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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 142
    total photos: 1744
    total videos: 16
    total blogposts: 3

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    1. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-01-01)
    2. Great Tit (2022-01-03)
    3. Brambling (2022-01-03)
    4. Goldcrest (2022-01-03)
    5. Common Chaffinch (2022-01-13)
    6. Eurasian Dipper (2022-01-14)
    7. Rook (2022-01-14)
    8. Carrion Crow (2022-01-14)
    9. Tree Sparrow (2022-01-14)
    10. Common Pheasant (2022-01-14)
    11. Mallard (2022-01-14)
    12. Eurasian Magpie (2022-01-21)
    13. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-01-30)
    14. Red-fronted Serin (2022-01-31)
    15. Mistle Thrush (2022-01-31)
    16. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-02-05)
    17. Pied Avocet (2022-02-05)
    18. Caspian Gull (2022-02-05)
    19. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-02-05)
    20. Great Grey Shrike (2022-02-05)
    21. Water Pipit (2022-02-05)
    22. Green Sandpiper (2022-02-05)
    23. Little Grebe (2022-02-05)
    24. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-02-05)
    25. Whooper Swan (2022-02-05)
    26. Mute Swan (2022-02-05)
    27. Brown Dipper (2022-02-12)
    28. Hooded Crow (2022-02-12)
    29. Common Mynah (2022-02-17)
    30. Rock Pigeon (2022-02-17)
    31. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2022-02-19)
    32. Great White Egret (2022-02-20)
    33. Northern Wren (2022-02-25)
    34. Common Raven (2022-02-27)
    35. Golden Eagle (2022-02-27)
    36. Common Kestrel (2022-02-27)
    37. Black-headed Gull (2022-03-05)
    38. Blue Whistling Thrush (2022-03-08)
    39. Masked Wagtail (2022-03-11)
    40. Azure Tit (2022-03-14)
    41. Eversmann's Redstart (2022-03-14)
    42. Rock Bunting (2022-03-22)
    43. Common Chiffchaff (2022-03-24)
    44. Grey Wagtail (2022-03-25)
    45. Hoopoe (2022-03-26)
    46. Isabelline Shrike (2022-03-27)
    47. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-03-29)
    48. Black-throated Accentor (2022-04-04)
    49. Siberian Stonechat (2022-04-06)
    50. Turkestan Shrike (2022-04-06)
    51. Laughing Dove (2022-04-07)
    52. House Sparrow (2022-04-09)
    53. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-10)
    54. Alpine Swift (2022-04-12)
    55. Hume's Warbler (2022-04-18)
    56. Pied Wheatear (2022-04-20)
    57. Tree Pipit (2022-04-20)
    58. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2022-04-20)
    59. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-04-20)
    60. Eurasian Crag Martin (2022-04-20)
    61. Egyptian Vulture (2022-04-20)
    62. Black Kite (2022-04-20)
    63. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-04-20)
    64. Hen Harrier (2022-04-20)
    65. Crested Lark (2022-04-20)
    66. Wood Pigeon (2022-04-23)
    67. Barn Swallow (2022-04-28)
    68. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2022-04-30)
    69. Common Kingfisher (2022-05-01)
    70. Steppe Eagle (2022-05-03)
    71. Common Tern (2022-05-03)
    72. Little Ringed Plover (2022-05-06)
    73. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-12)
    74. Common Nightingale (2022-05-16)
    75. Great Cormorant (2022-05-28)
    76. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-28)
    77. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-06-03)
    78. European Greenfinch (2022-06-03)
    79. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-06-22)
    80. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-06-29)
    81. Long-eared Owl (2022-07-03)
    82. Eurasian Roller (2022-07-10)
    83. Spanish Sparrow (2022-07-10)
    84. European Bee-eater (2022-07-10)
    85. Eurasian Hobby (2022-07-10)
    86. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-08-13)
    87. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-08-14)
    88. Greenish Warbler (2022-08-14)
    89. Garganey (2022-08-14)
    90. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-08-14)
    91. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-08-14)
    92. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-08-14)
    93. Common Teal (2022-08-14)
    94. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-08-14)
    95. Ferruginous Duck (2022-08-14)
    96. Common Coot (2022-08-14)
    97. Great Crested Grebe (2022-08-14)
    98. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-08-14)
    99. Black-winged Stilt (2022-08-14)
    100. Northern Lapwing (2022-08-14)
    101. Yellow Wagtail (2022-08-14)
    102. Grey Heron (2022-08-14)
    103. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-08-14)
    104. Citrine Wagtail (2022-08-14)
    105. Calandra Lark (2022-08-14)
    106. Common Pochard (2022-08-14)
    107. Ruff (2022-08-14)
    108. Wood Sandpiper (2022-08-14)
    109. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-08-14)
    110. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-08-29)
    111. Common Starling (2022-09-04)
    112. White-headed Duck (2022-09-04)
    113. Red-crested Pochard (2022-09-04)
    114. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-09-04)
    115. White Wagtail (2022-09-04)
    116. Montagu's Harrier (2022-09-04)
    117. Common Shelduck (2022-09-04)
    118. Common Greenshank (2022-09-04)
    119. Little Stint (2022-09-04)
    120. Kentish Plover (2022-09-04)
    121. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2022-09-04)
    122. Northern Pintail (2022-09-18)
    123. Gadwall (2022-09-18)
    124. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2022-09-18)
    125. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-09-18)
    126. Little Bustard (2022-09-18)
    127. Grey Partridge (2022-09-18)
    128. Pine Bunting (2022-10-15)
    129. Black-throated Thrush (2022-10-16)
    130. Yellowhammer (2022-10-23)
    131. Upland Buzzard (2022-10-24)
    132. Tufted Duck (2022-10-24)
    133. Eurasian Linnet (2022-10-24)
    134. Common Redshank (2022-10-24)
    135. Eastern Buzzard (2022-11-01)
    136. Peregrine Falcon (2022-11-26)
    137. Eurasian Siskin (2022-12-11)
    138. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-12-16)
    139. Long-tailed Tit (2022-12-21)
    140. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2022-12-21)
    141. Cinereous Vulture (2022-12-27)
    142. Coal Tit (2022-12-27)

