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Gaviiformes
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  • Podicipedidae
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    total species: 152
    total photos: 562
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Redwing (2025-01-06)
    2. Fieldfare (2025-01-06)
    3. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-07)
    4. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-07)
    5. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-07)
    6. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-10)
    7. Hooded Crow (2025-01-10)
    8. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-10)
    9. House Sparrow (2025-01-10)
    10. Great Tit (2025-01-10)
    11. Common Teal (2025-01-13)
    12. Mallard (2025-01-13)
    13. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-13)
    14. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-14)
    15. Hawfinch (2025-01-14)
    16. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-14)
    17. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-17)
    18. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-27)
    19. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-02-11)
    20. European Robin (2025-02-22)
    21. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-09)
    22. Common Raven (2025-03-14)
    23. Azure Tit (2025-03-14)
    24. Wood Pigeon (2025-03-26)
    25. Whooper Swan (2025-03-26)
    26. Sky Lark (2025-03-26)
    27. Rook (2025-03-26)
    28. Common Shelduck (2025-04-01)
    29. White Wagtail (2025-04-01)
    30. Common Redshank (2025-04-06)
    31. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-06)
    32. Common Coot (2025-04-06)
    33. Northern Lapwing (2025-04-06)
    34. Common Goldeneye (2025-04-06)
    35. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-06)
    36. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-14)
    38. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-14)
    39. Black-headed Gull (2025-04-14)
    40. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-14)
    41. Mute Swan (2025-04-15)
    42. Garganey (2025-04-15)
    43. Grey Heron (2025-04-15)
    44. Smew (2025-04-15)
    45. Tufted Duck (2025-04-15)
    46. Common Pochard (2025-04-15)
    47. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-04-15)
    48. Common Greenshank (2025-04-18)
    49. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-04-19)
    50. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-19)
    51. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-19)
    52. Common Starling (2025-04-19)
    53. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-19)
    54. Long-tailed Tit (2025-04-19)
    55. Black Kite (2025-04-19)
    56. European Greenfinch (2025-04-19)
    57. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-22)
    58. Greylag Goose (2025-04-22)
    59. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-22)
    60. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-22)
    61. Bean Goose (2025-04-24)
    62. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-24)
    63. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-24)
    64. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-25)
    65. Common Crane (2025-04-30)
    66. Gadwall (2025-04-30)
    67. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-30)
    68. Slavonian Grebe (2025-04-30)
    69. Bluethroat (2025-05-02)
    70. Ruff (2025-05-02)
    71. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-02)
    72. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-05)
    73. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-11)
    74. Booted Warbler (2025-05-14)
    75. Eurasian Redstart (2025-05-14)
    76. Garden Warbler (2025-05-15)
    77. Willow Warbler (2025-05-15)
    78. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-15)
    79. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-15)
    80. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-05-16)
    81. Great Crested Grebe (2025-05-16)
    82. Siberian Stonechat (2025-05-16)
    83. White-winged Tern (2025-05-17)
    84. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-18)
    85. Kentish Plover (2025-05-19)
    86. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-05-19)
    87. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-05-19)
    88. Little Stint (2025-05-19)
    89. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-19)
    90. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-05-19)
    91. Grey Plover (2025-05-21)
    92. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-21)
    93. Dunlin (2025-05-21)
    94. Little Gull (2025-05-21)
    95. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-21)
    96. Common Oystercatcher (2025-05-21)
    97. Hoopoe (2025-05-22)
    98. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-23)
    99. Little Bustard (2025-05-27)
    100. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-27)
    101. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-27)
    102. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-05-27)
    103. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-27)
    104. Sand Martin (2025-05-27)
    105. European Bee-eater (2025-05-27)
    106. Short-eared Owl (2025-05-29)
    107. Eurasian Linnet (2025-05-31)
    108. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-05-31)
    109. Barn Swallow (2025-05-31)
    110. Great Reed Warbler (2025-05-31)
    111. Long-eared Owl (2025-05-31)
    112. Yellowhammer (2025-06-03)
    113. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-06-07)
    114. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-06-09)
    115. Pallid Harrier (2025-06-18)
    116. Tree Pipit (2025-06-21)
    117. Common Rosefinch (2025-06-21)
    118. Eurasian Hobby (2025-06-21)
    119. Common Tern (2025-06-24)
    120. Black Tern (2025-06-24)
    121. Pied Avocet (2025-06-27)
    122. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-07-06)
    123. European Golden Oriole (2025-07-10)
    124. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-07-10)
    125. Eurasian Curlew (2025-07-21)
    126. Sanderling (2025-07-21)
    127. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-07-22)
    128. Common Snipe (2025-07-26)
    129. White-headed Duck (2025-07-26)
    130. Common Kestrel (2025-07-26)
    131. Common Kingfisher (2025-07-29)
    132. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-07-30)
    133. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-07-30)
    134. Grey Wagtail (2025-08-03)
    135. Sedge Warbler (2025-08-04)
    136. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-12)
    137. Great Cormorant (2025-08-14)
    138. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-08-21)
    139. Willow Tit (2025-09-04)
    140. Bewick's Swan (2025-09-13)
    141. Merlin (2025-09-13)
    142. Grey Partridge (2025-09-13)
    143. Common Treecreeper (2025-09-17)
    144. Northern Black Grouse (2025-09-18)
    145. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-10-04)
    146. Meadow Pipit (2025-10-09)
    147. Great White Egret (2025-10-20)
    148. Northern Pintail (2025-10-20)
    149. Blue Tit (2025-10-20)
    150. Northern Bullfinch (2025-10-28)
    151. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-12-18)
    152. Mistle Thrush (2025-12-28)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-28. Mistle Thrush, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-12-18. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-12-08. Mute Swan.

    2025-11-05. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-11-04. Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2025-11-03. White-Backed Woodpecker, Smew, Mute Swan.

    2025-10-28. Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-20. Great White Egret, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Wigeon, Blue Tit.

    2025-10-16. Azure Tit, White-Backed Woodpecker, Dunlin.

    2025-10-13. White-Backed Woodpecker, Mallard, Merlin, Little Stint.

    2025-10-09. Meadow Pipit, Northern Wheatear.

    2025-10-04. Red-breasted Merganser.

    2025-10-03. Grey Plover, Ruff, Dunlin.

    2025-09-18. Northern Black Grouse.

    2025-09-17. Common Treecreeper.

    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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    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
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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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