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Gaviiformes
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    total species: 18
    total photos: 21
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Griffon Vulture (2022-04-22)
    2. Lammergeier (2022-04-22)
    4. Greater Sand Plover (2022-05-05)
    5. Alpine Swift (2022-05-05)
    6. Crested Lark (2022-05-06)
    7. European Bee-eater (2022-05-13)
    8. Eurasian Spoonbill (2022-05-18)
    9. Great White Egret (2022-05-18)
    10. Kentish Plover (2022-05-18)
    11. Cinereous Vulture (2022-05-19)
    12. Black-winged Stilt (2022-05-20)
    13. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-05-20)
    14. Whooper Swan (2022-05-24)
    15. Black Lark (2022-05-25)
    16. Common Coot (2022-08-02)
    17. Mute Swan (2022-08-02)
    18. Wood Sandpiper (2022-08-02)

    recent uploads

    2023-01-10. Black-tailed Godwit, Rock Pigeon, Black-winged Pratincole, Red-necked Phalarope, Black-headed Wagtail, Paddyfield Warbler, Common Pheasant, Common Tern, Purple Heron.

    2023-01-09. Calandra Lark, Greater Sand Plover, Steppe Grey Shrike.

    2023-01-08. Rosy Starling, Siberian Stonechat, Eurasian Whimbrel, Steppe Grey Shrike, Rock Sparrow.

    2023-01-07. Eurasian Collared Dove, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Red-Necked Grebe, Eurasian Jackdaw, Pallid Harrier, Grey Partridge, Little Owl, Little Bustard.

    2023-01-06. Little Stint, Desert Finch, Little Stint, Common Teal, Little Ringed Plover.

    2023-01-05. Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Mynah, Saxaul Sparrow, Common Buzzard.

    2023-01-04. Spotted Flycatcher, Steppe Eagle, Common Raven, Pied Wheatear, Black Kite, Desert Lark, Western Marsh-Harrier, Northern House Martin, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Egyptian Vulture, Cinereous Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Curlew Sandpiper, Kentish Plover, Black-Necked Grebe, Rock Pigeon, Hooded Crow.

    2023-01-03. Common Shelduck, Greater Flamingo, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Long-tailed Tit, Osprey, Slavonian Grebe, Red-headed Bunting, Black-winged Stilt, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Eurasian Wigeon.

    2023-01-02. Alpine Swift, Common Sparrowhawk, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Grey Heron, Temminck's Stint, Eurasian Roller, Northern Wheatear.

    2023-01-01. Glossy Ibis, Ruddy Turnstone, Pied Avocet, Common Starling, Ruff, Greater Ringed Plover, Northern Lapwing, Wood Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Western Marsh-Harrier, Dunlin, Ruff, Greater Flamingo, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Osprey, Common Cuckoo.

    2022-12-31. Pied Flycatcher, Steppe Grey Shrike, Spotted Flycatcher.

    2022-12-30. Black-tailed Godwit, Common Snipe, Pied Avocet, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Shoveler, Red-headed Bunting, Green Sandpiper, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Red-backed Shrike, Calandra Lark.

    2022-12-29. Common Cuckoo, Chukar Partridge, Eurasian Redstart, Pallid Scops Owl, Sanderling, Common Chiffchaff, Caspian Plover.

    2022-12-28. Common Raven, Saker Falcon, Black Stork, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Little Bustard, Common Kestrel, Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail.

    2022-12-27. White Wagtail, Ruddy Shelduck, White-Winged Woodpecker, Pander's Ground-Jay, Little Owl, Eurasian Stone Curlew.

    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...