    recent uploads

    2023-01-01. Cinereous Vulture, Coal Tit, Common Chaffinch, Yellowhammer, Hybrid Bunting, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2022-12-31. Long-eared Owl, Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, Common Mynah, White-bellied Dipper, Eversmann's Redstart, Great White Egret, Great Tit.

    2022-12-28. Eurasian Siskin, Red-fronted Serin, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2022-12-25. Eurasian Magpie.

    2022-12-22. Long-tailed Tit, Eversmann's Redstart, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Red-fronted Serin, Ring-necked Pheasant, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2022-12-21. Eurasian Magpie.

    2022-12-19. Eurasian Blackbird.

    2022-12-18. Black-throated Accentor, Rook, Grey-headed Goldfinch.

    2022-12-17. Eversmann's Redstart, Red-fronted Serin, Red-fronted Serin, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2022-12-16. Eurasian Blackbird, Common Chaffinch, Goldcrest, Goldcrest, Common Chaffinch, Red-fronted Serin, Rock Pigeon, Azure Tit.

    2022-12-15. Great Tit, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2022-12-14. Eurasian Blackbird, Rock Pigeon.

    2022-12-12. Eurasian Siskin, Common Chaffinch, Common Chaffinch, Red-fronted Serin.

    2022-12-11. Eurasian Blackbird, Mallard.

    2022-12-05. Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling.

    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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    Great Cormorant
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    2025-08-31
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    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-04-14
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    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
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    Common Kestrel
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    2025-03-23
    Common Sparrowhawk
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    Great Tit
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    2025-02-07
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    2025-02-06
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