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total species: 73
total photos: 119
total videos: 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...

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...