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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
  • Ardeidae
  • Threskiornithidae
  • Ciconiidae
    • Phoenicopteriformes
  • Phoenicopteridae
    • Anseriformes
  • Anatidae
    • Falconiformes
  • Pandionidae
  • Accipitridae
  • Falconidae
    • Galliformes
  • Tetraonidae
  • Phasianidae
    • Gruiformes
  • Gruidae
  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
  • Scolopacidae
  • Glareolidae
  • Stercorariidae
  • Laridae
    • Pterocletiformes
  • Pteroclidae
    • Columbiformes
  • Columbidae
    • Cuculiformes
  • Cuculidae
    • Strigiformes
  • Strigidae
    • Caprimulgiformes
  • Caprimulgidae
    • Apodiformes
  • Apodidae
    • Coraciiformes
  • Coraciidae
  • Alcedinidae
  • Meropidae
    • Upupiformes
  • Upupidae
    • Piciformes
  • Picidae
    • Passeriformes
  • Hirundinidae
  • Alaudidae
  • Motacillidae
  • Laniidae
  • Oriolidae
  • Dicruridae
  • Sturnidae
  • Corvidae
  • Bombycillidae
  • Cinclidae
  • Troglodytidae
  • Prunellidae
  • Sylviidae
  • Regulidae
  • Muscicapidae
  • Turdidae
  • Paradoxornithidae
  • Aegithalidae
  • Remizidae
  • Paridae
  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

