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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
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  • Emberizidae

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    total species: 222
    total photos: 834
    total videos: 0
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    1. Mallard (2025-01-03)
    2. Black-headed Gull (2025-01-03)
    3. Crested Lark (2025-01-03)
    4. Great White Egret (2025-01-03)
    5. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-03)
    6. Common Coot (2025-01-03)
    7. Great Cormorant (2025-01-03)
    8. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-03)
    9. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-01-03)
    10. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-03)
    11. Caspian Gull (2025-01-03)
    12. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-03)
    13. Mute Swan (2025-01-03)
    14. Tufted Duck (2025-01-03)
    15. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-01-03)
    16. Grey Heron (2025-01-03)
    17. Common Pochard (2025-01-03)
    18. Greater Flamingo (2025-01-03)
    19. Goosander (2025-01-03)
    20. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-01-03)
    21. Mew Gull (2025-01-03)
    22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-04)
    23. Hooded Crow (2025-01-04)
    24. Rook (2025-01-04)
    25. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-04)
    26. Common Raven (2025-01-04)
    27. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-04)
    28. House Sparrow (2025-01-06)
    29. Common Starling (2025-01-07)
    30. Common Kestrel (2025-01-07)
    31. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-09)
    32. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-12)
    33. European Robin (2025-01-13)
    34. Bewick's Swan (2025-01-13)
    35. Whooper Swan (2025-01-13)
    36. Common Teal (2025-01-13)
    37. Northern Pintail (2025-01-13)
    38. Black Redstart (2025-01-13)
    39. Gadwall (2025-01-13)
    40. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-01-13)
    41. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-13)
    42. Meadow Pipit (2025-01-13)
    43. Common Snipe (2025-01-13)
    44. Bearded Tit (2025-01-13)
    45. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-13)
    46. Desert Finch (2025-01-13)
    47. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-13)
    48. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-13)
    49. Common Greenshank (2025-01-13)
    50. Slender-billed Gull (2025-01-13)
    51. Little Grebe (2025-01-13)
    52. Wood Pigeon (2025-01-16)
    53. Sky Lark (2025-01-16)
    54. Dunnock (2025-01-16)
    55. Cetti's Warbler (2025-01-16)
    57. Fieldfare (2025-01-16)
    58. Black Kite (2025-01-23)
    59. Great Tit (2025-02-09)
    60. Eurasian Magpie (2025-02-09)
    61. Azure Tit (2025-02-09)
    62. Grey Partridge (2025-02-09)
    63. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-02-09)
    64. Lammergeier (2025-02-19)
    65. Chukar Partridge (2025-02-19)
    66. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-02-19)
    67. Golden Eagle (2025-02-19)
    68. Rock Sparrow (2025-02-19)
    69. Little Owl (2025-02-19)
    70. Cinereous Vulture (2025-02-19)
    71. Hen Harrier (2025-02-20)
    72. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-25)
    73. Kentish Plover (2025-02-25)
    74. Dunlin (2025-02-25)
    75. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-02-25)
    76. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-03-04)
    77. Black-throated Thrush (2025-03-04)
    78. Common Shelduck (2025-03-13)
    79. White Wagtail (2025-03-13)
    80. Green Sandpiper (2025-03-13)
    81. Red-crested Pochard (2025-03-13)
    82. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-03-13)
    83. Ruff (2025-03-14)
    84. Brambling (2025-03-14)
    85. Stock Pigeon (2025-03-14)
    86. White-headed Duck (2025-03-14)
    87. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-15)
    88. Laughing Dove (2025-03-17)
    89. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-03-19)
    90. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-21)
    91. Hoopoe (2025-03-25)
    92. Garganey (2025-03-25)
    93. Glossy Ibis (2025-03-25)
    94. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-25)
    95. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-03-25)
    96. Common Swift (2025-03-30)
    97. Black-winged Stilt (2025-03-30)
    98. Barn Swallow (2025-03-30)
    99. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-01)
    100. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-04-01)
    101. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-03)
    102. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-03)
    103. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-03)
    104. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-04-03)
    105. Bimaculated Lark (2025-04-05)
    106. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-05)
    107. Greater Sand Plover (2025-04-06)
    108. Desert Wheatear (2025-04-06)
    109. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-07)
    110. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-09)
    111. Willow Warbler (2025-04-09)
    112. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-10)
    113. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-10)
    114. Alpine Swift (2025-04-11)
    115. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-15)
    116. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-19)
    117. Griffon Vulture (2025-04-20)
    118. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-21)
    119. Indian Sparrow (2025-04-21)
    120. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-23)
    121. Pied Bushchat (2025-04-24)
    122. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-04-24)
    123. Macqueen's Bustard (2025-04-24)
    124. Horned Lark (2025-04-27)
    125. White-winged Tern (2025-05-01)
    126. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-01)
    127. Sand Martin (2025-05-01)
