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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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    • Falconiformes
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  • Rallidae
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    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
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  • Recurvirostridae
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  • Picidae
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  • Hirundinidae
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    members stats

    map of photoshootings

    total species: 142
    total photos: 1744
    total videos: 16
    total blogposts: 3

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    1. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-01-01)
    2. Great Tit (2022-01-03)
    3. Brambling (2022-01-03)
    4. Goldcrest (2022-01-03)
    5. Common Chaffinch (2022-01-13)
    6. Eurasian Dipper (2022-01-14)
    7. Rook (2022-01-14)
    8. Carrion Crow (2022-01-14)
    9. Tree Sparrow (2022-01-14)
    10. Common Pheasant (2022-01-14)
    11. Mallard (2022-01-14)
    12. Eurasian Magpie (2022-01-21)
    13. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-01-30)
    14. Red-fronted Serin (2022-01-31)
    15. Mistle Thrush (2022-01-31)
    16. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-02-05)
    17. Pied Avocet (2022-02-05)
    18. Caspian Gull (2022-02-05)
    19. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-02-05)
    20. Great Grey Shrike (2022-02-05)
    21. Water Pipit (2022-02-05)
    22. Green Sandpiper (2022-02-05)
    23. Little Grebe (2022-02-05)
    24. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-02-05)
    25. Whooper Swan (2022-02-05)
    26. Mute Swan (2022-02-05)
    27. Brown Dipper (2022-02-12)
    28. Hooded Crow (2022-02-12)
    29. Common Mynah (2022-02-17)
    30. Rock Pigeon (2022-02-17)
    31. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2022-02-19)
    32. Great White Egret (2022-02-20)
    33. Northern Wren (2022-02-25)
    34. Common Raven (2022-02-27)
    35. Golden Eagle (2022-02-27)
    36. Common Kestrel (2022-02-27)
    37. Black-headed Gull (2022-03-05)
    38. Blue Whistling Thrush (2022-03-08)
    39. Masked Wagtail (2022-03-11)
    40. Azure Tit (2022-03-14)
    41. Eversmann's Redstart (2022-03-14)
    42. Rock Bunting (2022-03-22)
    43. Common Chiffchaff (2022-03-24)
    44. Grey Wagtail (2022-03-25)
    45. Hoopoe (2022-03-26)
    46. Isabelline Shrike (2022-03-27)
    47. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-03-29)
    48. Black-throated Accentor (2022-04-04)
    49. Siberian Stonechat (2022-04-06)
    50. Turkestan Shrike (2022-04-06)
    51. Laughing Dove (2022-04-07)
    52. House Sparrow (2022-04-09)
    53. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-10)
    54. Alpine Swift (2022-04-12)
    55. Hume's Warbler (2022-04-18)
    56. Pied Wheatear (2022-04-20)
    57. Tree Pipit (2022-04-20)
    58. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2022-04-20)
    59. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-04-20)
    60. Eurasian Crag Martin (2022-04-20)
    61. Egyptian Vulture (2022-04-20)
    62. Black Kite (2022-04-20)
    63. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-04-20)
    64. Hen Harrier (2022-04-20)
    65. Crested Lark (2022-04-20)
    66. Wood Pigeon (2022-04-23)
    67. Barn Swallow (2022-04-28)
    68. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2022-04-30)
    69. Common Kingfisher (2022-05-01)
    70. Steppe Eagle (2022-05-03)
    71. Common Tern (2022-05-03)
    72. Little Ringed Plover (2022-05-06)
    73. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-12)
    74. Common Nightingale (2022-05-16)
    75. Great Cormorant (2022-05-28)
    76. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-28)
    77. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-06-03)
    78. European Greenfinch (2022-06-03)
    79. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-06-22)
    80. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-06-29)
    81. Long-eared Owl (2022-07-03)
    82. Eurasian Roller (2022-07-10)
    83. Spanish Sparrow (2022-07-10)
    84. European Bee-eater (2022-07-10)
    85. Eurasian Hobby (2022-07-10)
    86. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-08-13)
    87. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-08-14)
    88. Greenish Warbler (2022-08-14)
    89. Garganey (2022-08-14)
    90. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-08-14)
    91. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-08-14)
    92. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-08-14)
    93. Common Teal (2022-08-14)
    94. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-08-14)
    95. Ferruginous Duck (2022-08-14)
    96. Common Coot (2022-08-14)
    97. Great Crested Grebe (2022-08-14)
    98. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-08-14)
    99. Black-winged Stilt (2022-08-14)
    100. Northern Lapwing (2022-08-14)
    101. Yellow Wagtail (2022-08-14)
    102. Grey Heron (2022-08-14)
    103. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-08-14)
    104. Citrine Wagtail (2022-08-14)
    105. Calandra Lark (2022-08-14)
    106. Common Pochard (2022-08-14)
    107. Ruff (2022-08-14)
    108. Wood Sandpiper (2022-08-14)
    109. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-08-14)
    110. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-08-29)
    111. Common Starling (2022-09-04)
    112. White-headed Duck (2022-09-04)
    113. Red-crested Pochard (2022-09-04)
    114. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-09-04)
    115. White Wagtail (2022-09-04)
    116. Montagu's Harrier (2022-09-04)
    117. Common Shelduck (2022-09-04)
    118. Common Greenshank (2022-09-04)
    119. Little Stint (2022-09-04)
    120. Kentish Plover (2022-09-04)
    121. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2022-09-04)
    122. Northern Pintail (2022-09-18)
    123. Gadwall (2022-09-18)
    124. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2022-09-18)
    125. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-09-18)
    126. Little Bustard (2022-09-18)
    127. Grey Partridge (2022-09-18)
    128. Pine Bunting (2022-10-15)
    129. Black-throated Thrush (2022-10-16)
    130. Yellowhammer (2022-10-23)
    131. Upland Buzzard (2022-10-24)
    132. Tufted Duck (2022-10-24)
    133. Eurasian Linnet (2022-10-24)
    134. Common Redshank (2022-10-24)
    135. Eastern Buzzard (2022-11-01)
    136. Peregrine Falcon (2022-11-26)
    137. Eurasian Siskin (2022-12-11)
    138. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-12-16)
    139. Long-tailed Tit (2022-12-21)
    140. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2022-12-21)
    141. Cinereous Vulture (2022-12-27)
    142. Coal Tit (2022-12-27)

