-29)
    44. Great Grey Shrike (2025-03-29)
    45. Grey Heron (2025-03-29)
    46. Desert Wheatear (2025-03-30)
    47. Long-eared Owl (2025-03-30)
    48. Kentish Plover (2025-03-30)
    49. Crested Lark (2025-03-30)
    50. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-02)
    51. Barn Swallow (2025-04-02)
    52. Sand Martin (2025-04-02)
    53. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-02)
    54. Bearded Tit (2025-04-05)
    55. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-05)
    56. Common Kestrel (2025-04-07)
    57. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-07)
    58. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-07)
    59. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-07)
    60. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-07)
    61. Tufted Duck (2025-04-07)
    62. Great Cormorant (2025-04-07)
    63. Gadwall (2025-04-07)
    64. Greater Scaup (2025-04-07)
    65. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-07)
    66. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-07)
    67. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-07)
    68. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-08)
    69. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-04-09)
    70. Great White Egret (2025-04-12)
    71. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-12)
    72. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-04-12)
    73. Collared Pratincole (2025-04-12)
    74. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-04-12)
    75. Bluethroat (2025-04-12)
    76. Slender-billed Gull (2025-04-12)
    77. Dunlin (2025-04-12)
    78. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-12)
    79. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-12)
    80. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-04-12)
    81. Black Kite (2025-04-17)
    82. Common Moorhen (2025-04-27)
    83. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-04-27)
    84. Corn Bunting (2025-04-27)
    85. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-27)
    86. Red-backed Shrike (2025-04-27)
    87. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-27)
    88. Common Snipe (2025-04-27)
    89. Common Oystercatcher (2025-04-27)
    90. Northern Lapwing (2025-04-27)
    91. Rook (2025-04-27)
    92. Hoopoe (2025-04-27)
    93. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-04-27)
    94. Masked Wagtail (2025-04-27)
    95. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-27)
    96. Common Tern (2025-04-27)
    97. Black Tern (2025-04-27)
    98. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-27)
    99. Common Greenshank (2025-04-27)
    100. Common Redshank (2025-04-27)
    101. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-27)
    102. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-07)
    103. Montagu's Harrier (2025-05-07)
    104. Brown-necked Raven (2025-05-07)
    105. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-07)
    106. Golden Eagle (2025-05-07)
    107. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-07)
    108. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-05-07)
    109. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-05-07)
    110. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-07)
    111. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-07)
    112. Rosy Starling (2025-05-08)
    113. Pander's Ground-Jay (2025-05-08)
    114. Saker Falcon (2025-05-08)
    115. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-05-08)
    116. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-09)
    117. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-09)
    118. Whooper Swan (2025-05-09)
    119. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-05-09)
    120. Common Swift (2025-05-11)
    121. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-11)
    122. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-13)
    123. Little Stint (2025-05-13)
    124. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-05-15)
    125. Grey Plover (2025-05-17)
    126. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-05-17)
    127. White-winged Tern (2025-05-18)
    128. Sedge Warbler (2025-05-18)
    129. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-05-18)
    130. Pied Wheatear (2025-05-18)
    131. Greater Sand Plover (2025-05-19)
    132. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-19)
    133. Spanish Sparrow (2025-05-21)
    134. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-05-22)
    135. Willow Warbler (2025-05-22)
    136. Syke's Warbler (2025-05-22)
    137. Purple Heron (2025-05-24)
    138. European Bee-eater (2025-05-30)
    139. Gull-billed Tern (2025-05-31)
    140. Sky Lark (2025-06-03)
    141. Common Coot (2025-06-07)
    142. Greater Flamingo (2025-06-07)
    143. Pallas's Gull (2025-06-09)
    144. Greenish Warbler (2025-06-11)
    145. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-06-14)
    146. Tawny Pipit (2025-06-14)
    147. Horned Lark (2025-06-14)
    148. Eurasian Linnet (2025-06-14)
    149. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-06-14)
    150. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-06-14)
    151. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2025-06-14)
    152. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-06-14)
    153. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-06-14)
    154. Rock Sparrow (2025-06-15)
    155. Mongolian Finch (2025-06-15)
    156. Chukar Partridge (2025-06-15)
    157. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-06-15)
    158. Citrine Wagtail (2025-06-15)
    159. Pale Sand Martin (2025-06-15)
    160. Common Crane (2025-06-15)
    161. Pine Bunting (2025-06-15)
    162. Lammergeier (2025-06-16)
    163. Cinereous Vulture (2025-06-16)
    164. Himalayan Vulture (2025-06-16)
    165. Booted Eagle (2025-06-16)
    166. Lesser Kestrel (2025-06-16)
    167. Rock Bunting (2025-06-16)
    168. Grey Wagtail (2025-06-20)
    169. Great White Pelican (2025-06-28)
    170. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2025-06-28)
    171. Great Crested Grebe (2025-06-28)
    172. Grey Partridge (2025-07-09)
    173. Slavonian Grebe (2025-07-12)
    174. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-07-12)
    175. Ruff (2025-07-12)
    176. Booted Warbler (2025-07-18)
    177. Temminck's Stint (2025-07-19)
    178. Northern Pintail (2025-07-19)
    179. Great Reed Warbler (2025-07-19)
    180. Little Gull (2025-07-20)
    181. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-07-20)
    182. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-07-24)
    183. Terek Sandpiper (2025-07-26)
    184. Caspian Tern (2025-07-26)
    185. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2025-07-31)
    186. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-08-06)
    187. Common Buzzard (2025-08-06)
    188. Hume's Warbler (2025-08-07)
    189. White-winged Lark (2025-08-16)
    190. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-08-16)
    191. Pallid Harrier (2025-08-17)
    192. Mew Gull (2025-08-17)
    193. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-08-18)
    194. Tree Pipit (2025-08-21)
    195. Ortolan Bunting (2025-08-22)
    196. Ibisbill (2025-08-23)
    197. Eurasian Hobby (2025-08-24)
    198. Shikra (2025-08-24)
    199. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-09-04)
    200. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-09-07)
    201. Water Rail (2025-09-07)
    202. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-09-07)
    203. European Nightjar (2025-09-07)
    204. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-09-08)
    205. Short-eared Owl (2025-09-10)
    206. Eurasian Redstart (2025-09-10)
    207. Common Chaffinch (2025-09-16)
    208. Whinchat (2025-09-18)
    209. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-09-21)
    210. Cetti's Warbler (2025-09-21)
    211. Little Owl (2025-09-22)
    212. Goldcrest (2025-09-23)
    213. Pied Flycatcher (2025-09-27)
    214. Sanderling (2025-09-27)
    215. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-10-09)
    216. Mistle Thrush (2025-10-09)
    217. Long-tailed Tit (2025-10-11)
    218. Coal Tit (2025-10-11)
    219. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-10-11)
    220. Peregrine Falcon (2025-10-14)
    221. Upland Buzzard (2025-10-28)
    222. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-11-11)
    223. Northern Goshawk (2025-11-15)
    224. Northern Wren (2025-11-17)
    225. Wallcreeper (2025-11-20)
    226. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-11-23)
    227. Eurasian Siskin (2025-11-24)
    228. Common Treecreeper (2025-12-04)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-24. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Eastern Buzzard.

