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total species: 28
total photos: 35
total videos: 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...