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    total species: 206
    total photos: 627
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 20

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    1. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-02-04)
    2. Eastern Buzzard (2024-02-04)
    3. Long-eared Owl (2024-02-04)
    4. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-04)
    5. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-04)
    6. Hooded Crow (2024-02-04)
    7. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-02-04)
    8. Boreal Owl (2024-02-04)
    9. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-02-04)
    10. Yellowhammer (2024-02-04)
    11. Water Pipit (2024-02-11)
    12. Meadow Pipit (2024-02-11)
    13. Little Grebe (2024-02-11)
    14. Common Pheasant (2024-02-11)
    15. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-02-11)
    16. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-02-11)
    17. Sky Lark (2024-02-11)
    18. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-02-11)
    19. Green Sandpiper (2024-02-11)
    20. Steppe Eagle (2024-02-11)
    21. Common Kestrel (2024-02-11)
    22. Whooper Swan (2024-02-11)
    23. Smew (2024-02-11)
    24. Common Goldeneye (2024-02-11)
    25. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-02-11)
    26. Bewick's Swan (2024-02-11)
    27. Goosander (2024-02-11)
    28. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-03-22)
    29. Rock Bunting (2024-03-22)
    30. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-03-22)
    31. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-22)
    32. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-22)
    33. Pallas's Gull (2024-03-22)
    34. Red-crested Pochard (2024-03-22)
    35. Northern Pintail (2024-03-22)
    36. Tufted Duck (2024-03-22)
    37. Grey Heron (2024-03-22)
    38. Bearded Tit (2024-03-22)
    39. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-03-22)
    40. Hoopoe (2024-03-22)
    41. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-22)
    42. Little Ringed Plover (2024-03-22)
    43. Common Shelduck (2024-03-22)
    44. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-22)
    45. Common Redshank (2024-03-22)
    46. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-22)
    47. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-03-22)
    48. Turkestan Shrike (2024-03-22)
    49. Greylag Goose (2024-03-22)
    50. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-22)
    51. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-22)
    52. Desert Finch (2024-03-22)
    53. Black Redstart (2024-03-22)
    54. Eurasian Linnet (2024-03-22)
    55. Spanish Sparrow (2024-03-22)
    56. House Sparrow (2024-03-23)
    57. Northern Wheatear (2024-03-23)
    58. Little Bustard (2024-03-23)
    59. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-03-23)
    60. Bimaculated Lark (2024-03-23)
    61. Hen Harrier (2024-03-23)
    62. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-23)
    63. Chukar Partridge (2024-03-23)
    64. Grey Partridge (2024-03-23)
    65. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-03-24)
    66. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-24)
    67. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-24)
    68. Black-throated Accentor (2024-03-24)
    69. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-03-24)
    70. Turkestan Tit (2024-03-24)
    71. Eurasian Siskin (2024-03-24)
    72. Rock Pigeon (2024-03-24)
    73. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-24)
    74. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-24)
    75. Bluethroat (2024-03-24)
    76. Calandra Lark (2024-03-24)
    77. Tawny Pipit (2024-03-24)
    78. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-03-31)
    79. Siberian Stonechat (2024-03-31)
    80. Great Cormorant (2024-03-31)
    81. Alpine Swift (2024-03-31)
    82. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-03-31)
    83. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-04-07)
    84. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-07)
    85. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-04-28)
    86. Great White Pelican (2024-04-28)
    87. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-28)
    88. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-28)
    89. Northern Shoveler (2024-04-28)
    90. Ferruginous Duck (2024-04-28)
    91. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-04-28)
    92. Common Pochard (2024-04-28)
    93. Garganey (2024-04-28)
    94. Caspian Gull (2024-04-28)
    95. Great Crested Grebe (2024-04-28)
    96. Common Moorhen (2024-04-28)
    97. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-28)
    98. Eurasian Roller (2024-04-28)
    99. Eurasian Curlew (2024-04-28)
    100. Grey Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    101. Common Greenshank (2024-04-28)
    102. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-04-28)
    103. Common Tern (2024-04-28)
    104. Black Tern (2024-04-28)
    105. Barn Swallow (2024-04-28)
    106. Corn Bunting (2024-04-28)
    107. Gadwall (2024-04-28)
    108. Common Teal (2024-04-28)
    109. White Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    110. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    111. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    112. Northern Lapwing (2024-04-28)
    113. Syke's Warbler (2024-04-28)
    114. White-headed Duck (2024-04-28)
    115. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-04-28)
    116. Barred Warbler (2024-05-07)
    117. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-05-07)
    118. Common Nightingale (2024-05-07)
    119. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-07)
    120. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2024-05-07)
    121. Hume's Warbler (2024-05-07)
    122. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-07)
    123. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-07)
    124. Ortolan Bunting (2024-05-07)
    125. Common Kingfisher (2024-05-07)
    126. Greater Sand Plover (2024-05-07)
    127. Indian Sparrow (2024-05-07)
    128. Rosy Starling (2024-05-07)
    129. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-07)
    130. Shikra (2024-05-07)
    131. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2024-05-07)
    132. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-05-08)
    133. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-08)
    134. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-05-08)
    135. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-08)
    136. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-08)
    137. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-08)
    138. White-capped Bunting (2024-05-09)
    139. Golden Eagle (2024-05-09)
    140. Lesser Kestrel (2024-05-09)
    141. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-05-09)
    142. Northern House Martin (2024-05-09)
    143. Mongolian Finch (2024-05-09)
    144. Rock Sparrow (2024-05-09)
    145. Little Owl (2024-05-09)
    146. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-05-09)
    147. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-05-09)
    148. European Bee-eater (2024-05-09)
    149. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-05-09)
    150. Spotted Redshank (2024-05-11)
    151. Great Reed Warbler (2024-05-11)
    152. Little Bittern (2024-05-11)
    153. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-05-11)
    154. Little Stint (2024-05-11)
    155. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-05-11)
    156. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-11)
    157. Gull-billed Tern (2024-05-11)
    158. Lesser Sand Plover (2024-05-11)
    159. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-05-11)
    160. White-winged Tern (2024-05-11)
    161. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-11)
    162. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-06-08)
    163. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-06-08)
    164. Common Swift (2024-06-29)
    165. Mallard (2024-06-29)
    166. Eurasian Hobby (2024-08-30)
    167. Red-backed Shrike (2024-08-30)
    168. Montagu's Harrier (2024-08-30)
    169. Tree Pipit (2024-08-30)
    170. Greenish Warbler (2024-08-30)
    171. Pallid Harrier (2024-08-30)
    172. Booted Eagle (2024-08-31)
    173. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-08-31)
    174. European Golden Oriole (2024-08-31)
    175. Great Tit (2024-08-31)
    176. Common Rosefinch (2024-08-31)
    177. Grey Plover (2024-09-08)
    178. Common Snipe (2024-09-08)
    179. Sanderling (2024-09-08)
    180. Common Coot (2024-09-08)
    181. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-08)
    182. Ruff (2024-09-08)
    183. Kentish Plover (2024-09-08)
    184. Black-headed Gull (2024-09-08)
    185. Wood Sandpiper (2024-09-08)
    186. Black Stork (2024-09-08)
    187. Slavonian Grebe (2024-09-14)
    188. Peregrine Falcon (2024-09-14)
    189. Pacific Golden Plover (2024-09-14)
    190. Booted Warbler (2024-09-14)
    191. Collared Pratincole (2024-09-14)
    192. Mute Swan (2024-09-14)
    193. Great White Egret (2024-09-14)
    194. Pied Avocet (2024-09-14)
    195. Crested Lark (2024-09-14)
    196. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-09-14)
    197. Dunlin (2024-09-14)
    198. Buff-bellied Pipit (2024-10-05)
    199. Common Crane (2024-10-05)
    200. Meadow Bunting (2024-10-05)
    201. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-10-12)
    202. Goldcrest (2024-10-12)
    203. Common Starling (2024-10-12)
    204. Horned Lark (2024-12-07)
    205. Tree Sparrow (2024-12-07)
    206. Azure Tit (2024-12-15)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-15. Great White Egret, Pygmy Cormorant, Mallard, Azure Tit, Common Pheasant.

