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Gaviiformes
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 189
    total photos: 1117
    total videos: 65
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Northern Bullfinch (2017-01-26)
    2. Bohemian Waxwing (2017-02-07)
    3. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2017-02-07)
    4. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2017-02-12)
    5. Eurasian Goldfinch (2017-02-12)
    6. Common Raven (2017-02-13)
    7. Hooded Crow (2017-02-13)
    8. Eurasian Jackdaw (2017-02-13)
    9. Tree Sparrow (2017-02-15)
    10. Rock Pigeon (2017-02-18)
    11. Azure Tit (2017-02-18)
    12. Great Tit (2017-02-18)
    13. Fieldfare (2017-02-18)
    14. Baikal Bullfinch (2017-02-21)
    15. Common Redpoll (2017-03-01)
    16. Rook (2017-03-13)
    17. Northern Lapwing (2017-03-21)
    18. White-Backed Woodpecker (2017-03-28)
    19. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2017-03-28)
    20. Yellowhammer (2017-03-28)
    21. Eurasian Magpie (2017-03-28)
    22. Common Treecreeper (2017-04-04)
    23. Long-tailed Tit (2017-04-04)
    24. Goldcrest (2017-04-06)
    25. Common Sparrowhawk (2017-04-07)
    26. Common Chaffinch (2017-04-07)
    27. European Greenfinch (2017-04-07)
    28. European Robin (2017-04-08)
    29. Baraba Steppe Gull (2017-04-08)
    30. Common Redshank (2017-04-08)
    31. Green Sandpiper (2017-04-09)
    32. Western Marsh-Harrier (2017-04-09)
    33. White Wagtail (2017-04-09)
    34. Blue Tit (2017-04-10)
    35. Northern Reed Bunting (2017-04-10)
    36. Song Thrush (2017-04-11)
    37. Common Shelduck (2017-04-22)
    38. Common Kestrel (2017-04-22)
    39. Sky Lark (2017-04-22)
    40. Mistle Thrush (2017-04-22)
    41. Black-tailed Godwit (2017-04-25)
    42. Eurasian Wigeon (2017-04-25)
    43. Whooper Swan (2017-04-25)
    44. Smew (2017-04-25)
    45. Common Pochard (2017-04-25)
    46. Tufted Duck (2017-04-25)
    47. Black-headed Gull (2017-04-25)
    48. Gadwall (2017-04-25)
    49. Garganey (2017-04-25)
    50. Red-crested Pochard (2017-04-25)
    51. Mute Swan (2017-04-25)
    52. Common Coot (2017-04-25)
    53. Northern Shoveler (2017-04-25)
    54. Great Crested Grebe (2017-04-25)
    55. Red-Necked Grebe (2017-04-25)
    56. Common Starling (2017-04-25)
    57. Yellow Wagtail (2017-04-25)
    58. Little Ringed Plover (2017-04-25)
    59. Marsh Sandpiper (2017-04-25)
    60. Terek Sandpiper (2017-04-25)
    61. Mallard (2017-04-25)
    62. Northern Wheatear (2017-04-25)
    63. Bluethroat (2017-04-25)
    64. Grey Partridge (2017-04-25)
    65. Common Buzzard (2017-04-25)
    66. Common Sandpiper (2017-04-27)
    67. Greater Scaup (2017-04-27)
    68. Mew Gull (2017-04-27)
    69. Common Chiffchaff (2017-04-27)
    70. Willow Warbler (2017-04-27)
    71. Tree Pipit (2017-04-27)
    72. Citrine Wagtail (2017-04-27)
    73. Common Greenshank (2017-04-27)
    74. Ruff (2017-04-30)
    75. Common Crane (2017-04-30)
    76. Pied Flycatcher (2017-04-30)
    77. Common Oystercatcher (2017-05-02)
    78. Common Teal (2017-05-02)
    79. Demoiselle Crane (2017-05-02)
    80. Black-Necked Grebe (2017-05-02)
    81. Black-winged Stilt (2017-05-02)
    82. Eurasian Whimbrel (2017-05-02)
    83. Great Cormorant (2017-05-06)
    84. Wood Sandpiper (2017-05-06)
    85. Eurasian Linnet (2017-05-06)
    86. Siberian Stonechat (2017-05-06)
    87. Temminck's Stint (2017-05-08)
    88. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2017-05-11)
    89. Eurasian Redstart (2017-05-13)
    90. Common Cuckoo (2017-05-13)
    91. Lesser Whitethroat (2017-05-13)
    92. Greylag Goose (2017-05-13)
    93. Barn Swallow (2017-05-15)
    94. Common Tern (2017-05-15)
    95. Red-backed Shrike (2017-05-15)
    96. Oriental Turtle Dove (2017-05-15)
    97. Bar-tailed Godwit (2017-05-16)
    98. Tawny Pipit (2017-05-17)
    99. Greater Ringed Plover (2017-05-18)
    100. Common Rosefinch (2017-05-20)
    101. Eurasian Wryneck (2017-05-20)
    102. Common Whitethroat (2017-05-20)
    103. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2017-05-20)
    104. Booted Warbler (2017-05-20)
    105. Northern Pintail (2017-05-20)
    106. Dunlin (2017-05-20)
    107. Red-necked Phalarope (2017-05-20)
    108. Little Stint (2017-05-20)
    109. Ruddy Turnstone (2017-05-20)
