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classification:

Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
  • Ardeidae
  • Threskiornithidae
  • Ciconiidae
    • Phoenicopteriformes
  • Phoenicopteridae
    • Anseriformes
  • Anatidae
    • Falconiformes
  • Pandionidae
  • Accipitridae
  • Falconidae
    • Galliformes
  • Tetraonidae
  • Phasianidae
    • Gruiformes
  • Gruidae
  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
  • Scolopacidae
  • Glareolidae
  • Stercorariidae
  • Laridae
    • Pterocletiformes
  • Pteroclidae
    • Columbiformes
  • Columbidae
    • Cuculiformes
  • Cuculidae
    • Strigiformes
  • Strigidae
    • Caprimulgiformes
  • Caprimulgidae
    • Apodiformes
  • Apodidae
    • Coraciiformes
  • Coraciidae
  • Alcedinidae
  • Meropidae
    • Upupiformes
  • Upupidae
    • Piciformes
  • Picidae
    • Passeriformes
  • Hirundinidae
  • Alaudidae
  • Motacillidae
  • Laniidae
  • Oriolidae
  • Dicruridae
  • Sturnidae
  • Corvidae
  • Bombycillidae
  • Cinclidae
  • Troglodytidae
  • Prunellidae
  • Sylviidae
  • Regulidae
  • Muscicapidae
  • Turdidae
  • Paradoxornithidae
  • Aegithalidae
  • Remizidae
  • Paridae
  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

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    total species: 121
    total photos: 446
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Golden Eagle (2020-01-02)
    2. Common Chaffinch (2020-01-15)
    3. White-Winged Woodpecker (2020-02-09)
    4. Azure Tit (2020-03-19)
    5. Isabelline Shrike (2020-03-20)
    6. Turkestan Shrike (2020-03-20)
    7. Black Kite (2020-03-21)
    8. Grey Heron (2020-03-23)
    9. Common Chiffchaff (2020-03-23)
    10. Red-crested Pochard (2020-03-24)
    11. Great White Egret (2020-03-26)
    12. Pied Wheatear (2020-03-26)
    13. Northern Reed Bunting (2020-03-27)
    14. Ferruginous Duck (2020-03-27)
    15. Black-throated Thrush (2020-03-30)
    16. Common Kestrel (2020-03-31)
    17. Black Redstart (2020-04-03)
    18. Wood Pigeon (2020-04-04)
    19. Hoopoe (2020-04-07)
    20. Great Crested Grebe (2020-04-07)
    21. Common Starling (2020-04-10)
    22. Great White Pelican (2020-04-10)
    23. Black-headed Gull (2020-04-10)
    24. Yellow Wagtail (2020-04-10)
    25. Black-headed Wagtail (2020-04-10)
    26. Common Oystercatcher (2020-04-11)
    27. Whooper Swan (2020-04-12)
    28. Common Redshank (2020-04-13)
    29. Tree Pipit (2020-04-16)
    30. Montagu's Harrier (2020-04-27)
    31. Sky Lark (2020-04-28)
    32. Calandra Lark (2020-04-28)
    33. Ruddy Shelduck (2020-04-28)
    34. Northern Lapwing (2020-05-04)
    35. Black-winged Stilt (2020-05-04)
    36. Eurasian Roller (2020-05-06)
    37. Black-crowned Night Heron (2020-05-06)
    38. Lesser Grey Shrike (2020-05-08)
    39. Red-headed Bunting (2020-05-12)
    40. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-05-12)
    41. Lesser Whitethroat (2020-05-12)
    42. Rosy Starling (2020-05-12)
    43. Long-legged Buzzard (2020-05-16)
    44. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-05-23)
    45. Eversmann's Redstart (2022-01-29)
    46. European Greenfinch (2022-01-29)
    47. Caspian Gull (2022-01-30)
    48. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-02-02)
    49. Mallard (2022-02-02)
    50. Common Pheasant (2022-02-04)
    51. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2023-04-12)
    52. Masked Wagtail (2023-07-03)
    53. Little Ringed Plover (2023-07-03)
    54. Common Mynah (2023-07-09)
    55. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-07-29)
    56. Paddyfield Warbler (2023-07-30)
    57. Northern Black Grouse (2023-10-23)
    58. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-04-12)
    59. Chukar Partridge (2024-04-17)
    60. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-04-26)
    61. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-26)
    62. Glossy Ibis (2024-08-20)
    63. Common Moorhen (2024-08-26)
    64. Greenish Warbler (2024-08-26)
    65. Temminck's Stint (2024-08-28)
    66. Great Cormorant (2024-08-28)
    67. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-10-05)
    68. Rock Bunting (2024-10-16)
    69. Cinereous Vulture (2024-10-17)
    70. Water Pipit (2024-10-17)
    71. Lesser Kestrel (2024-10-18)
    72. Barn Swallow (2024-10-18)
    73. Eastern Buzzard (2024-10-26)
    74. Yellowhammer (2024-10-26)
    75. Brambling (2024-10-26)
    76. Fieldfare (2024-11-23)
    77. Smew (2025-01-03)
    78. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-08)
    79. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-10)
    80. Common Coot (2025-03-21)
    81. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-03-22)
    82. Tufted Duck (2025-03-22)
    83. Northern Shoveler (2025-03-22)
    84. Common Buzzard (2025-03-22)
    85. Mute Swan (2025-03-22)
    86. Northern Pintail (2025-03-30)
    87. Rook (2025-03-30)
    88. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-30)
    89. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    90. Cetti's Warbler (2025-03-30)
    91. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-04-05)
    92. Rock Sparrow (2025-04-05)
    93. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-04-11)
    94. Himalayan Vulture (2025-04-11)
    95. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-11)
    96. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-04-12)
    97. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-13)
    98. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-04-18)
    99. Rock Pigeon (2025-04-18)
    100. Hume's Warbler (2025-04-18)
    101. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-18)
    102. Corn Bunting (2025-05-03)
    103. Great Reed Warbler (2025-05-10)
    104. Common Cuckoo (2025-06-13)
    105. Common Whitethroat (2025-06-14)
    106. Common Nightingale (2025-06-14)
    107. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-08-07)
    108. Common Kingfisher (2025-08-24)
    109. Black Stork (2025-09-20)
    110. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-09-21)
    111. European Nightjar (2025-09-27)
    112. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-09-27)
    113. Carrion Crow (2025-10-21)
    114. Eurasian Dipper (2025-10-23)
    115. Merlin (2025-11-09)
    116. Mistle Thrush (2025-11-09)
    117. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-11-12)
    118. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-11-12)
    119. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-11-12)
    120. Demoiselle Crane (2026-04-25)
    121. Eurasian Whimbrel (2026-06-09)