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    total species: 282
    total photos: 618
    total videos: 0
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    1. Greylag Goose (2024-01-13)
    2. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-13)
    3. Mute Swan (2024-01-13)
    4. Great Crested Grebe (2024-01-13)
    5. Tufted Duck (2024-01-13)
    6. Great Cormorant (2024-01-13)
    7. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-13)
    8. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-13)
    9. Caspian Gull (2024-01-13)
    10. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-13)
    11. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-13)
    12. Desert Finch (2024-01-14)
    13. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-14)
    14. Goosander (2024-01-14)
    15. Smew (2024-01-14)
    16. Hen Harrier (2024-01-14)
    17. Common Kestrel (2024-01-14)
    18. Great Bustard (2024-01-14)
    19. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse (2024-01-14)
    20. Little Bustard (2024-01-14)
    21. Calandra Lark (2024-01-14)
    22. Little Owl (2024-01-14)
    24. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-15)
    25. Common Pochard (2024-01-15)
    26. Great White Egret (2024-01-15)
    27. Common Starling (2024-01-15)
    28. Grey Heron (2024-01-15)
    29. Common Snipe (2024-01-15)
    30. Northern Wren (2024-01-15)
    31. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-15)
    32. Merlin (2024-01-15)
    33. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-15)
    34. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-15)
    35. Common Pheasant (2024-01-15)
    36. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-15)
    37. Grey Partridge (2024-01-23)
    38. White-winged Lark (2024-01-23)
    39. Horned Lark (2024-01-23)
    40. Black Lark (2024-01-24)
    41. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-24)
    42. Golden Eagle (2024-01-25)
    43. Chukar Partridge (2024-01-25)
    44. House Sparrow (2024-01-27)
    45. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-27)
    46. Common Mynah (2024-01-27)
    47. Hooded Crow (2024-02-15)
    48. Rook (2024-02-15)
    49. Great Tit (2024-02-15)
    50. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-15)
    51. Azure Tit (2024-02-15)
    52. Mallard (2024-02-15)
    53. Laughing Dove (2024-02-15)
    54. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-02-15)
    55. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-02-15)
    56. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-02-15)
    57. Eurasian Dipper (2024-02-15)
    58. Brown Dipper (2024-02-15)
    59. Brambling (2024-02-15)
    60. Common Chaffinch (2024-02-18)
    61. Carrion Crow (2024-02-18)
    62. Red-billed Chough (2024-02-18)
    63. Yellowhammer (2024-02-18)
    64. Goldcrest (2024-02-18)
    65. Coal Tit (2024-02-18)
    66. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-02-18)
    67. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-02-18)
    68. Alpine Accentor (2024-02-18)
    69. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-18)
    70. Cinereous Vulture (2024-02-22)
    71. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-02-22)
    72. European Greenfinch (2024-02-22)
    73. Tree Sparrow (2024-02-22)
    74. Crested Lark (2024-02-26)
    75. Twite (2024-02-29)
    76. Common Raven (2024-02-29)
    77. Common Redpoll (2024-03-01)
    78. Lammergeier (2024-03-08)
    79. Common Treecreeper (2024-03-08)
    80. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-03-08)
    82. Red-fronted Serin (2024-03-12)
    83. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-03-12)
    84. Rock Bunting (2024-03-12)
    85. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-12)
    86. Common Buzzard (2024-03-17)
    87. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-17)
    88. Black-throated Thrush (2024-03-17)
    89. Mistle Thrush (2024-03-17)
    90. Common Swift (2024-03-17)
    91. Common Coot (2024-03-17)
    92. Northern Pintail (2024-03-17)
    93. Northern Shoveler (2024-03-17)
    94. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-17)
    95. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-17)
    96. Turkestan Tit (2024-03-17)
    97. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-17)
    98. Water Rail (2024-03-17)
    100. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-17)
    101. Black-throated Accentor (2024-03-17)
    102. Gadwall (2024-03-17)
    103. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-03-17)
    104. Common Teal (2024-03-17)
    105. White Stork (2024-03-17)
    106. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-17)
    107. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-17)
    108. Hoopoe (2024-03-17)
    109. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-03-17)
    110. Little Grebe (2024-03-17)
    111. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-17)
    112. Common Crane (2024-03-17)
    113. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-03-17)
    114. Demoiselle Crane (2024-03-23)
    115. Barn Swallow (2024-03-23)
    116. Red-rumped Swallow (2024-03-23)
    117. Northern House Martin (2024-03-23)
    118. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-03-23)
    119. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-03-23)
    120. Rock Pigeon (2024-03-23)
    121. Black Kite (2024-03-23)
    122. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-03-23)
    123. Ferruginous Duck (2024-03-26)
    124. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-28)
    125. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-28)
    126. Sky Lark (2024-03-28)
    127. Great White Pelican (2024-03-31)
    128. Pallid Harrier (2024-04-01)
    129. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-02)
    130. Black Redstart (2024-04-02)
    131. Tawny Pipit (2024-04-02)
    132. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-04-02)
    133. White Wagtail (2024-04-02)
    134. Black Stork (2024-04-05)
    135. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-04-05)
    136. Bimaculated Lark (2024-04-05)
    137. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-04-05)
    138. Montagu's Harrier (2024-04-06)
    139. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-04-07)
    140. Garganey (2024-04-08)
    141. Brown-necked Raven (2024-04-09)
    142. Lesser Kestrel (2024-04-09)
    143. Greater Sand Plover (2024-04-15)
    144. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-17)
    145. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-17)
    146. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-17)
    147. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-04-17)
    148. Caspian Tern (2024-04-22)
    149. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-22)
    150. Sand Martin (2024-04-22)
    151. Griffon Vulture (2024-04-22)
    152. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-04-29)
    153. Hume's Warbler (2024-04-29)
    154. Common Sandpiper (2024-05-01)
    155. Red-crested Pochard (2024-05-01)
    156. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-01)
    157. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-05-01)
    158. Pale Sand Martin (2024-05-01)
    159. Common Tern (2024-05-01)
    160. Black Tern (2024-05-01)
    161. Common Moorhen (2024-05-01)
    162. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-19)
    163. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-19)
    164. Indian Sparrow (2024-05-20)
    165. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-05-20)
    166. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2024-05-20)
    167. Upcher's Warbler (2024-05-20)
    168. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-20)
    169. Pander's Ground-Jay (2024-05-20)
    170. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-05-21)
    171. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-21)
    172. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-05-21)
    173. Egyptian Nightjar (2024-05-21)
    174. White-capped Bunting (2024-05-22)
    175. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-05-22)
    176. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-05-23)
    177. Indian Golden Oriole (2024-05-23)
    178. Black-breasted Tit (2024-05-23)
    179. Himalayan Vulture (2024-05-23)
    180. Booted Eagle (2024-05-23)
    181. Hume's Whitethroat (2024-05-23)
    182. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-23)
    183. Yellow-breasted Tit (2024-05-23)
    184. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-25)
    185. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-25)
    186. Great Reed Warbler (2024-05-25)
    187. Little Tern (2024-05-25)
    188. Common Oystercatcher (2024-05-25)
    189. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-25)
    190. Rosy Starling (2024-05-25)
    191. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-25)
    192. Common Redshank (2024-05-25)
    193. Pied Avocet (2024-05-25)
    194. Relict Gull (2024-05-25)
    195. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-26)
    196. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-05-26)
    197. Bluethroat (2024-05-26)
    198. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-05-27)
    199. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-27)
    200. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-05-27)
    201. Pallid Scops Owl (2024-05-27)
    202. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-27)
    203. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2024-05-27)
    204. European Nightjar (2024-05-27)
    205. Little Stint (2024-05-28)
    206. Common Shelduck (2024-05-29)
    207. Eurasian Curlew (2024-05-29)
    208. Dunlin (2024-05-29)
    209. Lesser Sand Plover (2024-05-29)
    210. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-29)
    211. Eurasian Linnet (2024-05-30)
    212. Mongolian Finch (2024-05-30)
    213. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-05-30)
    214. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-31)
    215. Northern Black Grouse (2024-05-31)
    216. Richard's Pipit (2024-05-31)
    217. Pine Bunting (2024-06-01)
    218. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-06-01)
    219. Himalayan Accentor (2024-06-02)
    220. Wallcreeper (2024-06-02)
    221. Water Pipit (2024-06-02)
    222. Himalayan Snowcock (2024-06-03)
    223. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-06-03)
    224. Brown Accentor (2024-06-03)
    225. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-06-03)
    226. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-06-03)
    227. Tree Pipit (2024-06-04)
    228. Ibisbill (2024-06-05)
    229. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2024-06-07)
    230. Himalayan Rubythroat (2024-06-07)
    231. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-06-07)
    232. Grey Wagtail (2024-06-07)
    233. Shikra (2024-06-17)
    234. Glossy Ibis (2024-06-17)
    235. Purple Heron (2024-06-17)
    236. Little Egret (2024-06-17)
    237. Spanish Sparrow (2024-06-19)
    238. Egyptian Vulture (2024-06-19)
    239. Finsch's Wheatear (2024-06-19)
    240. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-06-20)
    241. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-06-20)
    242. Red-footed Falcon (2024-06-26)
    243. Gull-billed Tern (2024-06-26)
    244. Black-winged Pratincole (2024-06-26)
    245. Little Gull (2024-06-26)
    246. European Bee-eater (2024-06-27)
    247. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-06-27)
    248. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-06-27)
    249. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-06-27)
    250. White-winged Tern (2024-06-27)
    251. Mew Gull (2024-06-27)
    252. Whooper Swan (2024-06-27)
    253. Willow Tit (2024-06-29)
    254. Yellow-breasted Bunting (2024-06-30)
    255. Fieldfare (2024-06-30)
    256. Slavonian Grebe (2024-07-01)
    257. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-07-01)
    258. Sociable Lapwing (2024-07-02)
    259. Common Nightingale (2024-07-05)
    260. Slender-billed Gull (2024-07-06)
    261. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-07-06)
    262. Pied Bushchat (2024-07-21)
    263. Ruff (2024-08-03)
    264. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-08-05)
    265. White-headed Duck (2024-08-05)
    266. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-08-05)
    267. Booted Warbler (2024-08-06)
    268. Greater Flamingo (2024-08-06)
    269. Wood Sandpiper (2024-08-06)
    270. Turkestan Shrike (2024-08-06)
    271. Common Greenshank (2024-08-08)
    272. Arctic Loon (2024-08-08)
    273. Bearded Tit (2024-08-10)
    274. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-08-28)
    275. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-08-31)
    276. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-08-31)
    277. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-08-31)
    278. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-09)
    279. Saker Falcon (2024-09-09)
    280. Cetti's Warbler (2024-10-12)
    281. Northern Goshawk (2024-10-19)
    282. Common Quail (2024-12-20)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-25. Common Quail, White-winged Lark, Black Lark, Saker Falcon, Eurasian Linnet.

