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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
  • Ardeidae
  • Threskiornithidae
  • Ciconiidae
    • Phoenicopteriformes
  • Phoenicopteridae
    • Anseriformes
  • Anatidae
    • Falconiformes
  • Pandionidae
  • Accipitridae
  • Falconidae
    • Galliformes
  • Tetraonidae
  • Phasianidae
    • Gruiformes
  • Gruidae
  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
  • Scolopacidae
  • Glareolidae
  • Stercorariidae
  • Laridae
    • Pterocletiformes
  • Pteroclidae
    • Columbiformes
  • Columbidae
    • Cuculiformes
  • Cuculidae
    • Strigiformes
  • Strigidae
    • Caprimulgiformes
  • Caprimulgidae
    • Apodiformes
  • Apodidae
    • Coraciiformes
  • Coraciidae
  • Alcedinidae
  • Meropidae
    • Upupiformes
  • Upupidae
    • Piciformes
  • Picidae
    • Passeriformes
  • Hirundinidae
  • Alaudidae
  • Motacillidae
  • Laniidae
  • Oriolidae
  • Dicruridae
  • Sturnidae
  • Corvidae
  • Bombycillidae
  • Cinclidae
  • Troglodytidae
  • Prunellidae
  • Sylviidae
  • Regulidae
  • Muscicapidae
  • Turdidae
  • Paradoxornithidae
  • Aegithalidae
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  • Paridae
  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

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    members stats

    map of photoshootings

    total species: 132
    total photos: 274
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Common Goldeneye (2025-02-02)
    2. Tufted Duck (2025-02-02)
    3. Black-headed Gull (2025-02-02)
    4. Mew Gull (2025-02-02)
    5. Ring-billed Gull (2025-02-02)
    6. Gadwall (2025-02-02)
    7. Northern Pintail (2025-03-10)
    8. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-03-10)
    9. Grey Heron (2025-03-10)
    10. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-03-10)
    11. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-03-10)
    12. Eurasian Bittern (2025-03-10)
    13. Rook (2025-03-16)
    14. Common Kestrel (2025-03-16)
    15. Common Coot (2025-03-16)
    16. Great Cormorant (2025-03-29)
    17. Greater Flamingo (2025-03-29)
    18. Common Snipe (2025-03-29)
    19. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-03-29)
    20. Ruff (2025-03-29)
    21. Alpine Swift (2025-03-30)
    22. Lesser Kestrel (2025-03-30)
    23. Mallard (2025-04-06)
    24. Dunlin (2025-04-06)
    25. Mute Swan (2025-04-06)
    26. Great White Egret (2025-04-06)
    27. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-06)
    28. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-06)
    29. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-06)
    30. White-headed Duck (2025-04-12)
    31. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-12)
    32. Garganey (2025-04-12)
    33. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-04-12)
    34. Purple Heron (2025-04-12)
    35. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-12)
    36. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-12)
    37. Sand Martin (2025-04-12)
    38. Horned Lark (2025-04-12)
    39. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-12)
    40. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-13)
    41. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
    42. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-13)
    43. Crested Lark (2025-04-13)
    44. Hoopoe (2025-04-13)
    45. Willow Warbler (2025-04-16)
    46. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-16)
    47. White Wagtail (2025-04-16)
    48. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-16)
    49. Eurasian Hobby (2025-04-24)
    50. European Bee-eater (2025-04-29)
    51. Common Rosefinch (2025-04-29)
    52. Syke's Warbler (2025-04-29)
    53. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-29)
    54. Common Whitethroat (2025-04-29)
    55. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-04-29)
    56. Little Tern (2025-05-01)
    57. White-winged Tern (2025-05-01)
    58. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-05-01)
    59. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    60. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    61. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-01)
    62. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-05-01)
    63. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    64. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-01)
    65. Slender-billed Gull (2025-05-01)
    66. Squacco Heron (2025-05-07)
    67. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-05-07)
    68. Common Redshank (2025-05-07)
    69. Little Stint (2025-05-07)
    70. Common Shelduck (2025-05-10)
    71. Pied Avocet (2025-05-10)
    72. Kentish Plover (2025-05-10)
    73. Shikra (2025-05-10)
    74. Whiskered Tern (2025-05-10)
    75. Citrine Wagtail (2025-05-10)
    76. Grey Plover (2025-05-11)
    77. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-11)
    78. Little Egret (2025-05-31)
    79. Common Swift (2025-05-31)
    80. Common Tern (2025-05-31)
    81. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-06-08)
    82. European Golden Oriole (2025-06-08)
    83. Rosy Starling (2025-06-08)
    84. Common Mynah (2025-06-17)
    85. Carrion Crow (2025-06-17)
    86. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-06-17)
    87. Tree Sparrow (2025-06-19)
    88. Eurasian Magpie (2025-06-19)
    89. Black Kite (2025-06-19)
    90. Yellowhammer (2025-06-19)
    91. Ural Owl (2025-06-19)
    92. Grey Wagtail (2025-06-19)
    93. Masked Wagtail (2025-06-19)
    94. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-06-20)
    95. Common Chiffchaff (2025-06-20)
    96. Hume's Warbler (2025-06-20)
    97. Great Tit (2025-06-20)
    98. Barn Swallow (2025-06-21)
    99. Azure Tit (2025-06-21)
    100. Common Kingfisher (2025-06-21)
    101. Little Bittern (2025-06-21)
    102. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-08-12)
    103. Tree Pipit (2025-08-12)
    104. Sandwich Tern (2025-08-15)
    105. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-08-15)
    106. Red-backed Shrike (2025-08-19)
    107. Garden Warbler (2025-08-19)
    108. Ortolan Bunting (2025-08-19)
    109. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-20)
    110. Sanderling (2025-08-22)
    111. Little Gull (2025-08-22)
    112. Caspian Gull (2025-08-28)
    113. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-09-09)
    114. Northern Wheatear (2025-09-14)
    115. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-09-15)
    116. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-09-28)
    117. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-09-28)
    118. Common Starling (2025-09-28)
    119. Common Cuckoo (2025-09-28)
    120. Siberian Stonechat (2025-10-02)
    121. Eurasian Curlew (2025-10-02)
    122. Osprey (2025-10-05)
    123. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-10-06)
    124. Hooded Crow (2025-10-06)
    125. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-10-06)
    126. Peregrine Falcon (2025-10-07)
    127. Redwing (2025-11-13)
    128. Mistle Thrush (2025-11-13)
    129. Goldcrest (2025-11-25)
    130. Blue Tit (2025-12-05)
    131. Brambling (2025-12-05)
    132. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-12-07)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-08. Pygmy Cormorant, Grey Heron, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great White Egret.