    2024-12-13. Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Great White Egret.

    2024-12-11. White-headed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Black-Necked Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Horned Lark, Eurasian Wigeon, Tree Sparrow, Great Grey Shrike.

    2024-12-10. Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Kentish Plover, Pallas's Gull, Black-headed Gull, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great Cormorant, Smew, Goosander, Northern Reed Bunting, Hen Harrier, Great Crested Grebe, Great Crested Grebe.

    2024-12-08. Bewick's Swan.

    2024-10-15. Goldcrest, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard, Eversmann's Redstart, Common Starling, Common Moorhen.

    2024-10-14. White-crowned Penduline Tit, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Greylag Goose, Pygmy Cormorant, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Mute Swan, White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, White-headed Duck, Eastern Imperial Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

    2024-10-11. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Ring-necked Pheasant, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

    2024-10-10. Common Redshank, Buff-bellied Pipit, Common Crane, Meadow Bunting, Black-winged Stilt.

    2024-10-08. Isabelline Wheatear, Dunlin, Corn Bunting.

    2024-10-07. Common Greenshank, Water Pipit, White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, White Wagtail, Calandra Lark, Buff-bellied Pipit, Water Pipit, Peregrine Falcon.

    2024-10-06. Sanderling, Northern Reed Bunting, Mute Swan, Water Pipit, Little Grebe, Steppe Eagle, Greylag Goose.

    2024-09-18. Whooper Swan, Crested Lark, Marsh Sandpiper, Dunlin.

    2024-09-17. Greater Short-toed Lark, Common Kingfisher, Mute Swan, White Wagtail, Great White Egret, Pied Avocet, Yellow Wagtail, Black-Necked Grebe, Common Snipe, Common Teal, Common Tern.

    2024-09-16. Little Stint, Little Ringed Plover, Common Redshank, Booted Warbler, Collared Pratincole, Northern Lapwing, Little Bustard, Wood Sandpiper.

    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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    Spotted Flycatcher
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    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
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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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    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

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    Андрей Коваленко: По фото вряд ли, но в это время там только луговые...
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