    128. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-01)
    129. Rosy Starling (2025-05-01)
    130. European Bee-eater (2025-05-01)
    131. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-01)
    132. Gull-billed Tern (2025-05-05)
    133. Calandra Lark (2025-05-05)
    134. Whinchat (2025-05-06)
    135. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-06)
    136. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-07)
    137. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-07)
    138. Pied Avocet (2025-05-09)
    139. Whiskered Tern (2025-05-09)
    140. Common Tern (2025-05-09)
    141. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-09)
    142. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-09)
    143. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-09)
    144. Little Stint (2025-05-09)
    145. Little Tern (2025-05-09)
    146. Squacco Heron (2025-05-09)
    147. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-09)
    148. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-09)
    149. Purple Heron (2025-05-10)
    150. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-10)
    151. Little Egret (2025-05-10)
    152. Syke's Warbler (2025-05-10)
    153. Lesser Kestrel (2025-05-10)
    154. Black-headed Bunting (2025-05-14)
    155. Long-tailed Shrike (2025-05-19)
    156. Common Mynah (2025-05-19)
    157. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-19)
    158. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-21)
    159. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-21)
    160. Red-billed Chough (2025-05-21)
    161. Common Moorhen (2025-05-23)
    162. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-05-23)
    163. Northern Lapwing (2025-05-23)
    164. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-05-23)
    165. Carrion Crow (2025-05-23)
    166. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-23)
    167. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-23)
    168. Common Pheasant (2025-05-24)
    169. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-05-29)
    170. Tree Pipit (2025-05-29)
    171. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-05-29)
    172. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-29)
    173. Red Crossbill (2025-05-29)
    174. Mistle Thrush (2025-05-31)
    175. Booted Eagle (2025-05-31)
    176. Rock Bunting (2025-05-31)
    177. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-31)
    178. Common Oystercatcher (2025-06-06)
    179. Common Redshank (2025-06-06)
    180. Great White Pelican (2025-06-06)
    181. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-06-06)
    182. Common Buzzard (2025-06-06)
    183. Brown Dipper (2025-06-07)
    184. Ferruginous Duck (2025-06-15)
    185. Tawny Pipit (2025-06-19)
    186. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-07-16)
    187. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-07-19)
    188. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-07-19)
    189. Steppe Eagle (2025-07-25)
    190. Terek Sandpiper (2025-07-30)
    191. Sanderling (2025-07-30)
    192. Caspian Tern (2025-08-01)
    193. Sandwich Tern (2025-08-01)
    194. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-08-01)
    195. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-01)
    196. Common Quail (2025-08-01)
    197. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-08-01)
    198. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-08-01)
    199. Northern House Martin (2025-08-01)
    200. Spotted Redshank (2025-08-01)
    201. Little Bittern (2025-08-02)
    202. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-08-02)
    203. Eurasian Curlew (2025-08-02)
    204. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-08-06)
    205. Booted Warbler (2025-08-09)
    206. Long-eared Owl (2025-08-19)
    207. Red-throated Pipit (2025-08-31)
    208. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-09-01)
    209. European Nightjar (2025-09-06)
    210. Montagu's Harrier (2025-09-06)
    211. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-09-14)
    212. Pallid Harrier (2025-09-14)
    213. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-09-22)
    214. Wallcreeper (2025-09-22)
    215. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-10-07)
    216. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-10-07)
    217. Songar Tit (2025-10-07)
    218. Ibisbill (2025-10-08)
    219. Eurasian Bittern (2025-10-23)
    220. Bluethroat (2025-10-23)
    221. Merlin (2025-11-13)
    222. White-winged Lark (2025-12-21)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-31. White-winged Lark, Golden Eagle, Common Raven, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-11-17. Bewick's Swan, Mute Swan, Grey Heron, Great White Egret, Black-headed Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, Great Cormorant, Common Coot, Mallard, Whooper Swan, Red-breasted Merganser, Great Cormorant, Pygmy Cormorant, Merlin.

    2025-11-09. Long-legged Buzzard.

    2025-10-29. Bluethroat.

    2025-10-24. Eurasian Bittern, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

    2025-10-17. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-10-08. Ibisbill.

    2025-10-07. Yellow-billed Chough, Spotted Nutcracker, Songar Tit, Azure Tit.

    2025-10-05. Wallcreeper.

    2025-09-22. Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2025-09-20. Desert Wheatear, Common Chiffchaff, Rock Sparrow, Common Raven, Common Raven, Chukar Partridge.

    2025-09-15. Pallas's Sandgrouse, Pallid Harrier, Steppe Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2025-09-06. European Nightjar, Montagu's Harrier, Whinchat.

    2025-09-01. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Northern Lapwing, Red-backed Shrike, Common Whitethroat, Steppe Buzzard, Yellow Wagtail, Ruff, Common Pochard, Sanderling.

    2025-08-31. Greater Ringed Plover, Red-throated Pipit, Sanderling, Green Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Shelduck, Common Snipe, Grey Wagtail, Dunlin.

    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...