    recent uploads

    2026-06-11. Western Marsh-Harrier, Little Ringed Plover, Eurasian Whimbrel, Common Kestrel.

    2026-05-14. Demoiselle Crane.

    2025-11-17. Eversmann's Redstart.

    2025-11-16. Saxaul Sparrow, Red-mantled Rosefinch.

    2025-11-14. Common Starling.

    2025-11-13. Common Sparrowhawk, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2025-11-10. Merlin, Yellow Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, European Greenfinch.

    2025-10-26. Eurasian Dipper, Carrion Crow.

    2025-10-07. Common Buzzard.

    2025-10-06. Blue-capped Redstart, Blue-capped Redstart, European Nightjar, Short-toed Snake-Eagle.

    2025-10-01. Common Buzzard, Tree Pipit.

    2025-09-30. Long-legged Buzzard, Great Cormorant, Himalayan Vulture, Steppe Grey Shrike, Common Chiffchaff, Cinereous Vulture, Black Stork, Common Buzzard.

    2025-08-27. Long-legged Buzzard, Black-winged Stilt, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Lapwing, Western Marsh-Harrier, Dalmatian Pelican, Lesser Whitethroat, Turkestan Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Common Kingfisher, Great White Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Siberian Stonechat.

    2025-07-11. Lesser Whitethroat, Common Kestrel, Masked Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail.

    2025-06-23. Common Cuckoo, Red-headed Bunting, Common Whitethroat, Common Nightingale, Siberian Stonechat, Great White Pelican.

    2025-05-18. Pied Wheatear, Siberian Stonechat.

    2025-05-17. Corn Bunting, Chukar Partridge.

    2025-05-16. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Red-headed Bunting.

    2025-05-10. Great Reed Warbler, Turkestan Shrike, Black-headed Wagtail.

    2025-04-27. Northern Wheatear, Siberian Stonechat, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse.

    2025-04-26. Siberian Stonechat, Rock Pigeon, Barn Swallow, Hume's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Pied Wheatear, Common Starling.

    2025-04-20. Turkestan Shrike, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Pied Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Chukar Partridge, Sky Lark, Common Kestrel, Hoopoe.

