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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
  • Ardeidae
  • Threskiornithidae
  • Ciconiidae
    • Phoenicopteriformes
  • Phoenicopteridae
    • Anseriformes
  • Anatidae
    • Falconiformes
  • Pandionidae
  • Accipitridae
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    • Galliformes
  • Tetraonidae
  • Phasianidae
    • Gruiformes
  • Gruidae
  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
  • Scolopacidae
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    • Columbiformes
  • Columbidae
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  • Picidae
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  • Alaudidae
  • Motacillidae
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  • Corvidae
  • Bombycillidae
  • Cinclidae
  • Troglodytidae
  • Prunellidae
  • Sylviidae
  • Regulidae
  • Muscicapidae
  • Turdidae
  • Paradoxornithidae
  • Aegithalidae
  • Remizidae
  • Paridae
  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

    • Khalitov Ildar

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    total species: 248
    total photos: 1254
    total videos: 1
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Common Chaffinch (2023-02-18)
    2. Common Kestrel (2023-02-22)
    3. Great Tit (2023-02-24)
    4. Rook (2023-02-24)
    5. Rock Pigeon (2023-02-24)
    6. Brambling (2023-03-02)
    7. Eurasian Siskin (2023-03-02)
    8. Carrion Crow (2023-03-03)
    9. Common Pheasant (2023-03-03)
    10. Mallard (2023-03-03)
    11. Tree Sparrow (2023-03-08)
    12. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-03-08)
    13. Hooded Crow (2023-03-09)
    14. Common Mynah (2023-03-10)
    15. Mistle Thrush (2023-03-14)
    16. Eurasian Magpie (2023-03-14)
    17. Wood Pigeon (2023-03-21)
    18. Black-throated Thrush (2023-03-23)
    19. Masked Wagtail (2023-03-24)
    20. Grey Wagtail (2023-03-24)
    21. Black Kite (2023-03-24)
    22. Citrine Wagtail (2023-03-24)
    23. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2023-03-25)
    24. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-03-26)
    25. House Sparrow (2023-03-27)
    26. Hawfinch (2023-03-30)
    27. European Greenfinch (2023-03-31)
    28. Siberian Stonechat (2023-03-31)
    29. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-03-31)
    30. Corn Bunting (2023-03-31)
    31. Black-headed Gull (2023-03-31)
    32. Rock Bunting (2023-03-31)
    33. Great Crested Grebe (2023-04-01)
    34. Little Ringed Plover (2023-04-01)
    35. Common Chiffchaff (2023-04-01)
    36. Common Moorhen (2023-04-02)
    37. Azure Tit (2023-04-02)
    38. Eversmann's Redstart (2023-04-02)
    39. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-04-03)
    40. Eurasian Dipper (2023-04-05)
    41. Great Cormorant (2023-04-08)
    42. Eurasian Collared Dove (2023-04-10)
    43. Golden Eagle (2023-04-12)
    44. Common Buzzard (2023-04-14)
    45. Hume's Warbler (2023-04-14)
    46. Barn Swallow (2023-04-16)
    47. Brown Dipper (2023-04-20)
    48. Green Sandpiper (2023-04-21)
    49. Blue Whistling Thrush (2023-04-24)
    50. Common Coot (2023-04-29)
    51. Ferruginous Duck (2023-04-29)
    52. Pied Wheatear (2023-04-29)
    53. Common Starling (2023-04-29)
    54. Common Sandpiper (2023-04-29)
    55. Common Cuckoo (2023-04-30)
    56. Turkestan Shrike (2023-04-30)
    57. Crested Lark (2023-04-30)
    58. Northern House Martin (2023-04-30)
    59. Tree Pipit (2023-04-30)
    60. Isabelline Wheatear (2023-04-30)
    61. Hoopoe (2023-04-30)
    62. Syke's Warbler (2023-04-30)
    63. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2023-04-30)
    64. Black-headed Wagtail (2023-04-30)
    65. Common Greenshank (2023-04-30)
    66. Turkestan Tit (2023-04-30)
    67. Rosy Starling (2023-05-01)
    68. Bluethroat (2023-05-01)
    69. Common Kingfisher (2023-05-01)
    70. Cetti's Warbler (2023-05-01)
    71. Glossy Ibis (2023-05-06)
    72. Common Oystercatcher (2023-05-06)
    73. Black-crowned Night Heron (2023-05-06)
    74. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-05-06)
    75. White Stork (2023-05-06)
    76. Cinereous Vulture (2023-05-06)
    77. Common Rosefinch (2023-05-06)
    78. Eurasian Roller (2023-05-06)
    79. Spotted Flycatcher (2023-05-06)
    80. Eurasian Hobby (2023-05-06)
    81. Black Stork (2023-05-06)
    82. Little Bustard (2023-05-06)
    83. Great Bustard (2023-05-06)
    84. Caspian Gull (2023-05-06)
    85. Calandra Lark (2023-05-07)
    86. Red-backed Shrike (2023-05-07)
    87. European Bee-eater (2023-05-07)
    88. Black-winged Stilt (2023-05-07)
    89. Pied Bushchat (2023-05-07)
    90. Laughing Dove (2023-05-07)
    91. Red-headed Bunting (2023-05-07)
    92. Booted Eagle (2023-05-07)
    93. Menetries Warbler (2023-05-07)
    94. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-05-07)
    95. Long-legged Buzzard (2023-05-07)
    96. Common Swift (2023-05-07)
    97. Greenish Warbler (2023-05-07)
    98. Desert Finch (2023-05-07)
    99. Wood Sandpiper (2023-05-07)
    100. White Wagtail (2023-05-07)
    101. Paddyfield Warbler (2023-05-07)
    102. Spanish Sparrow (2023-05-07)
    103. Indian Sparrow (2023-05-07)
    104. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2023-05-07)
    105. Rufous Bush Robin (2023-05-07)
    106. Finsch's Wheatear (2023-05-07)
    107. Ortolan Bunting (2023-05-07)
    108. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2023-05-07)
    109. Little Owl (2023-05-07)
    110. Common Snipe (2023-05-07)
    111. Great White Egret (2023-05-08)
    112. White-tailed Lapwing (2023-05-08)
    113. Purple Heron (2023-05-08)
