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total species: 78
total photos: 221
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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...