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    total species: 34
    total photos: 190
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Goosander (2025-01-03)
    2. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-03)
    3. Smew (2025-01-03)
    4. Hawfinch (2025-01-03)
    5. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-03)
    6. Eurasian Dipper (2025-01-03)
    7. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-14)
    8. Northern Bullfinch (2025-02-18)
    9. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-25)
    10. Willow Tit (2025-02-25)
    11. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-02-25)
    12. Carrion Crow (2025-02-26)
    13. Eurasian Siskin (2025-02-26)
    14. Mallard (2025-02-26)
    15. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-03-16)
    16. Fieldfare (2025-03-16)
    17. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-17)
    18. Common Chaffinch (2025-03-19)
    19. Yellowhammer (2025-03-31)
    20. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-04-01)
    21. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-04-03)
    22. Masked Wagtail (2025-04-10)
    23. Black Kite (2025-04-10)
    24. Common Starling (2025-04-11)
    25. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-18)
    26. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-04-18)
    27. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-18)
    28. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-15)
    29. Eurasian Hobby (2025-08-20)
    30. Grey Heron (2025-09-01)
    31. Great Cormorant (2025-09-18)
    32. Great White Egret (2025-10-08)
    33. Great Grey Shrike (2025-10-17)
    34. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-11-17)

    recent uploads

    2025-11-18. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-11-17. White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2025-10-17. Great Grey Shrike.

    2025-10-09. Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Mallard.

    2025-09-20. Grey-Headed Woodpecker.

    2025-09-19. Great Cormorant.

    2025-09-01. Grey Heron.

    2025-08-20. Eurasian Hobby.

    2025-08-15. Black Kite.

    2025-05-21. Spotted Flycatcher.

    2025-05-16. Black Kite.

    2025-04-22. Common Chiffchaff.

    2025-04-18. Common Chiffchaff, Ruddy Shelduck, Green Sandpiper.

    2025-04-11. Siberian Common Starling, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-04-10. Masked Wagtail, Black Kite.

    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...