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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 88
    total photos: 336
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Tit (2019-01-02)
    2. Northern Bullfinch (2019-01-02)
    3. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2019-01-02)
    4. Fieldfare (2019-01-02)
    5. Baikal Bullfinch (2019-01-02)
    6. Rock Pigeon (2019-01-06)
    7. Tree Sparrow (2019-01-06)
    8. Eurasian Jay (2019-01-06)
    9. Hooded Crow (2019-01-06)
    10. Eurasian Nuthatch (2019-01-06)
    11. Willow Tit (2019-01-06)
    12. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2019-01-12)
    13. Eurasian Magpie (2019-01-12)
    14. Goosander (2019-01-12)
    15. Black-throated Thrush (2019-01-21)
    16. Carrion Crow (2019-01-22)
    17. Bean Goose (2019-01-25)
    18. Common Goldeneye (2019-01-25)
    19. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2019-01-25)
    20. Eurasian Dipper (2019-01-26)
    21. Mallard (2019-01-26)
    22. Hawfinch (2019-01-29)
    23. Eurasian Goldfinch (2019-01-30)
    24. Little Grebe (2019-02-03)
    25. Smew (2019-02-03)
    26. Coal Tit (2019-02-17)
    27. Yellowhammer (2019-02-23)
    28. Eurasian Blackbird (2019-02-23)
    29. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2019-02-24)
    30. Azure Tit (2019-02-24)
    31. Common Redpoll (2019-03-02)
    32. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2019-03-09)
    33. Caspian Gull (2019-03-10)
    34. Rook (2019-03-17)
    35. House Sparrow (2019-03-29)
    36. Common Chaffinch (2019-03-29)
    37. Mistle Thrush (2019-03-30)
    38. Black Kite (2019-03-30)
    39. Eurasian Jackdaw (2019-03-30)
    40. Great White Egret (2019-04-06)
    41. Common Starling (2019-04-06)
    42. Baraba Steppe Gull (2019-04-06)
    43. White Wagtail (2019-04-06)
    44. Great Cormorant (2019-04-07)
    45. Masked Wagtail (2019-04-07)
    46. Dalmatian Pelican (2019-04-09)
    47. Black-headed Gull (2019-04-13)
    48. Eurasian Redstart (2019-04-14)
    49. Common Kestrel (2019-04-14)
    50. Tree Pipit (2019-04-21)
    51. Brambling (2019-04-21)
    52. Common Chiffchaff (2019-04-24)
    53. Common Moorhen (2019-04-24)
    54. Green Sandpiper (2019-04-24)
    55. Spotted Flycatcher (2019-04-24)
    56. Garganey (2019-04-27)
    57. Northern Shoveler (2019-04-27)
    58. Gadwall (2019-04-27)
    59. Grey Heron (2019-04-28)
    60. Citrine Wagtail (2019-04-28)
    61. Pied Flycatcher (2019-05-03)
    62. Yellow Wagtail (2019-05-05)
    63. Grey Wagtail (2019-05-05)
    64. Common Sandpiper (2019-05-07)
    65. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2019-05-07)
    66. Common Sparrowhawk (2019-05-08)
    67. Great Crested Grebe (2019-05-12)
    68. Siberian Stonechat (2019-05-12)
    69. Lesser Whitethroat (2019-05-14)
    70. Eurasian Wryneck (2019-05-14)
    71. European Greenfinch (2019-05-14)
    72. Barn Swallow (2019-05-17)
    73. Hoopoe (2019-05-18)
    74. Common Nightingale (2019-06-19)
    75. European Golden Oriole (2019-06-21)
    76. Bluethroat (2019-06-26)
    77. Oriental Turtle Dove (2019-07-14)
    78. Rosy Starling (2019-07-14)
    79. Black Redstart (2019-07-18)
    80. Common Whitethroat (2019-09-21)
    81. Common Coot (2019-09-29)
    82. Peregrine Falcon (2019-09-29)
    83. Bohemian Waxwing (2019-11-03)
    84. Goldcrest (2019-11-14)
    85. Eurasian Siskin (2019-11-24)
    86. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2019-11-24)
    87. Upland Buzzard (2019-11-24)
    88. Redwing (2019-11-28)

    recent uploads

    2019-12-24. Black-throated Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Northern Bullfinch, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2019-12-16. Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Little Grebe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2019-12-09. Black-throated Thrush, Smew, Northern Bullfinch.

    2019-12-03. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Redpoll, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2019-11-28. Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Blackbird, Hawfinch, Redwing.

    2019-11-27. Tree Sparrow, Common Redpoll, Eurasian Siskin, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2019-11-24. Common Redpoll, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Upland Buzzard.

    2019-11-16. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Common Redpoll, Eurasian Nuthatch.

    2019-11-14. Eurasian Dipper, Smew, Oriental Turtle Dove, Goldcrest.

    2019-11-13. Eurasian Blackbird, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Hawfinch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2019-11-10. Eurasian Dipper, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goosander, Mallard.

    2019-11-03. Bohemian Waxwing, Black-throated Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Jackdaw, Tree Sparrow.

    2019-11-02. Eurasian Dipper, Eurasian Jay, Black-throated Thrush, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2019-10-21. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Common Kestrel, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2019-10-19. Bluethroat, Masked Wagtail, European Golden Oriole, Rosy Starling, Common Kestrel.

    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...