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Gaviiformes
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 86
    total photos: 220
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-04)
    2. Smew (2025-01-04)
    3. Mallard (2025-01-04)
    4. Goosander (2025-01-04)
    5. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-04)
    6. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-05)
    7. Azure Tit (2025-01-05)
    8. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-06)
    9. Great Tit (2025-01-08)
    10. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-08)
    11. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-08)
    12. Redwing (2025-01-19)
    13. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-01-19)
    14. Fieldfare (2025-02-01)
    15. Hawfinch (2025-02-01)
    16. Carrion Crow (2025-02-01)
    17. Grey Partridge (2025-02-01)
    18. Golden Eagle (2025-02-01)
    19. Yellowhammer (2025-02-08)
    20. Common Chaffinch (2025-02-08)
    21. Hooded Crow (2025-02-15)
    22. Ural Owl (2025-02-21)
    23. Coal Tit (2025-02-21)
    24. Northern Bullfinch (2025-02-21)
    25. Baikal Bullfinch (2025-02-21)
    26. Rock Pigeon (2025-02-21)
    27. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-23)
    28. Mistle Thrush (2025-03-10)
    29. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-11)
    30. Caspian Gull (2025-03-11)
    31. Pallas's Gull (2025-03-11)
    32. Rook (2025-03-16)
    33. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-03-16)
    34. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-18)
    35. Brambling (2025-03-18)
    36. Willow Tit (2025-03-21)
    37. Pine Bunting (2025-03-21)
    38. Hen Harrier (2025-03-21)
    39. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-03-21)
    40. Common Starling (2025-03-25)
    41. Black Kite (2025-03-25)
    42. Peregrine Falcon (2025-03-26)
    43. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-27)
    44. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-03-30)
    45. Northern Wheatear (2025-03-30)
    46. Eurasian Dipper (2025-04-01)
    47. Eurasian Magpie (2025-04-02)
    48. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-02)
    49. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-04-03)
    50. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-04-03)
    51. Gadwall (2025-04-05)
    52. Great White Egret (2025-04-05)
    53. House Sparrow (2025-04-06)
    54. Common Kestrel (2025-04-13)
    55. Tree Pipit (2025-04-13)
    56. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
    57. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-10)
    58. Great Crested Grebe (2025-05-18)
    59. Common Tern (2025-05-18)
    60. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-21)
    61. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-21)
    62. Eurasian Redstart (2025-05-21)
    63. Booted Warbler (2025-05-29)
    64. Common Cuckoo (2025-06-01)
    65. Siberian Stonechat (2025-06-12)
    66. Common Moorhen (2025-06-12)
    67. Yellow Wagtail (2025-06-12)
    68. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-06-29)
    69. European Golden Oriole (2025-07-02)
    70. Pied Wheatear (2025-07-18)
    71. Great Cormorant (2025-07-18)
    72. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-07-18)
    73. Eurasian Linnet (2025-07-18)
    74. Hoopoe (2025-07-20)
    75. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-07-20)
    76. Common Kingfisher (2025-08-08)
    77. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-08-10)
    78. Pale Sand Martin (2025-08-10)
    79. Eurasian Hobby (2025-09-01)
    80. European Bee-eater (2025-09-01)
    81. Grey Heron (2025-09-14)
    82. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-09-24)
    83. Common Buzzard (2025-10-17)
    84. Common Treecreeper (2025-11-04)
    85. Goldcrest (2025-11-04)
    86. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-11-26)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-03. Common Goldeneye, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2025-11-26. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, White-Backed Woodpecker, Eurasian Nuthatch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-11-18. Goosander, Smew, Common Goldeneye, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Black-throated Thrush.

    2025-11-17. Bohemian Waxwing, Hawfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2025-11-14. Northern Bullfinch, Brambling, Black-throated Thrush.

    2025-11-12. Yellowhammer, Common Treecreeper, Ruddy Shelduck.

    2025-11-04. Common Treecreeper, Spotted Flycatcher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Cormorant, Goosander, Coal Tit, Goldcrest.

    2025-11-01. Grey-Headed Woodpecker.

    2025-10-28. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Azure Tit, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Goosander.

    2025-10-23. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Azure Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Great Cormorant.

    2025-10-17. Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Yellowhammer, Common Buzzard.

    2025-09-29. Fieldfare, Brambling, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-09-27. Coal Tit, Great Cormorant, Willow Tit, Hawfinch, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Great Cormorant, Eurasian Nuthatch.

    2025-09-21. House Sparrow, Booted Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Great Cormorant, Eurasian Hobby, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Common Kestrel.

    2025-09-19. Great Cormorant, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Eurasian Linnet, Hoopoe, Eurasian Redstart, Eurasian Redstart, Great Crested Grebe, Common Kingfisher, Spotted Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Pale Sand Martin.

    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...