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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
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  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
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  • Paradoxornithidae
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  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
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    total species: 230
    total photos: 1082
    total videos: 0
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    1. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-06)
    2. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-06)
    3. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-21)
    4. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-21)
    5. Meadow Bunting (2024-01-21)
    6. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-21)
    7. Yellowhammer (2024-01-21)
    8. Horned Lark (2024-01-21)
    9. Common Pheasant (2024-01-21)
    10. Yellow-breasted Tit (2024-01-22)
    11. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-22)
    12. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-22)
    13. Wallcreeper (2024-01-22)
    14. Carrion Crow (2024-01-22)
    15. Cinereous Vulture (2024-01-22)
    16. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-22)
    17. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-01-22)
    18. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-24)
    19. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-24)
    20. Hooded Crow (2024-01-27)
    21. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-27)
    22. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-01-27)
    23. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-27)
    24. Red-fronted Serin (2024-01-27)
    25. Black-throated Accentor (2024-02-02)
    26. Chukar Partridge (2024-02-03)
    27. Golden Eagle (2024-02-03)
    28. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-02-03)
    29. Turkestan Tit (2024-02-03)
    30. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-03)
    31. Goldcrest (2024-02-03)
    32. Solitary Snipe (2024-02-03)
    33. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-02-04)
    34. Laughing Dove (2024-02-05)
    35. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-02-13)
    36. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-02-13)
    37. Long-eared Owl (2024-02-13)
    38. Mistle Thrush (2024-02-13)
    39. Steppe Eagle (2024-02-13)
    40. Great Grey Shrike (2024-02-13)
    41. Lammergeier (2024-02-14)
    42. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-14)
    43. Calandra Lark (2024-02-14)
    44. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-02-21)
    45. Upland Buzzard (2024-02-27)
    46. Great Rosefinch (2024-02-27)
    47. Brambling (2024-02-28)
    48. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-02-29)
    49. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-04)
    50. Great White Egret (2024-03-06)
    51. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-03-06)
    52. Common Starling (2024-03-11)
    53. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-03-14)
    54. Northern Wren (2024-03-14)
    55. Northern Pintail (2024-03-16)
    56. Common Teal (2024-03-16)
    57. Black Redstart (2024-03-16)
    58. Caspian Gull (2024-03-16)
    59. Pallas's Gull (2024-03-16)
    60. Crested Lark (2024-03-16)
    61. Hoopoe (2024-03-16)
    62. Grey Heron (2024-03-16)
    63. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-16)
    64. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-16)
    65. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-03-16)
    66. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-16)
    67. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-16)
    68. Mallard (2024-03-16)
    69. Common Pochard (2024-03-16)
    70. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-16)
    71. Pine Bunting (2024-03-16)
    72. White Wagtail (2024-03-16)
    73. Great Cormorant (2024-03-16)
    74. Common Raven (2024-03-17)
    75. Common Kestrel (2024-03-18)
    76. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-03-18)
    77. Rock Bunting (2024-03-19)
    78. Tawny Pipit (2024-03-19)
    79. Demoiselle Crane (2024-03-23)
    80. Fieldfare (2024-03-24)
    81. Hen Harrier (2024-03-25)
    82. Desert Finch (2024-03-29)
    83. House Sparrow (2024-03-31)
    84. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-03-31)
    85. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-03-31)
    86. White-headed Duck (2024-03-31)
    87. Northern Shoveler (2024-03-31)
    89. Common Redshank (2024-03-31)
    90. Greylag Goose (2024-03-31)
    91. Common Snipe (2024-03-31)
    92. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-03-31)
    93. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-31)
    94. Greater Sand Plover (2024-04-01)
    95. Mute Swan (2024-04-02)
    96. Citrine Wagtail (2024-04-03)
    97. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-03)
    98. Pied Avocet (2024-04-03)
    99. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-03)
    100. Bluethroat (2024-04-03)
    101. Little Bustard (2024-04-03)
    102. Common Shelduck (2024-04-07)
    103. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-04-07)
    104. Black Stork (2024-04-07)
    105. Barn Swallow (2024-04-09)
    106. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-09)
    107. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-11)
    108. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-04-17)
    109. Eurasian Redstart (2024-04-17)
    110. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse (2024-04-19)
    111. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-19)
    112. Gull-billed Tern (2024-04-19)
    113. Garganey (2024-04-19)
    114. Great Bustard (2024-04-20)
    115. Corn Bunting (2024-04-20)
    116. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-20)
    117. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-04-20)
    118. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-04-20)
    119. Tree Pipit (2024-04-20)
    120. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-23)
    121. Red-crested Pochard (2024-04-24)
    122. Great White Pelican (2024-04-24)
    123. Black Kite (2024-04-24)
    124. Caspian Tern (2024-04-26)
    125. Osprey (2024-04-26)
    126. Rosy Starling (2024-04-30)
    127. Little Owl (2024-05-01)
    128. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-01)
    129. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-01)
    130. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-05-04)
    131. Eurasian Curlew (2024-05-04)
    132. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-05-04)
    133. European Nightjar (2024-05-06)
    134. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-08)
    135. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-08)
    136. Rook (2024-05-08)
    137. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-09)
    138. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-09)
    139. Common Swift (2024-05-10)
    140. European Bee-eater (2024-05-12)
    141. Little Stint (2024-05-12)
    142. Black Tern (2024-05-12)
    143. Spotted Redshank (2024-05-12)
    144. White-winged Tern (2024-05-12)
    145. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-12)
    146. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-12)
    147. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-05-12)
    148. Booted Warbler (2024-05-12)
    149. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2024-05-12)
    150. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-05-13)
    151. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-05-13)
    152. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    153. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-05-13)
    154. Purple Heron (2024-05-13)
    155. Common Moorhen (2024-05-13)
    156. Northern Lapwing (2024-05-13)
    157. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-13)
    158. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-05-14)
    159. Upcher's Warbler (2024-05-16)
    160. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-16)
    161. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-05-24)
    162. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-25)
    163. Indian Golden Oriole (2024-06-01)
    164. Common Mynah (2024-06-01)
    165. Booted Eagle (2024-06-01)
    166. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-06-02)
    167. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-06-02)
    168. White-capped Bunting (2024-06-02)
    169. Kentish Plover (2024-06-10)
    170. Collared Pratincole (2024-06-10)
    171. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-06-10)
    172. Common Oystercatcher (2024-06-11)
    173. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-06-11)
    174. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-06-11)
    175. Indian Sparrow (2024-06-11)
    176. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2024-06-14)
    177. Gadwall (2024-06-14)
    178. Little Tern (2024-06-14)
    179. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-06-14)
    180. Wood Pigeon (2024-06-15)
    181. Terek Sandpiper (2024-06-15)
    182. Slender-billed Gull (2024-06-15)
    183. Glossy Ibis (2024-06-15)
    184. Pander's Ground-Jay (2024-06-19)
    185. Egyptian Vulture (2024-06-19)
    186. Finsch's Wheatear (2024-06-19)
    187. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2024-06-19)
    188. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-06-20)
    189. Common Coot (2024-06-20)
    190. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-06-20)
    191. Little Egret (2024-06-20)
    192. Ferruginous Duck (2024-06-20)
    193. Turkestan Shrike (2024-06-21)
    194. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-06-21)
    195. Northern House Martin (2024-07-04)
    196. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-07-10)
    197. Sand Martin (2024-07-11)
    198. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-07-12)
    199. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-07-12)
    200. Ruff (2024-07-13)
    201. Common Nightingale (2024-07-18)
    202. Egyptian Nightjar (2024-07-18)
    203. Pallid Scops Owl (2024-07-18)
    204. Common Kingfisher (2024-07-19)
    205. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-07-26)
    206. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-07-28)
    207. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-08-03)
    208. Pallid Harrier (2024-08-11)
    209. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-08-18)
    210. Common Tern (2024-08-19)
    211. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-08-19)
    212. Sandwich Tern (2024-08-19)
    213. Common Greenshank (2024-08-19)
    214. Willow Warbler (2024-08-20)
    215. Caspian Plover (2024-08-24)
    216. Garden Warbler (2024-08-27)
    217. Red-backed Shrike (2024-08-28)
    218. Lesser Kestrel (2024-08-29)
    219. Common Rosefinch (2024-09-06)
    220. Pied Flycatcher (2024-09-06)
    221. Rock Sparrow (2024-09-07)
    222. Dunlin (2024-09-07)
    223. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-09-08)
    224. Black Lark (2024-09-09)
    225. White-winged Lark (2024-09-12)
    226. Hume's Warbler (2024-10-03)
    227. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-10-27)
    228. Jack Snipe (2024-10-31)
    229. European Robin (2024-11-15)
    230. Griffon Vulture (2024-12-13)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-16. Steppe Eagle, Cinereous Vulture.

