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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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  • Pandionidae
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    • Gruiformes
  • Gruidae
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    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
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  • Columbidae
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  • Picidae
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  • Hirundinidae
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  • Motacillidae
  • Laniidae
  • Oriolidae
  • Dicruridae
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  • Corvidae
  • Bombycillidae
  • Cinclidae
  • Troglodytidae
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  • Sylviidae
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  • Aegithalidae
  • Remizidae
  • Paridae
  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

    • Big Year 2025

    The winner will submit the pictures of the largest number of bird species taken on the territory of our country during this year.

    You can see previous years competitions results here: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

    participants


    * number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2025
    2. Shakula Fedor (268)
    7. A Pavel (217)
    9. Yasko Anna (193)
    10. Ishkov Leonid (191)
    11. Sagaliyev Nurum (191)
    15. Malkov Yuriy (152)
    18. Ruzayev Aidos (136)
    19. Bastaev Vasilii (132)
    20. Shatalov Andrey (129)
    21. Ibatov Zhanibek (127)
    22. Magazov Aibar (114)
    24. Rekuts Irina (112)
    26. Sivokon Olga (107)
    27. Silan Serg (106)
    29. Iceberg Hera (87)
    30. Merz Marina (86)
    33. Nazarbek Gani (48)
    38. izoya sergey (44)
    39. Karimbay Amir (39)
    55. Bevza Ivan (19)
    59. Da Dalt Fabio (14)
    60. Morozov Maxim (12)
    71. Nurgali Azat (4)
    85. Boros Emil (1)

