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    total species: 187
    total photos: 486
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 16

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    1. Eastern Buzzard (2022-02-05)
    2. Upland Buzzard (2022-02-05)
    3. Mew Gull (2022-02-05)
    4. Caspian Gull (2022-02-05)
    5. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-02-05)
    6. Black-headed Gull (2022-02-05)
    7. Whooper Swan (2022-02-05)
    8. Mute Swan (2022-02-05)
    9. Pied Avocet (2022-02-05)
    10. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-02-05)
    11. Common Goldeneye (2022-02-05)
    12. Smew (2022-02-05)
    13. Great Grey Shrike (2022-02-05)
    14. Water Pipit (2022-02-05)
    15. Green Sandpiper (2022-02-05)
    16. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-02-05)
    17. Great White Egret (2022-02-05)
    18. White Wagtail (2022-02-05)
    19. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2022-02-20)
    20. Eurasian Magpie (2022-02-20)
    21. Northern Lapwing (2022-02-27)
    22. Common Starling (2022-02-27)
    23. Masked Wagtail (2022-02-27)
    24. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-02-27)
    25. Little Grebe (2022-02-27)
    26. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-02-27)
    27. Tree Sparrow (2022-02-27)
    28. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-02-27)
    29. Common Shelduck (2022-02-27)
    30. Northern Pintail (2022-02-27)
    31. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-02-27)
    32. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-02-27)
    33. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-02-27)
    34. Corn Bunting (2022-02-27)
    35. Calandra Lark (2022-02-27)
    36. Northern Shoveler (2022-02-27)
    37. Pine Bunting (2022-03-22)
    38. Yellowhammer (2022-03-22)
    39. Hoopoe (2022-03-22)
    40. Gadwall (2022-03-22)
    41. Citrine Wagtail (2022-03-22)
    42. Ferruginous Duck (2022-03-22)
    43. Great Cormorant (2022-03-22)
    44. Isabelline Shrike (2022-03-22)
    45. Black-throated Thrush (2022-03-22)
    46. Great Crested Grebe (2022-03-22)
    47. Greater Short-toed Lark (2022-03-22)
    48. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-22)
    49. Sky Lark (2022-03-22)
    50. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-03-22)
    51. Steppe Eagle (2022-03-22)
    52. Little Bustard (2022-03-22)
    53. Common Oystercatcher (2022-03-22)
    54. Common Redshank (2022-03-22)
    55. Greylag Goose (2022-03-22)
    56. Rock Bunting (2022-03-22)
    57. Eversmann's Redstart (2022-03-22)
    58. Long-eared Owl (2022-03-22)
    59. Common Snipe (2022-03-26)
    60. Chukar Partridge (2022-03-26)
    61. Common Chiffchaff (2022-03-26)
    62. Pied Wheatear (2022-03-26)
    63. Crested Lark (2022-03-26)
    64. Wallcreeper (2022-03-26)
    65. Bean Goose (2022-03-26)
    66. Kentish Plover (2022-03-26)
    67. Eurasian Curlew (2022-03-26)
    68. Common Coot (2022-03-26)
    69. Desert Wheatear (2022-03-26)
    70. Garganey (2022-03-26)
    71. Goldcrest (2022-03-27)
    72. Black-throated Accentor (2022-03-27)
    73. Mistle Thrush (2022-03-27)
    74. Mallard (2022-03-27)
    75. Grey Wagtail (2022-03-27)
    76. Common Treecreeper (2022-04-16)
    77. Songar Tit (2022-04-16)
    78. Tree Pipit (2022-04-16)
    79. Northern Black Grouse (2022-04-16)
    80. Coal Tit (2022-04-16)
    81. Booted Eagle (2022-04-16)
    82. Blue-capped Redstart (2022-04-16)
    83. Long-tailed Tit (2022-04-16)
    84. Eurasian Dipper (2022-04-16)
    85. Blue Whistling Thrush (2022-04-16)
    86. Brown Dipper (2022-04-16)
    87. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-04-17)
    88. White-headed Duck (2022-04-17)
    89. Yellow Wagtail (2022-04-17)
    90. Meadow Pipit (2022-04-17)
    91. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-17)
    92. Demoiselle Crane (2022-04-17)
    93. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-17)
    94. Siberian Stonechat (2022-04-17)
    95. Buff-bellied Pipit (2022-04-17)
    96. Red-throated Pipit (2022-04-17)
    97. Black-headed Wagtail (2022-04-17)
    98. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-17)
    99. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-04-17)
    100. Common Pheasant (2022-04-17)
    101. Turkestan Shrike (2022-04-17)
    102. Shikra (2022-04-29)
    103. Turkestan Tit (2022-04-29)
    104. Wood Pigeon (2022-04-29)
    105. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-04-29)
    106. Common Mynah (2022-04-29)
    107. Carrion Crow (2022-04-29)
    108. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-04-29)
    109. Red-headed Bunting (2022-04-29)
    110. Tawny Pipit (2022-05-01)
    111. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2022-05-01)
    112. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-01)
    113. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2022-05-01)
    114. Rock Sparrow (2022-05-01)
    115. Eurasian Crag Martin (2022-05-01)
    116. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-05-01)
    117. Montagu's Harrier (2022-05-01)
    118. Golden Eagle (2022-05-01)
    119. White-winged Tern (2022-05-01)
    120. Northern Wheatear (2022-05-01)
    121. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-01)
    122. Eurasian Roller (2022-05-01)
    123. White-capped Bunting (2022-05-08)
    124. Blue Rock Thrush (2022-05-08)
    125. Common Nightingale (2022-05-08)
    126. Hume's Whitethroat (2022-05-08)
    127. Northern House Martin (2022-05-08)
    128. Common Crane (2022-05-08)
    129. Black Kite (2022-05-08)
    130. Red-billed Chough (2022-05-08)
    131. Lesser Kestrel (2022-05-08)
    132. Common Swift (2022-05-09)
    133. Black Stork (2022-05-09)
    134. Cinereous Vulture (2022-05-09)
    135. Barn Swallow (2022-05-09)
    136. Temminck's Stint (2022-05-09)
    137. Pallas's Gull (2022-05-09)
    138. Horned Lark (2022-05-09)
    139. Himalayan Vulture (2022-05-09)
    140. Ibisbill (2022-05-09)
    141. Lammergeier (2022-05-10)
    142. Grey-necked Bunting (2022-05-11)
    143. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2022-05-11)
    144. Eurasian Hobby (2022-05-14)
    145. Common Buzzard (2022-05-14)
    146. Rosy Starling (2022-06-18)
    147. Long-tailed Shrike (2022-08-02)
    148. Common Kestrel (2022-08-02)
    149. Steppe Grey Shrike (2022-08-02)
    150. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2022-08-02)
    151. Little Stint (2022-08-02)
    152. Booted Warbler (2022-08-02)
    153. Common Rosefinch (2022-08-02)
    154. Spanish Sparrow (2022-08-02)
    155. Common Pochard (2022-08-02)
    156. Greenish Warbler (2022-08-03)
    157. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-08-03)
    158. Collared Pratincole (2022-08-03)
    159. Common Tern (2022-08-03)
    160. Pacific Golden Plover (2022-08-03)
    161. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-08-03)
    162. Common Greenshank (2022-08-03)
    163. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-08-03)
    164. Greater Sand Plover (2022-08-03)
    165. Common Kingfisher (2022-08-03)
    166. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-09-04)
    167. Bluethroat (2022-09-04)
    168. Cetti's Warbler (2022-09-04)
    169. Ortolan Bunting (2022-09-04)
    170. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-09-04)
    171. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-09-04)
    172. Ruff (2022-09-04)
    173. Wood Sandpiper (2022-09-04)
    174. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-09-04)
    175. Dunlin (2022-09-04)
    176. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2022-09-04)
    177. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-09-18)
    178. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-09-18)
    179. Slavonian Grebe (2022-09-18)
    180. Common Chaffinch (2022-09-18)
    181. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-10-24)
    182. Azure Tit (2022-10-24)
    183. Rough-legged Buzzard (2022-10-24)
    184. Desert Finch (2022-10-24)
    185. Asian Short-toed Lark (2022-10-24)
    186. White-winged Grosbeak (2022-12-10)
    187. Great Tit (2022-12-10)

