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total species: 75
total photos: 356
total videos: 19
total blogposts: 7

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1. Brambling (2013-01-07)
2. House Sparrow (2013-01-09)
3. Red-fronted Serin (2013-01-09)
4. Eurasian Blackbird (2013-01-21)
5. Great White Egret (2013-01-21)
6. Caspian Gull (2013-01-21)
7. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2013-01-21)
8. Hooded Crow (2013-01-23)
9. Rook (2013-01-24)
10. Common Chaffinch (2013-01-27)
11. Red Crossbill (2013-01-27)
12. Tree Sparrow (2013-02-03)
13. Eurasian Magpie (2013-02-06)
14. Great Tit (2013-02-06)
15. Common Mynah (2013-03-15)
16. Great White Pelican (2013-05-07)
17. Eurasian Roller (2013-05-07)
18. Grey Heron (2013-05-07)
19. White-headed Duck (2013-05-07)
20. Oriental Turtle Dove (2013-05-07)
21. Hoopoe (2013-05-07)
22. Rosy Starling (2013-05-07)
23. Barn Swallow (2013-05-07)
24. Common Tern (2013-05-07)
25. Hume's Warbler (2013-05-07)
27. Kentish Plover (2013-05-07)
28. White Wagtail (2013-05-07)
29. Mute Swan (2013-05-07)
30. Black-winged Stilt (2013-05-07)
31. Common Starling (2013-05-07)
32. Common Shelduck (2013-05-07)
33. Black-headed Gull (2013-05-07)
34. Grey Plover (2013-05-07)
35. Ruff (2013-05-07)
36. Garganey (2013-05-07)
37. Great Crested Grebe (2013-05-07)
38. Black-Necked Grebe (2013-05-07)
39. Siberian Stonechat (2013-05-07)
40. Common Moorhen (2013-05-07)
41. Dalmatian Pelican (2013-05-07)
42. Common Sandpiper (2013-05-07)
43. Sand Martin (2013-05-07)
44. Common Greenshank (2013-05-07)
45. Common Redshank (2013-05-07)
46. Eurasian Collared Dove (2013-07-16)
47. Little Ringed Plover (2013-08-11)
48. Stock Pigeon (2013-08-11)
49. Northern Lapwing (2013-08-11)
50. Ruddy Turnstone (2013-08-11)
51. Temminck's Stint (2013-08-11)
52. Great Cormorant (2013-08-11)
53. Lesser Grey Shrike (2013-08-11)
54. European Bee-eater (2013-08-11)
55. Eurasian Hobby (2013-08-11)
56. Whooper Swan (2013-08-11)
57. Turkestan Shrike (2013-08-11)
58. Gull-billed Tern (2013-08-11)
59. Pied Avocet (2013-08-11)
60. Terek Sandpiper (2013-08-11)
61. Black-tailed Godwit (2013-08-11)
62. Red-crested Pochard (2013-08-11)
63. Ruddy Shelduck (2013-08-11)
64. Pacific Golden Plover (2013-08-11)
65. Mew Gull (2013-12-14)
66. Azure Tit (2013-12-14)
67. Little Grebe (2013-12-14)
68. Northern Reed Bunting (2013-12-14)
69. European Greenfinch (2013-12-14)
70. Black-throated Thrush (2013-12-14)
71. Steppe Eagle (2013-12-14)
72. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2013-12-14)
73. Eurasian Siskin (2013-12-19)
74. Long-eared Owl (2013-12-28)
75. White-winged Grosbeak (2013-12-29)

recent uploads


2013-12-31. Eurasian Siskin, Brambling.

2013-12-30. Eurasian Blackbird, Long-eared Owl, White-winged Grosbeak.

2013-12-29. Great Tit, Long-eared Owl.

2013-12-23. Rook, Hybrid Tit.

2013-12-19. Eurasian Blackbird, Eurasian Siskin, Brambling.

2013-12-16. Northern Reed Bunting, European Greenfinch, Black-throated Thrush, European Greenfinch, Great White Egret, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Shelduck, Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, Ruddy Shelduck, Red-crested Pochard, Pacific Golden Plover.

2013-12-15. Mew Gull, Azure Tit, Mute Swan, Little Grebe.

2013-08-24. Black-winged Stilt, Black-winged Stilt, Whooper Swan, Grey Heron, Pied Avocet, Terek Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit.

2013-08-21. Lesser Grey Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Gull-billed Tern.

2013-08-19. Whooper Swan.

2013-08-18. Grey Heron, Ruddy Turnstone, Great Cormorant, Common Sandpiper, Lesser Grey Shrike, European Bee-eater, Eurasian Hobby.

2013-08-13. Ruff, Temminck's Stint, Northern Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover.

2013-08-12. Stock Pigeon, Dalmatian Pelican, Northern Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Black-headed Gull, Dalmatian Pelican.

2013-07-20. Eurasian Collared Dove.

2013-05-12. Eurasian Roller.

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...