    all species photographed in 2025


    * in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )
    1. Black Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
    2. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-01)
    3. Common Mynah (2025-01-01)
    4. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-01-01)
    5. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-01)
    6. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-01)
    7. Brambling (2025-01-01)
    8. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-01)
    9. Common Pheasant (2025-01-01)
    10. Hooded Crow (2025-01-01)
    11. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-01)
    12. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-01)
    13. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-01-01)
    14. Crested Lark (2025-01-01)
    15. Grey Partridge (2025-01-01)
    16. Great Tit (2025-01-01)
    17. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-02)
    18. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-02)
    19. Long-tailed Tit (2025-01-02)
    20. Horned Lark (2025-01-02)
    21. Rock Sparrow (2025-01-02)
    22. Yellowhammer (2025-01-02)
    23. Eurasian Dipper (2025-01-03)
    24. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-03)
    25. House Sparrow (2025-01-03)
    26. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-03)
    27. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-03)
    28. Carrion Crow (2025-01-03)
    29. Calandra Lark (2025-01-03)
    30. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-01-03)
    31. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-03)
    32. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-01-03)
    33. Golden Eagle (2025-01-03)
    34. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-03)
    35. Northern Goshawk (2025-01-03)
    36. Coal Tit (2025-01-03)
    37. Black-throated Accentor (2025-01-03)
    38. Himalayan Vulture (2025-01-03)
    39. Common Kestrel (2025-01-03)
    40. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-03)
    41. Mallard (2025-01-03)
    42. Black-headed Gull (2025-01-03)
    43. Goldcrest (2025-01-03)
    44. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-03)
    45. Great White Egret (2025-01-03)
    46. Common Coot (2025-01-03)
    47. Great Cormorant (2025-01-03)
    48. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-03)
    49. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-01-03)
    50. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-03)
    51. Caspian Gull (2025-01-03)
    52. Whooper Swan (2025-01-03)
    53. Mute Swan (2025-01-03)
    54. Smew (2025-01-03)
    55. Tufted Duck (2025-01-03)
    56. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-01-03)
    57. Grey Heron (2025-01-03)
    58. Common Pochard (2025-01-03)
    59. Greater Flamingo (2025-01-03)
    60. Goosander (2025-01-03)
    61. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-01-03)
    62. Mew Gull (2025-01-03)
    63. Hawfinch (2025-01-03)
    64. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-03)
    65. Azure Tit (2025-01-03)
    66. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-01-03)
    67. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-03)
    68. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-03)
    69. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-04)
    70. Rook (2025-01-04)
    71. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-04)
    72. Common Raven (2025-01-04)
    73. Wallcreeper (2025-01-04)
    74. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2025-01-04)
    75. Meadow Bunting (2025-01-04)
    76. European Robin (2025-01-04)
    77. Eastern Buzzard (2025-01-04)
    78. Brown Dipper (2025-01-04)
    79. Eurasian Linnet (2025-01-04)
    80. Song Thrush (2025-01-05)
    81. Redwing (2025-01-05)
    82. Fieldfare (2025-01-05)
    83. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-01-05)
    84. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-01-06)
    85. Common Teal (2025-01-06)
    86. Willow Tit (2025-01-06)
    87. European Greenfinch (2025-01-06)
    88. Black Kite (2025-01-06)
    89. Siberian Stonechat (2025-01-06)
    90. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-07)
    91. Common Starling (2025-01-07)
    92. Common Treecreeper (2025-01-07)
    93. Pine Bunting (2025-01-07)
    94. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-01-07)
    95. Ibisbill (2025-01-07)
    96. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-01-07)
    97. Steppe Eagle (2025-01-07)
    98. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-09)
    99. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-01-09)
    100. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-01-09)
    101. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-10)
    102. Greylag Goose (2025-01-10)
    103. Bewick's Swan (2025-01-10)
    104. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-01-10)
    105. Pallas's Gull (2025-01-10)
    106. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-01-10)
    107. Snowy Owl (2025-01-10)
    108. Northern Hawk Owl (2025-01-11)
