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Gaviiformes
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    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
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  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    total species: 136
    total photos: 244
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Golden Eagle (2025-01-09)
    2. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-10)
    3. Common Mynah (2025-01-11)
    4. Mute Swan (2025-01-13)
    5. European Greenfinch (2025-01-13)
    6. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-13)
    7. Wallcreeper (2025-01-15)
    8. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-15)
    9. Great Tit (2025-01-19)
    10. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-20)
    11. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-01-22)
    12. Common Kestrel (2025-01-29)
    13. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-30)
    14. Smew (2025-02-01)
    15. Common Goldeneye (2025-02-01)
    16. Steppe Eagle (2025-02-06)
    17. Turkestan Tit (2025-02-13)
    18. Rock Pigeon (2025-02-13)
    19. Black-throated Thrush (2025-02-13)
    20. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-02-20)
    21. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-02-22)
    22. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-02-23)
    23. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-02-25)
    24. Little Owl (2025-02-26)
    25. Hooded Crow (2025-02-26)
    26. Eurasian Magpie (2025-02-26)
    27. Rook (2025-02-27)
    28. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-05)
    29. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-03-08)
    30. Hoopoe (2025-03-10)
    31. Crested Lark (2025-03-12)
    32. Greylag Goose (2025-03-13)
    33. Great Cormorant (2025-03-14)
    34. White Wagtail (2025-03-14)
    35. Tufted Duck (2025-03-14)
    36. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-03-14)
    37. Great White Egret (2025-03-14)
    38. Mallard (2025-03-16)
    39. Pallas's Gull (2025-03-16)
    40. Common Teal (2025-03-16)
    41. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-16)
    42. Grey Heron (2025-03-16)
    43. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-03-16)
    44. Pied Wheatear (2025-03-16)
    45. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-03-16)
    46. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-16)
    47. Hen Harrier (2025-03-17)
    48. Common Starling (2025-03-18)
    49. Northern Wheatear (2025-03-18)
    50. House Sparrow (2025-03-18)
    51. Kentish Plover (2025-03-19)
    52. Common Redshank (2025-03-19)
    53. Common Snipe (2025-03-19)
    54. Spanish Sparrow (2025-03-19)
    55. Little Bustard (2025-03-19)
    56. Calandra Lark (2025-03-19)
    57. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-03-19)
    58. Common Crane (2025-03-19)
    59. Macqueen's Bustard (2025-03-19)
    60. Turkestan Shrike (2025-03-19)
    61. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-19)
    62. Desert Finch (2025-03-19)
    63. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-19)
    64. Northern Shoveler (2025-03-19)
    65. Slender-billed Gull (2025-03-19)
    66. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-03-19)
    68. Common Coot (2025-03-24)
    69. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-03-24)
    70. Isabelline Shrike (2025-03-24)
    71. Demoiselle Crane (2025-03-27)
    72. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-03-27)
    73. White Stork (2025-03-27)
    74. Siberian Stonechat (2025-03-27)
    75. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-03-27)
    76. Desert Wheatear (2025-03-27)
    77. Common Oystercatcher (2025-03-28)
    78. Common Buzzard (2025-03-28)
    79. Pied Avocet (2025-03-28)
    80. Glossy Ibis (2025-03-28)
    81. Ruff (2025-03-28)
    82. Bluethroat (2025-04-06)
    83. Booted Eagle (2025-04-06)
    84. Menetries Warbler (2025-04-11)
    85. Barn Swallow (2025-04-11)
    86. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-11)
    87. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-04-11)
    88. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-11)
    89. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-26)
    90. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-26)
    91. Common Tern (2025-04-28)
    92. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2025-04-29)
    93. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-01)
    94. European Bee-eater (2025-05-01)
    95. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-02)
    96. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-05-02)
    97. Osprey (2025-05-04)
    98. Common Kingfisher (2025-05-04)
    99. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-04)
    100. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-04)
    101. Little Stint (2025-05-04)
    102. Rosy Starling (2025-05-04)
    103. Garganey (2025-05-04)
    104. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-04)
    105. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-04)
    106. Carrion Crow (2025-05-07)
    107. Greater Sand Plover (2025-05-09)
    108. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-05-09)
    109. Syke's Warbler (2025-05-09)
    110. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-09)
    111. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-09)
    112. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-09)
    113. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-09)
    114. Pander's Ground-Jay (2025-05-23)
    115. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-05-27)
    116. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-27)
    117. European Nightjar (2025-05-27)
    118. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-05-28)
    119. Northern House Martin (2025-05-29)
    120. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-29)
    121. Shikra (2025-06-05)
    122. Wood Pigeon (2025-06-18)
    123. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (2025-06-18)
    124. Mistle Thrush (2025-06-18)
    125. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-06-18)
    126. Indian Golden Oriole (2025-06-18)
    127. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-06-18)
    128. Tree Pipit (2025-06-18)
    129. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-06-25)
    130. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-06-25)
    131. Great Bustard (2025-06-26)
    132. Egyptian Nightjar (2025-07-26)
    133. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2025-08-24)
    134. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-08-24)
    135. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2025-08-24)
    136. Bearded Tit (2025-10-13)

    recent uploads

    2025-10-14. Bearded Tit.

    2025-08-26. Crested Honey-Buzzard, Eurasian Wryneck, Eastern Rock Nuthatch.

    2025-08-04. Common Cuckoo, Rosy Starling.

    2025-07-21. Egyptian Nightjar.

    2025-06-30. Blue Whistling Thrush, Red-rumped Swallow, Great Bustard.

    2025-06-27. Tree Pipit.

    2025-06-21. Mistle Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Indian Golden Oriole, Lesser Grey Shrike.

    2025-06-20. Wood Pigeon, Asian Paradise Flycatcher.

    2025-06-11. Pallid Scops Owl.

    2025-06-08. Carrion Crow.

    2025-06-05. White-crowned Penduline Tit, Pallid Scops Owl, Rufous Bush Robin, Northern House Martin, Booted Eagle, Turkestan Tit, European Nightjar, Eurasian Hobby, Shikra, Eurasian Hobby, Glossy Ibis.

    2025-05-25. Pander's Ground-Jay.

    2025-05-19. Long-legged Buzzard, Spotted Flycatcher.

    2025-05-12. Indian Sparrow, Red-backed Shrike, Rook.

    2025-05-10. Greater Sand Plover, Steppe Grey Shrike, Syke's Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, Common Cuckoo, Paddyfield Warbler.

    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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    2026-01-18
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    (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
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
    Grey-Headed Woodpecker
    (sergey izoya)

    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
    (Anna Yasko)
    Common Kestrel
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    2025-03-23
    Common Sparrowhawk
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    Great Tit
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    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
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    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

    2025-01-07
    Eurasian Penduline Tit
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    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    unidentified birds

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