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    total species: 310
    total photos: 3008
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    total blogposts: 41

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    1. Eastern Buzzard (2020-01-01)
    2. Brambling (2020-01-01)
    3. Common Chaffinch (2020-01-01)
    4. Long-eared Owl (2020-01-04)
    5. Meadow Pipit (2020-01-04)
    6. Northern Pintail (2020-01-04)
    7. Green Sandpiper (2020-01-04)
    8. Red-crested Pochard (2020-01-04)
    9. European Robin (2020-01-04)
    10. Little Grebe (2020-01-04)
    11. Great White Egret (2020-01-04)
    12. Water Pipit (2020-01-04)
    13. Common Sparrowhawk (2020-01-04)
    14. Mallard (2020-01-04)
    15. Tufted Duck (2020-01-04)
    16. Common Pochard (2020-01-04)
    17. Greater Scaup (2020-01-04)
    18. Common Shelduck (2020-01-04)
    19. Smew (2020-01-04)
    20. Mute Swan (2020-01-04)
    21. Whooper Swan (2020-01-04)
    22. Bohemian Waxwing (2020-01-04)
    23. Meadow Bunting (2020-01-04)
    24. Northern Reed Bunting (2020-01-04)
    25. Corn Bunting (2020-01-04)
    26. Calandra Lark (2020-01-04)
    27. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-01-04)
    28. Common Pheasant (2020-01-04)
    29. Merlin (2020-01-04)
    30. Peregrine Falcon (2020-01-04)
    31. Grey Partridge (2020-01-04)
    32. Azure Tit (2020-01-08)
    33. European Greenfinch (2020-01-08)
    34. Eurasian Siskin (2020-01-08)
    35. Red-fronted Serin (2020-01-08)
    36. Mistle Thrush (2020-01-08)
    37. Brown Dipper (2020-01-09)
    38. Rough-legged Buzzard (2020-01-10)
    39. Eurasian Linnet (2020-01-10)
    40. Eurasian Collared Dove (2020-01-10)
    41. Black-throated Thrush (2020-01-10)
    42. Eurasian Blackbird (2020-01-10)
    43. Spanish Sparrow (2020-01-10)
    44. Grey Heron (2020-01-10)
    45. Western Marsh-Harrier (2020-01-10)
    46. Hen Harrier (2020-01-10)
    47. Common Buzzard (2020-01-10)
    48. Common Kestrel (2020-01-10)
    49. Rock Pigeon (2020-01-10)
    50. Stock Pigeon (2020-01-10)
    51. Great Grey Shrike (2020-01-10)
    52. Common Starling (2020-01-10)
    53. Mew Gull (2020-01-10)
    54. Little Owl (2020-01-11)
    55. Eurasian Curlew (2020-01-11)
    56. Common Goldeneye (2020-01-11)
    57. Rock Sparrow (2020-01-11)
    58. Pied Avocet (2020-01-11)
    59. Northern Lapwing (2020-01-11)
    60. Goosander (2020-01-11)
    61. Wallcreeper (2020-01-11)
    62. Great Crested Grebe (2020-01-11)
    63. Pygmy Cormorant (2020-01-11)
    64. Crested Lark (2020-01-11)
    65. Great Cormorant (2020-01-11)
    66. Pallas's Gull (2020-01-11)
    67. Caspian Gull (2020-01-11)
    68. Black-headed Gull (2020-01-11)
    69. Gadwall (2020-01-11)
    70. Common Teal (2020-01-11)
    71. Eurasian Wigeon (2020-01-11)
    72. Bewick's Swan (2020-01-11)
    73. Greylag Goose (2020-01-11)
    74. Ruddy Shelduck (2020-01-11)
    75. Dalmatian Pelican (2020-01-11)
    76. Rook (2020-01-11)
    77. White-Winged Woodpecker (2020-01-11)
    78. Yellowhammer (2020-01-11)
    79. Turkestan Tit (2020-01-11)
    80. Fieldfare (2020-01-11)
    81. Red-throated Thrush (2020-01-11)
    82. Steppe Eagle (2020-01-12)
    83. Water Rail (2020-01-13)
    84. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2020-01-13)
    85. Eurasian Magpie (2020-01-13)
    86. White-winged Scoter (2020-01-18)
    87. Ferruginous Duck (2020-01-18)
    88. Long-tailed Duck (2020-01-18)
    89. Upland Buzzard (2020-01-18)
    90. Brandt's Rosefinch (2020-01-19)
    91. White-winged Snowfinch (2020-01-19)
    92. Brown Accentor (2020-01-19)
    93. Red-billed Chough (2020-01-19)
    94. Yellow-billed Chough (2020-01-19)
    95. Eversmann's Redstart (2020-01-19)
    96. Songar Tit (2020-01-19)
    97. Coal Tit (2020-01-19)
    98. Goldcrest (2020-01-19)
    99. Eurasian Dipper (2020-01-19)
    100. Great Rosefinch (2020-01-19)
    101. Hawfinch (2020-01-25)
    102. Common Mynah (2020-01-25)
    103. Long-legged Buzzard (2020-01-25)
    104. Eurasian Goldfinch (2020-01-25)
    105. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2020-01-25)
    106. Great Tit (2020-01-25)
    107. Lammergeier (2020-01-25)
    108. Blyth's Rosefinch (2020-01-26)
    109. White-winged Grosbeak (2020-01-26)
