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Gaviiformes
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    • Pelecaniformes
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  • Phalacrocoracidae
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  • Emberizidae

    • Balykin Alexandr

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    total species: 28
    total photos: 35
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-01-11)
    2. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-16)
    3. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-19)
    4. Eastern Buzzard (2025-01-19)
    5. Great White Egret (2025-02-12)
    6. Common Kestrel (2025-02-15)
    7. Black-throated Thrush (2025-03-11)
    8. Tree Sparrow (2025-03-11)
    9. Eurasian Magpie (2025-03-12)
    10. Common Pheasant (2025-03-12)
    11. Brambling (2025-03-12)
    12. Goldcrest (2025-03-12)
    13. Black-throated Accentor (2025-03-12)
    14. Red-crested Pochard (2025-03-24)
    15. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-03-24)
    16. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-24)
    17. Mute Swan (2025-03-24)
    18. Whooper Swan (2025-03-24)
    19. Common Chaffinch (2025-03-26)
    20. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-03-26)
    21. Azure Tit (2025-03-26)
    22. Great Tit (2025-03-26)
    23. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-26)
    24. Rosy Starling (2025-05-21)
    25. Brown Dipper (2025-10-19)
    26. Common Mynah (2025-10-19)
    27. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-10-23)
    28. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-10-23)

    recent uploads

    2025-10-24. Red-mantled Rosefinch, Spotted Nutcracker.

    2025-10-22. Common Pheasant, Brown Dipper, Common Mynah.

    2025-05-23. Rosy Starling.

    2025-03-31. Common Chaffinch, Blue-capped Redstart, Azure Tit, Great Tit, Isabelline Wheatear, Common Kestrel.

    2025-03-24. Whooper Swan, Mute Swan, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Kestrel, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Red-crested Pochard.

    2025-03-12. Eurasian Magpie, Common Pheasant, Brambling, Goldcrest, Black-throated Accentor.

    2025-03-11. Black-throated Thrush, Tree Sparrow, Hybrid Bunting.

    2025-02-16. Common Kestrel, Great White Egret.

    2025-01-19. Great Grey Shrike, Eastern Buzzard.

    2025-01-18. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Eurasian Siskin.

    2025-01-05. White-winged Grosbeak.

    2025-01-04. Great Cormorant, Demoiselle Crane, Black Stork, Hawfinch.

    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...