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total species: 11
total photos: 15
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Yellow Wagtail (2011-06-05)
2. Red-necked Phalarope (2011-06-06)
3. Black-winged Pratincole (2011-06-06)
4. Sociable Lapwing (2011-06-06)
6. Dusky Warbler (2011-06-22)
7. Asian Rosy-Finch (2011-06-22)
8. Willow Ptarmigan (2011-06-23)
9. Rock Ptarmigan (2011-06-24)
10. Pallas's Sea-Eagle (2024-10-13)
11. Upland Buzzard (2024-10-13)

recent uploads


2024-10-17. Pallas's Sea-Eagle, Upland Buzzard.

2014-11-05. Black-winged Pratincole, Yellow Wagtail, Dusky Warbler, Asian Rosy-Finch, Sociable Lapwing, Dusky Warbler.

2012-09-27. Willow Ptarmigan, Rock Ptarmigan, Willow Ptarmigan, Red-necked Phalarope, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.

recent comments


2024-12-19. to photo # 01260001701 (Upland Buzzard)

Игорь Фефелов: Не всё смог разобрать, но в целом так: Крупнее, чем в среднем об.курганник. Телосложение выглядит тяжелым. Выраженные темные подусники , достигающие [....]


2024-12-18. to photo # 01260001701 (Upland Buzzard)

Анатолий: Классная зарисовка и наверняка очень полезная информация. А может кто-нибудь объяснить/перевести о чём идёт речь?


2024-10-17. to photo # 01260001601 (Pallas's Sea-Eagle)

Анна Ясько: Very interesting observation. Raffael, thank you for sharing the information.


2024-10-17. to photo # 01260001601 (Pallas's Sea-Eagle)

Raffael Ayé: Кстати, мой текст переведен Google Translate. Надеюсь, Google делает хорошую работу...


2024-10-17. to photo # 01260001601 (Pallas's Sea-Eagle)

Raffael Ayé: Всем привет. Извините, что загрузил только набросок, но я предполагаю, что для редкой птицы это лучше, чем отсутствие документации. Не волнуйтесь, [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Oleg F.: все признаки бурой на лицо. Что интересно, единственная пойманная залетная бурая пеночка с Украины относилась к горной Алтайской форме. [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Флeхтнeр Георг Штефан: podgolzowyj pojas, Betula nana, kakoi podwid trudno zkasat

Hallo Raffael, Der Strauch ist ne Betula nana (vielleicht: ssp. rotundifolia) Podgolez-Zone, normalerweise oberhalb tausendachthundert.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Олег Белялов: Hi Raffael! I wrote that to me is unclear as you could confuse a Dusky Warbler. In the photo the bird is similar to a Booted Warblers. I assumed that the bird is photographed in the steppe, near a Sociable Lapwing. But in a photo the dwarfish birch Betula [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001501 (Dusky Warbler)

Коваленко Андрей: Really, fuscatus.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Ayé Raffael: Oleg, are you asking about the plant species, on which the bird is perched? I am not a good botanist. Maybe it's a species of birch, Betulus spec.? It is high altitude shrub, less than 1m high.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Коваленко Андрей: Yes, it would be good to look at other photos...


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Raffael Ayé: Hi guys. Sorry I have to write in English. I can understand Russian at least partly (70%), but I can't write in Russian.No, this is definitely a Dusky Warbler, Ph. fuscatus. The eyestripe is not very dark in this individual, but it is broad. Hippolais [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001301 (Sociable Lapwing)

Анатолий Таран: ... и властвуй! :-)


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Олег Белялов: Я тоже вижу бормотушку - всё её, прежде всего портрет. Можно было бы подумать, что птица снята в степи, там же где кречётка и степная тиркушка, [....]


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

B.Gubin: Андрей прав, бормотушка.


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001301 (Sociable Lapwing)

Коваленко Андрей: Аскар, разделяй...


2014-11-05. to photo # 01260001101 (Dusky Warbler)

Коваленко Андрей: Че-та на Hippolais caligata больше похожа...


2013-10-14. to photo # 01260000301 (Rock Ptarmigan)

Олег Белялов: Точка находки на карте поставлена неправильно - левый берег Бухтарминского водохранилища. В тексте указан Урыль (а это Бухтарминская долина), [....]


2012-09-27. to photo # 01260000101 (Willow Ptarmigan)

Isabekov Askar: Raffael. I am very happy to your participation on our project.


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.

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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...