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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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  • Burhinidae
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  • Recurvirostridae
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  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

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    total species: 254
    total photos: 1131
    total videos: 0
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    1. Upland Buzzard (2022-01-01)
    2. Black-throated Accentor (2022-01-01)
    3. Azure Tit (2022-01-01)
    4. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-01-01)
    5. Great White Egret (2022-01-01)
    6. Great Crested Grebe (2022-01-01)
    7. Eastern Buzzard (2022-01-01)
    8. Cetti's Warbler (2022-01-01)
    9. Citrine Wagtail (2022-01-01)
    10. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-01-02)
    11. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2022-01-02)
    12. Meadow Bunting (2022-01-02)
    13. Common Goldeneye (2022-01-04)
    14. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-01-04)
    15. European Robin (2022-01-13)
    16. Common Chiffchaff (2022-01-13)
    17. Whooper Swan (2022-01-13)
    18. Ibisbill (2022-01-13)
    19. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-01-16)
    20. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-01-16)
    21. Rough-legged Buzzard (2022-01-16)
    22. Hen Harrier (2022-01-16)
    23. Common Kestrel (2022-01-16)
    24. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-01-16)
    25. European Greenfinch (2022-01-29)
    26. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-01-29)
    27. Great Grey Shrike (2022-01-29)
    28. Mallard (2022-01-29)
    29. Bean Goose (2022-01-29)
    30. Hawfinch (2022-02-06)
    31. White-Winged Woodpecker (2022-02-06)
    32. Common Teal (2022-02-06)
    33. Eurasian Linnet (2022-02-06)
    34. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-02-13)
    35. Bearded Tit (2022-02-13)
    36. Common Chaffinch (2022-02-13)
    37. Goldcrest (2022-02-13)
    38. Long-tailed Tit (2022-02-13)
    39. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-02-13)
    40. Goosander (2022-02-19)
    41. Eversmann's Redstart (2022-02-26)
    42. Common Kingfisher (2022-02-26)
    43. Green Sandpiper (2022-02-27)
    44. Northern Lapwing (2022-02-27)
    45. Common Pochard (2022-03-08)
    46. Smew (2022-03-08)
    47. Caspian Gull (2022-03-08)
    48. Common Coot (2022-03-08)
    49. Eurasian Golden Plover (2022-03-08)
    50. Masked Wagtail (2022-03-08)
    51. Great Cormorant (2022-03-08)
    52. Common Pheasant (2022-03-11)
    53. Gadwall (2022-03-11)
    54. Ferruginous Duck (2022-03-11)
    55. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-11)
    56. Turkestan Tit (2022-03-11)
    57. Pine Bunting (2022-03-11)
    58. Yellowhammer (2022-03-11)
    59. Red-crested Pochard (2022-03-19)
    60. Tufted Duck (2022-03-19)
    61. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-03-19)
    62. Black-throated Thrush (2022-03-19)
    63. Isabelline Shrike (2022-03-19)
    64. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-03-19)
    65. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2022-03-19)
    66. Black Kite (2022-03-19)
    67. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-03-19)
    68. Northern Pintail (2022-03-19)
    69. Common Oystercatcher (2022-03-19)
    70. Common Starling (2022-03-19)
    71. Northern Goshawk (2022-03-20)
    72. Mute Swan (2022-03-20)
    73. Pied Wheatear (2022-03-20)
    74. Sky Lark (2022-03-20)
    75. Steppe Eagle (2022-03-20)
    76. Brambling (2022-03-25)
    77. Northern Wren (2022-03-25)
    78. Calandra Lark (2022-03-25)
    79. Common Snipe (2022-03-26)
    80. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-26)
    81. Chukar Partridge (2022-03-26)
    82. Crested Lark (2022-03-26)
    83. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-03-26)
    84. Rock Bunting (2022-03-26)
    85. Long-eared Owl (2022-03-26)
    86. Kentish Plover (2022-03-26)
    87. Water Pipit (2022-03-26)
    88. Eurasian Curlew (2022-03-26)
    89. White Wagtail (2022-03-26)
    90. Desert Wheatear (2022-03-26)
    91. Common Redshank (2022-03-26)
    92. Common Shelduck (2022-03-26)
    93. Garganey (2022-03-26)
    94. Mistle Thrush (2022-03-26)
    95. Grey Wagtail (2022-03-26)
    96. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-02)
    97. Bluethroat (2022-04-02)
    98. Common Moorhen (2022-04-02)
    99. Little Grebe (2022-04-02)
    100. Common Buzzard (2022-04-02)
    101. Wood Pigeon (2022-04-03)
    102. Black-headed Gull (2022-04-03)
    103. Black Redstart (2022-04-03)
    104. Siberian Stonechat (2022-04-03)
    105. Grey Heron (2022-04-03)
    106. Turkestan Shrike (2022-04-09)
    107. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-04-09)
    108. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-09)
    109. Tree Pipit (2022-04-10)
    110. Hume's Warbler (2022-04-10)
    111. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-04-10)
    112. Little Egret (2022-04-10)
    113. Booted Eagle (2022-04-10)
    114. Savi's Warbler (2022-04-15)
    115. Common Tern (2022-04-15)
    116. Demoiselle Crane (2022-04-15)
    117. Lesser Kestrel (2022-04-15)
    118. Blue Whistling Thrush (2022-04-16)
    119. Eurasian Dipper (2022-04-16)
    120. Common Treecreeper (2022-04-16)
    121. Songar Tit (2022-04-16)
    122. Northern Black Grouse (2022-04-16)
    123. Coal Tit (2022-04-16)
    124. Blue-capped Redstart (2022-04-16)
    125. Brown Dipper (2022-04-16)
    126. White-headed Duck (2022-04-17)
    127. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-04-17)
