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total species: 45
total photos: 111
total videos: 0
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1. Eurasian Collared Dove (2015-01-05)
2. Eurasian Blackbird (2015-01-08)
3. Brambling (2015-01-08)
4. Common Chaffinch (2015-01-09)
5. Eastern Buzzard (2015-01-09)
6. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2015-01-09)
7. Great Tit (2015-01-09)
8. Goldcrest (2015-01-11)
9. Black-throated Thrush (2015-01-11)
10. Common Kestrel (2015-01-13)
11. Mallard (2015-01-13)
12. Azure Tit (2015-01-21)
13. Rook (2015-01-27)
14. Mistle Thrush (2015-01-31)
15. Eurasian Siskin (2015-01-31)
16. Red-fronted Serin (2015-01-31)
17. Turkestan Tit (2015-02-11)
18. Eurasian Magpie (2015-02-11)
19. Yellow-breasted Tit (2015-02-11)
20. Great White Egret (2015-02-11)
21. Grey Heron (2015-02-11)
22. Common Buzzard (2015-02-14)
23. Red-billed Chough (2015-02-16)
24. Carrion Crow (2015-02-16)
25. Common Sparrowhawk (2015-03-17)
26. Black-headed Gull (2015-03-23)
27. Common Chiffchaff (2015-03-23)
28. Common Pheasant (2015-03-23)
29. Northern Bullfinch (2015-03-30)
30. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2015-03-30)
31. White-Backed Woodpecker (2015-03-30)
32. Common Raven (2015-03-30)
33. Fieldfare (2015-03-30)
34. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2015-03-30)
35. Eurasian Nuthatch (2015-03-31)
36. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2015-03-31)
37. Rock Pigeon (2015-03-31)
38. Red-headed Bunting (2015-06-26)
39. Masked Wagtail (2015-06-29)
40. Eurasian Roller (2015-07-18)
41. Barn Swallow (2015-07-20)
42. Common Coot (2015-07-20)
43. Green Sandpiper (2015-07-20)
44. Common Sandpiper (2015-07-20)
45. Eurasian Hobby (2015-09-14)

recent uploads


2015-09-16. Eurasian Hobby.

2015-07-21. Common Kestrel, Eurasian Roller, Common Pheasant, Barn Swallow, Mallard, Black-headed Gull, Common Coot, Mallard, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper.

2015-06-30. Masked Wagtail, Red-headed Bunting.

2015-05-28. Ibisbill.

2015-04-11. Northern Bullfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-Backed Woodpecker, Common Raven, Fieldfare, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Rock Pigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Nuthatch, White-Backed Woodpecker, Azure Tit, Fieldfare, Northern Bullfinch, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Mallard, Common Pheasant, Common Chiffchaff, Black-headed Gull, Common Sparrowhawk.

2015-02-16. Carrion Crow, Red-billed Chough, Mistle Thrush, Eastern Buzzard, Hybrid Tit.

2015-02-15. Common Buzzard, Black-throated Thrush, Turkestan Tit, Eurasian Blackbird, Eurasian Magpie, Yellow-breasted Tit, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Common Chaffinch, Great White Egret, Grey Heron.

2015-02-14. Azure Tit, Eurasian Blackbird, Rook, Mistle Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Red-fronted Serin, Eurasian Siskin.

2015-02-13. Eastern Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Mallard.

2015-01-11. Black-throated Thrush, Common Chaffinch, Goldcrest, Great Tit, Brambling.

2015-01-10. Eurasian Collared Dove, Great White Pelican.

2015-01-09. Great Tit, Brambling, Common Chaffinch, Eastern Buzzard, Grey-headed Goldfinch.

2015-01-08. Common Pheasant, Chukar Partridge, Cinereous Vulture, Pamir Horned Lark, Black-throated Thrush, Himalayan Vulture, Common Kestrel, Red-billed Chough, Green Sandpiper, Black Kite, Little Bittern, Brambling, Eurasian Blackbird.

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...