    2024-12-23. Steppe Eagle, Rough-legged Buzzard.

    2024-11-22. Greater White-fronted Goose, Rough-legged Buzzard, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Fieldfare, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, White-winged Lark, Pallas's Sandgrouse.

    2024-11-21. White Wagtail.

    2024-10-26. Black Redstart, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Common Kestrel, Great Cormorant, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Northern Goshawk, Steppe Eagle, Sky Lark, Wood Pigeon, Common Kestrel.

    2024-10-13. Hen Harrier, Steppe Eagle, Western Marsh-Harrier, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Cetti's Warbler, Barn Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, Common Starling, Purple Heron, Common Kingfisher, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2024-10-11. Tawny Pipit, Asian Desert Warbler, Desert Wheatear, Great White Pelican, Common Crane, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Sky Lark, Hooded Crow, Common Snipe.

    2024-09-18. Common Kingfisher, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Saker Falcon, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Finsch's Wheatear, Turkestan Shrike, Steppe Eagle.

    2024-09-16. Ibisbill, Great Cormorant, Isabelline Shrike, Ferruginous Duck, Cinereous Vulture, Booted Eagle.

    2024-09-15. Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Booted Eagle, Eurasian Wryneck.

    2024-09-13. Turkestan Shrike.

    2024-09-05. Greater Flamingo, Common Snipe, Wood Sandpiper, Sand Martin, Common Greenshank, Arctic Loon, Bearded Tit, Egyptian Vulture, Montagu's Harrier, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Kestrel, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2024-09-04. Ruff, Red-Necked Grebe, White-headed Duck, Red-necked Phalarope, Little Stint, Booted Warbler.

    2024-08-14. Booted Eagle, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2024-07-24. Syke's Warbler, Shikra, Barn Swallow, Pale Sand Martin, Pied Bushchat.

    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...