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    total species: 284
    total photos: 2229
    total videos: 0
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    1. Grey Partridge (2025-01-01)
    2. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-11)
    3. Great Tit (2025-01-14)
    4. White Wagtail (2025-01-15)
    5. Caspian Gull (2025-01-19)
    6. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-23)
    7. European Robin (2025-01-23)
    8. Bluethroat (2025-01-28)
    9. Mallard (2025-01-30)
    10. Gadwall (2025-01-31)
    11. Common Coot (2025-02-06)
    12. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-02-07)
    13. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-02-18)
    14. Brown Dipper (2025-02-18)
    15. Azure Tit (2025-02-20)
    16. Red-fronted Serin (2025-02-20)
    17. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-02-20)
    18. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-02-20)
    19. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-20)
    20. Mistle Thrush (2025-02-20)
    21. Common Pheasant (2025-02-20)
    22. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-02-23)
    23. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-02-23)
    24. Common Treecreeper (2025-02-23)
    25. Coal Tit (2025-02-23)
    26. Wallcreeper (2025-02-23)
    27. Lammergeier (2025-02-23)
    28. Golden Eagle (2025-02-23)
    29. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2025-02-24)
    30. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-02-24)
    31. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-02-24)
    32. Red-billed Chough (2025-02-24)
    33. Carrion Crow (2025-02-24)
    34. Eurasian Dipper (2025-02-24)
    35. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-03-02)
    36. European Greenfinch (2025-03-07)
    37. Fieldfare (2025-03-07)
    38. Eurasian Magpie (2025-03-12)
    40. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-18)
    41. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-19)
    42. Little Crake (2025-03-25)
    43. European Stonechat (2025-03-25)
    44. Grey Heron (2025-03-25)
    45. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-25)
    46. Great White Egret (2025-03-25)
    47. Slender-billed Gull (2025-03-25)
    48. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-03-28)
    49. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-03-28)
    50. Chukar Partridge (2025-03-28)
    51. Common Tern (2025-03-30)
    52. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2025-03-31)
    53. Garganey (2025-04-01)
    54. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-02)
    55. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-02)
    56. Whinchat (2025-04-03)
    57. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-04-04)
    58. Water Pipit (2025-04-04)
    59. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-04)
    60. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-05)
    61. Little Egret (2025-04-07)
    62. Crested Lark (2025-04-07)
    63. Little Grebe (2025-04-09)
    64. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-04-09)
    65. Willow Warbler (2025-04-12)
    66. Kentish Plover (2025-04-13)
    67. Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-13)
    68. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-13)
    69. Caspian Tern (2025-04-13)
    70. Great Cormorant (2025-04-13)
    71. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-13)
    72. Common Shelduck (2025-04-13)
    73. Rock Sparrow (2025-04-13)
    74. Common Kestrel (2025-04-13)
    75. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-04-15)
    76. Spotted Crake (2025-04-16)
    77. Sand Martin (2025-04-17)
    78. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-17)
    79. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-17)
    80. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-18)
    81. Common Snipe (2025-04-18)
    82. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-18)
    83. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-04-22)
    84. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-22)
    85. Syke's Warbler (2025-04-23)
    86. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-23)
    87. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-25)
    88. Common Greenshank (2025-04-25)
    89. White-winged Tern (2025-04-25)
    90. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-04-25)
    91. House Sparrow (2025-04-25)
    92. Wood Warbler (2025-04-28)
    93. Shikra (2025-04-29)
    94. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-29)
    95. Western Capercaillie (2025-05-01)
    96. Willow Tit (2025-05-01)
    97. Pallid Harrier (2025-05-01)
    98. Pine Bunting (2025-05-01)
    99. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-05-01)
    100. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-03)
    101. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-05-03)
    102. Northern Black Grouse (2025-05-03)
    103. Demoiselle Crane (2025-05-03)
    104. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-03)
    105. Little Bustard (2025-05-04)
    106. Greylag Goose (2025-05-04)
    107. Mew Gull (2025-05-04)
    108. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-05-04)
    109. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-09)
    110. Greater Sand Plover (2025-05-09)
    111. Upcher's Warbler (2025-05-09)
    112. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-09)
    113. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-09)
    114. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-05-10)
    115. Little Owl (2025-05-10)
    116. Calandra Lark (2025-05-10)
    117. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-13)
    118. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-13)
    119. Collared Flycatcher (2025-05-16)
    120. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-16)
    121. Common Redshank (2025-05-17)
    122. Greater Flamingo (2025-05-17)
    123. Pied Avocet (2025-05-17)
    124. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-17)
    125. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-17)
    126. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-17)
    127. Ruff (2025-05-17)
    128. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-19)
    129. Common Moorhen (2025-05-19)
    130. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-19)
    131. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-19)
    132. Masked Shrike (2025-05-20)
    133. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-20)
    134. Red-crested Pochard (2025-05-20)
    135. Little Tern (2025-05-20)
