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    total species: 73
    total photos: 119
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Tit (2023-01-09)
    2. Common Treecreeper (2023-01-09)
    3. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2023-01-19)
    4. Goosander (2023-01-21)
    5. Common Goldeneye (2023-01-21)
    6. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-01-29)
    7. Azure Tit (2023-01-29)
    8. Tree Sparrow (2023-02-05)
    9. Hooded Crow (2023-02-12)
    10. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-02-16)
    11. Eurasian Siskin (2023-02-21)
    12. Smew (2023-02-23)
    13. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2023-02-26)
    14. Black-throated Thrush (2023-02-26)
    15. Fieldfare (2023-02-26)
    16. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2023-02-26)
    17. Mallard (2023-03-01)
    18. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-03-01)
    19. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-03-15)
    20. Rook (2023-03-15)
    21. Rock Pigeon (2023-03-15)
    22. Caspian Gull (2023-03-15)
    23. Eurasian Nuthatch (2023-03-19)
    24. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2023-03-21)
    25. Grey Heron (2023-03-21)
    26. Great White Egret (2023-03-23)
    27. Eurasian Wigeon (2023-03-25)
    28. Northern Pintail (2023-03-25)
    29. Common Chaffinch (2023-03-25)
    30. Great Cormorant (2023-03-25)
    31. Black Kite (2023-03-25)
    32. Masked Wagtail (2023-03-26)
    33. Brambling (2023-03-26)
    34. Eurasian Magpie (2023-03-26)
    35. Common Starling (2023-04-09)
    36. Citrine Wagtail (2023-04-18)
    37. Grey Wagtail (2023-04-18)
    38. Yellow Wagtail (2023-04-18)
    39. Tree Pipit (2023-04-18)
    40. Common Chiffchaff (2023-04-18)
    41. Eurasian Redstart (2023-04-18)
    42. Carrion Crow (2023-04-18)
    43. Black-headed Gull (2023-04-18)
    44. European Bee-eater (2023-05-16)
    45. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-05-16)
    46. Garganey (2023-05-21)
    47. Red-backed Shrike (2023-05-24)
    48. Common Whitethroat (2023-05-24)
    49. Common Moorhen (2023-06-12)
    50. Siberian Stonechat (2023-06-12)
    51. White-Backed Woodpecker (2023-06-18)
    52. Common Cuckoo (2023-06-19)
    53. Great Crested Grebe (2023-06-23)
    54. Northern Wheatear (2023-06-25)
    55. Sky Lark (2023-06-25)
    56. Bluethroat (2023-06-26)
    57. Tufted Duck (2023-07-11)
    58. Common Kestrel (2023-07-11)
    59. Common Tern (2023-07-11)
    60. Spotted Flycatcher (2023-07-23)
    61. Common Sandpiper (2023-07-23)
    62. House Sparrow (2023-07-25)
    63. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-07-25)
    64. Eurasian Hobby (2023-07-29)
    65. Little Ringed Plover (2023-08-17)
    66. Common Kingfisher (2023-08-19)
    67. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2023-08-30)
    68. Common Pochard (2023-10-17)
    69. Coal Tit (2023-11-22)
    70. Hawfinch (2023-12-01)
    71. Northern Bullfinch (2023-12-01)
    72. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-12-16)
    73. Common Redpoll (2023-12-19)

    recent uploads

    2023-12-20. Bohemian Waxwing, Bohemian Waxwing, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Redpoll, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2023-12-02. Hawfinch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2023-11-25. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Treecreeper, Coal Tit.

    2023-10-17. Common Pochard, Black-throated Thrush.

    2023-10-14. Spotted Flycatcher, Common Sandpiper, House Sparrow, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Jackdaw, Garganey, Common Whitethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Oriental Turtle Dove, Common Cuckoo.

    2023-10-12. Brambling, Azure Tit, European Bee-eater, Sky Lark, Common Moorhen.

    2023-09-26. Black Kite, Little Ringed Plover, Common Kingfisher.

    2023-09-15. Great Crested Grebe, Great Cormorant, Black-headed Gull, Tufted Duck, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Hobby, Common Tern, Common Tern.

    2023-09-14. White-Backed Woodpecker, Bluethroat, Azure Tit, Northern Wheatear.

    2023-09-12. Red-backed Shrike, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Grey Heron.

    2023-04-18. Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Redstart, Carrion Crow, Common Chaffinch, Black-headed Gull, Black-throated Thrush.

    2023-04-09. Black Kite, Common Starling, Fieldfare.

    2023-03-26. Masked Wagtail, Azure Tit, Brambling, Eurasian Magpie.

    2023-03-25. Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Goosander, Common Chaffinch, Great White Egret, Great Cormorant, Black Kite.

    2023-03-21. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Ruddy Shelduck, Grey Heron, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    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...

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    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
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
    Grey-Headed Woodpecker
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    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
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    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...