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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 172
    total photos: 1304
    total videos: 60
    total blogposts: 2

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    1. Tree Sparrow (2016-01-02)
    2. Fieldfare (2016-01-02)
    3. Brambling (2016-01-02)
    4. Mistle Thrush (2016-01-02)
    5. Great Tit (2016-01-04)
    6. Northern Bullfinch (2016-01-04)
    7. Eurasian Magpie (2016-01-04)
    8. Rock Pigeon (2016-01-04)
    9. House Sparrow (2016-01-04)
    10. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2016-01-04)
    11. Eurasian Siskin (2016-01-05)
    12. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2016-01-09)
    13. Eurasian Jackdaw (2016-01-09)
    14. Hooded Crow (2016-01-09)
    15. Grey Partridge (2016-01-13)
    16. Azure Tit (2016-01-28)
    17. Blue Tit (2016-01-28)
    18. Common Raven (2016-01-28)
    19. Horned Lark (2016-01-30)
    20. Snow Bunting (2016-01-30)
    21. Common Sparrowhawk (2016-02-06)
    22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2016-02-10)
    23. Yellowhammer (2016-02-10)
    24. Little Owl (2016-02-12)
    25. Lapland Longspur (2016-02-27)
    26. Eurasian Collared Dove (2016-03-14)
    27. Rook (2016-03-14)
    28. Common Starling (2016-04-01)
    29. Great Cormorant (2016-04-04)
    30. European Greenfinch (2016-04-06)
    31. Sky Lark (2016-04-08)
    32. White-Backed Woodpecker (2016-04-08)
    33. Baraba Steppe Gull (2016-04-08)
    34. Hen Harrier (2016-04-08)
    35. Black Kite (2016-04-09)
    36. White Wagtail (2016-04-15)
    37. Red-Necked Grebe (2016-04-16)
    38. Northern Lapwing (2016-04-16)
    39. Common Crane (2016-04-16)
    40. Northern Shoveler (2016-04-16)
    41. Common Teal (2016-04-16)
    42. Garganey (2016-04-16)
    43. Gadwall (2016-04-16)
    44. Common Pochard (2016-04-16)
    45. Tufted Duck (2016-04-16)
    46. Black-tailed Godwit (2016-04-16)
    47. Whooper Swan (2016-04-17)
    48. Mute Swan (2016-04-17)
    49. Common Coot (2016-04-17)
    50. Pied Avocet (2016-04-17)
    51. Eurasian Wigeon (2016-04-17)
    52. Common Sandpiper (2016-04-17)
    53. Black-headed Gull (2016-04-17)
    54. Little Ringed Plover (2016-04-17)
    55. Great Crested Grebe (2016-04-17)
    56. Red-crested Pochard (2016-04-17)
    57. Northern Wheatear (2016-04-17)
    58. Mallard (2016-04-20)
    59. Pied Flycatcher (2016-04-21)
    60. Black-Necked Grebe (2016-04-21)
    61. Common Chiffchaff (2016-04-23)
    62. Marsh Sandpiper (2016-04-24)
    63. Common Oystercatcher (2016-04-24)
    64. Western Marsh-Harrier (2016-04-24)
    65. Common Shelduck (2016-04-24)
    66. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2016-04-29)
    67. Hoopoe (2016-05-01)
    68. Bluethroat (2016-05-01)
    69. Great White Egret (2016-05-02)
    71. Greylag Goose (2016-05-02)
    72. Common Redshank (2016-05-02)
    73. Eurasian Whimbrel (2016-05-02)
    74. Citrine Wagtail (2016-05-02)
    75. Yellow Wagtail (2016-05-02)
    76. Green Sandpiper (2016-05-02)
    77. Siberian Stonechat (2016-05-02)
    78. Grey Heron (2016-05-02)
    79. Tree Pipit (2016-05-03)
    80. Eurasian Redstart (2016-05-05)
    81. Mew Gull (2016-05-06)
    82. Little Gull (2016-05-06)
    83. Barn Swallow (2016-05-06)
    84. Eurasian Goldfinch (2016-05-06)
    85. Spotted Redshank (2016-05-06)
    86. Ruff (2016-05-06)
    87. Slavonian Grebe (2016-05-06)
    88. Common Cuckoo (2016-05-08)
    89. Common Whitethroat (2016-05-11)
    90. Wood Sandpiper (2016-05-11)
    91. Lesser Whitethroat (2016-05-15)
    92. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2016-05-15)
    93. Paddyfield Warbler (2016-05-15)
    94. Booted Warbler (2016-05-16)
    95. Bar-tailed Godwit (2016-05-17)
    96. Sand Martin (2016-05-17)
    97. Common Tern (2016-05-17)
    98. White-winged Tern (2016-05-17)
    99. Black Tern (2016-05-17)
    100. Black-winged Pratincole (2016-05-17)
    101. Greater Scaup (2016-05-19)
    102. Northern Reed Bunting (2016-05-19)
