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Gaviiformes
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 129
    total photos: 1331
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Song Thrush (2025-01-05)
    2. Redwing (2025-01-05)
    3. Fieldfare (2025-01-05)
    4. Brambling (2025-01-05)
    5. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-05)
    6. Goldcrest (2025-01-11)
    7. European Robin (2025-01-11)
    8. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-11)
    9. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-11)
    10. Common Treecreeper (2025-01-11)
    11. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-13)
    12. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-13)
    13. Eurasian Linnet (2025-01-17)
    14. Hawfinch (2025-01-17)
    15. European Greenfinch (2025-01-17)
    16. Blue Tit (2025-01-17)
    17. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-17)
    18. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-17)
    19. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-17)
    20. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-19)
    21. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-21)
    22. Black Woodpecker (2025-02-01)
    23. Yellowhammer (2025-02-01)
    24. Great Tit (2025-02-02)
    25. Hooded Crow (2025-02-02)
    26. Mistle Thrush (2025-02-06)
    27. Eurasian Siskin (2025-02-06)
    28. House Sparrow (2025-02-19)
    29. Tree Sparrow (2025-02-19)
    30. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-02-26)
    31. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-03-02)
    32. Pine Bunting (2025-03-14)
    33. Whooper Swan (2025-03-18)
    34. Hen Harrier (2025-03-18)
    35. Black Redstart (2025-03-24)
    36. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-03-24)
    37. Common Kestrel (2025-03-24)
    38. Rook (2025-03-28)
    39. Mallard (2025-03-28)
    40. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-28)
    41. Merlin (2025-03-30)
    42. White Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    43. Grey Heron (2025-03-30)
    44. Great Cormorant (2025-03-30)
    45. Common Starling (2025-04-01)
    46. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-02)
    47. Common Crane (2025-04-02)
    48. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-02)
    50. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-04)
    51. Greylag Goose (2025-04-04)
    52. Mute Swan (2025-04-04)
    53. Bewick's Swan (2025-04-04)
    54. Sky Lark (2025-04-04)
    55. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-05)
    56. Black Kite (2025-04-05)
    58. Common Shelduck (2025-04-08)
    59. Cetti's Warbler (2025-04-09)
    60. Caspian Tern (2025-04-09)
    61. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
    62. Tree Pipit (2025-04-13)
    63. Black-headed Gull (2025-04-13)
    64. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-15)
    65. Willow Warbler (2025-04-15)
    66. Common Raven (2025-04-16)
    67. Great White Egret (2025-04-19)
    68. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-19)
    69. Eurasian Hobby (2025-04-21)
    70. Gadwall (2025-04-25)
    71. Montagu's Harrier (2025-04-25)
    72. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-27)
    73. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-27)
    74. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-05-01)
    75. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    76. Tufted Duck (2025-05-01)
    77. Northern Shoveler (2025-05-01)
    78. Siberian Stonechat (2025-05-01)
    79. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-01)
    80. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-05-01)
    81. Little Bustard (2025-05-02)
    82. Ruff (2025-05-02)
    83. Little Gull (2025-05-02)
    84. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-02)
    85. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-05)
    86. Common Tern (2025-05-07)
    87. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-09)
    88. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-05-09)
    89. Booted Warbler (2025-05-09)
    90. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-10)
    91. White-winged Tern (2025-05-10)
    92. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-12)
    93. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-12)
    94. Whinchat (2025-05-12)
    95. Northern Lapwing (2025-05-15)
    96. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-19)
    97. Levant Sparrowhawk (2025-05-21)
    98. Grey Partridge (2025-05-21)
    99. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-22)
    100. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-22)
    101. Slavonian Grebe (2025-05-24)
    102. Caspian Gull (2025-05-24)
    103. Garganey (2025-05-24)
    104. Shikra (2025-05-25)
    105. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-26)
    106. Common Coot (2025-05-27)
    107. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-27)
    108. Sand Martin (2025-05-27)
    109. Common Moorhen (2025-05-28)
    110. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-30)
    111. Common Quail (2025-06-04)
    112. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-06-12)
    113. Common Pochard (2025-06-28)
    114. Mew Gull (2025-07-05)
    115. Barn Swallow (2025-07-05)
    116. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-07-06)
    117. Common Kingfisher (2025-07-21)
    118. Hoopoe (2025-07-28)
    119. Rock Pigeon (2025-07-28)
    120. Sedge Warbler (2025-08-03)
    121. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-08-31)
    122. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-09-12)
    123. Long-tailed Tit (2025-09-22)
    124. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-09-30)
    125. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-10-10)
    126. Willow Tit (2025-10-10)
    127. Azure Tit (2025-10-30)
    128. Coal Tit (2025-11-01)
    129. Common Redpoll (2025-12-01)

    recent uploads

    2026-01-10. Bohemian Waxwing, Eurasian Linnet, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Bohemian Waxwing, Azure Tit, Blue Tit, European Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-12-02. Northern Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Redpoll, Bohemian Waxwing, European Greenfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Rook, Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Willow Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-11-26. Eurasian Siskin, Blue Tit, Willow Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-11-23. Great Tit, Yellowhammer, Eurasian Magpie.

    2025-11-18. Eurasian Goldfinch, European Greenfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Azure Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Blue Tit.

    2025-11-15. Common Sparrowhawk, Azure Tit, Blue Tit, European Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Mew Gull.

    2025-11-10. Mallard, Fieldfare, European Greenfinch, Common Sparrowhawk, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Blue Tit, Azure Tit, European Greenfinch, Eurasian Jackdaw.

    2025-11-03. Coal Tit, Willow Tit, Yellowhammer, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2025-11-02. Eurasian Magpie.

    2025-10-31. Azure Tit, Common Chaffinch, Blue Tit, European Black Redstart, Fieldfare, Mew Gull, Northern Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Great Crested Grebe.

    2025-10-29. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Common Raven, Northern Bullfinch, Yellowhammer, Northern Bullfinch, European Greenfinch, Eurasian Magpie, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-23. Long-tailed Tit, Northern Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Blue Tit.

    2025-10-21. Tree Sparrow, Mallard, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-20. Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Song Thrush, Rough-legged Buzzard, Black-headed Gull, Long-tailed Tit, Mistle Thrush, Mew Gull, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-17. Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Mallard, European Black Redstart.

    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.
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    Great Tit
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    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
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    2025-02-06
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