    128. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-04-17)
    129. Hoopoe (2022-04-17)
    130. Yellow Wagtail (2022-04-17)
    131. Meadow Pipit (2022-04-17)
    132. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-17)
    133. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-04-17)
    134. Pied Avocet (2022-04-17)
    135. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-17)
    136. Buff-bellied Pipit (2022-04-17)
    137. Red-throated Pipit (2022-04-17)
    138. Black-headed Wagtail (2022-04-17)
    139. Gull-billed Tern (2022-04-17)
    140. Great Reed Warbler (2022-04-23)
    141. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2022-04-23)
    142. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-04-23)
    143. Water Rail (2022-04-23)
    144. Barn Swallow (2022-04-30)
    145. Blue Rock Thrush (2022-04-30)
    146. Red-fronted Serin (2022-04-30)
    147. White-capped Bunting (2022-04-30)
    148. Eurasian Crag Martin (2022-04-30)
    149. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-04-30)
    150. Greater Sand Plover (2022-04-30)
    151. Himalayan Vulture (2022-04-30)
    152. Alpine Swift (2022-04-30)
    153. Common Swift (2022-04-30)
    154. Red-billed Chough (2022-04-30)
    155. Egyptian Vulture (2022-05-01)
    156. Golden Eagle (2022-05-01)
    157. Rock Sparrow (2022-05-01)
    158. Common Crane (2022-05-01)
    159. Cinereous Vulture (2022-05-01)
    160. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-05-01)
    161. Baraba Steppe Gull (2022-05-01)
    162. Pallas's Gull (2022-05-01)
    163. Syke's Warbler (2022-05-01)
    164. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-01)
    165. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2022-05-01)
    166. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2022-05-02)
    167. Tawny Pipit (2022-05-02)
    168. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-07)
    169. Wood Sandpiper (2022-05-07)
    170. Common Nightingale (2022-05-07)
    171. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-07)
    172. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-07)
    173. Corn Bunting (2022-05-07)
    174. Rosy Starling (2022-05-07)
    175. Ortolan Bunting (2022-05-08)
    176. Red-headed Bunting (2022-05-08)
    177. Eurasian Roller (2022-05-08)
    178. European Golden Oriole (2022-05-14)
    179. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2022-05-14)
    180. Shikra (2022-05-14)
    181. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-14)
    182. Little Bittern (2022-05-14)
    183. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2022-05-14)
    184. White-winged Tern (2022-05-15)
    185. Black Tern (2022-05-15)
    186. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-15)
    187. Rock Pigeon (2022-05-25)
    188. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-25)
    189. Eurasian Hobby (2022-05-25)
    190. Thrush Nightingale (2022-05-26)
    191. Eurasian Redstart (2022-05-26)
    192. Fieldfare (2022-05-27)
    193. Greylag Goose (2022-06-01)
    194. Montagu's Harrier (2022-06-01)
    195. Little Tern (2022-06-02)
    196. Temminck's Stint (2022-06-02)
    197. Pale Sand Martin (2022-06-03)
    198. Sand Martin (2022-06-03)
    199. Barred Warbler (2022-06-03)
    200. Black-winged Pratincole (2022-06-03)
    201. Great White Pelican (2022-06-03)
    202. European Bee-eater (2022-06-04)
    203. Booted Warbler (2022-06-04)
    204. Richard's Pipit (2022-06-04)
    205. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2022-06-04)
    206. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2022-06-04)
    207. Caspian Tern (2022-06-04)
    208. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2022-06-04)
    209. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-06-11)
    210. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-07-03)
    211. Northern House Martin (2022-07-10)
    212. House Sparrow (2022-07-14)
    213. Siberian Rubythroat (2022-07-15)
    214. Willow Tit (2022-07-16)
    215. Eurasian Nuthatch (2022-07-17)
    216. Great Tit (2022-07-18)
    217. Tree Sparrow (2022-07-18)
    218. White-Backed Woodpecker (2022-07-18)
    219. Oriental Cuckoo (2022-07-18)
    220. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2022-07-24)
    221. Song Thrush (2022-07-31)
    222. Eurasian Magpie (2022-08-01)
    223. Black Stork (2022-08-02)
    224. Red Crossbill (2022-08-03)
    225. Pacific Swift (2022-08-05)
    226. Greenish Warbler (2022-08-11)
    228. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-08-17)
    229. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2022-08-21)
    230. Ruff (2022-08-21)
    231. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-08-21)
    232. Barbary Falcon (2022-08-30)
    233. Laughing Dove (2022-09-03)
    234. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-09-04)
    235. Pacific Golden Plover (2022-09-04)
    236. Little Bustard (2022-09-04)
    237. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-09-04)
    238. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-09-04)
    239. Little Stint (2022-09-04)
    240. Common Greenshank (2022-09-04)
    241. Dunlin (2022-09-04)
    242. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-09-04)
    243. Slavonian Grebe (2022-09-10)
    244. Spotted Redshank (2022-09-18)
    245. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2022-09-18)
    246. Rustic Bunting (2022-10-16)
    247. Wallcreeper (2022-10-30)
    248. Short-eared Owl (2022-11-19)
    249. Eurasian Siskin (2022-12-03)
    250. White-winged Lark (2022-12-04)
    251. Horned Lark (2022-12-04)
    252. White-winged Grosbeak (2022-12-11)
    253. Merlin (2022-12-11)
    254. Twite (2022-12-16)