    109. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-11)
    110. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-01-11)
    111. Red-crested Pochard (2025-01-11)
    112. Water Rail (2025-01-11)
    113. Corn Bunting (2025-01-11)
    114. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-01-11)
    115. Rock Bunting (2025-01-11)
    116. Upland Buzzard (2025-01-11)
    117. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-01-11)
    118. Merlin (2025-01-11)
    119. Hen Harrier (2025-01-11)
    120. Blue Tit (2025-01-12)
    121. Northern Wren (2025-01-12)
    122. Bearded Tit (2025-01-12)
    123. Ferruginous Duck (2025-01-12)
    124. Songar Tit (2025-01-12)
    125. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-01-12)
    126. White-winged Lark (2025-01-12)
    127. Little Owl (2025-01-12)
    128. Turkestan Tit (2025-01-12)
    129. Northern Pintail (2025-01-13)
    130. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-13)
    131. Black Redstart (2025-01-13)
    132. Gadwall (2025-01-13)
    133. Meadow Pipit (2025-01-13)
    134. Common Snipe (2025-01-13)
    135. Desert Finch (2025-01-13)
    136. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-13)
    137. Common Greenshank (2025-01-13)
    138. Slender-billed Gull (2025-01-13)
    139. Little Grebe (2025-01-13)
    140. Common Buzzard (2025-01-13)
    141. Red Crossbill (2025-01-14)
    142. White Wagtail (2025-01-15)
    143. Wood Pigeon (2025-01-16)
    144. Sky Lark (2025-01-16)
    145. Dunnock (2025-01-16)
    146. Cetti's Warbler (2025-01-16)
    147. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2025-01-16)
    148. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-01-19)
    149. Black Lark (2025-01-19)
    150. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-01-23)
    151. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-01-25)
    152. Lammergeier (2025-01-26)
    154. Asian Rosy-Finch (2025-01-27)
    155. Great Rosefinch (2025-01-27)
    156. Bluethroat (2025-01-28)
    157. Yellow-breasted Tit (2025-01-29)
    158. Peregrine Falcon (2025-02-01)
    159. Spanish Sparrow (2025-02-02)
    160. Solitary Snipe (2025-02-02)
    161. Ring-billed Gull (2025-02-02)
    162. Laughing Dove (2025-02-03)
    163. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-02-07)
    164. Mongolian Finch (2025-02-07)
    165. Altai Snowcock (2025-02-08)
    166. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-02-08)
    167. Alpine Accentor (2025-02-09)
    168. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-02-10)
    169. Short-eared Owl (2025-02-11)
    170. Green Sandpiper (2025-02-12)
    171. Red-throated Thrush (2025-02-12)
    172. Red-billed Chough (2025-02-18)
    173. Common Shelduck (2025-02-18)
    174. Ural Owl (2025-02-20)
    175. Baikal Bullfinch (2025-02-21)
    176. Masked Wagtail (2025-02-22)
    177. Eurasian Jay (2025-02-23)
    178. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-02-23)
    179. Northern Black Grouse (2025-02-24)
    180. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-02-24)
    181. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2025-02-24)
    182. Kentish Plover (2025-02-25)
    183. Dunlin (2025-02-25)
    184. Common Chiffchaff (2025-03-01)
    185. Common Moorhen (2025-03-02)
    186. Snow Bunting (2025-03-03)
    187. Syrian Woodpecker (2025-03-03)
    188. Hoopoe (2025-03-10)
    189. Bimaculated Lark (2025-03-10)
    190. Eurasian Bittern (2025-03-10)
    191. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-12)
    192. Common Redshank (2025-03-12)
    193. Osprey (2025-03-12)
    194. Greater Sand Plover (2025-03-12)
    195. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-03-12)
    196. Little Bustard (2025-03-12)
    197. Stock Pigeon (2025-03-12)
    198. Variable Wheatear (2025-03-12)
    199. Black Stork (2025-03-13)
    200. Ruff (2025-03-14)
    201. White-headed Duck (2025-03-14)
    202. Pied Wheatear (2025-03-16)
    203. Griffon Vulture (2025-03-16)
    204. Water Pipit (2025-03-16)
    205. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-16)
    206. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-17)
    207. Demoiselle Crane (2025-03-18)
    208. Long-tailed Duck (2025-03-18)
    209. Northern Wheatear (2025-03-18)
    210. Barn Swallow (2025-03-19)
    211. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-03-19)
    212. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-03-19)
    213. Northern House Martin (2025-03-19)
    214. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-03-19)
    215. Common Crane (2025-03-19)
    216. Macqueen's Bustard (2025-03-19)
    217. Turkestan Shrike (2025-03-19)
    218. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-03-19)
    219. Desert Wheatear (2025-03-20)
    220. Northern Lapwing (2025-03-21)
    221. Garganey (2025-03-22)
    222. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-22)
    223. Isabelline Shrike (2025-03-23)
    224. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-03-23)
    225. Brown Accentor (2025-03-23)
    226. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-03-23)
    227. Little Crake (2025-03-25)