    2024-12-15. Golden Eagle, White-winged Grosbeak, Griffon Vulture.

    2024-12-13. Lammergeier, Wallcreeper.

    2024-12-04. Desert Wheatear.

    2024-11-23. Red-mantled Rosefinch.

    2024-11-19. European Robin, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2024-11-16. Hybrid Tit, Yellow-breasted Tit, Golden Eagle, Cinereous Vulture, Eastern Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2024-11-03. Great Grey Shrike, Blue-capped Redstart.

    2024-10-31. Brambling, Desert Wheatear, Jack Snipe, Hen Harrier.

    2024-10-27. Blue-capped Redstart, Common Raven.

    2024-10-26. Steppe Eagle, Eastern Buzzard, Eastern Buzzard, Rock Bunting, Rock Bunting, Common Chiffchaff.

    2024-10-25. Mistle Thrush, Eastern Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, Yellow-breasted Tit, Eastern Buzzard, Eversmann's Redstart, Eversmann's Redstart, Ruddy Shelduck.

    2024-10-03. Hume's Warbler, Carrion Crow.

    2024-09-29. White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail.

    2024-09-23. Isabelline Shrike, Purple Heron, Grey Heron, Booted Eagle, Booted Eagle, Ferruginous Duck, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Isabelline Wheatear, Western Marsh-Harrier, Osprey, Red-crested Pochard, Common Chiffchaff.

    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...