    110. Chukar Partridge (2020-01-26)
    111. Pine Bunting (2020-01-26)
    112. Horned Lark (2020-01-26)
    113. Laughing Dove (2020-01-26)
    114. Solitary Snipe (2020-01-26)
    115. Yellow-breasted Tit (2020-01-26)
    116. Masked Wagtail (2020-03-06)
    117. Bean Goose (2020-03-06)
    118. Desert Finch (2020-03-06)
    119. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2020-03-06)
    120. Sky Lark (2020-03-06)
    121. Northern Shoveler (2020-03-06)
    122. Plain Mountain Finch (2020-03-07)
    123. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2020-03-07)
    124. Carrion Crow (2020-03-19)
    125. Grey Wagtail (2020-03-22)
    126. Bluethroat (2020-03-22)
    127. Common Chiffchaff (2020-03-22)
    128. Black Kite (2020-03-22)
    129. Blue Whistling Thrush (2020-03-26)
    130. Rock Bunting (2020-03-26)
    131. Glossy Ibis (2020-04-30)
    132. Yellow Wagtail (2020-04-30)
    133. White Wagtail (2020-04-30)
    134. Asian Short-toed Lark (2020-04-30)
    135. Black Lark (2020-04-30)
    136. Demoiselle Crane (2020-04-30)
    137. Eurasian Redstart (2020-04-30)
    138. Black-tailed Godwit (2020-04-30)
    139. Common Redshank (2020-04-30)
    140. Black-winged Stilt (2020-04-30)
    141. Eurasian Whimbrel (2020-04-30)
    142. Red-footed Falcon (2020-04-30)
    143. Little Bustard (2020-05-01)
    144. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2020-05-01)
    145. Common Swift (2020-05-04)
    146. Common Rosefinch (2020-05-04)
    147. Willow Warbler (2020-05-04)
    148. Lesser Whitethroat (2020-05-04)
    149. Hooded Crow (2020-05-04)
    150. House Sparrow (2020-05-04)
    151. Gull-billed Tern (2020-05-05)
    152. Montagu's Harrier (2020-05-05)
    153. Garganey (2020-05-05)
    154. Ruff (2020-05-05)
    155. Wood Sandpiper (2020-05-05)
    156. Pallid Harrier (2020-05-05)
    157. Common Sandpiper (2020-05-06)
    158. Greater Ringed Plover (2020-05-06)
    159. Kentish Plover (2020-05-06)
    160. Little Ringed Plover (2020-05-06)
    161. Little Stint (2020-05-06)
    162. Temminck's Stint (2020-05-06)
    163. Marsh Sandpiper (2020-05-06)
    164. Citrine Wagtail (2020-05-06)
    165. Black-headed Wagtail (2020-05-06)
    166. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2020-05-06)
    167. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2020-05-06)
    168. Common Greenshank (2020-05-06)
    169. Common Coot (2020-05-06)
    170. Red-throated Pipit (2020-05-06)
    171. Moustached Warbler (2020-05-06)
    172. Greater Short-toed Lark (2020-05-06)
    173. Dunlin (2020-05-06)
    174. Red-necked Phalarope (2020-05-06)
    175. Sand Martin (2020-05-06)
    176. Spotted Redshank (2020-05-06)
    177. White-winged Tern (2020-05-06)
    178. Black-winged Pratincole (2020-05-06)
    179. Slender-billed Gull (2020-05-06)
    180. White-tailed Lapwing (2020-05-06)
    181. Oriental Turtle Dove (2020-05-06)
    182. Rosy Starling (2020-05-07)
    183. Eurasian Roller (2020-05-07)
    184. Red-headed Bunting (2020-05-07)
    185. Long-tailed Shrike (2020-05-07)
    186. Eurasian Hobby (2020-05-07)
    187. Siberian Stonechat (2020-05-12)
    188. Common Whitethroat (2020-05-12)
    189. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2020-05-12)
    190. Barn Swallow (2020-05-16)
    191. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2020-05-16)
    192. Wood Pigeon (2020-05-17)
    193. Turkestan Shrike (2020-05-19)
    194. White-headed Duck (2020-05-20)
    195. Common Oystercatcher (2020-05-20)
    196. Terek Sandpiper (2020-05-20)
    197. Common Tern (2020-05-20)
    198. Great White Pelican (2020-05-20)
    199. Black-Necked Grebe (2020-05-20)
    200. Lesser Sand Plover (2020-05-26)
    201. Curlew Sandpiper (2020-05-26)
    202. Eurasian Jackdaw (2020-05-26)
    203. Little Tern (2020-05-26)
    204. Black Tern (2020-05-26)
    205. Northern House Martin (2020-05-26)
    206. Black-crowned Night Heron (2020-05-26)
    207. Lesser Grey Shrike (2020-05-26)
    208. Booted Eagle (2020-05-28)
    209. Mongolian Finch (2020-05-31)
    210. Asian Desert Warbler (2020-05-31)
    211. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2020-05-31)
    212. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2020-05-31)
