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Gaviiformes
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    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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  • Burhinidae
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    total species: 88
    total photos: 248
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Common Pheasant (2016-01-18)
    2. White-winged Grosbeak (2016-01-18)
    3. Great Tit (2016-01-18)
    4. Brambling (2016-01-18)
    5. Eastern Buzzard (2016-01-18)
    6. Carrion Crow (2016-03-21)
    7. Demoiselle Crane (2016-04-03)
    8. Pied Wheatear (2016-04-03)
    9. Water Pipit (2016-04-05)
    10. Red-fronted Serin (2016-04-05)
    11. Calandra Lark (2016-04-10)
    12. Isabelline Wheatear (2016-04-10)
    13. Northern Wheatear (2016-04-17)
    14. Black-throated Thrush (2016-04-17)
    15. Black Redstart (2016-04-17)
    16. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2016-04-17)
    17. Chukar Partridge (2016-04-17)
    18. Hoopoe (2016-04-17)
    19. Great Crested Grebe (2016-04-17)
    20. Common Coot (2016-04-17)
    21. Blue-capped Redstart (2016-04-17)
    22. Montagu's Harrier (2016-04-17)
    23. Black Kite (2016-04-17)
    24. Black-headed Gull (2016-04-17)
    25. Sky Lark (2016-04-17)
    26. Eurasian Crag Martin (2016-04-17)
    27. Turkestan Shrike (2016-04-17)
    28. Indian Sparrow (2016-04-17)
    29. Long-legged Buzzard (2016-04-17)
    30. Eurasian Blackbird (2016-04-19)
    31. Eurasian Collared Dove (2016-04-19)
    32. Wood Pigeon (2016-04-19)
    33. Grey Wagtail (2016-04-24)
    34. Masked Wagtail (2016-04-28)
    35. Oriental Turtle Dove (2016-04-29)
    36. Common Cuckoo (2016-04-29)
    37. Common Mynah (2016-04-29)
    38. Eurasian Hobby (2016-05-03)
    39. Red-headed Bunting (2016-05-08)
    40. Grey-necked Bunting (2016-05-08)
    41. Blue Rock Thrush (2016-05-08)
    42. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2016-05-08)
    43. European Bee-eater (2016-05-08)
    44. Golden Eagle (2016-05-08)
    45. Spotted Flycatcher (2016-05-09)
    46. Lesser Whitethroat (2016-05-09)
    47. Eurasian Roller (2016-05-09)
    48. Rosy Starling (2016-05-09)
    49. Eurasian Magpie (2016-05-09)
    50. Egyptian Vulture (2016-05-09)
    51. Eurasian Jackdaw (2016-05-09)
    52. Common Moorhen (2016-05-14)
    53. Little Bittern (2016-05-14)
    54. Common Nightingale (2016-05-22)
    55. Black-crowned Night Heron (2016-05-22)
    56. House Sparrow (2016-05-22)
    57. Ibisbill (2016-06-25)
    58. Common Rosefinch (2016-06-25)
    59. Ruddy Shelduck (2016-06-25)
    60. Plain Mountain Finch (2016-06-25)
    61. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2016-06-25)
    62. Mistle Thrush (2016-06-25)
    63. Rock Bunting (2016-07-02)
    64. Common Kestrel (2016-07-03)
    65. Lesser Kestrel (2016-07-03)
    66. Lesser Grey Shrike (2016-07-03)
    67. Northern Lapwing (2016-07-03)
    68. Barn Swallow (2016-07-03)
    69. Rock Pigeon (2016-07-03)
    70. Tawny Pipit (2016-07-03)
    71. Red-billed Chough (2016-07-10)
    72. Coal Tit (2016-07-10)
    73. Tree Pipit (2016-07-10)
    74. Himalayan Vulture (2016-07-24)
    75. Lammergeier (2016-07-24)
    76. Greenish Warbler (2016-07-24)
    77. Alpine Accentor (2016-08-10)
    78. Himalayan Accentor (2016-08-10)
    79. Common Whitethroat (2016-08-14)
    80. Spotted Nutcracker (2016-08-14)
    81. Himalayan Snowcock (2016-08-21)
    82. Brown Accentor (2016-08-21)
    83. Common Buzzard (2016-09-04)
    84. Eversmann's Redstart (2016-09-04)
    85. Hume's Warbler (2016-09-04)
    86. Merlin (2016-09-04)
    87. Eurasian Dipper (2016-09-05)
    88. Rook (2016-09-05)

    recent uploads

    2016-09-05. Himalayan Vulture, Grey Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, White-bellied Dipper, Lammergeier, Steppe Buzzard, Eversmann's Redstart, Hume's Warbler, Merlin, Rook, Long-legged Buzzard, White-winged Grosbeak.

    2016-08-22. Turkestan Black Redstart, Alpine Accentor, Plain Mountain Finch, Water Pipit.

    2016-08-21. Himalayan Snowcock, Turkestan Black Redstart, Red-billed Chough, Brown Accentor.

    2016-08-16. Common Whitethroat.

    2016-08-15. Masked Wagtail, Spotted Nutcracker, Black Kite, Black Kite, Turkestan Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Common Rosefinch, Turkestan Shrike.

    2016-08-10. Alpine Accentor, Plain Mountain Finch, Himalayan Accentor, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Alpine Accentor.

    2016-07-25. Himalayan Vulture, Himalayan Vulture, Himalayan Vulture, Lammergeier, Greenish Warbler.

    2016-07-10. Red-billed Chough, Coal Tit, Water Pipit, Hodgson's Rosefinch, Tree Pipit.

    2016-07-04. Rock Bunting, Pied Wheatear, Northern Wheatear, Grey-necked Bunting, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Eurasian Jackdaw, Pied Wheatear, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Kestrel, Lesser Kestrel, Lesser Grey Shrike, Northern Lapwing, Lesser Grey Shrike, European Bee-eater, Eurasian Roller, Barn Swallow, Rock Pigeon, Wood Pigeon, Tawny Pipit, Tawny Pipit, Isabelline Wheatear.

    2016-06-25. Ibisbill, Common Rosefinch, Ruddy Shelduck, Red-fronted Serin, Hodgson's Rosefinch, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Mistle Thrush.

    2016-05-22. Common Nightingale, Black-crowned Night Heron, House Sparrow.

    2016-05-14. Common Moorhen, Little Bittern, Oriental Turtle Dove, Carrion Crow.

    2016-05-10. Red-headed Bunting, Red-headed Bunting, Turkestan Shrike, Grey-necked Bunting, Blue Rock Thrush, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Pied Wheatear, European Bee-eater, Indian Sparrow, Himalayan Golden Eagle, Common Cuckoo, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Eurasian Roller, Chukar Partridge, Rosy Starling, Eurasian Magpie, Egyptian Vulture, Eurasian Jackdaw, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2016-05-03. Eurasian Hobby.

    2016-04-29. Oriental Turtle Dove, Common Cuckoo, Common Mynah.

    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...

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    2025-08-31
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    2025-02-07
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    2025-02-06
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    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.
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    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus Dometurum )
    more unidentified birds...