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    total species: 197
    total photos: 645
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 2

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    1. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-07)
    2. Carrion Crow (2024-01-07)
    3. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-07)
    4. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-02)
    5. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-02-02)
    6. Eurasian Siskin (2024-02-02)
    7. European Greenfinch (2024-02-02)
    8. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-02-04)
    9. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-02-04)
    10. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-02-04)
    11. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-02-04)
    12. Long-tailed Tit (2024-02-04)
    13. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-09)
    14. Azure Tit (2024-02-09)
    15. Great Tit (2024-02-09)
    16. Brambling (2024-02-09)
    17. Common Chaffinch (2024-02-09)
    18. Red-fronted Serin (2024-02-10)
    19. Common Pheasant (2024-02-11)
    20. Northern Goshawk (2024-02-11)
    21. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-11)
    22. Eastern Buzzard (2024-02-11)
    23. Meadow Bunting (2024-02-23)
    24. Songar Tit (2024-02-23)
    25. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-29)
    26. Brown Dipper (2024-02-29)
    27. Rook (2024-03-01)
    28. Great White Egret (2024-03-01)
    29. Mallard (2024-03-01)
    30. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-03-01)
    31. Pine Bunting (2024-03-01)
    32. Northern Wren (2024-03-01)
    33. Yellowhammer (2024-03-01)
    34. Common Raven (2024-03-02)
    35. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-02)
    36. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-02)
    37. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-03-02)
    38. Coal Tit (2024-03-02)
    39. Common Kestrel (2024-03-02)
    40. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2024-03-02)
    41. Mistle Thrush (2024-03-02)
    42. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-17)
    43. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-03-17)
    44. Lammergeier (2024-03-17)
    45. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-03-17)
    46. Grey Heron (2024-03-17)
    47. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-17)
    48. Hooded Crow (2024-03-17)
    49. Great Cormorant (2024-03-17)
    50. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-23)
    51. Great Crested Grebe (2024-03-25)
    52. Common Coot (2024-03-25)
    53. Rock Bunting (2024-03-25)
    54. Tree Sparrow (2024-03-25)
    55. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-03-25)
    56. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-03-28)
    57. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-30)
    58. Black Redstart (2024-03-30)
    59. Chukar Partridge (2024-03-30)
    60. Horned Lark (2024-03-30)
    61. Common Starling (2024-03-30)
    62. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-30)
    63. Sky Lark (2024-03-30)
    64. Grey Wagtail (2024-03-30)
    65. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-31)
    66. Wallcreeper (2024-04-06)
    67. Common Shelduck (2024-04-14)
    68. Common Redshank (2024-04-14)
    69. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-15)
    70. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-15)
    71. Corn Bunting (2024-04-15)
    72. Northern Shoveler (2024-04-15)
    73. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-15)
    74. Turkestan Shrike (2024-04-15)
    75. Gadwall (2024-04-15)
    76. Common Pochard (2024-04-15)
    77. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-04)
    78. Crested Lark (2024-05-04)
    79. Desert Wheatear (2024-05-04)
    80. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-05-04)
    81. Black Kite (2024-05-04)
    82. White-winged Tern (2024-05-05)
    83. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-05-05)
    84. Golden Eagle (2024-05-05)
    85. Common Sandpiper (2024-05-05)
    86. Lesser Kestrel (2024-05-05)
    87. Griffon Vulture (2024-05-05)
    88. Common Oystercatcher (2024-05-31)
    89. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-31)
    90. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-31)
    91. Common Mynah (2024-05-31)
    92. European Bee-eater (2024-05-31)
    93. Caspian Gull (2024-05-31)
    94. Hoopoe (2024-05-31)
    95. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-31)
    96. Montagu's Harrier (2024-05-31)
    97. Common Tern (2024-05-31)
    98. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-31)
    99. Northern Lapwing (2024-06-01)
    100. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-06-01)
    101. Rock Pigeon (2024-06-01)
    102. Eurasian Hobby (2024-06-20)
    103. Tawny Pipit (2024-06-20)
    104. House Sparrow (2024-06-20)
    105. Northern House Martin (2024-06-20)
    106. Great Reed Warbler (2024-06-20)
    107. Kentish Plover (2024-06-20)
    108. Common Moorhen (2024-06-20)
    109. Citrine Wagtail (2024-06-20)
    110. Common Nightingale (2024-06-20)
    111. Little Tern (2024-06-20)
    112. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-06-20)
    113. Great White Pelican (2024-06-20)
    114. Pallas's Gull (2024-06-23)
    115. Indian Golden Oriole (2024-07-16)
    116. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-07-16)
    117. Red Crossbill (2024-07-20)
    118. Common Cuckoo (2024-07-20)
    119. Greenish Warbler (2024-07-20)
    120. Common Rosefinch (2024-07-20)
    121. Booted Eagle (2024-07-25)
    122. Barn Swallow (2024-08-08)
    123. Common Whitethroat (2024-08-08)
    124. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-08-23)
    125. Water Pipit (2024-08-30)
    126. Hume's Warbler (2024-08-30)
    127. Siberian Stonechat (2024-08-30)
    128. Pied Avocet (2024-08-31)
    129. Terek Sandpiper (2024-08-31)
    130. Little Stint (2024-08-31)
    131. Temminck's Stint (2024-08-31)
    132. Northern Pintail (2024-08-31)
    133. Northern Wheatear (2024-08-31)
    134. Common Greenshank (2024-08-31)
    135. Common Crane (2024-08-31)
    136. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-07)
    137. Common Teal (2024-09-07)
    138. Demoiselle Crane (2024-09-07)
    139. Wood Sandpiper (2024-09-07)
    140. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-09-07)
    141. Green Sandpiper (2024-09-07)
    142. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-09-07)
    143. Garganey (2024-09-07)
    144. Steppe Eagle (2024-09-14)
    145. Rosy Starling (2024-09-14)
    146. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-14)
    147. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-09-14)
    148. Eurasian Curlew (2024-09-14)
    149. Dunlin (2024-09-14)
    150. Whooper Swan (2024-09-14)
    151. Ruff (2024-09-14)
    152. Isabelline Shrike (2024-09-14)
    153. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-09-14)
    154. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-09-14)
    155. Grey Partridge (2024-09-14)
    156. Ferruginous Duck (2024-09-14)
    157. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-09-14)
    158. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-09-14)
    159. White Wagtail (2024-09-14)
    160. Yellow Wagtail (2024-09-14)
    161. Little Bustard (2024-09-29)
    162. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-10-05)
    163. Desert Finch (2024-10-05)
    164. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2024-10-05)
    165. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-10-05)
    166. Song Thrush (2024-10-05)
    167. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-10-07)
    168. European Robin (2024-10-07)
    169. Mute Swan (2024-10-08)
    170. Eurasian Redstart (2024-10-08)
    171. Bluethroat (2024-10-09)
    172. Little Egret (2024-10-10)
    173. Slender-billed Gull (2024-10-10)
    174. Osprey (2024-10-10)
    175. Bearded Tit (2024-10-10)
    176. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-10-11)
    177. Water Rail (2024-10-11)
    178. Grey Plover (2024-10-13)
    179. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-10-14)
    180. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-10-15)
    181. Sanderling (2024-10-15)
    182. Greater Scaup (2024-10-15)
    183. Meadow Pipit (2024-10-15)
    184. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-10-17)
    185. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-10-17)
    186. Saker Falcon (2024-10-17)
    187. Pallid Harrier (2024-10-19)
    188. White-headed Duck (2024-10-20)
    189. Greater Flamingo (2024-10-20)
    190. Tufted Duck (2024-10-20)
    191. Merlin (2024-10-20)
    192. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-10-21)
    193. Laughing Dove (2024-11-15)
    194. Black-throated Accentor (2024-11-15)
    195. Cinereous Vulture (2024-12-22)
    196. Godlewski's Bunting (2024-12-22)
    197. Barbary Falcon (2024-12-22)