    228. Glossy Ibis (2025-03-25)
    229. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-03-25)
    230. Common Swift (2025-03-25)
    231. Alpine Swift (2025-03-25)
    232. European Stonechat (2025-03-25)
    233. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-03-26)
    234. White Stork (2025-03-26)
    235. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-03-26)
    236. Grey Wagtail (2025-03-27)
    237. Great White Pelican (2025-03-27)
    238. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-03-27)
    239. Common Oystercatcher (2025-03-28)
    240. Pied Avocet (2025-03-28)
    241. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-03-29)
    242. Egyptian Vulture (2025-03-29)
    243. Black-winged Stilt (2025-03-30)
    244. Common Tern (2025-03-30)
    245. Montagu's Harrier (2025-03-30)
    246. Tawny Pipit (2025-03-30)
    247. Yellow Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    248. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    249. Pallid Harrier (2025-03-30)
    250. Lesser Kestrel (2025-03-30)
    251. Eurasian Curlew (2025-03-30)
    252. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2025-03-31)
    253. Caspian Plover (2025-04-01)
    254. Black-winged Kite (2025-04-01)
    255. Sand Martin (2025-04-02)
    256. Lapland Longspur (2025-04-02)
    257. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-04-02)
    258. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-04-02)
    259. Booted Eagle (2025-04-02)
    260. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-03)
    261. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-03)
    262. Whinchat (2025-04-03)
    263. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse (2025-04-03)
    264. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-04-04)
    265. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-04-05)
    266. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-07)
    267. Common Kingfisher (2025-04-07)
    268. Greater Scaup (2025-04-07)
    269. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-07)
    270. Jack Snipe (2025-04-07)
    271. Little Egret (2025-04-07)
    272. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-04-08)
    273. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-08)
    274. Caspian Tern (2025-04-09)
    275. Little Stint (2025-04-09)
    276. Willow Warbler (2025-04-09)
    277. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-04-09)
    278. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-04-09)
    279. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-10)
    280. Indian Sparrow (2025-04-11)
    281. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-04-11)
    282. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-11)
    283. Collared Pratincole (2025-04-11)
    284. Menetries Warbler (2025-04-11)
    285. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-12)
    286. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-04-12)
    287. Purple Heron (2025-04-12)
    288. Brown-necked Raven (2025-04-12)
    289. Tree Pipit (2025-04-13)
    290. Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-13)
    291. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-04-13)
    292. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-14)
    293. Red-footed Falcon (2025-04-14)
    294. Little Tern (2025-04-14)
    295. Spotted Crake (2025-04-16)
    296. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-04-18)
    297. Hume's Warbler (2025-04-18)
    298. Syke's Warbler (2025-04-18)
    299. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-19)
    300. Savi's Warbler (2025-04-19)
    301. White-winged Tern (2025-04-19)
    302. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-04-19)
    303. Bean Goose (2025-04-20)
    304. Eurasian Hobby (2025-04-21)
    306. Ortolan Bunting (2025-04-23)
    307. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-04-24)
    308. Pied Bushchat (2025-04-24)
    309. European Bee-eater (2025-04-25)
    310. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-25)
    311. Wood Warbler (2025-04-25)
    312. Common Whitethroat (2025-04-25)
    313. Green Leaf-Warbler (2025-04-25)
    314. Wood Lark (2025-04-26)
    315. Whiskered Tern (2025-04-26)
    316. Sandwich Tern (2025-04-26)
    317. Grey Plover (2025-04-26)
    318. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-04-27)
    319. Hume's Whitethroat (2025-04-27)
    320. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-04-27)
    321. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-04-27)
    322. Red-backed Shrike (2025-04-27)
    323. Black Tern (2025-04-27)
    324. White-capped Bunting (2025-04-27)
    325. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2025-04-27)
    326. Rosy Starling (2025-04-27)
    327. Common Nightingale (2025-04-27)
    328. Red-headed Bunting (2025-04-28)
    329. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2025-04-28)
    330. Slavonian Grebe (2025-04-28)
    331. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-04-28)
    332. Wood Sandpiper (2025-04-28)
    333. Western Capercaillie (2025-04-29)
    334. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-04-29)
