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    total species: 213
    total photos: 1809
    total videos: 0
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    1. Ring-billed Gull (2024-01-01)
    3. Caspian Gull (2024-01-02)
    4. Great White Egret (2024-01-02)
    6. Great White Pelican (2024-01-02)
    7. Little Egret (2024-01-02)
    8. Grey Heron (2024-01-05)
    9. Great Cormorant (2024-01-05)
    10. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-05)
    11. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-05)
    12. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-05)
    13. Whooper Swan (2024-01-05)
    14. Bewick's Swan (2024-01-05)
    15. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-05)
    16. Hen Harrier (2024-01-05)
    17. Dunnock (2024-01-07)
    18. Pallid Harrier (2024-01-11)
    19. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-14)
    20. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-01-14)
    21. Common Starling (2024-01-14)
    22. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-01-18)
    23. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-20)
    24. Griffon Vulture (2024-01-20)
    25. Mew Gull (2024-01-23)
    26. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-01-23)
    27. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-24)
    28. Horned Lark (2024-01-24)
    29. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-30)
    30. Great Grey Shrike (2024-02-01)
    31. Common Chiffchaff (2024-02-01)
    32. Brambling (2024-02-01)
    33. European Robin (2024-02-02)
    34. Northern Wren (2024-02-05)
    35. Black Kite (2024-02-11)
    36. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-02-11)
    37. Golden Eagle (2024-02-11)
    38. Blue Tit (2024-02-13)
    39. Glaucous Gull (2024-02-14)
    40. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-02-14)
    41. Hooded Crow (2024-02-19)
    42. Little Owl (2024-03-01)
    43. Common Goldeneye (2024-03-07)
    44. Fieldfare (2024-03-07)
    45. Steppe Eagle (2024-03-12)
    46. Common Raven (2024-03-12)
    47. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-03-14)
    48. Slender-billed Gull (2024-03-17)
    49. Jack Snipe (2024-03-26)
    50. Garganey (2024-03-26)
    51. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-26)
    52. Siberian Stonechat (2024-03-27)
    53. Grey Wagtail (2024-03-28)
    54. Hume's Warbler (2024-03-28)
    55. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-03-28)
    56. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-29)
    57. Hoopoe (2024-03-29)
    58. Tree Pipit (2024-03-30)
    59. Stock Pigeon (2024-03-30)
    60. Redwing (2024-03-30)
    61. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-04-05)
    62. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-04-07)
    63. Common Tern (2024-04-08)
    64. Caspian Tern (2024-04-08)
    65. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-08)
    66. Black-legged Kittiwake (2024-04-09)
    67. Pallas's Gull (2024-04-10)
    68. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-04-13)
    69. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-04-13)
    70. Little Stint (2024-04-13)
    71. Caspian Plover (2024-04-13)
    72. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-04-13)
    73. Common Kestrel (2024-04-14)
    74. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-04-15)
    75. Bimaculated Lark (2024-04-16)
    76. Calandra Lark (2024-04-16)
    77. White Wagtail (2024-04-16)
    78. Pied Wheatear (2024-04-16)
    79. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-16)
    80. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-17)
    81. Greater Sand Plover (2024-04-17)
    82. Desert Finch (2024-04-19)
    83. Crested Lark (2024-04-19)
    84. Syke's Warbler (2024-04-21)
    85. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-04-24)
    86. Little Tern (2024-04-24)
    87. Whiskered Tern (2024-04-24)
    88. White-winged Tern (2024-04-24)
    89. Sanderling (2024-04-24)
    90. Dunlin (2024-04-24)
    91. Great Tit (2024-04-27)
    92. Common Mynah (2024-04-27)
    93. Mistle Thrush (2024-04-29)
    94. Coal Tit (2024-04-29)
    95. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-04-29)
    96. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-04-29)
    97. Shikra (2024-05-04)
    98. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-04)
    99. Willow Warbler (2024-05-04)
    100. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-08)
    101. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-08)
    102. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-05-08)
    103. Rosy Starling (2024-05-08)
    104. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-08)
    105. European Bee-eater (2024-05-09)
    106. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-09)
    107. Ortolan Bunting (2024-05-09)
    108. Whinchat (2024-05-09)
    109. Squacco Heron (2024-05-09)
    110. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-09)
    111. Purple Heron (2024-05-11)
    112. Mallard (2024-05-13)
    113. Northern House Martin (2024-05-13)
    114. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    115. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    116. Kentish Plover (2024-05-13)
    117. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-13)
    118. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-05-13)
    119. Common Redshank (2024-05-13)
    120. Common Greenshank (2024-05-13)
    121. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    122. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-14)
    123. Cattle Egret (2024-05-15)
    124. Common Moorhen (2024-05-16)
    125. Wood Warbler (2024-05-18)
    126. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-18)
    127. Garden Warbler (2024-05-18)
    128. Little Bittern (2024-05-18)
    129. European Golden Oriole (2024-05-18)
    130. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-19)
    131. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-19)
    132. Greater Flamingo (2024-05-20)
    133. Pied Avocet (2024-05-21)
    134. Levant Sparrowhawk (2024-05-25)
    135. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-26)
    136. European Nightjar (2024-05-27)
    137. Rock Sparrow (2024-05-27)
    138. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-27)
    139. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-05-27)
    140. Gull-billed Tern (2024-05-27)
    141. Common Shelduck (2024-05-27)
    142. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-27)
    143. Tufted Duck (2024-05-27)
    144. Great Crested Grebe (2024-05-28)
    145. Corn Bunting (2024-05-29)
    146. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-05-29)
    147. Egyptian Vulture (2024-05-29)
    148. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-05-29)
    149. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-29)
    150. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-29)
    151. Tawny Pipit (2024-05-29)
    153. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-06-01)
    154. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2024-06-02)
    155. Wood Pigeon (2024-06-02)
    156. Spotted Redshank (2024-06-04)
    157. Eurasian Magpie (2024-06-10)
    158. Eurasian Linnet (2024-06-11)
    159. Mute Swan (2024-06-13)
    160. Northern Lapwing (2024-07-10)
    161. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-07-12)
    162. Red-footed Falcon (2024-08-02)
    163. White-winged Lark (2024-08-02)
    164. Little Gull (2024-08-03)
    165. Black Tern (2024-08-03)
    166. Temminck's Stint (2024-08-11)
    167. Barn Swallow (2024-08-12)
    168. Thrush Nightingale (2024-08-13)
    169. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-08-19)
    170. Sandwich Tern (2024-08-20)
    171. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-08-25)
    172. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2024-08-27)
    173. Spotted Crake (2024-08-27)
    174. Bluethroat (2024-08-27)
    175. Citrine Wagtail (2024-08-28)
    176. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-08-29)
    177. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-09-01)
    178. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-09-01)
    179. Ibisbill (2024-09-02)
    180. Isabelline Shrike (2024-09-03)
    181. Ferruginous Duck (2024-09-03)
    182. Rook (2024-09-08)
    183. Azure Tit (2024-09-15)
    184. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-21)
    185. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-22)
    186. Sedge Warbler (2024-09-23)
    187. Great Reed Warbler (2024-09-23)
    188. Osprey (2024-09-24)
    189. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-09-28)
    190. Chukar Partridge (2024-09-30)
    191. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-10-01)
    192. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-10-04)
    193. Song Thrush (2024-10-05)
    194. Black-throated Thrush (2024-10-08)
    195. Laughing Dove (2024-10-10)
    196. Pied Bushchat (2024-10-10)
    197. Blackcap (2024-10-12)
    198. Common Buzzard (2024-10-13)
    199. Water Rail (2024-10-13)
    200. Merlin (2024-10-14)
    201. White-headed Duck (2024-10-24)
    202. Slavonian Grebe (2024-10-29)
    203. Little Crake (2024-10-30)
    204. Bearded Tit (2024-10-31)
    205. Goldcrest (2024-11-01)
    206. European Stonechat (2024-11-01)
    207. Herring Gull (2024-11-03)
    208. Little Grebe (2024-11-09)
    209. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-11-09)
    210. Solitary Snipe (2024-11-16)
    211. Common Kingfisher (2024-11-26)
    212. Common Snipe (2024-12-10)
    213. Arctic Loon (2024-12-16)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-18. Arctic Loon, Caspian Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Arctic Loon.

