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    total species: 208
    total photos: 868
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 1

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    1. Common Mynah (2014-01-10)
    2. Common Kingfisher (2014-01-10)
    3. Little Egret (2014-01-10)
    4. Mute Swan (2014-01-13)
    5. Black-headed Gull (2014-01-13)
    6. Caspian Gull (2014-01-13)
    7. Tufted Duck (2014-01-13)
    8. Mallard (2014-01-13)
    9. Dunlin (2014-01-13)
    10. Common Chaffinch (2014-01-13)
    11. Common Coot (2014-01-13)
    12. Northern Reed Bunting (2014-01-13)
    13. Whooper Swan (2014-01-13)
    14. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2014-01-13)
    15. Crested Lark (2014-01-13)
    16. Grey Heron (2014-01-13)
    17. Saker Falcon (2014-01-13)
    18. Eurasian Collared Dove (2014-01-13)
    19. European Robin (2014-01-13)
    20. Fieldfare (2014-01-13)
    21. Eurasian Blackbird (2014-01-13)
    22. Great Cormorant (2014-01-13)
    23. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2014-01-13)
    24. Goosander (2014-01-13)
    25. Great White Egret (2014-01-15)
    26. Gadwall (2014-02-10)
    27. Long-legged Buzzard (2014-02-12)
    28. Pygmy Cormorant (2014-02-12)
    29. House Sparrow (2014-02-12)
    30. Eurasian Jackdaw (2014-02-15)
    31. Common Goldeneye (2014-02-15)
    32. Brambling (2014-02-17)
    33. Wood Pigeon (2014-02-17)
    34. Common Pochard (2014-02-17)
    35. European Greenfinch (2014-02-17)
    36. Indian Sparrow (2014-03-03)
    37. Eurasian Magpie (2014-03-04)
    38. Great Tit (2014-03-04)
    39. Hooded Crow (2014-03-04)
    40. Black-throated Thrush (2014-03-10)
    41. Rock Pigeon (2014-03-10)
    42. Eurasian Siskin (2014-03-16)
    43. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2014-03-16)
    44. Rook (2014-03-16)
    45. Common Pheasant (2014-03-22)
    46. Masked Wagtail (2014-03-22)
    47. Eversmann's Redstart (2014-03-23)
    48. Rock Bunting (2014-03-30)
    49. Carrion Crow (2014-03-30)
    50. Pied Wheatear (2014-03-30)
    51. Common Buzzard (2014-03-30)
    52. Hoopoe (2014-04-02)
    53. Common Chiffchaff (2014-04-05)
    54. Common Sparrowhawk (2014-04-06)
    55. Demoiselle Crane (2014-04-09)
    56. Lesser Kestrel (2014-04-09)
    57. Isabelline Wheatear (2014-04-09)
    58. Bearded Tit (2014-04-09)
    59. Bluethroat (2014-04-09)
    60. White Wagtail (2014-04-09)
    61. Black Lark (2014-04-09)
    62. Steppe Eagle (2014-04-09)
    63. Turkestan Shrike (2014-04-09)
    64. Northern Wheatear (2014-04-09)
    65. Green Sandpiper (2014-04-18)
    66. Grey Wagtail (2014-04-18)
    67. Isabelline Shrike (2014-04-21)
    68. Tree Pipit (2014-04-21)
    69. Hume's Warbler (2014-04-21)
    70. Lesser Whitethroat (2014-04-24)
    71. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2014-04-24)
    72. Tree Sparrow (2014-04-24)
    73. Little Ringed Plover (2014-04-24)
    74. Black Redstart (2014-04-27)
    75. Himalayan Vulture (2014-04-27)
    76. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2014-05-02)
    77. Greenish Warbler (2014-05-05)
    78. Northern House Martin (2014-05-05)
    79. Black Kite (2014-05-05)
    81. Ortolan Bunting (2014-05-05)
    82. Brown Dipper (2014-05-07)
    83. Common Whitethroat (2014-05-07)
    84. Siberian Stonechat (2014-05-07)
    85. Eurasian Hobby (2014-05-09)
    86. Common Kestrel (2014-05-09)
    87. Barn Swallow (2014-05-14)
    88. Common Swift (2014-05-14)
    89. Willow Warbler (2014-05-16)
    90. Common Starling (2014-05-16)
    91. Calandra Lark (2014-05-16)
    92. Sky Lark (2014-05-16)
    93. Whinchat (2014-05-16)
    94. Caspian Plover (2014-05-16)
    95. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2014-05-17)
    96. Bimaculated Lark (2014-05-17)
    97. Horned Lark (2014-05-17)
    98. European Bee-eater (2014-05-17)
    99. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2014-05-17)
    100. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2014-05-17)
    101. Red-headed Bunting (2014-05-17)
    102. Spotted Flycatcher (2014-05-17)
    103. Eurasian Redstart (2014-05-17)
    104. Common Cuckoo (2014-05-19)