    335. Sedge Warbler (2025-04-29)
    336. Shikra (2025-04-29)
    337. Common Rosefinch (2025-04-29)
    338. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2025-04-29)
    339. Temminck's Stint (2025-04-29)
    340. Cattle Egret (2025-04-30)
    341. Squacco Heron (2025-04-30)
    342. Eurasian Golden Plover (2025-04-30)
    343. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-01)
    344. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-01)
    345. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    346. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-01)
    347. Little Gull (2025-05-02)
    348. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-05-03)
    349. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-03)
    350. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-03)
    351. Lesser Sand Plover (2025-05-03)
    352. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-03)
    353. Great Reed Warbler (2025-05-03)
    354. Pale Sand Martin (2025-05-03)
    355. Thrush Nightingale (2025-05-04)
    356. Woodchat Shrike (2025-05-04)
    357. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2025-05-04)
    358. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2025-05-04)
    359. Booted Warbler (2025-05-05)
    360. Arctic Loon (2025-05-06)
    361. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-07)
    362. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-08)
    363. Sanderling (2025-05-08)
    364. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-05-08)
    365. Pander's Ground-Jay (2025-05-08)
    366. Saker Falcon (2025-05-08)
    367. Blue Rock Thrush (2025-05-09)
    368. Upcher's Warbler (2025-05-09)
    369. Garden Warbler (2025-05-09)
    370. Barred Warbler (2025-05-09)
    371. Long-toed Stint (2025-05-10)
    372. Long-tailed Shrike (2025-05-10)
    373. Blackcap (2025-05-10)
    374. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2025-05-10)
    375. European Nightjar (2025-05-10)
    376. Little Bittern (2025-05-11)
    377. Common Quail (2025-05-13)
    378. Black-headed Bunting (2025-05-14)
    379. Richard's Pipit (2025-05-15)
    380. Red-flanked Bluetail (2025-05-15)
    381. Collared Flycatcher (2025-05-16)
    382. European Turtle Dove (2025-05-17)
    383. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-05-18)
    384. Sociable Lapwing (2025-05-18)
    385. Twite (2025-05-19)
    386. Masked Shrike (2025-05-20)
    387. Levant Sparrowhawk (2025-05-21)
    388. Rock Ptarmigan (2025-05-21)
    389. Himalayan Accentor (2025-05-21)
    390. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2025-05-21)
    391. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-05-21)
    392. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-05-22)
    393. Oriental Cuckoo (2025-05-23)
    394. Northern Hazelhen (2025-05-23)
    395. Great Bustard (2025-05-24)
    396. Rufous-necked Stint (2025-05-25)
    397. Indian Golden Oriole (2025-05-25)
    398. Amur Falcon (2025-05-30)
    399. Daurian Partridge (2025-06-08)
    400. Siberian Rubythroat (2025-06-11)
    401. Himalayan Rubythroat (2025-06-15)
    402. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (2025-06-18)
    403. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-06-21)
    404. Indian Pond Heron (2025-06-27)
    405. Relict Gull (2025-07-11)
    406. Egyptian Nightjar (2025-07-16)
    407. Tawny Owl (2025-07-18)
    408. Namaqua Dove (2025-07-18)
    409. Barbary Falcon (2025-07-25)
    410. White's Thrush (2025-07-26)
    411. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2025-07-30)
    412. Pine Grosbeak (2025-08-01)
    413. Dusky Warbler (2025-08-01)
    414. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-08-06)
    415. Pacific Golden Plover (2025-08-09)
    416. Marsh Warbler (2025-08-19)
    417. Baillon's Crake (2025-08-24)
    418. Arctic Skua (2025-09-02)
    419. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2025-09-07)
    420. Desert Lark (2025-09-08)
    421. Yellow-browed Warbler (2025-09-23)
    422. Moustached Warbler (2025-09-25)
    423. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-09-28)
    424. Bar-headed Goose (2025-10-03)
    425. Brahminy Kite (2025-10-05)
    426. Pallas's Warbler (2025-10-11)
    427. Red-breasted Goose (2025-10-12)
    428. Rustic Bunting (2025-10-13)
    429. Pallas's Rosefinch (2025-10-23)
    430. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-11-04)
    431. Himalayan Snowcock (2025-11-08)
    432. Godlewski's Bunting (2025-11-08)
    433. Common Redpoll (2025-11-20)
    434. Japanese Waxwing (2025-12-20)
    435. Great Black-backed Gull (2025-12-26)

    rare birds records


    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.

    Northern Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

    © Margarita Davydova
    2021-04-02
    First president's park, Almaty

    The first photo recording of a Northern Bullfinch in Almaty on the website is a rare sighting for a region where they were previously observed during wintering in the mid-20th century and have now become only occasionally encountered.
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