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    total species: 184
    total photos: 913
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 4

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    1. Common Kestrel (2025-01-19)
    2. Coal Tit (2025-02-23)
    3. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2025-02-24)
    4. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-04-18)
    5. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-04-18)
    6. Greylag Goose (2025-04-19)
    7. White-headed Duck (2025-04-19)
    8. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-19)
    9. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-19)
    10. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-19)
    11. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-19)
    12. Caspian Gull (2025-04-19)
    13. Common Shelduck (2025-04-19)
    14. Savi's Warbler (2025-04-19)
    15. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-19)
    16. Common Coot (2025-04-19)
    17. Mute Swan (2025-04-19)
    18. Common Pochard (2025-04-19)
    19. Tufted Duck (2025-04-19)
    20. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-19)
    21. Slender-billed Gull (2025-04-19)
    22. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-19)
    23. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-19)
    24. White-winged Tern (2025-04-19)
    25. Garganey (2025-04-19)
    26. Desert Finch (2025-04-19)
    27. House Sparrow (2025-04-19)
    28. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-23)
    29. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-04-23)
    30. Sand Martin (2025-04-29)
    31. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-04-29)
    32. Grey Heron (2025-04-29)
    33. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-29)
    34. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-29)
    35. Wood Sandpiper (2025-04-29)
    36. Pied Avocet (2025-05-04)
    37. Macqueen's Bustard (2025-05-05)
    38. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-05)
    39. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-05)
    40. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-15)
    41. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-05-15)
    42. Isabelline Shrike (2025-05-16)
    43. Common Quail (2025-05-17)
    44. European Turtle Dove (2025-05-17)
    45. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-17)
    46. Montagu's Harrier (2025-05-17)
    47. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-17)
    48. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-05-17)
    49. Crested Lark (2025-05-17)
    50. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-17)
    51. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-17)
    52. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-17)
    53. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-17)
    54. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-17)
    55. Common Mynah (2025-05-17)
    56. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-17)
    57. Black Kite (2025-05-18)
    58. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-05-18)
    59. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2025-05-19)
    60. Chukar Partridge (2025-05-19)
    61. Demoiselle Crane (2025-05-21)
    62. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-05-21)
    64. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-21)
    65. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-05-21)
    66. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2025-05-21)
    67. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-05-21)
    68. Pander's Ground-Jay (2025-05-22)
    69. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-05-22)
    70. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-22)
    71. Black-throated Accentor (2025-05-22)
    72. Little Bustard (2025-05-23)
    73. White-capped Bunting (2025-05-23)
    74. Meadow Bunting (2025-05-24)
    75. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2025-05-24)
    76. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-05-24)
    77. Rufous-necked Stint (2025-05-25)
    78. Lammergeier (2025-05-25)
    79. Lesser Kestrel (2025-05-26)
    80. Himalayan Accentor (2025-05-27)
    81. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-05-27)
    82. Red-fronted Serin (2025-05-28)
    83. Little Bittern (2025-05-28)
    84. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-05-28)
    85. Desert Wheatear (2025-06-10)
    86. White Wagtail (2025-06-10)
    87. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-06-11)
    88. Hoopoe (2025-06-12)
    89. Greater Flamingo (2025-06-17)
    90. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-06-17)
    91. Calandra Lark (2025-06-18)
    92. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-06-21)
    93. Kentish Plover (2025-06-23)
    94. Great White Pelican (2025-06-23)
    95. Little Tern (2025-06-24)
    96. Common Swift (2025-06-24)
    97. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-06-28)
    98. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-06-28)
    99. Common Tern (2025-06-28)
    100. Little Gull (2025-06-28)
    101. Ruff (2025-06-28)
    102. Booted Warbler (2025-08-09)
    103. Great Reed Warbler (2025-08-09)
    104. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-08-09)
    105. Common Snipe (2025-08-09)
    106. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-08-09)
    107. Common Greenshank (2025-08-09)
    108. Temminck's Stint (2025-08-09)
    109. Bearded Tit (2025-08-09)
    110. Grey Partridge (2025-08-11)
    111. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-08-11)
    112. Spotted Crake (2025-08-12)
    113. Little Crake (2025-08-16)
    114. Common Sandpiper (2025-08-16)
    115. Little Stint (2025-08-16)
    116. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-16)
    117. Sanderling (2025-08-16)
    118. Glossy Ibis (2025-08-18)
    119. Steppe Eagle (2025-08-19)
    120. Red-backed Shrike (2025-08-21)
    121. Dunlin (2025-08-23)
    122. Citrine Wagtail (2025-08-23)
    123. Black Tern (2025-08-23)
    124. Northern Wheatear (2025-08-25)
    125. Short-eared Owl (2025-08-27)
    126. Pallid Harrier (2025-08-29)
    127. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-09-13)
    128. Mistle Thrush (2025-09-13)
    129. Eurasian Hobby (2025-09-13)
    130. Water Pipit (2025-09-13)
    131. Pied Wheatear (2025-09-13)
    132. Red Crossbill (2025-09-13)
    133. Little Owl (2025-10-01)
    134. Eurasian Redstart (2025-10-02)
    135. Goldcrest (2025-10-03)
    136. Common Treecreeper (2025-10-03)
    137. European Robin (2025-10-03)
    138. Blue Tit (2025-10-04)
    139. Bluethroat (2025-10-04)
    140. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-10-04)
    141. Great Grey Shrike (2025-10-07)
    142. Pine Bunting (2025-10-11)
    143. Brambling (2025-10-11)
    144. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-10-11)
    145. Cetti's Warbler (2025-10-11)
    146. Laughing Dove (2025-10-12)
    147. Mew Gull (2025-10-13)
    148. Northern Pintail (2025-10-13)
    149. Rook (2025-10-13)
    150. Common Starling (2025-10-13)
    151. Song Thrush (2025-10-13)
    152. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-10-13)
    153. Arctic Loon (2025-10-18)
    154. Water Rail (2025-10-18)
    155. Northern Wren (2025-10-18)
    156. Long-eared Owl (2025-10-19)
    157. Eurasian Siskin (2025-10-19)
    158. Long-tailed Tit (2025-10-19)
    159. Black Redstart (2025-10-22)
    160. Pallas's Rosefinch (2025-10-23)
    161. Yellowhammer (2025-10-23)
    162. Black-throated Thrush (2025-10-24)
    163. Common Goldeneye (2025-10-25)
    164. Redwing (2025-10-25)
    165. Sky Lark (2025-10-25)
    166. Spanish Sparrow (2025-10-25)
    167. Eurasian Linnet (2025-10-25)
    168. Common Chaffinch (2025-10-25)
    169. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-10-25)
    170. Hooded Crow (2025-11-02)
    171. Eurasian Magpie (2025-11-02)
    172. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-12-11)
    173. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-12-11)
    174. Red-billed Chough (2025-12-11)
    175. Eastern Buzzard (2025-12-12)
    176. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-12-12)
    177. Twite (2025-12-12)
    178. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-12-12)
    179. Tree Sparrow (2025-12-12)
    180. Ibisbill (2025-12-14)
    181. Solitary Snipe (2025-12-14)
    182. Eurasian Dipper (2025-12-14)
    183. Green Sandpiper (2025-12-14)
    184. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-12-14)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-16. Ibisbill, White-bellied Dipper, Green Sandpiper, Common Sparrowhawk, Eastern Buzzard, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Common Snipe, Eastern Buzzard, Eastern Buzzard, Eurasian Jackdaw, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Eastern Buzzard, Red-fronted Serin, Red-fronted Serin, Twite, Eurasian Linnet, Ruddy Shelduck, Tree Sparrow.

