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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
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    total species: 106
    total photos: 229
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Black Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
    2. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-02)
    3. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-02)
    4. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-02)
    5. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-02)
    6. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-03)
    7. Great Tit (2025-01-03)
    8. House Sparrow (2025-01-03)
    9. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-03)
    10. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-03)
    11. Hooded Crow (2025-01-03)
    12. Carrion Crow (2025-01-03)
    13. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-04)
    14. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-01-06)
    15. Hawfinch (2025-01-09)
    16. Goosander (2025-01-09)
    17. Eurasian Dipper (2025-01-09)
    18. Mallard (2025-01-09)
    19. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-01-09)
    20. Brambling (2025-01-11)
    21. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-18)
    22. Common Raven (2025-01-28)
    23. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-02-03)
    24. Black-throated Thrush (2025-02-05)
    25. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-02-19)
    26. Eurasian Jay (2025-02-23)
    27. Red Crossbill (2025-02-23)
    28. Fieldfare (2025-02-28)
    29. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-02-28)
    30. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-03-14)
    31. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-15)
    32. Common Chaffinch (2025-03-20)
    33. Tufted Duck (2025-03-20)
    34. Caspian Gull (2025-03-20)
    35. Common Starling (2025-03-21)
    36. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-21)
    37. Rook (2025-03-21)
    38. Northern Black Grouse (2025-03-21)
    39. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-03-21)
    40. Eurasian Linnet (2025-03-21)
    41. Sky Lark (2025-03-21)
    42. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-24)
    43. Yellowhammer (2025-03-27)
    44. Azure Tit (2025-03-29)
    45. Black Kite (2025-03-30)
    46. Pine Bunting (2025-03-31)
    47. Lapland Longspur (2025-04-02)
    48. White Wagtail (2025-04-02)
    49. Great Cormorant (2025-04-02)
    50. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-04-02)
    51. Bewick's Swan (2025-04-03)
    52. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-04-03)
    53. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-05)
    54. Common Teal (2025-04-05)
    55. Garganey (2025-04-05)
    56. Great White Egret (2025-04-05)
    57. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-06)
    58. Water Pipit (2025-04-06)
    59. Gadwall (2025-04-06)
    60. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-04-07)
    61. Song Thrush (2025-04-07)
    62. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-07)
    63. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-13)
    64. European Greenfinch (2025-04-23)
    65. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-26)
    66. Barn Swallow (2025-04-26)
    67. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-29)
    68. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-29)
    69. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-04-29)
    70. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-03)
    71. Grey Heron (2025-05-03)
    72. Thrush Nightingale (2025-05-04)
    73. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-05)
    74. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-06)
    75. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-06)
    76. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-07)
    77. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-08)
    78. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-08)
    79. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-10)
    80. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-10)
    81. Pale Sand Martin (2025-05-11)
    82. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-22)
    83. Tree Pipit (2025-05-22)
    84. Northern Hazelhen (2025-05-23)
    85. Common Buzzard (2025-05-23)
    86. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-06-01)
    87. European Golden Oriole (2025-06-04)
    88. Common Cuckoo (2025-06-08)
    89. Common Nightingale (2025-06-29)
    90. Booted Warbler (2025-06-29)
    91. Common Kingfisher (2025-06-29)
    92. Black-headed Gull (2025-06-29)
    93. Green Sandpiper (2025-07-02)
    94. Hoopoe (2025-07-02)
    95. European Bee-eater (2025-07-12)
    96. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-07-13)
    97. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-07-13)
    99. Common Greenshank (2025-07-23)
    100. Temminck's Stint (2025-08-12)
    101. Hume's Warbler (2025-08-14)
    102. Greenish Warbler (2025-08-14)
    103. Rock Bunting (2025-08-23)
    104. Meadow Bunting (2025-08-24)
    105. Willow Tit (2025-09-27)
    106. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-09-27)

    recent uploads

    2025-09-28. Willow Tit, Willow Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Hoopoe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2025-09-17. Common Kingfisher, Masked Wagtail.

    2025-09-10. Common Teal.

    2025-08-24. Meadow Bunting, Common Starling, Meadow Bunting.

    2025-08-23. Rock Bunting.

    2025-08-18. Greenish Warbler, Unkown Bird.

    2025-08-16. Great Tit, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Hume's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, Red-backed Shrike, Yellowhammer, Northern Black Grouse.

    2025-08-15. Tree Sparrow, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Temminck's Stint.

    2025-08-07. Blyth's Reed Warbler.

    2025-08-06. Spotted Flycatcher, Common Chaffinch, Caspian Gull, Fieldfare, Tree Sparrow, Red-backed Shrike.

    2025-07-31. Common Kingfisher, Red-backed Shrike, Citrine Wagtail.

    2025-07-24. Wood Sandpiper.

    2025-07-23. White-crowned Penduline Tit, Masked Wagtail, European Greenfinch, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Common Greenshank, Spotted Flycatcher.

    2025-07-15. Lesser Grey Shrike, Gadwall, Dalmatian Pelican.

    2025-07-14. European Bee-eater.

    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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    2026-01-18
    Common Kestrel
    (Ruslan Abutrapov)

    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
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    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

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

    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

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    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

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

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

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