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Gaviiformes
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    total species: 106
    total photos: 229
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Black Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
    2. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-02)
    3. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-02)
    4. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-02)
    5. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-02)
    6. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-03)
    7. Great Tit (2025-01-03)
    8. House Sparrow (2025-01-03)
    9. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-03)
    10. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-03)
    11. Hooded Crow (2025-01-03)
    12. Carrion Crow (2025-01-03)
    13. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-04)
    14. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-01-06)
    15. Hawfinch (2025-01-09)
    16. Goosander (2025-01-09)
    17. Eurasian Dipper (2025-01-09)
    18. Mallard (2025-01-09)
    19. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-01-09)
    20. Brambling (2025-01-11)
    21. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-18)
    22. Common Raven (2025-01-28)
    23. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-02-03)
    24. Black-throated Thrush (2025-02-05)
    25. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-02-19)
    26. Eurasian Jay (2025-02-23)
    27. Red Crossbill (2025-02-23)
    28. Fieldfare (2025-02-28)
    29. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-02-28)
    30. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-03-14)
    31. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-15)
    32. Common Chaffinch (2025-03-20)
    33. Tufted Duck (2025-03-20)
    34. Caspian Gull (2025-03-20)
    35. Common Starling (2025-03-21)
    36. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-21)
    37. Rook (2025-03-21)
    38. Northern Black Grouse (2025-03-21)
    39. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-03-21)
    40. Eurasian Linnet (2025-03-21)
    41. Sky Lark (2025-03-21)
    42. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-24)
    43. Yellowhammer (2025-03-27)
    44. Azure Tit (2025-03-29)
    45. Black Kite (2025-03-30)
    46. Pine Bunting (2025-03-31)
    47. Lapland Longspur (2025-04-02)
    48. White Wagtail (2025-04-02)
    49. Great Cormorant (2025-04-02)
    50. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-04-02)
    51. Bewick's Swan (2025-04-03)
    52. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-04-03)
    53. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-05)
    54. Common Teal (2025-04-05)
    55. Garganey (2025-04-05)
    56. Great White Egret (2025-04-05)
    57. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-06)
    58. Water Pipit (2025-04-06)
    59. Gadwall (2025-04-06)
    60. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-04-07)
    61. Song Thrush (2025-04-07)
    62. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-07)
    63. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-13)
    64. European Greenfinch (2025-04-23)
    65. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-26)
    66. Barn Swallow (2025-04-26)
    67. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-29)
    68. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-29)
    69. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-04-29)
    70. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-03)
    71. Grey Heron (2025-05-03)
    72. Thrush Nightingale (2025-05-04)
    73. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-05)
    74. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-06)
    75. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-06)
    76. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-07)
    77. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-08)
    78. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-08)
    79. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-10)
    80. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-10)
    81. Pale Sand Martin (2025-05-11)
    82. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-22)
    83. Tree Pipit (2025-05-22)
    84. Northern Hazelhen (2025-05-23)
    85. Common Buzzard (2025-05-23)
    86. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-06-01)
    87. European Golden Oriole (2025-06-04)
    88. Common Cuckoo (2025-06-08)
    89. Common Nightingale (2025-06-29)
    90. Booted Warbler (2025-06-29)
    91. Common Kingfisher (2025-06-29)
    92. Black-headed Gull (2025-06-29)
    93. Green Sandpiper (2025-07-02)
    94. Hoopoe (2025-07-02)
    95. European Bee-eater (2025-07-12)
    96. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-07-13)
    97. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-07-13)
    99. Common Greenshank (2025-07-23)
    100. Temminck's Stint (2025-08-12)
    101. Hume's Warbler (2025-08-14)
    102. Greenish Warbler (2025-08-14)
    103. Rock Bunting (2025-08-23)
    104. Meadow Bunting (2025-08-24)
    105. Willow Tit (2025-09-27)
    106. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-09-27)

    recent uploads

    2025-09-28. Willow Tit, Willow Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Hoopoe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2025-09-17. Common Kingfisher, Masked Wagtail.

    2025-09-10. Common Teal.

    2025-08-24. Meadow Bunting, Common Starling, Meadow Bunting.

    2025-08-23. Rock Bunting.

    2025-08-18. Greenish Warbler, Unkown Bird.

    2025-08-16. Great Tit, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Hume's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, Red-backed Shrike, Yellowhammer, Northern Black Grouse.

    2025-08-15. Tree Sparrow, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Temminck's Stint.

    2025-08-07. Blyth's Reed Warbler.

    2025-08-06. Spotted Flycatcher, Common Chaffinch, Caspian Gull, Fieldfare, Tree Sparrow, Red-backed Shrike.

    2025-07-31. Common Kingfisher, Red-backed Shrike, Citrine Wagtail.

    2025-07-24. Wood Sandpiper.

    2025-07-23. White-crowned Penduline Tit, Masked Wagtail, European Greenfinch, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Common Greenshank, Spotted Flycatcher.

    2025-07-15. Lesser Grey Shrike, Gadwall, Dalmatian Pelican.

    2025-07-14. European Bee-eater.

    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...