    2025-04-13. Isabelline Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Eurasian Stone Curlew, Siberian Stonechat, Turkestan Shrike, Black Kite, Ruddy Shelduck, Rock Sparrow, Calandra Lark, Pied Wheatear, Blue-capped Redstart, Himalayan Vulture, Grey Wagtail, Rock Bunting, Siberian Stonechat, Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Jackdaw, Eurasian Collared Dove, Egyptian Vulture.

    2025-04-05. Black Kite, Northern Pintail, Common Oystercatcher, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Ruddy Shelduck, Rook, Common Moorhen, Turkestan Shrike, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Kestrel, Steppe Buzzard, Citrine Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff.

    2025-03-24. Common Buzzard, Mute Swan, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-03-23. Pied Wheatear, Red-crested Pochard, Ruddy Shelduck, Dalmatian Pelican, Eversmann's Redstart, Grey Heron, Tufted Duck, Northern Lapwing, Northern Shoveler, Common Coot, Little Ringed Plover.

    2025-03-22. Dalmatian Pelican.

    2025-03-16. Calandra Lark, Common Chaffinch, Common Starling, Common Kestrel.

    2025-01-21. Common Chaffinch, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Tree Sparrow, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2025-01-03. Whooper Swan, Smew.

    2024-11-24. Fieldfare.

    2024-10-29. Pied Wheatear, Siberian Stonechat, Common Chaffinch, Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-10-27. Brambling, Common Chaffinch.

    2024-10-26. Eastern Buzzard, Yellowhammer.

    2024-10-19. Pygmy Cormorant.

    2024-10-18. Rock Bunting, Cinereous Vulture, Water Pipit, Long-legged Buzzard, Azure Tit, Long-legged Buzzard, Lesser Kestrel, Barn Swallow, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2024-09-23. Siberian Stonechat, Common Moorhen, Black-headed Gull, Siberian Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Great White Egret, Greenish Warbler, Isabelline Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Lesser Grey Shrike, Caspian Gull, Common Redshank, Temminck's Stint, Black-winged Stilt, Great Cormorant.

    2024-09-21. Glossy Ibis.

    2024-05-17. Lesser Grey Shrike, Red-headed Bunting, Common Mynah, Eurasian Roller, Common Pheasant, Common Kestrel.

    2024-04-28. Montagu's Harrier, Pied Wheatear, Eurasian Scops-Owl.

    2024-04-18. Unkown Bird, Common Chaffinch, Chukar Partridge, Red-crested Pochard, Hoopoe.

    2024-04-12. Isabelline Wheatear.

    2024-03-23. Black Redstart.

    2023-10-29. Northern Black Grouse.

    2023-08-04. White-Winged Woodpecker, Paddyfield Warbler, Blyth's Reed Warbler.

    2023-07-10. Mallard.

    2023-07-09. Common Mynah.

    2023-07-06. Black-headed Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover.

    2023-07-05. Masked Wagtail.

    2023-04-14. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse.

    2022-02-04. Northern Reed Bunting, Common Pheasant, White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2022-02-02. Common Chaffinch, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Mallard.

    2022-02-01. Grey Heron.

    2022-01-31. White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2022-01-30. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Caspian Gull, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2022-01-29. Common Starling, Eversmann's Redstart, Black-throated Thrush, European Greenfinch.

    2022-01-19. White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2020-05-25. White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2020-05-24. Black-winged Stilt.

    2020-05-16. Long-legged Buzzard.

    2020-05-14. Red-headed Bunting, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Calandra Lark, Rosy Starling.

    2020-05-13. Eurasian Roller.

    2020-05-08. Black-crowned Night Heron, Lesser Grey Shrike.

    2020-05-07. Grey Heron, Eurasian Roller.

    2020-05-04. Northern Lapwing, Black-winged Stilt.

    2020-05-02. Ruddy Shelduck.

    2020-05-01. Sky Lark, Calandra Lark.

    2020-04-30. Montagu's Harrier, Common Oystercatcher.

    2020-04-16. Tree Pipit.

    2020-04-14. Common Redshank, Whooper Swan.

    2020-04-13. Great White Pelican.

    2020-04-12. Great White Egret, Grey-headed Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail.

    2020-04-11. Great White Pelican, Black-headed Gull.

    2020-04-10. Common Starling.

    2020-04-08. Hoopoe, Great Crested Grebe.

    2020-04-06. Great White Egret, Great White Egret.

    2020-04-05. Grey Heron.

    2020-04-04. Common Chaffinch, Black Kite, Wood Pigeon.