    110. Stock Pigeon (2017-05-24)
    111. Pied Avocet (2017-05-27)
    112. Curlew Sandpiper (2017-05-27)
    113. Grey Plover (2017-05-27)
    114. Sand Martin (2017-05-27)
    115. Eurasian Collared Dove (2017-05-30)
    116. White-winged Tern (2017-05-30)
    117. Ortolan Bunting (2017-05-31)
    118. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2017-05-31)
    119. Cetti's Warbler (2017-05-31)
    120. Little Tern (2017-06-01)
    121. Wood Pigeon (2017-06-03)
    122. Willow Tit (2017-06-05)
    123. Slavonian Grebe (2017-06-05)
    124. Northern Black Grouse (2017-06-06)
    125. Montagu's Harrier (2017-06-06)
    126. Spotted Flycatcher (2017-06-06)
    127. Black Lark (2017-06-10)
    128. Pallid Harrier (2017-06-10)
    129. Merlin (2017-06-10)
    130. Hoopoe (2017-06-10)
    131. Red-footed Falcon (2017-06-10)
    132. Little Gull (2017-06-13)
    133. Black Tern (2017-06-13)
    134. Grey Heron (2017-06-13)
    135. Great White Egret (2017-06-13)
    136. Great Reed Warbler (2017-06-13)
    137. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2017-06-13)
    138. House Sparrow (2017-06-13)
    139. Thrush Nightingale (2017-06-14)
    140. Icterine Warbler (2017-06-16)
    141. Garden Warbler (2017-06-16)
    142. Whinchat (2017-06-16)
    143. Northern Goshawk (2017-06-16)
    144. Black Kite (2017-06-17)
    145. European Bee-eater (2017-06-22)
    146. Black-winged Pratincole (2017-06-24)
    147. Common Quail (2017-06-26)
    148. Eurasian Hobby (2017-06-26)
    149. European Golden Oriole (2017-06-30)
    150. Spotted Redshank (2017-07-02)
    151. Slender-billed Gull (2017-07-02)
    152. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2017-07-20)
    153. Sanderling (2017-07-22)
    154. Greater White-fronted Goose (2017-08-08)
    155. Peregrine Falcon (2017-08-13)
    156. Pallas's Gull (2017-08-13)
    157. Common Goldeneye (2017-08-21)
    158. Eurasian Curlew (2017-08-23)
    159. Common Snipe (2017-08-31)
    160. Water Rail (2017-09-02)
    161. Lesser Kestrel (2017-09-12)
    162. Sedge Warbler (2017-09-16)
    163. Paddyfield Warbler (2017-09-16)
    164. Hen Harrier (2017-09-16)
    165. Eurasian Golden Plover (2017-09-19)
    166. Red-throated Pipit (2017-09-21)
    167. Meadow Pipit (2017-09-21)
    168. Bewick's Swan (2017-09-29)
    169. Great Grey Shrike (2017-10-01)
    170. Brambling (2017-10-01)
    171. Rough-legged Buzzard (2017-10-04)
    172. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2017-10-05)
    173. Spotted Crake (2017-10-08)
    174. Red-breasted Goose (2017-10-08)
    175. Horned Lark (2017-10-08)
    176. Bearded Tit (2017-10-08)
    177. Bean Goose (2017-10-14)
    178. Red-breasted Merganser (2017-10-14)
    179. Eurasian Siskin (2017-10-16)
    180. Black-throated Thrush (2017-10-17)
    181. Redwing (2017-10-17)
    182. Hawfinch (2017-10-17)
    183. Goosander (2017-10-17)
    184. Short-eared Owl (2017-10-17)
    185. Eurasian Jay (2017-10-22)
    186. Eurasian Nuthatch (2017-10-30)
    187. Coal Tit (2017-10-31)
    188. Long-eared Owl (2017-12-03)
    189. Golden Eagle (2017-12-07)

    recent uploads

    2017-12-30. Common Horned Lark, Azure Tit.

    2017-12-21. Bohemian Waxwing, White-Backed Woodpecker, Common Redpoll, Common Horned Lark.

    2017-12-12. Northern Goshawk.

    2017-12-07. Black-throated Thrush, Golden Eagle.

    2017-12-04. Hen Harrier.

    2017-12-03. Bohemian Waxwing, Common Redpoll, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Jay, Long-eared Owl.

    2017-11-20. Redwing, Azure Tit, White-Backed Woodpecker, European Greenfinch, Eurasian Linnet, Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Goldfinch, Common Redpoll, Grey Partridge, Bohemian Waxwing, Greater White-fronted Goose.

    2017-11-17. Slavonian Grebe.

    2017-11-13. Peregrine Falcon.

    2017-11-12. Eurasian Jay.

    2017-11-07. Common Redpoll.

    2017-11-02. Common Redpoll, Slavonian Grebe.

    2017-11-01. Slavonian Grebe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2017-10-31. Short-eared Owl, Grey Plover, Ruff, Merlin, Black-headed Gull, Smew, Dunlin, Dunlin, Coal Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch.

    2017-10-30. Eurasian Nuthatch, Gadwall.

    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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