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Gaviiformes
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    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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    • Anseriformes
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  • Tetraonidae
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  • Burhinidae
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 136
    total photos: 583
    total videos: 1
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Grey Shrike (2014-01-08)
    2. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2014-01-08)
    3. Common Goldeneye (2014-01-11)
    4. Smew (2014-01-11)
    5. Mallard (2014-01-12)
    6. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2014-01-12)
    7. Black-throated Thrush (2014-01-14)
    8. Common Redpoll (2014-01-14)
    9. Eurasian Siskin (2014-01-15)
    10. Eurasian Goldfinch (2014-01-15)
    11. Azure Tit (2014-01-15)
    12. European Greenfinch (2014-01-16)
    13. Fieldfare (2014-01-16)
    14. Eurasian Dipper (2014-01-16)
    15. Eurasian Nuthatch (2014-01-16)
    16. Northern Bullfinch (2014-01-16)
    17. Redwing (2014-01-19)
    18. Bohemian Waxwing (2014-01-19)
    19. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2014-01-20)
    20. Goosander (2014-01-22)
    21. Great Tit (2014-01-22)
    22. Eurasian Blackbird (2014-01-29)
    23. Northern Reed Bunting (2014-02-11)
    24. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2014-02-11)
    25. Baikal Bullfinch (2014-02-15)
    26. Whooper Swan (2014-02-18)
    27. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2014-02-22)
    28. Brambling (2014-02-24)
    29. White-Backed Woodpecker (2014-03-03)
    30. Rock Pigeon (2014-03-07)
    31. Eurasian Jackdaw (2014-03-19)
    32. Common Buzzard (2014-03-19)
    33. Caspian Gull (2014-03-19)
    34. Common Chaffinch (2014-03-26)
    35. Common Kestrel (2014-03-26)
    36. Masked Wagtail (2014-03-26)
    37. Black-headed Gull (2014-03-28)
    38. Yellowhammer (2014-04-01)
    39. Meadow Bunting (2014-04-01)
    40. Black Kite (2014-04-01)
    41. White Wagtail (2014-04-16)
    42. Osprey (2014-04-18)
    43. Common Pochard (2014-04-18)
    44. Northern Shoveler (2014-04-18)
    45. Black-tailed Godwit (2014-04-18)
    46. Common Redshank (2014-04-18)
    47. Ruddy Shelduck (2014-04-18)
    48. Northern Lapwing (2014-04-18)
    49. Common Starling (2014-04-18)
    50. Black-Necked Grebe (2014-04-22)
    51. Garganey (2014-04-22)
    52. Northern Pintail (2014-04-22)
    53. Peregrine Falcon (2014-04-22)
    54. Common Sparrowhawk (2014-04-25)
    55. Tree Pipit (2014-04-25)
    56. Green Sandpiper (2014-04-25)
    57. Song Thrush (2014-04-29)
    58. Coal Tit (2014-04-29)
    59. Eurasian Redstart (2014-04-29)
    60. Yellow Wagtail (2014-05-04)
    61. Pied Wheatear (2014-05-05)
    62. Eurasian Hobby (2014-05-05)
    63. Common Crane (2014-05-06)
    64. Tawny Pipit (2014-05-12)
    65. Siberian Stonechat (2014-05-12)
    66. Grey Wagtail (2014-05-12)
    67. Lesser Whitethroat (2014-05-12)
    68. Eurasian Magpie (2014-05-12)
    69. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2014-05-13)
    70. Common Cuckoo (2014-05-13)
    71. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2014-05-15)
    72. Great White Egret (2014-05-15)
    73. Baraba Steppe Gull (2014-05-15)
    74. Common Nightingale (2014-05-15)
    75. Oriental Turtle Dove (2014-05-15)
    76. Booted Warbler (2014-05-19)
    77. Common Rosefinch (2014-05-19)
    78. Paddyfield Warbler (2014-05-22)
    79. Red-backed Shrike (2014-05-22)
    80. Spotted Flycatcher (2014-05-23)
    81. Common Whitethroat (2014-05-27)
