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total species: 72
total photos: 971
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 4

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1. Great Tit (2013-01-02)
2. Eurasian Nuthatch (2013-01-02)
3. Common Goldeneye (2013-01-03)
4. Smew (2013-01-03)
5. Goosander (2013-01-03)
6. Mallard (2013-01-03)
7. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2013-01-08)
8. White-Backed Woodpecker (2013-01-10)
9. Eurasian Dipper (2013-01-12)
10. Fieldfare (2013-01-12)
11. Eurasian Magpie (2013-01-14)
12. Tree Sparrow (2013-01-14)
13. Carrion Crow (2013-01-14)
14. Baikal Bullfinch (2013-01-14)
15. Northern Bullfinch (2013-01-14)
16. House Sparrow (2013-01-16)
17. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2013-01-20)
18. Hooded Crow (2013-01-20)
19. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2013-01-20)
20. Whooper Swan (2013-01-22)
21. Peregrine Falcon (2013-01-24)
22. Common Treecreeper (2013-01-29)
23. Rock Pigeon (2013-01-29)
24. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2013-01-30)
25. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2013-01-30)
26. Bohemian Waxwing (2013-01-31)
27. Eurasian Jay (2013-02-04)
28. Hawfinch (2013-03-14)
29. Azure Tit (2013-03-14)
30. Great White Egret (2013-03-19)
31. Common Starling (2013-03-19)
32. Masked Wagtail (2013-03-25)
33. Common Chaffinch (2013-03-25)
34. Caspian Gull (2013-03-26)
35. Black Kite (2013-03-29)
36. Great Cormorant (2013-03-31)
37. Black-headed Gull (2013-03-31)
38. Willow Tit (2013-03-31)
39. Long-eared Owl (2013-03-31)
40. Common Teal (2013-03-31)
41. Tree Pipit (2013-04-03)
42. Brambling (2013-04-03)
43. White Wagtail (2013-04-11)
44. Sky Lark (2013-04-13)
45. European Greenfinch (2013-04-17)
46. Eurasian Wryneck (2013-04-25)
47. Green Sandpiper (2013-04-25)
48. Common Chiffchaff (2013-04-25)
49. Eurasian Jackdaw (2013-04-25)
50. Common Kestrel (2013-05-08)
51. Lesser Whitethroat (2013-05-14)
52. Siberian Stonechat (2013-06-01)
53. Yellow Wagtail (2013-06-01)
54. European Golden Oriole (2013-06-29)
55. Eurasian Redstart (2013-07-31)
56. Meadow Bunting (2013-08-02)
57. Long-tailed Tit (2013-08-06)
58. Common Sandpiper (2013-08-06)
59. Common Tern (2013-08-06)
60. Red-backed Shrike (2013-08-07)
61. Common Whitethroat (2013-08-13)
62. Common Swift (2013-08-15)
63. Yellowhammer (2013-08-19)
64. Hume's Warbler (2013-08-19)
65. Spotted Flycatcher (2013-08-19)
66. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2013-08-21)
67. Rook (2013-08-31)
68. Hoopoe (2013-09-02)
69. Black-throated Thrush (2013-09-13)
70. Bluethroat (2013-09-19)
71. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2013-10-03)
72. Eurasian Siskin (2013-11-11)

recent uploads


2013-11-11. Eurasian Siskin, Common Goldeneye, Mallard, Northern Bullfinch, Caspian Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Kestrel, Lesser Whitethroat.

2013-11-09. Eurasian Dipper, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

2013-11-03. Blyth's Reed Warbler, Bluethroat.

2013-10-31. Lesser Whitethroat.

2013-10-29. Common Swift.

2013-10-28. Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Redstart.

2013-10-27. Spotted Flycatcher, European Golden Oriole, Eurasian Redstart, Common Kestrel.

2013-10-25. Rook, Great Tit.

2013-10-24. Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Meadow Bunting, Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel.

2013-10-23. Tree Pipit, Masked Wagtail, Eurasian Redstart, Yellowhammer, Eurasian Magpie, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Hume's Warbler.

2013-10-22. Common Chiffchaff, Hume's Warbler, Meadow Bunting.

2013-10-21. Common Sandpiper, European Golden Oriole, Lesser Whitethroat, Caspian Gull, Common Whitethroat, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Yellowhammer.

2013-10-20. Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Eurasian Redstart, Common Chaffinch, Black-throated Thrush, Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Tern.

2013-10-17. Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Willow Tit, Lesser Whitethroat, Fieldfare.

2013-10-11. Long-tailed Tit.

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...