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total species: 15
total photos: 25
total videos: 0
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1. Masked Wagtail (2023-04-29)
2. Common Mynah (2023-04-29)
3. Tawny Pipit (2023-04-29)
4. European Golden Oriole (2023-05-13)
6. Brown-necked Raven (2023-05-25)
7. Common Swift (2023-05-27)
8. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2023-05-27)
9. Alpine Swift (2023-05-27)
10. White-headed Duck (2023-05-31)
11. Glossy Ibis (2023-05-31)
12. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-06-07)
13. White-winged Lark (2023-06-09)
14. Horned Lark (2023-06-09)
15. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-09-18)

recent uploads


2023-12-01. Lesser Whitethroat.

2023-06-18. Horned Lark, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Alpine Swift.

2023-06-17. White-headed Duck, Glossy Ibis, Masked Wagtail, Common Mynah, Tawny Pipit, Oriental Turtle Dove.

2023-06-16. White-winged Lark.

2023-06-15. European Golden Oriole, Common Swift, Eastern Black-eared Wheatear, Brown-necked Raven.

2023-03-12. Pallid Harrier, Rock Pigeon, Black Kite, Steppe Eagle.

2023-02-14. Red-crested Pochard.

2023-02-13. Short-toed Snake-Eagle.

2023-01-20. Horned Lark, Rock Sparrow.

2023-01-18. Finsch's Wheatear.

2023-01-16. Common Shelduck.

2023-01-11. Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Isabelline Wheatear, Red-headed Bunting, Rosy Starling.

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.

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...