    114. Red-crested Pochard (2023-05-08)
    115. Black-tailed Godwit (2023-05-08)
    116. Spotted Redshank (2023-05-08)
    117. Northern Shoveler (2023-05-08)
    118. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2023-05-08)
    119. Grey Heron (2023-05-08)
    120. Garganey (2023-05-08)
    121. Western Marsh-Harrier (2023-05-08)
    122. Baillon's Crake (2023-05-08)
    123. Common Tern (2023-05-08)
    124. Steppe Eagle (2023-05-08)
    125. Variable Wheatear (2023-05-08)
    126. Grey-necked Bunting (2023-05-08)
    127. Yellow Wagtail (2023-05-08)
    128. Demoiselle Crane (2023-05-08)
    129. Gull-billed Tern (2023-05-08)
    130. Common Teal (2023-05-08)
    131. Black-breasted Tit (2023-05-09)
    132. Yellow-breasted Tit (2023-05-09)
    133. Yellow-billed Chough (2023-05-09)
    134. Lammergeier (2023-05-09)
    135. Himalayan Vulture (2023-05-09)
    136. Temminck's Stint (2023-05-13)
    137. Mute Swan (2023-05-13)
    138. Northern Lapwing (2023-05-13)
    139. Pied Avocet (2023-05-13)
    140. Common Shelduck (2023-05-13)
    141. Collared Pratincole (2023-05-13)
    142. Common Nightingale (2023-05-13)
    143. Black-Necked Grebe (2023-05-13)
    144. Common Redshank (2023-05-13)
    145. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-05-13)
    146. Dalmatian Pelican (2023-05-13)
    147. White-winged Tern (2023-05-13)
    148. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-05-13)
    149. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-05-13)
    150. Common Whitethroat (2023-05-24)
    151. Coal Tit (2023-05-26)
    152. Blue-capped Redstart (2023-05-26)
    153. Meadow Bunting (2023-05-30)
    154. Eurasian Linnet (2023-05-30)
    155. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2023-05-30)
    156. Long-tailed Tit (2023-06-07)
    157. White-winged Grosbeak (2023-06-09)
    158. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2023-06-09)
    159. Red-billed Chough (2023-06-09)
    160. Brown Accentor (2023-06-09)
    161. Water Pipit (2023-06-09)
    162. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2023-06-09)
    163. Plain Mountain Finch (2023-06-09)
    164. Northern Wren (2023-06-09)
    165. Black-throated Accentor (2023-06-09)
    166. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2023-06-09)
    167. Spotted Nutcracker (2023-06-09)
    168. Goldcrest (2023-06-12)
    169. Alpine Swift (2023-06-15)
    170. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2023-07-16)
    171. Little Bittern (2023-07-29)
    172. Gadwall (2023-07-30)
    173. Long-tailed Shrike (2023-07-31)
    174. Blue Rock Thrush (2023-08-07)
    175. Eurasian Crag Martin (2023-08-07)
    176. Tawny Pipit (2023-08-07)
    177. Desert Wheatear (2023-08-08)
    178. Chukar Partridge (2023-08-20)
    179. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2023-08-25)
    180. Red-rumped Swallow (2023-08-26)
    181. White-headed Duck (2023-08-30)
    182. Red-necked Phalarope (2023-08-30)
    183. Eurasian Curlew (2023-08-30)
    184. Northern Pintail (2023-08-30)
    185. Pacific Golden Plover (2023-08-30)
    186. Terek Sandpiper (2023-08-30)
    187. Little Stint (2023-08-30)
    188. Ruff (2023-08-30)
    189. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2023-08-30)
    190. Lesser Kestrel (2023-08-30)
    191. Marsh Sandpiper (2023-08-30)
    192. Sand Martin (2023-08-30)
    193. Pale Sand Martin (2023-08-30)
    194. Whooper Swan (2023-08-30)
    195. Common Raven (2023-09-07)
    196. Great White Pelican (2023-09-10)
    197. Tufted Duck (2023-09-10)
    198. Dunlin (2023-09-10)
    199. Kentish Plover (2023-09-10)
    200. Songar Tit (2023-09-11)
    201. Greater Ringed Plover (2023-09-23)
    202. Peregrine Falcon (2023-09-23)
    203. Isabelline Shrike (2023-09-23)
    204. Greater Spotted Eagle (2023-09-23)
    205. Grey Plover (2023-09-23)
    206. Common Quail (2023-09-24)
    207. Eastern Buzzard (2023-09-24)
    208. Eurasian Nuthatch (2023-10-02)
    209. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-10-02)
    210. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2023-10-03)
    211. Hen Harrier (2023-10-05)
    212. Baraba Steppe Gull (2023-10-05)
    213. Common Pochard (2023-10-06)
    214. Song Thrush (2023-10-07)
    215. Pine Bunting (2023-10-10)
    216. Eurasian Wigeon (2023-10-14)
    217. Grey Partridge (2023-10-14)
    218. Little Grebe (2023-10-14)
    219. Rustic Bunting (2023-10-24)
    220. Upland Buzzard (2023-11-01)
    221. Yellowhammer (2023-11-02)
    222. Red-fronted Serin (2023-11-11)
    223. Fieldfare (2023-11-12)
    224. European Robin (2023-11-12)
    225. Smew (2023-11-12)
    226. Common Goldeneye (2023-11-12)
    227. Bewick's Swan (2023-11-12)
    228. Goosander (2023-11-12)
    229. White-Winged Woodpecker (2023-11-12)
    230. Merlin (2023-11-26)
    231. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-11-26)
    232. Great Grey Shrike (2023-11-26)
    233. Little Gull (2023-11-26)
    234. Eurasian Goldfinch (2023-11-28)
    235. Meadow Pipit (2023-12-03)
    236. Bean Goose (2023-12-03)
    237. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-12-06)
    238. Greylag Goose (2023-12-06)
    239. Northern Bullfinch (2023-12-23)
    240. Common Redpoll (2023-12-23)
    241. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2023-12-24)
    242. Eurasian Jay (2023-12-24)
    243. Willow Tit (2023-12-24)
    244. Ural Owl (2023-12-24)
    245. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2023-12-27)
    246. Red Crossbill (2023-12-27)
    247. Baikal Bullfinch (2023-12-27)
    248. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2023-12-31)

