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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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    • Anseriformes
  • Anatidae
    • Falconiformes
  • Pandionidae
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  • Tetraonidae
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    • Gruiformes
  • Gruidae
  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
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  • Apodidae
    • Coraciiformes
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  • Picidae
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  • Prunellidae
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  • Paradoxornithidae
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  • Fringillidae
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    total species: 161
    total photos: 817
    total videos: 2
    total blogposts: 4

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    1. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-01-02)
    2. Red-breasted Merganser (2022-01-02)
    3. Tufted Duck (2022-01-02)
    4. Grey Heron (2022-01-02)
    5. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-01-02)
    6. Mew Gull (2022-01-16)
    7. Caspian Gull (2022-01-16)
    8. White Wagtail (2022-01-21)
    9. Hooded Crow (2022-01-23)
    10. Rook (2022-01-23)
    11. European Robin (2022-01-26)
    12. Black-headed Gull (2022-01-26)
    13. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-26)
    14. Common Goldeneye (2022-01-29)
    15. Mallard (2022-01-31)
    16. Crested Lark (2022-02-10)
    17. Mute Swan (2022-02-10)
    18. Common Kestrel (2022-02-12)
    19. Red-crested Pochard (2022-02-12)
    20. Black Redstart (2022-02-15)
    21. Laughing Dove (2022-02-15)
    22. Common Chiffchaff (2022-02-15)
    23. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-03-02)
    24. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-03-05)
    25. Great Cormorant (2022-03-06)
    26. Gadwall (2022-03-06)
    27. Northern Pintail (2022-03-06)
    28. Common Starling (2022-03-07)
    29. Pallas's Gull (2022-03-07)
    30. Masked Wagtail (2022-03-07)
    31. Redwing (2022-03-07)
    32. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2022-03-09)
    34. Ruff (2022-03-09)
    35. Greater Sand Plover (2022-03-09)
    36. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-03-15)
    37. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-03-17)
    38. Song Thrush (2022-03-17)
    39. Slender-billed Gull (2022-03-18)
    40. Common Pochard (2022-03-23)
    41. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-03-23)
    42. Sky Lark (2022-03-26)
    43. Eurasian Curlew (2022-03-26)
    44. Common Shelduck (2022-03-26)
    45. Common Redshank (2022-03-26)
    46. Kentish Plover (2022-03-26)
    47. Garganey (2022-03-26)
    48. Dunlin (2022-03-26)
    49. Pied Avocet (2022-03-26)
    50. Greater Flamingo (2022-03-26)
    51. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-29)
    52. Common Teal (2022-03-29)
    53. Siberian Stonechat (2022-03-31)
    54. Citrine Wagtail (2022-03-31)
    55. Green Sandpiper (2022-04-01)
    56. Hoopoe (2022-04-05)
    57. Bluethroat (2022-04-05)
    58. Common Swift (2022-04-06)
    59. Meadow Pipit (2022-04-07)
    60. Tree Pipit (2022-04-08)
    61. Common Chaffinch (2022-04-08)
    62. Yellow Wagtail (2022-04-08)
    63. Black-headed Wagtail (2022-04-09)
    64. Eurasian Siskin (2022-04-10)
    65. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-04-10)
    66. Eurasian Golden Plover (2022-04-10)
    67. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-04-11)
    68. Common Tern (2022-04-11)
    69. Willow Warbler (2022-04-11)
    70. Red-throated Pipit (2022-04-14)
    71. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-04-16)
    72. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-16)
    73. Pied Wheatear (2022-04-16)
    74. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-16)
    75. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-04-17)
    76. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2022-04-19)
    77. Eurasian Redstart (2022-04-19)
    78. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-04-19)
    79. Great White Egret (2022-04-23)
    80. Ortolan Bunting (2022-04-23)
    81. Whinchat (2022-04-24)
    82. Booted Warbler (2022-04-24)
    83. Pied Flycatcher (2022-04-24)
    84. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2022-04-24)
    85. Common Rosefinch (2022-04-29)
    86. Wood Sandpiper (2022-04-29)
    87. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-04-29)
    88. Little Egret (2022-04-30)
    89. Moustached Warbler (2022-04-30)
    90. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-03)
    91. Syke's Warbler (2022-05-03)
    92. House Sparrow (2022-05-05)
    93. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-06)
    94. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-07)
    95. Greenish Warbler (2022-05-07)
    96. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-05-07)
    97. Glossy Ibis (2022-05-07)
    98. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-05-08)
    99. Rosy Starling (2022-05-08)
    100. Barn Swallow (2022-05-08)
    101. Terek Sandpiper (2022-05-08)
    102. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-05-08)
    103. Whiskered Tern (2022-05-08)
    104. Purple Heron (2022-05-08)
    105. Baillon's Crake (2022-05-08)
    106. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-05-08)
    107. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-08)
    108. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-05-08)
    109. Thrush Nightingale (2022-05-10)
    110. Caspian Tern (2022-05-10)
    111. White-winged Tern (2022-05-10)
    112. Marsh Warbler (2022-05-11)
    113. Little Stint (2022-05-13)
    114. Sandwich Tern (2022-05-15)
    115. Little Tern (2022-05-15)
    116. Northern House Martin (2022-05-17)
    117. Sanderling (2022-05-17)
    118. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-18)
    119. Sedge Warbler (2022-05-25)
    120. Garden Warbler (2022-05-25)
    121. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2022-06-08)
    123. Desert Finch (2022-06-20)
    124. Black-winged Stilt (2022-07-24)
    125. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2022-08-05)
    126. Red-headed Bunting (2022-08-06)
    127. Barred Warbler (2022-08-09)
    128. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-08-21)
    129. Black Kite (2022-08-21)
    130. Gull-billed Tern (2022-08-22)
    131. Temminck's Stint (2022-08-22)
    132. Grey Wagtail (2022-08-22)
    133. Levant Sparrowhawk (2022-08-26)
    134. Wood Warbler (2022-08-26)
    135. Spotted Crake (2022-08-31)
    136. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2022-08-31)
    137. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-09-02)
    138. Eurasian Hobby (2022-09-07)
    139. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-09-08)
    140. Montagu's Harrier (2022-09-09)
    141. Common Kingfisher (2022-09-12)
    142. Common Snipe (2022-09-12)
    143. Common Greenshank (2022-09-24)
    144. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-09-24)
    145. Common Buzzard (2022-09-25)
    146. European Bee-eater (2022-09-27)
    147. Peregrine Falcon (2022-10-08)
    148. Brambling (2022-10-23)
    149. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-10-24)
    150. Water Rail (2022-10-31)
    151. Goldcrest (2022-10-31)
    152. Yellowhammer (2022-10-31)
    153. Desert Wheatear (2022-11-05)
    154. Tree Sparrow (2022-11-05)
    155. Bohemian Waxwing (2022-11-10)
    156. Great Crested Grebe (2022-11-12)
    157. Ring-billed Gull (2022-11-18)
    158. Black-throated Thrush (2022-11-30)
    159. Mistle Thrush (2022-11-30)
    160. Long-eared Owl (2022-12-09)
    161. Pine Bunting (2022-12-19)