    2024-12-17. Long-eared Owl, Northern Wren, Great Crested Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Whooper Swan.

    2024-12-11. Greater Flamingo, Common Kingfisher, Common Snipe, Common Kingfisher, Common Snipe, Dunlin, Greater Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greater Ringed Plover.

    2024-12-08. Great White Egret.

    2024-12-07. Hooded Crow, Caspian Gull, Caspian Gull.

    2024-12-06. Great Crested Grebe, Hooded Crow, Common Kestrel.

    2024-12-03. Caspian Gull, Water Rail, Black-Necked Grebe.

    2024-11-26. Ring-billed Gull, Common Kingfisher, Pygmy Cormorant, Great White Egret, Great Cormorant, Great White Egret.

    2024-11-18. Eurasian Woodcock, Bluethroat, Solitary Snipe, Little Crake.

    2024-11-11. Little Crake, Unkown Bird, Pied Avocet, Little Grebe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Slender-billed Gull, Great Crested Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Pallas's Gull, Mew Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull.

    2024-11-05. Eurasian Reed Warbler, Goldcrest, European Stonechat, European Stonechat.

    2024-11-03. Herring Gull.

    2024-11-01. Unkown Bird.

    2024-10-31. Little Crake, Bearded Tit, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2024-10-30. Great White Egret, Great Crested Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Unkown Bird, Mew Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Song Thrush.

    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
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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
    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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    Андрей Коваленко: По фото вряд ли, но в это время там только луговые...
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    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна.
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