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Gaviiformes
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  • Podicipedidae
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    total species: 154
    total photos: 560
    total videos: 0
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    1. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-02)
    2. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-02)
    3. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-02)
    4. Common Redpoll (2024-01-02)
    5. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
    6. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-03)
    7. Carrion Crow (2024-01-03)
    8. Hawfinch (2024-01-03)
    9. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-03)
    10. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-04)
    11. Fieldfare (2024-01-04)
    12. Pallas's Rosefinch (2024-01-04)
    13. Willow Tit (2024-01-04)
    14. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-04)
    15. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-04)
    16. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-05)
    17. European Greenfinch (2024-01-05)
    18. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-01-05)
    19. House Sparrow (2024-01-05)
    20. Yellowhammer (2024-01-05)
    21. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-05)
    22. Brambling (2024-01-07)
    23. Red Crossbill (2024-01-07)
    24. Great Tit (2024-01-07)
    25. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-08)
    26. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-11)
    27. Hooded Crow (2024-01-12)
    28. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-17)
    29. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-01-23)
    30. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-01-25)
    31. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-27)
    32. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-27)
    33. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-28)
    34. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-28)
    35. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-28)
    36. Mallard (2024-01-28)
    37. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-27)
    38. Wood Pigeon (2024-02-27)
    39. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-02-28)
    40. Asian Rosy-Finch (2024-03-03)
    41. Azure Tit (2024-03-21)
    42. Meadow Bunting (2024-03-24)
    43. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-24)
    44. Rook (2024-03-24)
    45. Black Kite (2024-03-24)
    46. Rock Bunting (2024-03-27)
    47. Great White Egret (2024-03-28)
    48. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-30)
    49. White Wagtail (2024-03-30)
    50. Sky Lark (2024-03-31)
    51. Common Kestrel (2024-03-31)
    52. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-31)
    53. Pine Bunting (2024-03-31)
    54. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-04-02)
    55. Goosander (2024-04-02)
    56. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-04-03)
    57. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-04-03)
    58. Caspian Gull (2024-04-03)
    59. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-04)
    60. Citrine Wagtail (2024-04-05)
    61. Northern Black Grouse (2024-04-07)
    62. Common Goldeneye (2024-04-07)
    63. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-07)
    64. Eurasian Linnet (2024-04-11)
    65. Black-headed Gull (2024-04-12)
    66. Common Starling (2024-04-15)
    67. Garganey (2024-04-15)
    68. Song Thrush (2024-04-16)
    69. Whooper Swan (2024-04-18)
    70. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-04-18)
    71. Bluethroat (2024-04-18)
    72. Pied Wheatear (2024-04-18)
    73. Common Buzzard (2024-04-18)
    74. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-18)
    75. Tufted Duck (2024-04-18)
    76. Barn Swallow (2024-04-21)
    77. Great Cormorant (2024-04-25)
    78. Siberian Stonechat (2024-05-01)
    79. Tree Pipit (2024-05-02)
    80. Yellow Wagtail (2024-05-04)
    81. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-05-04)
    82. Booted Eagle (2024-05-04)
    83. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-05-05)
    84. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-05)
    85. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-05)
    86. Gadwall (2024-05-06)
    87. Hoopoe (2024-05-06)
    88. Grey Wagtail (2024-05-06)
    89. European Bee-eater (2024-05-07)
    90. Bearded Tit (2024-05-07)
    91. Red-crested Pochard (2024-05-07)
    92. Grey Heron (2024-05-07)
    93. Great Crested Grebe (2024-05-07)
    94. Common Coot (2024-05-07)
    95. Green Sandpiper (2024-05-08)
    96. Common Pochard (2024-05-08)
    97. Caspian Tern (2024-05-08)
    98. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-05-08)
    99. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-08)
    100. Slavonian Grebe (2024-05-16)
    101. Booted Warbler (2024-05-16)
    102. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-17)
    103. Northern Shoveler (2024-05-17)
    104. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-17)
    105. Common Tern (2024-05-17)
    106. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-05-17)
    107. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-18)
    108. Tawny Pipit (2024-05-18)
    109. Mute Swan (2024-05-18)
    110. Common Redshank (2024-05-18)
    111. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-05-18)
    112. Northern Lapwing (2024-05-18)
    113. Greylag Goose (2024-05-20)
    114. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-20)
    115. Rosy Starling (2024-05-26)
    116. Sand Martin (2024-05-26)
    117. Black Lark (2024-05-26)
    118. Steppe Eagle (2024-05-26)
    119. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-27)
    120. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-30)
    121. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-30)
    122. Stock Pigeon (2024-06-07)
    123. Long-eared Owl (2024-06-16)
    124. Hen Harrier (2024-06-30)
    125. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-07-13)
    126. Red-backed Shrike (2024-07-13)
    127. Ortolan Bunting (2024-07-13)
    128. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2024-07-17)
    129. European Golden Oriole (2024-07-17)
    130. Pale Sand Martin (2024-07-25)
    131. Grey Partridge (2024-07-25)
    132. Great Reed Warbler (2024-08-07)
    133. Eurasian Hobby (2024-08-22)
    134. Richard's Pipit (2024-08-24)
    135. Common Sandpiper (2024-08-26)
    136. Dunlin (2024-08-31)
    137. Lesser Kestrel (2024-09-02)
    138. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-04)
    139. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-04)
    140. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2024-09-05)
    141. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-09-09)
    142. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-09-13)
    143. Golden Eagle (2024-09-13)
    144. Common Mynah (2024-09-15)
    145. Hume's Warbler (2024-09-18)
    146. Laughing Dove (2024-09-19)
    147. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-09-20)
    148. Mistle Thrush (2024-09-20)
    149. Chukar Partridge (2024-09-20)
    150. Eurasian Roller (2024-09-21)
    151. Northern Pintail (2024-09-30)
    152. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-10-01)
    153. Water Pipit (2024-10-09)
    154. Common Teal (2024-10-30)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-15. Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Hybrid (Black-throated x Red-throated) Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-11-28. Hawfinch.

    2024-11-27. Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2024-11-12. Hawfinch.

    2024-11-10. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2024-11-05. White-Backed Woodpecker.

    2024-11-04. Tree Sparrow, Willow Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Common Teal, Mallard.

    2024-11-02. Azure Tit.

    2024-10-30. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Bullfinch, Great White Egret.

    2024-10-28. European Greenfinch.

    2024-10-26. Great White Egret, Tufted Duck.

    2024-10-24. Northern Pintail, Tufted Duck.

    2024-10-21. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Tufted Duck.

    2024-10-20. Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-10-19. Great White Egret.

    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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