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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 91
    total photos: 234
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. White-winged Grosbeak (2017-01-07)
    2. Brambling (2017-01-07)
    3. Eurasian Blackbird (2017-01-07)
    4. Tree Sparrow (2017-01-07)
    5. House Sparrow (2017-01-07)
    6. Common Chaffinch (2017-01-07)
    7. Great Tit (2017-01-07)
    8. Greylag Goose (2017-01-10)
    9. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2017-01-10)
    10. Eastern Buzzard (2017-01-10)
    11. Corn Bunting (2017-01-10)
    12. Eurasian Linnet (2017-01-10)
    13. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2017-01-11)
    14. Little Owl (2017-01-11)
    15. Crested Lark (2017-01-11)
    16. Laughing Dove (2017-01-11)
    17. Long-legged Buzzard (2017-01-11)
    18. Saker Falcon (2017-01-11)
    19. Cinereous Vulture (2017-01-11)
    20. Great Grey Shrike (2017-01-11)
    21. Steppe Eagle (2017-01-12)
    22. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2017-01-12)
    23. Northern Reed Bunting (2017-01-12)
    24. Little Grebe (2017-01-12)
    25. Water Rail (2017-01-12)
    26. Bearded Tit (2017-01-12)
    27. Mistle Thrush (2017-01-12)
    28. Common Starling (2017-01-12)
    29. Mallard (2017-01-13)
    30. Ruddy Shelduck (2017-01-13)
    31. Eurasian Collared Dove (2017-01-13)
    32. Rock Pigeon (2017-01-13)
    33. Common Mynah (2017-01-13)
    34. Great White Egret (2017-01-14)
    35. Grey Heron (2017-01-14)
    36. Black-headed Gull (2017-01-14)
    37. Caspian Gull (2017-01-14)
    38. Pallas's Gull (2017-01-14)
    39. Great Cormorant (2017-01-14)
    40. Baraba Steppe Gull (2017-01-14)
    41. Hooded Crow (2017-01-14)
    42. Eurasian Jackdaw (2017-01-14)
    43. European Greenfinch (2017-01-14)
    44. Common Buzzard (2017-01-15)
    45. Rough-legged Buzzard (2017-02-11)
    46. Goldcrest (2017-02-20)
    47. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2017-02-20)
    48. Eurasian Magpie (2017-02-20)
    49. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2017-03-15)
    50. Common Pheasant (2017-03-15)
    51. Rook (2017-03-15)
    52. Golden Eagle (2017-03-20)
    53. Horned Lark (2017-03-20)
    54. Wallcreeper (2017-03-20)
    55. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2017-03-21)
    56. Eversmann's Redstart (2017-03-21)
    57. Pied Wheatear (2017-03-21)
    58. Black-throated Accentor (2017-03-21)
    59. Black-throated Thrush (2017-03-21)
    60. Calandra Lark (2017-03-22)
    61. Chukar Partridge (2017-03-22)
    62. Desert Wheatear (2017-03-22)
    63. Black Kite (2017-04-06)
    64. Steppe Grey Shrike (2017-04-06)
    65. Isabelline Shrike (2017-04-06)
    66. Common Redshank (2017-04-06)
    67. Common Kestrel (2017-04-06)
    68. Masked Wagtail (2017-04-06)
    69. Northern Lapwing (2017-04-14)
    70. Common Coot (2017-04-14)
    71. Eurasian Crag Martin (2017-04-15)
    72. Rock Sparrow (2017-04-15)
    73. Hoopoe (2017-04-15)
    74. Great Crested Grebe (2017-04-16)
    75. Common Crane (2017-04-16)
    76. Green Sandpiper (2017-04-16)
    77. Grey Wagtail (2017-04-16)
    78. Bluethroat (2017-04-16)
    79. Black-winged Stilt (2017-04-16)
    80. Isabelline Wheatear (2017-04-16)
    81. Siberian Stonechat (2017-04-23)
    82. Wood Pigeon (2017-04-27)
    83. Red-headed Bunting (2017-05-08)
    84. Ortolan Bunting (2017-05-08)
    85. Common Sparrowhawk (2017-05-08)
    86. Rosy Starling (2017-05-08)
    87. Eurasian Roller (2017-05-08)
    88. Turkestan Shrike (2017-05-08)
    89. Azure Tit (2017-11-15)
    90. Northern Wren (2017-11-24)
    91. Coal Tit (2017-12-30)

    recent uploads

    2017-12-30. Coal Tit.

    2017-12-26. Hybrid Bunting, Pine Bunting.

    2017-12-25. Eversmann's Redstart.

    2017-12-22. White-winged Grosbeak.

    2017-12-20. Golden Eagle.

    2017-12-07. House Sparrow.

    2017-11-24. Northern Wren.

    2017-11-15. Common Sparrowhawk, Laughing Dove, Azure Tit.

    2017-05-13. Laughing Dove.

    2017-05-08. Red-headed Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Siberian Stonechat, Isabelline Wheatear, Hoopoe, Common Sparrowhawk, Rosy Starling, Eurasian Roller, Turkestan Shrike.

    2017-04-27. Siberian Stonechat, Isabelline Wheatear, Hoopoe, Long-legged Buzzard, Wood Pigeon.

    2017-04-17. Great Crested Grebe, Northern Lapwing, Common Coot, Common Crane, Eurasian Crag Martin, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Rock Sparrow, Hoopoe, Green Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, Bluethroat, Bluethroat, Black-winged Stilt, Masked Wagtail, Isabelline Wheatear, Black Kite, Chukar Partridge, Eurasian Jackdaw.

    2017-04-10. Black Kite, Steppe Grey Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Common Redshank, Common Starling, Common Kestrel, Great Cormorant, Masked Wagtail, Chukar Partridge.

    2017-03-22. Himalayan Golden Eagle, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Calandra Lark, Mistle Thrush, Little Owl, Little Owl, Rough-legged Buzzard, Chukar Partridge, Eversmann's Redstart, Black-headed Gull, Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Steppe Horned Lark, Steppe Eagle, Black-throated Accentor, Black-throated Thrush, Wallcreeper, Himalayan Golden Eagle.

    2017-03-16. White-winged Grosbeak, Red-mantled Rosefinch.

    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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    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
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    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...