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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
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  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
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    total species: 197
    total photos: 841
    total videos: 0
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    1. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-01-01)
    2. Mallard (2024-01-01)
    3. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-01)
    4. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
    5. Common Starling (2024-01-01)
    6. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-01)
    7. Smew (2024-01-01)
    8. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-01)
    9. Mute Swan (2024-01-01)
    10. Tufted Duck (2024-01-01)
    11. Caspian Gull (2024-01-01)
    12. Whooper Swan (2024-01-01)
    13. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-01)
    14. Northern Pintail (2024-01-01)
    15. Greater Flamingo (2024-01-01)
    16. Rook (2024-01-01)
    17. Hooded Crow (2024-01-01)
    18. Common Kestrel (2024-01-01)
    19. Mew Gull (2024-01-01)
    20. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
    21. Hawfinch (2024-01-01)
    22. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
    23. Greater Scaup (2024-01-01)
    24. Common Snipe (2024-01-01)
    25. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-01)
    26. Great White Egret (2024-01-01)
    27. Grey Heron (2024-01-01)
    28. Bewick's Swan (2024-01-01)
    29. Common Coot (2024-01-01)
    30. Common Pochard (2024-01-01)
    31. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
    32. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-02)
    33. Hen Harrier (2024-01-02)
    34. House Sparrow (2024-01-05)
    35. Desert Finch (2024-01-06)
    36. Crested Lark (2024-01-06)
    37. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-06)
    38. Common Raven (2024-01-07)
    39. Fieldfare (2024-01-07)
    40. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-01-08)
    41. Little Egret (2024-01-09)
    42. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-09)
    43. Bearded Tit (2024-01-09)
    44. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-09)
    45. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-01-09)
    46. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-16)
    47. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-19)
    48. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-19)
    49. Goosander (2024-01-19)
    50. Gadwall (2024-01-19)
    51. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-19)
    52. Common Teal (2024-01-19)
    53. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-21)
    54. Brambling (2024-01-21)
    55. Yellowhammer (2024-01-21)
    56. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-24)
    57. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-04)
    58. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-04)
    59. Great Tit (2024-02-04)
    60. Ring-billed Gull (2024-02-09)
    61. Great Crested Grebe (2024-02-10)
    62. Tree Sparrow (2024-02-10)
    63. Northern Wren (2024-02-11)
    64. Common Goldeneye (2024-02-11)
    66. Golden Eagle (2024-03-03)
    67. Common Shelduck (2024-03-07)
    68. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-03-07)
    69. White Wagtail (2024-03-10)
    70. Ruff (2024-03-10)
    71. White-headed Duck (2024-03-10)
    72. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-10)
    73. Garganey (2024-03-10)
    74. Steppe Eagle (2024-03-10)
    75. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-12)
    76. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-16)
    77. Mistle Thrush (2024-03-22)
    78. Hoopoe (2024-03-23)
    79. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-23)
    80. Pallid Harrier (2024-03-24)
    81. Black-winged Stilt (2024-03-24)
    82. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-03-24)
    83. Black Redstart (2024-03-24)
    84. Merlin (2024-03-24)
    85. Green Sandpiper (2024-03-24)
    86. Common Swift (2024-03-25)
    87. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-03-25)
    88. Black Kite (2024-03-25)
    89. Bluethroat (2024-03-29)
    90. Pied Avocet (2024-03-29)
    91. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-29)
    92. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-29)
    93. Song Thrush (2024-03-30)
    94. Dunlin (2024-03-30)
    95. Finsch's Wheatear (2024-03-30)
    96. Kentish Plover (2024-03-30)
    97. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-30)
    98. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-03-30)
    99. Greater Sand Plover (2024-03-30)
    100. Alpine Swift (2024-03-31)
    101. Cinereous Vulture (2024-03-31)
    102. Bimaculated Lark (2024-03-31)
    103. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-31)
    104. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-02)
    105. Barn Swallow (2024-04-05)
    106. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-05)
    107. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-05)
    108. Purple Heron (2024-04-06)
    109. Masked Wagtail (2024-04-06)
    110. European Robin (2024-04-06)
    111. Glossy Ibis (2024-04-06)