    82. Common Chiffchaff (2014-05-27)
    83. Common Tern (2014-05-27)
    84. Hooded Crow (2014-05-29)
    85. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2014-05-29)
    86. Great Reed Warbler (2014-06-01)
    87. Citrine Wagtail (2014-06-01)
    88. Demoiselle Crane (2014-06-01)
    89. Tree Sparrow (2014-06-01)
    90. Greenish Warbler (2014-06-03)
    91. Red-headed Bunting (2014-06-05)
    92. Eurasian Linnet (2014-06-05)
    93. Northern Wheatear (2014-06-06)
    94. Short-eared Owl (2014-06-10)
    95. European Golden Oriole (2014-06-10)
    96. Long-eared Owl (2014-06-12)
    97. Common Oystercatcher (2014-06-12)
    98. Indian Sparrow (2014-06-18)
    99. Red-crested Pochard (2014-06-18)
    100. Savi's Warbler (2014-06-18)
    101. Eurasian Roller (2014-06-18)
    102. Bearded Tit (2014-06-18)
    103. Greater Short-toed Lark (2014-06-18)
    104. Pallas's Gull (2014-06-18)
    105. Hoopoe (2014-06-18)
    106. Caspian Tern (2014-06-18)
    107. Ferruginous Duck (2014-06-18)
    108. Black-headed Wagtail (2014-06-18)
    109. Common Teal (2014-06-18)
    110. Turkestan Shrike (2014-06-18)
    111. Common Coot (2014-06-18)
    112. Black-winged Stilt (2014-06-18)
    113. Little Ringed Plover (2014-06-18)
    114. Great Crested Grebe (2014-06-18)
    115. Barn Swallow (2014-06-18)
    116. Northern House Martin (2014-06-18)
    117. Rosy Starling (2014-06-20)
    118. Lesser Grey Shrike (2014-06-20)
    119. Bluethroat (2014-06-20)
    120. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2014-06-20)
    121. Sedge Warbler (2014-06-20)
    122. House Sparrow (2014-07-01)
    123. Common Kingfisher (2014-08-01)
    124. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2014-08-01)
    125. Great Cormorant (2014-08-01)
    126. Rook (2014-08-14)
    127. Little Stint (2014-08-21)
    128. Cetti's Warbler (2014-08-21)
    129. Hume's Warbler (2014-08-21)
    130. Northern Black Grouse (2014-09-18)
    131. Pine Bunting (2014-09-28)
    132. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2014-10-18)
    133. Eurasian Wigeon (2014-10-18)
    134. Willow Tit (2014-10-23)
    135. Eurasian Jay (2014-10-23)
    136. Black Woodpecker (2014-10-23)

    recent uploads

    2014-12-21. Mallard.

    2014-12-09. Great Reed Warbler.

    2014-12-08. Great Reed Warbler.

    2014-11-22. Bohemian Waxwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2014-11-02. Coal Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch.

    2014-10-24. Eurasian Jay, Black Woodpecker.

    2014-10-23. Willow Tit.

    2014-10-21. Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2014-10-20. Northern Black Grouse.

    2014-10-19. Hume's Warbler, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Wigeon.

    2014-10-18. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2014-10-08. European Greenfinch, Common Chaffinch, Black-throated Thrush, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2014-09-28. Pine Bunting, Hume's Warbler, Great Tit.

    2014-09-21. Common Chaffinch.

    2014-09-18. Eurasian Linnet.

    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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    2026-01-18
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    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)

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    unidentified birds

    2026-06-22

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    2026-06-21

    Андрей Коваленко: По фото вряд ли, но в это время там только луговые...
    2026-06-18

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    2026-06-18

    Юрий Малков: Спасибо Анна и Андрей.
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