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total species: 16
total photos: 19
total videos: 0
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1. White Wagtail (2013-04-05)
2. Tawny Pipit (2013-04-20)
3. Greater Spotted Eagle (2013-04-25)
4. Gadwall (2013-06-05)
5. Turkestan Shrike (2013-06-15)
6. Tree Pipit (2013-07-17)
7. Bar-tailed Godwit (2013-08-15)
8. Common Whitethroat (2013-08-15)
9. Pied Flycatcher (2013-08-15)
10. Red Crossbill (2013-08-15)
11. Little Bustard (2013-09-05)
12. Common Buzzard (2013-09-10)
13. Redwing (2013-10-25)
14. Yellow-browed Warbler (2013-10-25)
15. Song Thrush (2013-10-25)
16. Desert Wheatear (2013-10-31)

recent uploads


2013-12-19. Yellow-browed Warbler, Song Thrush.

2013-12-18. Little Bustard, Common Buzzard, Redwing, Desert Wheatear.

2013-12-11. Turkestan Shrike, Pied Flycatcher, Common Whitethroat, Bar-tailed Godwit.

2013-12-04. Greater Spotted Eagle, Tree Pipit, Red Crossbill.

2013-11-15. Gadwall, Turkestan Shrike.

2013-11-14. Hybrid Bunting, East Siberian White Wagtail, Tawny Pipit, Greater Spotted Eagle.

2013-02-24. Pygmy Cormorant.

2013-02-18. Citrine Wagtail, Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Black-throated Thrush, Tree Sparrow, Yellow Wagtail.

2013-01-22. Barred Warbler, Yellowhammer, Red-backed Shrike, Moustached Warbler.

2013-01-13. Red-backed Shrike, Eurasian Reed Warbler.

2013-01-07. Eurasian Reed Warbler, Wood Warbler.

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...