    105. Little Owl (2014-05-20)
    106. Steppe Grey Shrike (2014-05-20)
    107. Grey Partridge (2014-05-20)
    108. Greylag Goose (2014-05-20)
    109. Common Redshank (2014-05-20)
    110. Northern Lapwing (2014-05-20)
    111. Common Sandpiper (2014-05-20)
    112. White-tailed Lapwing (2014-05-20)
    113. Little Tern (2014-05-20)
    114. Red-necked Phalarope (2014-05-20)
    115. Black-winged Stilt (2014-05-20)
    116. Collared Pratincole (2014-05-20)
    117. Wood Sandpiper (2014-05-20)
    118. Little Stint (2014-05-20)
    119. Western Marsh-Harrier (2014-05-20)
    120. Whiskered Tern (2014-05-20)
    121. Yellow Wagtail (2014-05-20)
    122. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2014-05-23)
    123. Sand Martin (2014-05-23)
    124. Kentish Plover (2014-05-23)
    125. Eurasian Curlew (2014-05-23)
    126. Common Oystercatcher (2014-05-23)
    127. Red-crested Pochard (2014-05-25)
    128. Common Moorhen (2014-05-25)
    129. Slender-billed Gull (2014-05-25)
    130. Red-backed Shrike (2014-05-25)
    131. Paddyfield Warbler (2014-05-25)
    132. Black Tern (2014-05-25)
    133. Temminck's Stint (2014-05-25)
    134. Common Shelduck (2014-05-25)
    135. Glossy Ibis (2014-05-25)
    136. Gull-billed Tern (2014-05-25)
    137. Ruddy Turnstone (2014-05-25)
    138. White-headed Duck (2014-05-25)
    139. Ruff (2014-05-25)
    140. Cetti's Warbler (2014-05-31)
    141. Great Crested Grebe (2014-06-04)
    142. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2014-06-07)
    143. Pallas's Gull (2014-06-19)
    144. Black-crowned Night Heron (2014-06-20)
    145. Black-headed Wagtail (2014-06-21)
    146. Black-Necked Grebe (2014-06-21)
    147. Red-Necked Grebe (2014-06-21)
    148. Purple Heron (2014-06-21)
    149. Pied Avocet (2014-06-21)
    150. Northern Shoveler (2014-06-21)
    151. Eurasian Roller (2014-06-21)
    152. Common Tern (2014-06-22)
    153. Caspian Tern (2014-06-22)
    154. Pied Bushchat (2014-06-22)
    155. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2014-06-22)
    156. Dalmatian Pelican (2014-06-22)
    157. Black-tailed Godwit (2014-06-22)
    158. White-winged Tern (2014-06-23)
    159. Ruddy Shelduck (2014-06-23)
    160. Spotted Redshank (2014-06-23)
    161. Red-footed Falcon (2014-06-23)
    162. Red-fronted Serin (2014-07-05)
    163. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2014-07-05)
    164. Common Rosefinch (2014-07-05)
    165. Mistle Thrush (2014-07-05)
    166. Great White Pelican (2014-07-12)
    167. Rosy Starling (2014-07-12)
    168. Lesser Grey Shrike (2014-07-12)
    169. Common Greenshank (2014-07-12)
    170. Pallas's Sea-Eagle (2014-07-12)
    171. Blue Whistling Thrush (2014-08-03)
    172. Laughing Dove (2014-08-14)
    173. Long-tailed Shrike (2014-08-22)
    174. Common Snipe (2014-09-10)
    175. Northern Pintail (2014-09-11)
    176. Blue Tit (2014-09-18)
    177. Garden Warbler (2014-09-18)
    178. Pallid Harrier (2014-09-26)
    179. Little Bustard (2014-09-26)
    180. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2014-09-26)
    181. Great Grey Shrike (2014-10-04)
    182. Song Thrush (2014-10-04)
    183. Greater Spotted Eagle (2014-10-05)
    184. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2014-10-10)
    185. Hawfinch (2014-10-12)
    186. Stock Pigeon (2014-10-18)
    187. Redwing (2014-10-20)
    188. Rough-legged Buzzard (2014-10-22)
    189. Jack Snipe (2014-10-26)
    190. Hen Harrier (2014-10-27)
    191. Greater White-fronted Goose (2014-10-28)
    192. Pied Flycatcher (2014-11-02)
    193. Bohemian Waxwing (2014-12-04)
    194. White-winged Lark (2014-12-06)
    195. Spanish Sparrow (2014-12-08)
    196. Little Grebe (2014-12-09)
    197. Common Raven (2014-12-09)
    198. Herring Gull (2014-12-09)
    199. Red-breasted Merganser (2014-12-11)
    200. Bewick's Swan (2014-12-11)
    201. Common Teal (2014-12-11)
    202. Eurasian Wigeon (2014-12-11)
    203. Rock Sparrow (2014-12-12)
    204. Glaucous Gull (2014-12-12)
    205. Greater Scaup (2014-12-13)
    206. Northern Goshawk (2014-12-27)
    207. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2014-12-27)
    208. Azure Tit (2014-12-27)