    2020-04-03. Black Redstart, Black Kite, Pied Wheatear.

    2020-04-02. Himalayan Golden Eagle, White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2020-03-31. Common Kestrel, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush.

    2020-03-28. Common Chiffchaff.

    2020-03-27. Black Kite, Northern Reed Bunting, Ferruginous Duck.

    2020-03-26. Great White Egret, Red-crested Pochard, Pied Wheatear.

    2020-03-25. Turkestan Shrike, Black Kite, Black Kite.

    2020-03-24. Grey Heron, Black Kite, Common Chiffchaff, Red-crested Pochard.

    2020-03-23. Turkestan Shrike, Black Kite.

    2020-03-22. Black Kite.

    2020-03-21. Isabelline Shrike, Azure Tit.

    recent comments

    2025-11-30. to photo # 07200028803 (Saxaul Sparrow)

    Гера Айсберг: Думаю да, обычно точно ставлю, но карта не работает, это первый капчагайский залив.

    2025-11-19. to photo # 07200028803 (Saxaul Sparrow)

    Ирина: Отличное наблюдение!
    Подскажите, а точка верно стоит? Очень бы хотелось тоже поискать их

    2025-11-19. to photo # 07200028002 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Гера Айсберг: Анна, благодарю!

    2025-11-19. to photo # 07200028002 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Анна Ясько: Отправила в красноспинную.

    2025-11-18. to photo # 07200028002 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Анна Ясько: Да, теперь ясно. Красноспинная.

    2025-11-17. to photo # 07200028002 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Андрей Коваленко: Всё-таки красноспинная.

    2025-11-17. to photo # 07200028002 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Гера Айсберг: добавил

    2025-11-17. to photo # 07200028001 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Гера Айсберг: Спасибо, Андрей, спасибо, Анна! Обязательно посмотрю.

    2025-11-17. to photo # 07200028001 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Анна Ясько: Еще бы ракурсов. Герман, может есть еще фото?

    2025-11-17. to photo # 07200028001 (Eversmann's Redstart)

    Андрей Коваленко: Для красноспинки какая-то темноватая и хвост скорее черноватый... Седоголовая что ли...?

    2025-11-17. to photo # 07200028901 (Red-mantled Rosefinch)

    Гера Айсберг: Спасибо,Федор!

    2025-11-16. to photo # 07200028901 (Red-mantled Rosefinch)

    Федор Карпов: Арчевая чечевица

    2025-11-13. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Игорь Фефелов: Цвет ног необычный для желтой, но мне тоже тут видится желтая ,в частности,по окраске крыла.

    2025-11-13. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Сергей Шурша: Что-то ссылка не отрывается https://kz.birding.day/v2photo.php?l=ru&s=000120826&n=1&t=404&si=kaz , если что, там фото горной 05.12.2020.

    2025-11-13. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Сергей Шурша: Похожего ракурса я не нашёл, но вот похожая с широкой бровью и светлыми кроющими крыла. Место съёмки примерно тоже. Изначально я обратил внимание [....]

    2025-11-13. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Анна Ясько: Сергей, я думаю, это именно желтая, так как:1. бровь широкая,2. каймы кроющих крыла белые, а не серые,3. перья надхвостья темные, а не желтые,4. окрас [....]

    2025-11-12. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Сергей Шурша: Это похоже горная, они и позже встречаются)

    2025-11-12. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Гера Айсберг: — «А — птички куда летят?»
    — «А-а… птички — твари неразумные, мало ли куда их занесёт нелёгкая!»

    2025-11-12. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Гера Айсберг: — «А — птички куда летят?»
    — «А-а… птички — твари неразумные, мало ли куда их занесёт нелёгкая!»

    2025-11-11. to photo # 07200028101 (Yellow Wagtail)

    Анна Ясько: Припозднилась, однако.

    2025-11-11. to photo # 07200028202 (Mistle Thrush)

    Гера Айсберг: Этот год на удивление дерябный.

    2025-11-11. to photo # 07200028202 (Mistle Thrush)

    Гера Айсберг: Спасибо, Гульфира!

    2025-11-10. to photo # 07200028201 (Mistle Thrush)

    Gulfira: Гера, красиво!

    2025-10-10. to photo # 07200027601 (Common Buzzard)

    Гера Айсберг: ой! не увидел,что Анна уже перенесла! исправляю

    2025-10-10. to photo # 07200027601 (Common Buzzard)

    Гера Айсберг: Спасибо! переношу в канюкоида!

    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...