    112. Tree Pipit (2024-04-07)
    113. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-04-07)
    114. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-04-09)
    115. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-10)
    116. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-04-10)
    117. Little Tern (2024-04-10)
    118. Slender-billed Gull (2024-04-10)
    119. Common Tern (2024-04-10)
    120. Pallas's Gull (2024-04-10)
    121. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-04-13)
    122. Common Redshank (2024-04-14)
    123. Sandwich Tern (2024-04-14)
    124. Calandra Lark (2024-04-27)
    125. Sand Martin (2024-04-27)
    126. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-28)
    127. Gull-billed Tern (2024-04-28)
    128. Common Greenshank (2024-04-29)
    129. Temminck's Stint (2024-04-29)
    130. Wood Sandpiper (2024-04-29)
    131. European Bee-eater (2024-04-29)
    132. Egyptian Vulture (2024-04-30)
    133. Rosy Starling (2024-04-30)
    134. Eurasian Redstart (2024-04-30)
    135. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-02)
    136. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-02)
    137. Little Stint (2024-05-02)
    138. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-05-02)
    139. Cattle Egret (2024-05-04)
    140. White-winged Tern (2024-05-06)
    141. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-05-08)
    142. Laughing Dove (2024-05-09)
    143. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-09)
    144. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-09)
    145. Sedge Warbler (2024-05-09)
    146. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-09)
    147. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-09)
    148. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-05-11)
    149. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-05-15)
    150. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-20)
    151. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-05-20)
    152. Red-headed Bunting (2024-06-01)
    153. Great Reed Warbler (2024-06-01)
    154. Collared Pratincole (2024-06-01)
    155. Caspian Plover (2024-06-02)
    156. Shikra (2024-06-03)
    157. Common Rosefinch (2024-06-05)
    158. Desert Wheatear (2024-06-15)
    159. Little Owl (2024-06-23)
    160. Tawny Pipit (2024-06-30)
    161. Horned Lark (2024-07-04)
    162. Rock Sparrow (2024-07-06)
    163. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-07-15)
    164. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-08-02)
    165. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-08-08)
    166. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-08-26)
    167. Northern Lapwing (2024-09-01)
    168. Levant Sparrowhawk (2024-09-01)
    169. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-09-10)
    170. Ortolan Bunting (2024-09-14)
    171. Grey Wagtail (2024-09-14)
    172. Chukar Partridge (2024-09-15)
    173. Griffon Vulture (2024-09-21)
    174. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-09-21)
    175. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-21)
    176. Saker Falcon (2024-09-21)
    177. Willow Warbler (2024-10-05)
    178. Hume's Warbler (2024-10-06)
    179. Little Grebe (2024-10-08)
    180. Redwing (2024-10-27)
    181. Common Mynah (2024-11-05)
    182. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-11-05)
    183. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-11-06)
    184. Black-throated Thrush (2024-11-06)
    185. Carrion Crow (2024-11-06)
    186. Common Pheasant (2024-11-06)
    187. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-11-09)
    188. Lammergeier (2024-11-10)
    189. Coal Tit (2024-11-10)
    190. Songar Tit (2024-11-10)
    191. Ibisbill (2024-11-12)
    192. Eurasian Dipper (2024-11-12)
    193. Brown Dipper (2024-11-12)
    194. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-11-15)
    195. Eurasian Siskin (2024-11-15)
    196. European Greenfinch (2024-11-15)
    197. Red-fronted Serin (2024-11-16)

    recent uploads

    2024-11-18. Common Pheasant.

    2024-11-16. Red-fronted Serin, Common Kestrel.

    2024-11-15. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Eurasian Siskin, European Greenfinch.

    2024-11-13. Yellow-billed Chough, Yellow-billed Chough.

    2024-11-12. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Blackbird, Ibisbill, Eurasian Dipper, Brown Dipper, Unkown Bird, Hooded Crow, Eurasian Magpie.

    2024-11-11. Common Starling.

    2024-11-10. Lammergeier, Coal Tit, Songar Tit.

    2024-11-09. Yellow-billed Chough.

    2024-11-08. Laughing Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2024-11-06. Eurasian Blackbird, Great Tit, Black-throated Thrush, Carrion Crow, Common Pheasant, Common Kestrel, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2024-11-05. Common Mynah, White-Winged Woodpecker, Ruddy Shelduck, Tree Sparrow, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2024-10-28. Common Cuckoo.

    2024-10-27. Redwing, Eurasian Redstart, Common Raven, Eurasian Collared Dove.

    2024-10-26. Eurasian Collared Dove, Laughing Dove, Song Thrush, House Sparrow.

    2024-10-21. Common Raven, Hawfinch.

    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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