    recent uploads

    2014-12-31. Greater Scaup, Mute Swan.

    2014-12-29. Greater Spotted Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2014-12-27. Red-fronted Serin, Northern Goshawk, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Azure Tit, Great White Pelican, Northern Reed Bunting, Great White Egret, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Hen Harrier.

    2014-12-20. Stock Pigeon.

    2014-12-16. Redwing, Caspian Gull, Northern Lapwing, Song Thrush, Little Grebe, Common Raven, Crested Lark, Herring Gull, Common Kestrel, Grey Heron, Little Grebe, Common Sandpiper, Hen Harrier, Northern Reed Bunting, Red-breasted Merganser, Great Cormorant, Bewick's Swan, Common Teal, Dunlin, Common Redshank, Eurasian Wigeon, Saker Falcon, Great Grey Shrike, Little Owl, Black-Necked Grebe, Rock Sparrow, Herring Gull, Glaucous Gull, Spanish Sparrow, White-winged Lark, Greater Scaup.

    2014-12-04. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2014-11-20. Grey Partridge, Black-headed Gull, Hooded Crow.

    2014-11-17. Steppe Horned Lark.

    2014-11-16. Eurasian Redstart, Black Redstart, Tree Sparrow, Common Chiffchaff.

    2014-11-12. Black-headed Gull, Sky Lark.

    2014-11-06. White Wagtail, Blue Tit, Eurasian Blackbird, Song Thrush.

    2014-11-02. Great Crested Grebe, Pied Flycatcher, Eurasian Redstart, Great Crested Grebe, Eurasian Jackdaw.

    2014-11-01. Eurasian Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great Crested Grebe, Pallas's Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Rock Pigeon, European Greenfinch, Pallas's Gull.

    2014-10-31. Greater White-fronted Goose, European Robin, European Black Redstart.

    2014-10-30. Sky Lark, Northern Lapwing, Whooper Swan, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Hen Harrier, Greater White-fronted Goose, Rook, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    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
    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
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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
    Arctic Loon
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    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
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    2025-01-07
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    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

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