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total species: 51
total photos: 375
total videos: 29
total blogposts: 9

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1. Hooded Crow (2014-01-02)
2. Common Chaffinch (2014-01-02)
3. Brambling (2014-01-02)
4. Eurasian Blackbird (2014-01-03)
5. Eurasian Siskin (2014-01-03)
6. White-winged Grosbeak (2014-01-04)
7. European Robin (2014-01-06)
8. Goldcrest (2014-01-06)
9. European Greenfinch (2014-01-06)
10. Black-throated Thrush (2014-01-06)
11. Common Sparrowhawk (2014-01-06)
12. Rook (2014-01-07)
13. Great Tit (2014-01-07)
14. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2014-01-09)
15. Green Sandpiper (2014-01-11)
16. Common Kingfisher (2014-01-11)
17. Crested Lark (2014-01-11)
18. Great White Egret (2014-01-11)
19. Eurasian Linnet (2014-01-11)
20. Corn Bunting (2014-01-11)
21. Northern Reed Bunting (2014-01-11)
22. Eastern Buzzard (2014-01-11)
23. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2014-01-11)
24. Steppe Eagle (2014-01-11)
25. Eurasian Magpie (2014-01-17)
26. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2014-02-08)
27. Long-eared Owl (2014-02-10)
28. Carrion Crow (2014-02-13)
29. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2014-02-13)
30. Common Mynah (2014-02-19)
31. Caspian Gull (2014-02-20)
32. Rough-legged Buzzard (2014-02-22)
33. Merlin (2014-02-22)
34. Mistle Thrush (2014-02-22)
35. Tree Sparrow (2014-02-22)
36. Whooper Swan (2014-02-22)
37. Fieldfare (2014-03-01)
38. Northern Pintail (2014-03-01)
39. Ruddy Shelduck (2014-03-01)
40. Bohemian Waxwing (2014-03-01)
41. Eurasian Collared Dove (2014-03-06)
42. Turkestan Shrike (2014-03-29)
43. Common Snipe (2014-03-29)
44. Black-headed Wagtail (2014-07-08)
45. Isabelline Wheatear (2014-07-08)
46. Eurasian Hobby (2014-07-08)
47. Long-tailed Shrike (2014-07-08)
48. Red-billed Chough (2014-08-03)
49. Yellow-billed Chough (2014-08-03)
50. Northern Wheatear (2014-08-03)
51. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2014-08-03)

recent uploads


2014-08-12. Northern Wheatear, Guldenstadt's Redstart, Guldenstadt's Redstart.

2014-08-08. Red-billed Chough, Red-billed Chough, Yellow-billed Chough.

2014-08-06. Black-headed Wagtail, Isabelline Wheatear, Eurasian Hobby, Long-tailed Shrike.

2014-04-01. Common Snipe.

2014-03-31. Turkestan Shrike.

2014-03-06. Eurasian Collared Dove, European Greenfinch.

2014-03-03. Northern Reed Bunting, Fieldfare, Northern Pintail, Ruddy Shelduck, Whooper Swan, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Rough-legged Buzzard, Rough-legged Buzzard, European Greenfinch, Bohemian Waxwing.

2014-03-02. Fieldfare, Fieldfare.

2014-02-26. Mistle Thrush, Tree Sparrow, Black-throated Thrush, Crested Lark, Whooper Swan.

2014-02-25. Northern Reed Bunting, Rough-legged Buzzard, Merlin.

2014-02-23. Caspian Gull, Great Tit.

2014-02-22. Steppe Eagle, Hybrid Eagle.

2014-02-20. Brambling, Great Tit, Hybrid Tit, Common Mynah, Eurasian Blackbird, Carrion Crow.

2014-02-19. Eurasian Blackbird.

2014-02-14. Hooded Crow, Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush.

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...