    136. Hooded Crow (2025-05-21)
    137. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-05-23)
    138. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-24)
    139. Little Bittern (2025-05-25)
    140. Sedge Warbler (2025-05-25)
    141. Hoopoe (2025-05-28)
    142. Common Raven (2025-06-01)
    143. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-06-01)
    144. Little Gull (2025-06-01)
    145. Sandwich Tern (2025-06-01)
    146. Squacco Heron (2025-06-04)
    147. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-06-04)
    148. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-06-04)
    149. Wood Sandpiper (2025-06-04)
    150. Little Stint (2025-06-04)
    151. Common Oystercatcher (2025-06-12)
    152. Little Ringed Plover (2025-06-13)
    153. Barn Swallow (2025-06-13)
    154. Common Swift (2025-06-13)
    155. Corn Bunting (2025-06-17)
    156. Citrine Wagtail (2025-06-21)
    157. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-06-21)
    159. Pied Wheatear (2025-06-25)
    160. Red-headed Bunting (2025-07-01)
    161. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-07-03)
    162. Black-winged Stilt (2025-07-03)
    163. Glossy Ibis (2025-07-03)
    164. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-07-03)
    165. Temminck's Stint (2025-07-16)
    166. Rosy Starling (2025-07-20)
    167. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-07-20)
    168. Common Starling (2025-07-21)
    169. Common Kingfisher (2025-07-25)
    170. Black Tern (2025-07-28)
    171. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-08-01)
    172. Tree Pipit (2025-08-10)
    173. Barred Warbler (2025-08-11)
    174. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-08-13)
    175. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-08-15)
    176. Booted Warbler (2025-08-15)
    177. Garden Warbler (2025-08-17)
    178. Savi's Warbler (2025-08-19)
    179. Marsh Warbler (2025-08-19)
    180. Steppe Eagle (2025-08-28)
    181. Lesser Kestrel (2025-08-28)
    182. Black Kite (2025-08-28)
    183. Black Lark (2025-08-28)
    184. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-09-02)
    185. Great Bustard (2025-09-12)
    186. Baillon's Crake (2025-09-21)
    187. Water Rail (2025-09-21)
    188. Spotted Redshank (2025-09-21)
    189. Common Rosefinch (2025-09-21)
    190. Stock Pigeon (2025-09-22)
    191. Osprey (2025-09-22)
    192. European Nightjar (2025-09-23)
    193. Griffon Vulture (2025-09-23)
    194. Common Chiffchaff (2025-09-23)
    195. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-09-26)
    196. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-09-26)
    197. Northern Wheatear (2025-09-29)
    198. Slavonian Grebe (2025-09-29)
    199. Hume's Warbler (2025-09-30)
    200. Song Thrush (2025-09-30)
    201. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-09-30)
    202. Goldcrest (2025-10-01)
    203. Desert Wheatear (2025-10-01)
    204. Blue Tit (2025-10-01)
    205. Hen Harrier (2025-10-01)
    206. Montagu's Harrier (2025-10-01)
    207. Dunlin (2025-10-03)
    208. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-10-08)
    209. Common Chaffinch (2025-10-08)
    210. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-10-10)
    211. Pallas's Warbler (2025-10-11)
    212. Dusky Warbler (2025-10-13)
    213. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-10-16)
    214. Northern Pintail (2025-10-18)
    215. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-10-20)
    216. Black-headed Gull (2025-10-20)
    217. Laughing Dove (2025-10-21)
    218. Jack Snipe (2025-10-22)
    219. Moustached Warbler (2025-10-23)
    220. Cetti's Warbler (2025-10-24)
    221. Yellowhammer (2025-10-26)
    222. Black Redstart (2025-10-26)
    223. Bearded Tit (2025-11-01)
    224. Common Teal (2025-11-02)
    225. Redwing (2025-11-03)
    226. Tree Sparrow (2025-11-03)
    227. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-11-04)
    228. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-11-06)
    229. Brambling (2025-11-07)
    230. Smew (2025-11-09)
    231. Spanish Sparrow (2025-11-09)
    232. Solitary Snipe (2025-11-10)
    233. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-11-10)
    234. White-headed Duck (2025-11-10)
    235. Horned Lark (2025-11-11)
    236. Northern Wren (2025-11-13)
    237. Saker Falcon (2025-11-15)
    238. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-11-17)
    239. Eurasian Siskin (2025-11-17)
    240. Great Grey Shrike (2025-11-18)
    241. Rock Pigeon (2025-11-20)
    242. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-11-23)
    243. Ring-billed Gull (2025-11-23)
    244. Black Woodpecker (2025-11-25)
    245. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-11-25)
    246. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-11-25)
    247. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-11-25)
    248. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-11-25)
    249. Hawfinch (2025-11-26)
    250. Baikal Bullfinch (2025-12-02)
    251. Northern Bullfinch (2025-12-02)
    252. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-12-02)
    253. Great Rosefinch (2025-12-11)
    254. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-12-11)
    255. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-12-11)
    256. Brown Accentor (2025-12-11)
    257. Peregrine Falcon (2025-12-11)
    258. Eastern Buzzard (2025-12-12)
    259. Twite (2025-12-12)
    260. Eurasian Linnet (2025-12-12)
    261. Sky Lark (2025-12-12)
    262. Common Mynah (2025-12-12)
    263. Ibisbill (2025-12-14)
    264. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-12-14)
    265. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-12-14)
    266. Lapland Longspur (2025-12-19)
    267. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-12-19)
    268. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-12-23)
    269. Dunnock (2025-12-23)
    270. Tufted Duck (2025-12-24)
    271. Rook (2025-12-24)
    272. Common Pochard (2025-12-24)
    273. Common Goldeneye (2025-12-24)
    274. Northern Shoveler (2025-12-26)
    275. Bewick's Swan (2025-12-26)
    276. Whooper Swan (2025-12-26)
    277. White-winged Lark (2025-12-26)
    278. Great Black-backed Gull (2025-12-26)
    279. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-12-26)
    280. Mute Swan (2025-12-26)
    281. Greater Scaup (2025-12-27)
    282. Long-tailed Duck (2025-12-27)
    283. Eurasian Bittern (2025-12-30)
    284. Goosander (2025-12-30)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-31. Water Rail, European Black Redstart, Bohemian Waxwing, Fieldfare, Common Kestrel, Dunnock, European Black Redstart.

