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Gaviiformes
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    • Pelecaniformes
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    total species: 78
    total photos: 221
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
    2. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-04)
    3. Fieldfare (2024-01-04)
    4. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-04)
    5. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-07)
    6. Common Redpoll (2024-01-07)
    7. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-07)
    8. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-07)
    9. Hawfinch (2024-01-11)
    10. Yellowhammer (2024-01-14)
    11. Brambling (2024-01-22)
    12. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-25)
    13. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-25)
    14. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-27)
    15. Red Crossbill (2024-01-31)
    16. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-31)
    17. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-01)
    18. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-02-01)
    19. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-02-03)
    20. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-02-03)
    21. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-02-03)
    22. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-02-04)
    23. Mallard (2024-02-04)
    24. Goosander (2024-02-06)
    25. Smew (2024-02-06)
    26. European Greenfinch (2024-02-15)
    27. Great Tit (2024-02-15)
    28. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-02-15)
    29. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-02-16)
    30. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-02-21)
    31. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-10)
    32. Caspian Gull (2024-03-10)
    33. Black Kite (2024-03-28)
    34. Eurasian Magpie (2024-03-28)
    35. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-29)
    36. Carrion Crow (2024-03-29)
    37. Great White Egret (2024-03-30)
    38. Black-headed Gull (2024-04-01)
    39. Common Chaffinch (2024-04-01)
    40. Rook (2024-04-01)
    41. Peregrine Falcon (2024-04-01)
    42. Long-tailed Tit (2024-04-02)
    43. Azure Tit (2024-04-02)
    44. Grey Heron (2024-04-05)
    45. Common Kestrel (2024-04-05)
    46. Eastern Buzzard (2024-04-08)
    47. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-16)
    48. Eurasian Linnet (2024-04-16)
    49. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-27)
    50. Common Starling (2024-04-27)
    51. Great Cormorant (2024-04-27)
    52. Tufted Duck (2024-05-22)
    53. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-22)
    54. Common Tern (2024-05-22)
    55. Pale Sand Martin (2024-05-22)
    56. Booted Warbler (2024-05-22)
    57. Yellow Wagtail (2024-05-26)
    58. Common Whitethroat (2024-06-03)
    59. Little Ringed Plover (2024-06-20)
    60. Eurasian Hobby (2024-06-20)
    61. Siberian Stonechat (2024-06-29)
    62. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-06-29)
    63. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-07-01)
    64. House Sparrow (2024-07-01)
    65. Great Crested Grebe (2024-07-14)
    66. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-07-21)
    67. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-08-18)
    68. Barn Swallow (2024-09-11)
    69. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-18)
    70. White Wagtail (2024-09-18)
    71. Hooded Crow (2024-09-24)
    72. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-24)
    73. Willow Tit (2024-10-01)
    74. Hen Harrier (2024-10-27)
    75. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-11-02)
    76. Coal Tit (2024-11-06)
    77. Great Grey Shrike (2024-11-24)
    78. Upland Buzzard (2024-11-24)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-01. Hen Harrier, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Hybrid Bunting.

    2024-11-30. Hen Harrier, Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Yellowhammer.

    2024-11-24. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Great Grey Shrike, Upland Buzzard.

    2024-11-21. Eurasian Siskin, Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-11-17. Goosander, Common Goldeneye.

    2024-11-08. Eurasian Nuthatch, Great Tit, Northern Bullfinch, Fieldfare, Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-11-06. Eurasian Blackbird, Coal Tit, Goosander.

    2024-11-02. Brambling, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2024-10-27. Black-throated Thrush, Hen Harrier, Willow Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Azure Tit.

    2024-10-22. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2024-10-10. Fieldfare, Eurasian Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Brambling.

    2024-10-08. Willow Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Azure Tit.

    2024-09-24. Hooded Crow, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Great Cormorant.

    2024-09-21. Barn Swallow, Common Starling, Common Kingfisher, White Wagtail, Caspian Gull, Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2024-09-10. Red-backed Shrike, Common Tern, Pale Sand Martin, Booted Warbler, Common Kestrel, House Sparrow.

    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...