    2025-12-04. Common Treecreeper, Eastern Buzzard, Red-fronted Serin, Grey-headed Goldfinch.

    2025-11-25. Black-throated Thrush, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2025-11-24. Eurasian Siskin.

    2025-11-23. Blue Whistling Thrush.

    2025-11-22. Coal Tit.

    2025-11-21. Eurasian Blackbird.

    2025-11-20. Wallcreeper.

    2025-11-19. Red-fronted Serin.

    2025-11-18. Mistle Thrush.

    2025-11-17. Northern Wren.

    2025-11-15. Northern Goshawk, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2025-11-12. Common Raven, Long-tailed Tit.

    2025-11-11. Eurasian Goldfinch.

    2025-11-10. Carrion Crow.

    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...

    recent video

    2026-01-18
    Common Kestrel
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    2025-10-31
    Great Cormorant
    (Raouf Bairashev)

    2025-08-31
    Spotted Flycatcher
    (Anna Yasko)

    2025-07-01
    Northern Hawk Owl
    (Tungysh Zaparkulov)

    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
    (Irina Kuryanova)

    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
    (Irina Kuryanova)

    2025-04-14
    Grey-Headed Woodpecker
    (sergey izoya)

    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
    (Anna Yasko)
    Common Kestrel
    (Anna Yasko)

    2025-03-23
    Common Sparrowhawk
    (Ksenia Serbina)
    Great Tit
    (Ksenia Serbina)

    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
    (Irina Kuryanova)

    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

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

    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

    more video...

    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

    Андрей Коваленко: Вопрос - что он тут потерял в июне... Когда снимал, думал что снимаю курганника...
    2026-06-21

    Андрей Коваленко: По фото вряд ли, но в это время там только луговые...
    2026-06-18

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    2026-06-18

    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна и Андрей.
    2026-06-17

    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна.
    more unidentified birds...