    recent uploads

    2023-01-01. Cinereous Vulture, Coal Tit, Common Chaffinch, Yellowhammer, Hybrid Bunting, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2022-12-31. Long-eared Owl, Goldcrest, Mistle Thrush, Common Mynah, White-bellied Dipper, Eversmann's Redstart, Great White Egret, Great Tit.

    2022-12-28. Eurasian Siskin, Red-fronted Serin, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2022-12-25. Eurasian Magpie.

    2022-12-22. Long-tailed Tit, Eversmann's Redstart, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Red-fronted Serin, Ring-necked Pheasant, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2022-12-21. Eurasian Magpie.

    2022-12-19. Eurasian Blackbird.

    2022-12-18. Black-throated Accentor, Rook, Grey-headed Goldfinch.

    2022-12-17. Eversmann's Redstart, Red-fronted Serin, Red-fronted Serin, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2022-12-16. Eurasian Blackbird, Common Chaffinch, Goldcrest, Goldcrest, Common Chaffinch, Red-fronted Serin, Rock Pigeon, Azure Tit.

    2022-12-15. Great Tit, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2022-12-14. Eurasian Blackbird, Rock Pigeon.

    2022-12-12. Eurasian Siskin, Common Chaffinch, Common Chaffinch, Red-fronted Serin.

    2022-12-11. Eurasian Blackbird, Mallard.

    2022-12-05. Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling.

    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.
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    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus Dometurum )
    more unidentified birds...