    2025-12-05. Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Brambling.

    2025-10-09. Black Kite.

    2025-10-07. Eurasian Redstart, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Sparrowhawk, Wood Pigeon, Black-headed Gull, Hooded Crow, Rook, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Eurasian Redstart, Peregrine Falcon.

    2025-10-06. Western Marsh-Harrier, Great Cormorant, Mute Swan, Great White Egret, Common Snipe, Osprey.

    2025-10-03. Siberian Stonechat, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Wheatear, Dunlin, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank, Dunlin, Northern Shoveler, Common Shelduck, Slender-billed Gull.

    2025-10-01. Common Coot, Eurasian Bittern, Slender-billed Gull, Eurasian Spoonbill, Grey Heron, Greater Flamingo, Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Redshank, Common Starling, Greater Flamingo, Common Cuckoo, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Chiffchaff, Common Kestrel.

    2025-09-17. Great Cormorant, Greater Flamingo, Little Egret, Common Redshank, Western Marsh-Harrier, Glossy Ibis, Black-headed Gull, Dalmatian Pelican.

    2025-09-16. Northern Wheatear, Red-crested Pochard, Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Black Kite, Great Cormorant, Red-necked Phalarope.

    2025-09-09. Common Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Hobby.

    2025-08-29. Common Snipe, Caspian Gull, Grey Heron, Slender-billed Gull, Common Redshank.

    2025-08-25. Great Cormorant, Common Shelduck, Wood Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, Sanderling, Little Gull, Common Snipe, Black-headed Gull, Red-necked Phalarope.

    2025-08-21. Greater Ringed Plover, Red-crested Pochard, Common Snipe, Ruddy Turnstone, Black-headed Gull, Common Tern, Curlew Sandpiper, Glossy Ibis.

    2025-08-20. Common Snipe, Sandwich Tern, Sandwich Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, Slender-billed Gull, European Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Garden Warbler, Ortolan Bunting.

    2025-08-12. Shikra, Lesser Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Shikra, European Golden Oriole.

    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.
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    2025-08-31
    Spotted Flycatcher
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    2025-07-01
    Northern Hawk Owl
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    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
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    Common Kestrel
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    Common Sparrowhawk
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    Great Tit
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