    recent uploads

    2023-12-31. Eurasian Jay, Willow Tit, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Northern Bullfinch, Red Crossbill, Baikal Bullfinch, Ural Owl, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2023-12-28. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Hybrid Crow, Spotted Nutcracker.

    2023-12-23. Northern Bullfinch, Common Redpoll, Common Goldeneye, Smew.

    2023-12-21. Eversmann's Redstart, Yellow-billed Chough, Great White Egret, Eurasian Siskin, Brambling, Bohemian Waxwing, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2023-12-16. Common Pheasant, Eastern Buzzard, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling, Brambling.

    2023-12-07. Bohemian Waxwing, Greylag Goose.

    2023-12-06. Lesser Short-toed Lark.

    2023-12-05. Bean Goose.

    2023-12-04. Common Pheasant, Common Sparrowhawk, Azure Tit, Wood Pigeon, Mallard, Meadow Pipit.

    2023-11-29. Little Gull, Northern Wren, Eurasian Goldfinch, Eurasian Magpie.

    2023-11-27. Merlin, Northern Reed Bunting, Eurasian Linnet, Great Grey Shrike, Great Grey Shrike.

    2023-11-25. Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Tit.

    2023-11-23. Common Pheasant, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2023-11-19. White-browed Tit-Warbler, Eastern Buzzard, White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2023-11-17. Northern Wren, Northern Wren, Northern Wren, Red-mantled Rosefinch.

    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...