    recent uploads

    2022-12-30. Ring-billed Gull, Red-crested Pochard.

    2022-12-25. Caspian Gull, Caspian Gull, Mew Gull.

    2022-12-24. Common Kestrel, Yellowhammer, Pine Bunting.

    2022-12-17. Mute Swan, Mew Gull, Mew Gull.

    2022-12-16. Mute Swan, Tufted Duck, Mew Gull, Mallard, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Chaffinch, Common Goldeneye.

    2022-12-10. Long-eared Owl.

    2022-12-05. Peregrine Falcon, Redwing, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2022-11-30. Black-throated Thrush, Mistle Thrush.

    2022-11-18. Ring-billed Gull, Red-breasted Merganser, Bluethroat, Common Chaffinch, Black-Necked Grebe, Great Crested Grebe.

    2022-11-11. Bohemian Waxwing, Laughing Dove.

    2022-11-05. Desert Wheatear, Redwing, Song Thrush, European Robin, Black-Necked Grebe, European Robin, Brambling, Tree Sparrow, Common Chaffinch.

    2022-11-03. Red-breasted Flycatcher, Thrush Nightingale, Red-backed Shrike, Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling, Water Rail, Goldcrest, Northern Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer.

    2022-10-23. Grey Heron, Brambling, Northern Reed Bunting, Common Chaffinch, Meadow Pipit, Thrush Nightingale.

    2022-10-21. Peregrine Falcon, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Song Thrush, Red-backed Shrike.

    2022-10-19. Crested Lark, Common Chaffinch, Bluethroat.

    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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