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total species: 18
total photos: 21
total videos: 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...