    2025-12-14. Ibisbill, Solitary Snipe, White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2025-12-12. White-winged Snowfinch, Red-billed Chough.

    2025-12-11. Brandt's Rosefinch.

    2025-11-04. Common Goldeneye, Common Sparrowhawk, Redwing, Sky Lark, Redwing, Calandra Lark, Spanish Sparrow, Eurasian Linnet, Desert Finch, Calandra Lark, Yellowhammer, Common Chaffinch, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Song Thrush.

    2025-11-03. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Black-throated Accentor, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Rook, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Hooded Crow, Eurasian Magpie, Steppe Eagle.

    2025-10-26. Bearded Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit.

    2025-10-24. Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling, European Black Redstart, European Robin, Bearded Tit, Northern Wren, Caspian Gull, Black-throated Thrush, Yellowhammer, Pallas's Rosefinch.

    2025-10-23. Pallas's Rosefinch.

    2025-10-20. Arctic Loon, Black-throated Accentor, Black-throated Accentor, Red-backed Shrike, Long-eared Owl, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Tit, Water Rail, Spotted Crake, Tawny Pipit, Bearded Tit, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Goldcrest, Crested Lark.

    2025-10-14. Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Mew Gull, Northern Pintail, Rook, Common Starling, Desert Finch, Pine Bunting, Brambling, Steppe Lesser Short-toed Lark, Laughing Dove, Oriental Turtle Dove, Song Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Hoopoe, Oriental Turtle Dove, Song Thrush, Crested Lark, Bluethroat, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Red-crested Pochard, Cetti's Warbler.

    2025-10-12. Laughing Dove.

    2025-10-09. Long-legged Buzzard.

    2025-10-07. Long-legged Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Great Grey Shrike.

    2025-10-05. Blue Tit, Bluethroat, Paddyfield Warbler, Eurasian Penduline Tit, 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...