    recent uploads

    2025-01-09. Barbary Falcon.

    2024-12-31. Pygmy Cormorant, Cinereous Vulture, Godlewski's Bunting, Wallcreeper.

    2024-12-30. Black-throated Accentor, Merlin, Pallid Harrier, Saker Falcon, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Sanderling, Greater Scaup, Meadow Pipit, Dunlin.

    2024-11-23. Grey Plover, Common Shelduck, Dunlin.

    2024-11-22. Common Teal, Great Crested Grebe, Mute Swan, Greater Ringed Plover, Grey Heron.

    2024-11-21. Eurasian Golden Plover, Common Chiffchaff, Common Pochard, Bluethroat, Dunlin, Red-breasted Merganser.

    2024-11-20. Red-breasted Flycatcher, White Wagtail, Great Crested Grebe, Slender-billed Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, Grey Plover.

    2024-11-19. Grey Plover.

    2024-11-15. Laughing Dove.

    2024-11-04. Lammergeier, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Coal Tit.

    2024-11-02. Greater Flamingo, Tufted Duck, Little Egret, Common Coot, White-headed Duck.

    2024-10-29. Rook, Desert Wheatear, Rock Pigeon, White Wagtail.

    2024-10-28. Rock Pigeon, Great White Egret, Mute Swan, Pygmy Cormorant, Common Starling, Lesser Black-backed Gull.

    2024-10-27. Mallard, Black-headed Gull, Greater Ringed Plover, Caspian Gull, Common Kestrel, European Robin.

    2024-10-26. Bearded Tit, Great White Egret, Western Marsh-Harrier, Great Cormorant, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull.

    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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    Great Cormorant
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    2025-08-31
    Spotted Flycatcher
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    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    2025-06-01
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    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
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    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
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    2025-01-07
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    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    more video...

    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

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