    recent uploads

    2022-12-19. White-winged Grosbeak, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Chukar Partridge, Chukar Partridge, Twite, European Robin, Eurasian Blackbird, White-winged Grosbeak, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Laughing Dove, Great White Egret, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Ibisbill, Ibisbill.

    2022-12-13. Black-throated Accentor, White-Winged Woodpecker, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eurasian Siskin, Mistle Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Linnet, Bearded Tit, Long-eared Owl, White-winged Lark, Horned Lark, Hen Harrier, Northern Reed Bunting, Eurasian Goldfinch, Meadow Bunting, Meadow Bunting, Red-fronted Serin, Red-fronted Serin, Eurasian Linnet, Meadow Bunting, Common Chaffinch, White-winged Grosbeak, White-winged Grosbeak, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Merlin, Water Rail, Common Chiffchaff, Northern Wren, Common Snipe.

    2022-12-12. Short-eared Owl, Bearded Tit.

    2022-11-15. Eversmann's Redstart, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Upland Buzzard, Upland Buzzard, Siberian Stonechat, Great Grey Shrike, Goldcrest, Goldcrest.

    2022-10-31. Hume's Warbler, Wallcreeper, Wallcreeper.

    2022-10-29. Black-throated Thrush, Common Starling, Steppe Eagle, Barbary Falcon.

    2022-10-26. Azure Tit, Bearded Tit, Eastern Buzzard, Common Buzzard, Hen Harrier, Steppe Eagle, Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Blackbird, Rustic Bunting, Northern Wren, Long-tailed Tit.

    2022-10-17. Pine Bunting, Yellowhammer, Hybrid Bunting, Meadow Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Water Pipit, Common Starling, Black Redstart, Eversmann's Redstart, Black-throated Thrush, Common Chiffchaff, Common Sparrowhawk, Steppe Eagle, Hen Harrier, Common Buzzard, Chukar Partridge.

    2022-09-26. Common Chiffchaff, Hume's Warbler, Azure Tit, Bluethroat, Northern Reed Bunting, Slavonian Grebe.

    2022-09-22. Pygmy Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Spotted Redshank, Steppe Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-winged Tern, Black Tern, White-winged Tern, Slavonian Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Eurasian Eagle-Owl.

    2022-09-20. Bluethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Kestrel, Ferruginous Duck, Common Pochard, Black Redstart, Oriental Turtle Dove, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Isabelline Shrike, Eurasian Hobby.

    2022-09-12. Little Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Western Marsh-Harrier.

    2022-09-07. Montagu's Harrier, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Pacific Golden Plover, Ruff, Little Bustard, Wood Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Little Stint, Black-Necked Grebe, White Wagtail, Common Greenshank, Montagu's Harrier, Eurasian Hobby, Dunlin, Pied Avocet, Little Stint, Little Stint, Kentish Plover, Dunlin, White Wagtail, Oriental Turtle Dove.

    2022-09-06. Laughing Dove, White-headed Duck, Northern Pintail, Great Crested Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Little Grebe, Gadwall.

    2022-09-05. Willow Tit, Unkown Bird, European Bee-eater, Great Reed Warbler, Little Grebe, Pied Wheatear, Great Reed Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Common Snipe, Wood Sandpiper, Red-rumped Swallow, Barbary Falcon, Wood Pigeon, Temminck's Stint.

    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...