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    total species: 28
    total photos: 157
    total videos: 1
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2015-01-01)
    2. Tree Sparrow (2015-01-02)
    4. Long-tailed Tit (2015-01-04)
    5. Black Woodpecker (2015-01-04)
    6. Fieldfare (2015-01-04)
    7. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2015-01-04)
    8. White-Backed Woodpecker (2015-01-04)
    9. Azure Tit (2015-01-04)
    10. Common Treecreeper (2015-01-04)
    11. Eurasian Siskin (2015-01-11)
    12. Hooded Crow (2015-01-11)
    13. Great Tit (2015-01-11)
    14. Northern Bullfinch (2015-01-11)
    15. Common Redpoll (2015-01-11)
    16. Common Chaffinch (2015-01-11)
    17. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2015-01-11)
    18. Great Grey Shrike (2015-01-18)
    19. Bohemian Waxwing (2015-02-01)
    20. Eurasian Nuthatch (2015-02-02)
    21. Eurasian Magpie (2015-02-03)
    22. Common Sparrowhawk (2015-02-08)
    23. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2015-02-08)
    24. Hawfinch (2015-02-12)
    25. Baikal Bullfinch (2015-02-15)
    26. Willow Tit (2015-02-15)
    27. European Greenfinch (2015-02-22)
    28. Yellowhammer (2015-02-28)

    recent uploads

    2015-03-01. European Greenfinch.

    2015-02-28. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Yellowhammer, Azure Tit, Great Grey Shrike.

    2015-02-22. Northern Bullfinch, Hawfinch, European Greenfinch.

    2015-02-15. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Willow Tit, Baikal Bullfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Fieldfare, Long-tailed Rosefinch, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2015-02-12. Hawfinch.

    2015-02-08. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Sparrowhawk, Grey-Headed Woodpecker.

    2015-02-04. Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Magpie, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Bohemian Waxwing, White-Backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Fieldfare, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Common Redpoll, Great Grey Shrike.

    2015-01-13. Great Tit, Tree Sparrow.

    2015-01-11. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eurasian Siskin, Eurasian Siskin, Common Chaffinch, Common Redpoll, Northern Bullfinch, Great Tit, Hooded Crow.

    2015-01-04. Common Treecreeper, Azure Tit, White-Backed Woodpecker, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Fieldfare, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, Long-tailed Tit.

    2015-01-02. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Tree Sparrow.

    2015-01-01. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    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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    unidentified birds

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