    recent uploads

    2022-12-10. White-winged Grosbeak, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Great Tit, Eurasian Magpie.

    2022-10-26. Smew, Desert Finch, Common Redshank, Asian Short-toed Lark, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2022-10-25. Whooper Swan, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Rough-legged Buzzard, Upland Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2022-10-24. Common Sparrowhawk, Northern Reed Bunting, Pygmy Cormorant, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Azure Tit, Steppe Eagle.

    2022-09-21. White-winged Tern, Slavonian Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Eagle-Owl.

    2022-09-20. Steppe Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Little Stint, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-winged Tern.

    2022-09-19. Pygmy Cormorant, Oriental Turtle Dove, Black-headed Gull, Great Cormorant, Little Bustard.

    2022-09-10. Kentish Plover, Eurasian Eagle-Owl.

    2022-09-09. Ruddy Turnstone, Ruff, Pacific Golden Plover, Little Bustard, Steppe Eagle, Wood Sandpiper, Northern Lapwing, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Imperial Eagle, White Wagtail, Dunlin.

    2022-09-08. Paddyfield Warbler, Bluethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Ortolan Bunting, Red-necked Phalarope.

    2022-09-07. Montagu's Harrier, Montagu's Harrier, Montagu's Harrier.

    2022-08-16. Great Cormorant, Common Kingfisher, Greater Sand Plover, Common Redshank.

    2022-08-15. Common Tern, Pacific Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Hoopoe, Common Oystercatcher, Common Shelduck, Pied Avocet, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Black-crowned Night Heron.

    2022-08-14. Spotted Flycatcher, Eurasian Hobby, Greenish Warbler, Garganey, White-headed Duck, Common Pochard, Collared Pratincole.

    2022-08-13. Montagu's Harrier, Mallard, Greenish Warbler, 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...

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