    213. Hoopoe (2020-05-31)
    214. Desert Wheatear (2020-05-31)
    215. Pied Wheatear (2020-05-31)
    216. Isabelline Wheatear (2020-05-31)
    217. Grey-necked Bunting (2020-05-31)
    218. Tawny Pipit (2020-05-31)
    219. Common Raven (2020-05-31)
    220. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2020-05-31)
    221. Golden Eagle (2020-05-31)
    222. White-capped Bunting (2020-05-31)
    223. European Bee-eater (2020-05-31)
    224. Lesser Kestrel (2020-05-31)
    225. Red-rumped Swallow (2020-06-13)
    226. Tree Sparrow (2020-06-20)
    227. Indian Golden Oriole (2020-06-22)
    228. Black Stork (2020-06-22)
    229. Bearded Tit (2020-06-23)
    230. Paddyfield Warbler (2020-06-23)
    231. Common Cuckoo (2020-06-23)
    232. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2020-06-23)
    233. Great Reed Warbler (2020-06-23)
    234. Savi's Warbler (2020-06-23)
    235. Cetti's Warbler (2020-06-23)
    236. Alpine Swift (2020-06-26)
    237. Brown-necked Raven (2020-06-27)
    238. Common Crane (2020-06-30)
    239. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2020-06-30)
    240. Shikra (2020-06-30)
    241. Syke's Warbler (2020-06-30)
    242. Common Nightingale (2020-06-30)
    243. Common Moorhen (2020-06-30)
    244. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2020-07-01)
    245. Common Snipe (2020-07-01)
    246. Pale Sand Martin (2020-07-01)
    247. Eurasian Crag Martin (2020-07-01)
    248. Richard's Pipit (2020-07-01)
    250. Egyptian Vulture (2020-07-10)
    251. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (2020-07-10)
    252. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-07-10)
    253. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2020-07-11)
    254. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2020-07-11)
    255. Oriental Lark (2020-07-11)
    256. Purple Heron (2020-07-11)
    257. Rufous Bush Robin (2020-07-11)
    258. Little Egret (2020-07-11)
    259. Collared Pratincole (2020-07-11)
    260. Baraba Steppe Gull (2020-07-11)
    261. Eurasian Spoonbill (2020-07-11)
    262. Caspian Tern (2020-07-11)
    263. Whiskered Tern (2020-07-11)
    264. Greater Sand Plover (2020-07-12)
    265. Steppe Grey Shrike (2020-07-12)
    266. Indian Sparrow (2020-07-12)
    267. Macqueen's Bustard (2020-07-12)
    268. Pander's Ground-Jay (2020-07-12)
    269. Menetries Warbler (2020-07-12)
    270. Pied Bushchat (2020-07-13)
    271. Ruddy Turnstone (2020-07-21)
    272. Greenish Warbler (2020-08-09)
    273. Red-backed Shrike (2020-08-13)
    274. Pacific Golden Plover (2020-08-14)
    275. Common Kingfisher (2020-08-14)
    276. Tree Pipit (2020-09-05)
    277. Hume's Warbler (2020-09-05)
    278. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2020-09-08)
    279. Spotted Nutcracker (2020-09-08)
    280. Northern Wren (2020-09-08)
    281. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2020-09-16)
    282. European Nightjar (2020-09-20)
    283. Barred Warbler (2020-09-20)
    284. Northern Goshawk (2020-09-24)
    285. Himalayan Vulture (2020-09-24)
    286. Griffon Vulture (2020-09-24)
    287. Blue-capped Redstart (2020-09-30)
    288. Black-throated Accentor (2020-09-30)
    289. Saker Falcon (2020-10-09)
    290. Cinereous Vulture (2020-10-09)
    291. Black Redstart (2020-10-09)
    292. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2020-10-12)
    293. Northern Wheatear (2020-10-12)
    294. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2020-10-13)
    295. Eurasian Woodcock (2020-10-14)
    296. Pallas's Warbler (2020-10-20)
    297. Song Thrush (2020-11-04)
    298. Greater Flamingo (2020-11-05)
    299. Greater White-fronted Goose (2020-11-05)
    300. Red-breasted Merganser (2020-11-05)
    301. Grey Plover (2020-11-05)
    302. Eurasian Golden Plover (2020-11-06)
    303. Redwing (2020-11-11)
    304. Black-legged Kittiwake (2020-11-11)
    305. Ring-billed Gull (2020-11-11)
    306. Red-Necked Grebe (2020-11-12)
    307. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2020-11-25)
    308. Alpine Accentor (2020-11-25)
    309. Buff-bellied Pipit (2020-12-22)
    310. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2020-12-22)

