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total species: 29
total photos: 37
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Red-flanked Bluetail (2019-05-06)
2. Ruff (2019-05-23)
3. Common Redshank (2019-05-28)
4. Little Ringed Plover (2019-05-28)
5. Dunlin (2019-05-29)
6. Caspian Tern (2019-08-07)
7. Great White Egret (2019-08-07)
8. Whooper Swan (2019-08-08)
9. Turkestan Shrike (2019-08-17)
10. Tree Pipit (2019-08-17)
11. Terek Sandpiper (2019-08-17)
12. Pygmy Cormorant (2019-08-28)
13. Ruddy Turnstone (2019-08-28)
14. Green Sandpiper (2019-09-04)
15. Temminck's Stint (2019-09-04)
16. Lesser Whitethroat (2019-09-04)
17. Grey Wagtail (2019-09-04)
18. Eurasian Collared Dove (2019-09-16)
19. Willow Warbler (2019-10-01)
20. Spotted Flycatcher (2019-10-02)
21. Great Crested Grebe (2019-10-04)
22. Black-throated Accentor (2019-10-04)
23. Common Treecreeper (2019-10-09)
24. Black Redstart (2019-10-24)
25. Hawfinch (2019-10-29)
26. Eurasian Blackbird (2019-10-30)
27. Redwing (2019-10-30)
28. Goldcrest (2019-10-31)
29. Northern Bullfinch (2019-11-13)

recent uploads


2019-12-16. Spotted Flycatcher, Eurasian Blackbird, Redwing, Goldcrest, Northern Bullfinch.

2019-12-10. European Black Redstart, European Black Redstart, Hawfinch.

2019-12-02. Black-throated Accentor, Black-throated Accentor, Common Treecreeper.

2019-11-30. Eurasian Collared Dove, Willow Warbler, Great Crested Grebe.

2019-11-22. Green Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail.

2019-11-19. Common Redshank, Great White Egret, Caspian Tern, Temminck's Stint.

2019-11-16. Dunlin, Turkestan Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat.

2019-11-12. Tree Pipit, Terek Sandpiper, Pygmy Cormorant.

2019-11-08. Great White Egret, Whooper Swan, Turkestan Shrike.

2019-11-06. Red-flanked Bluetail, Ruff, Little Ringed Plover.

2019-09-14. Ruddy Turnstone.

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...