    2025-12-30. Eurasian Bittern, Goosander.

    2025-12-29. Greater Scaup.

    2025-12-28. Long-eared Owl, Saker Falcon, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Spanish Sparrow, White Wagtail, Common Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Northern Wren, Dunnock, Pygmy Cormorant, Tufted Duck, White Wagtail, Caspian Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, Rook, Great Grey Shrike, Western Marsh-Harrier, Tufted Duck, Common Pochard, Chukar Partridge, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Goldeneye, Common Pochard, Eurasian Wigeon, Little Egret, Dalmatian Pelican, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Northern Shoveler, Common Teal, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Great Cormorant, Pygmy Cormorant, Grey Heron, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Snipe, Bewick's Swan, Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Whooper Swan, Lesser Short-toed Lark, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Sky Lark, Sky Lark, White-winged Lark, White-winged Lark, Great Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Jackdaw, Rook, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Goldeneye, Mute Swan, Ruddy Shelduck, Horned Lark, Dunlin, Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Greater Scaup, Dunlin, Long-tailed Duck, Common Pochard, Greater Ringed Plover, Pied Avocet, Unkown Bird, Tufted Duck, Whooper Swan, Greater White-fronted Goose.

    2025-12-26. Goldcrest, Northern Bullfinch, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark.

    2025-12-22. Common Pheasant, Great Spotted Woodpecker, European Robin, Tree Sparrow, Lapland Longspur, Sky Lark, Rough-legged Buzzard, Black Lark, Horned Lark, Long-eared Owl, Long-eared Owl.

    2025-12-16. Eastern Buzzard, Great Tit, White-bellied Dipper, Green Sandpiper, Brown Dipper, Ibisbill, Carrion Crow, Eastern Buzzard, Eversmann's Redstart, White-Winged Woodpecker, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Solitary Snipe.

    2025-12-15. Great Rosefinch, Brandt's Rosefinch, White-winged Snowfinch, Brown Accentor, Common Kestrel, Red-billed Chough, Lammergeier, Peregrine Falcon, Green Sandpiper, Water Pipit, Eastern Buzzard, Eastern Buzzard, Red-fronted Serin, Common Snipe, Twite, Eurasian Linnet, Sky Lark, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Mynah, Goldcrest, Red-fronted Serin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Magpie, Eastern Buzzard.

    2025-12-07. Baikal Bullfinch, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2025-12-02. Grey Partridge, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Baikal Bullfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Bohemian Waxwing, Grey Partridge, Azure Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-11-30. Black Woodpecker, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Goldfinch, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Common Treecreeper, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Hawfinch, European Greenfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2025-11-23. Hooded Crow, Rock Pigeon, Tree Sparrow, Jack Snipe, Mallard, Red-breasted Merganser, Ring-billed Gull.

    2025-11-21. Common Chiffchaff, Common Chiffchaff.

    2025-11-18. Long-eared Owl, Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Woodcock.

    2025-11-17. Common Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Mistle Thrush, Eurasian Woodcock, Northern Reed Bunting, Hume's Warbler, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eurasian Siskin.

    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...

    recent video

    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
    (Irina Kuryanova)

    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

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

    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

    more video...

    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

    Андрей Коваленко: Вопрос - что он тут потерял в июне... Когда снимал, думал что снимаю курганника...
    2026-06-21

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

    Игорь Фефелов: Галка
    2026-06-18

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

    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна.
    more unidentified birds...