    recent uploads

    2020-12-29. Red-fronted Serin, Eurasian Blackbird, Azure Tit.

    2020-12-26. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Steppe Horned Lark, Corn Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting.

    2020-12-25. Rough-legged Buzzard, Rough-legged Buzzard, Eastern Buzzard, Upland Buzzard, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Merlin, Common Kestrel, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Goldeneye, Whooper Swan, Rock Pigeon, Ruddy Shelduck, Smew, Goosander, Mew Gull.

    2020-12-24. Water Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Great White Egret, Masked Wagtail, Green Sandpiper, Grey Heron, Gadwall.

    2020-12-23. Pied Avocet, Common Kingfisher, Northern Shoveler.

    2020-12-21. Mallard, Eastern Buzzard, Azure Tit, Eastern Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon.

    2020-12-07. Common Raven, Mistle Thrush, Eversmann's Redstart, Black-throated Accentor.

    2020-12-05. Brown Dipper, White-bellied Dipper, Grey Wagtail.

    2020-12-04. Mallard, Black-throated Thrush, Hybrid (Black-throated x Red-throated) Thrush, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Red-fronted Serin, Eversmann's Redstart, Eurasian Blackbird, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Common Sparrowhawk, Eversmann's Redstart, Coal Tit, Black-throated Accentor, Black-throated Thrush, Red-fronted Serin.

    2020-12-03. Yellow-billed Chough.

    2020-12-01. Whooper Swan, Mute Swan, Great Cormorant, Goosander, Common Goldeneye, Northern Shoveler, Steppe Horned Lark, Caspian Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush.

    2020-11-30. Long-tailed Duck, Bewick's Swan, Bewick's Swan.

    2020-11-29. Hybrid (Black-throated x Red-throated) Thrush, Bohemian Waxwing, Black-throated Thrush, Peregrine Falcon.

    2020-11-27. White-browed Tit-Warbler, Alpine Accentor, Eversmann's Redstart, Himalayan Lammergeier, Cinereous Vulture, Himalayan Golden Eagle.

    2020-11-26. Black-legged Kittiwake, Ring-billed Gull, Mew Gull, Caspian Gull, Black-headed Gull, Ring-billed Gull.

    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.
    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

    2026-06-02

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: booted eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)
    2026-06-02

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Mostly a sedge warbler Anna . (Acro schoenobaenus )
    2026-06-02

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: OK great . Thanks Anna
    2026-06-02

    Анна Ясько: Кряквы.
    2026-06-02

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus Dometurum )
    more unidentified birds...