    103. Black-winged Stilt (2016-05-20)
    104. Little Stint (2016-05-20)
    105. Temminck's Stint (2016-05-20)
    106. Curlew Sandpiper (2016-05-20)
    107. Greater Ringed Plover (2016-05-20)
    108. Terek Sandpiper (2016-05-20)
    109. Dunlin (2016-05-20)
    110. Little Bustard (2016-05-24)
    111. Eurasian Hobby (2016-05-24)
    112. European Golden Oriole (2016-05-24)
    113. Red-necked Phalarope (2016-05-26)
    114. Ruddy Turnstone (2016-05-26)
    115. Spotted Flycatcher (2016-05-26)
    116. Grey Plover (2016-05-28)
    117. Tawny Pipit (2016-05-30)
    118. Common Rosefinch (2016-05-30)
    119. Oriental Turtle Dove (2016-05-30)
    120. Great Reed Warbler (2016-05-31)
    121. Ortolan Bunting (2016-05-31)
    122. Whinchat (2016-05-31)
    123. Eurasian Linnet (2016-05-31)
    124. Common Buzzard (2016-06-03)
    125. Long-eared Owl (2016-06-07)
    126. Eurasian Golden Plover (2016-06-08)
    127. Thrush Nightingale (2016-06-15)
    128. Wood Pigeon (2016-06-21)
    129. Common Chaffinch (2016-06-21)
    130. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2016-06-22)
    131. Red-backed Shrike (2016-06-25)
    132. Common Swift (2016-06-29)
    133. Common Goldeneye (2016-06-29)
    134. Common Greenshank (2016-06-30)
    135. Montagu's Harrier (2016-07-02)
    136. Icterine Warbler (2016-07-02)
    137. Common Snipe (2016-07-11)
    138. European Robin (2016-07-11)
    139. Common Kestrel (2016-07-11)
    140. Eurasian Bittern (2016-07-15)
    141. Eurasian Curlew (2016-07-24)
    142. Little Bittern (2016-07-25)
    143. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2016-07-25)
    144. Dalmatian Pelican (2016-07-28)
    145. Pallas's Gull (2016-07-30)
    146. Sanderling (2016-07-30)
    147. Merlin (2016-07-30)
    148. Peregrine Falcon (2016-08-02)
    149. Stock Pigeon (2016-08-02)
    150. Sedge Warbler (2016-08-07)
    151. Black Redstart (2016-08-12)
    152. Eurasian Dotterel (2016-08-21)
    153. Northern Pintail (2016-09-03)
    154. Pallid Harrier (2016-09-10)
    155. Long-tailed Tit (2016-09-15)
    156. Red-throated Pipit (2016-09-18)
    157. Coal Tit (2016-09-24)
    158. Meadow Pipit (2016-09-27)
    159. Willow Tit (2016-09-27)
    160. Eurasian Nuthatch (2016-09-27)
    161. Goldcrest (2016-10-05)
    162. Goosander (2016-10-08)
    163. Northern Goshawk (2016-10-10)
    164. Smew (2016-10-16)
    165. Great Grey Shrike (2016-10-17)
    166. Baikal Bullfinch (2016-10-18)
    167. Common Treecreeper (2016-10-20)
    168. Bearded Tit (2016-10-21)
    169. Rough-legged Buzzard (2016-10-25)
    170. Bohemian Waxwing (2016-11-02)
    171. Redwing (2016-11-02)
    172. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2016-11-11)

    recent uploads

    2016-12-24. Common Chaffinch.

    2016-12-09. Rook.

    2016-12-06. Common Treecreeper.

    2016-11-26. Common Horned Lark.

    2016-11-23. Common Redshank.

    2016-11-18. Bohemian Waxwing, Fieldfare.

    2016-11-15. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2016-11-11. Brambling, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Rough-legged Buzzard, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Blue Tit, Common Treecreeper, White-Backed Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Common Chaffinch.

    2016-11-03. Willow Tit.

    2016-11-02. Bohemian Waxwing, Redwing, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2016-10-26. Northern Bullfinch, Brambling, Eurasian Goldfinch, Common Chaffinch, Willow Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2016-10-25. Rough-legged Buzzard.

    2016-10-22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2016-10-21. Coal Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Baikal Bullfinch, Great Tit, Common Chaffinch, Common Horned Lark, Bearded Tit, European Greenfinch, Blue Tit.

    2016-10-20. Common Treecreeper, Willow Tit.

    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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