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total species: 89
total photos: 219
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1. Eurasian Jay (2020-01-04)
2. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2020-01-04)
3. Bohemian Waxwing (2020-01-08)
4. Hawfinch (2020-01-08)
5. Northern Bullfinch (2020-01-08)
6. Pine Grosbeak (2020-01-13)
7. Common Redpoll (2020-01-13)
8. Eurasian Siskin (2020-01-13)
9. Eurasian Blackbird (2020-01-13)
10. Fieldfare (2020-01-14)
11. Smew (2020-01-15)
12. Goosander (2020-01-15)
13. Common Goldeneye (2020-01-15)
14. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-01-15)
15. Redwing (2020-01-15)
16. Eurasian Goldfinch (2020-01-22)
17. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2020-01-22)
18. Mistle Thrush (2020-01-22)
19. Baikal Bullfinch (2020-01-22)
20. Tree Sparrow (2020-01-22)
21. Pallas's Rosefinch (2020-01-25)
22. Eurasian Magpie (2020-01-26)
23. Eurasian Dipper (2020-01-26)
24. Common Chaffinch (2020-02-05)
25. Common Treecreeper (2020-02-09)
26. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2020-02-09)
27. European Greenfinch (2020-02-15)
28. Brambling (2020-02-16)
29. Black-throated Thrush (2020-02-18)
30. Great Tit (2020-02-24)
31. Rock Pigeon (2020-02-24)
32. Peregrine Falcon (2020-03-03)
33. Hooded Crow (2020-03-03)
34. Mallard (2020-03-09)
35. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2020-03-15)
36. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2020-03-15)
37. Red Crossbill (2020-03-23)
38. Willow Tit (2020-03-24)
39. Coal Tit (2020-03-24)
40. Eurasian Nuthatch (2020-03-24)
41. Black Kite (2020-03-25)
42. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2020-03-25)
43. Azure Tit (2020-04-06)
44. Great White Egret (2020-04-06)
45. Great Cormorant (2020-04-12)
46. Eurasian Jackdaw (2020-04-12)
47. Bluethroat (2020-05-02)
48. Common Starling (2020-05-05)
49. Black-headed Gull (2020-05-17)
50. Pale Sand Martin (2020-05-20)
51. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2020-05-20)
52. Siberian Stonechat (2020-05-20)
53. European Golden Oriole (2020-05-21)
54. Northern Wheatear (2020-06-13)
55. Yellowhammer (2020-06-14)
57. Common Cuckoo (2020-06-21)
58. Common Whitethroat (2020-06-21)
59. Grey Heron (2020-06-21)
60. Common Moorhen (2020-06-21)
61. Common Sandpiper (2020-06-21)
62. Booted Warbler (2020-06-28)
63. Masked Wagtail (2020-06-28)
64. Oriental Turtle Dove (2020-07-05)
65. Eurasian Linnet (2020-07-05)
66. Hoopoe (2020-07-05)
67. Pied Wheatear (2020-07-06)
68. Meadow Bunting (2020-07-06)
69. Barn Swallow (2020-07-06)
70. Common Kestrel (2020-07-07)
71. Eurasian Redstart (2020-07-09)
72. Eurasian Hobby (2020-07-12)
73. Green Sandpiper (2020-07-12)
74. Grey Wagtail (2020-07-19)
75. Tree Pipit (2020-07-31)
76. Ruddy Shelduck (2020-07-31)
77. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-08-19)
78. Lesser Whitethroat (2020-08-25)
79. House Sparrow (2020-09-06)
80. White Wagtail (2020-09-06)
81. Common Kingfisher (2020-09-08)
82. Rook (2020-09-10)
83. Caspian Gull (2020-09-10)
84. Steppe Eagle (2020-09-20)
85. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2020-10-03)
86. Long-tailed Tit (2020-10-24)
87. Eastern Buzzard (2020-10-25)
88. Garganey (2020-11-13)
89. Upland Buzzard (2020-11-28)

recent uploads


2020-12-17. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Bohemian Waxwing.

2020-11-29. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Upland Buzzard.

2020-11-23. Goosander, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Siskin.

2020-11-22. Northern Bullfinch, Fieldfare, Eurasian Blackbird.

2020-11-13. Garganey, Common Treecreeper, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

2020-11-09. Common Treecreeper, Eurasian Nuthatch.

2020-11-08. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Black-headed Gull.

2020-11-03. Eurasian Nuthatch, House Sparrow, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

2020-10-25. Eastern Buzzard, Fieldfare, Black-throated Thrush.

2020-10-24. Long-tailed Tit.

2020-10-20. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Jay.

2020-10-16. Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

2020-10-15. Goosander, White Wagtail, Tree Sparrow, Great Tit.

2020-10-04. Crested Honey-Buzzard, Willow Tit.

2020-09-20. Common Kestrel, Steppe Eagle, Northern Wheatear.

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...