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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
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    • Phoenicopteriformes
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  • Tetraonidae
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  • Rallidae
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    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
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  • Upupidae
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  • Picidae
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  • Hirundinidae
  • Alaudidae
  • Motacillidae
  • Laniidae
  • Oriolidae
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  • Corvidae
  • Bombycillidae
  • Cinclidae
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  • Prunellidae
  • Sylviidae
  • Regulidae
  • Muscicapidae
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  • Paradoxornithidae
  • Aegithalidae
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  • Paridae
  • Sittidae
  • Certhiidae
  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
  • Emberizidae

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    total species: 208
    total photos: 868
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 1

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    1. Common Mynah (2014-01-10)
    2. Common Kingfisher (2014-01-10)
    3. Little Egret (2014-01-10)
    4. Mute Swan (2014-01-13)
    5. Black-headed Gull (2014-01-13)
    6. Caspian Gull (2014-01-13)
    7. Tufted Duck (2014-01-13)
    8. Mallard (2014-01-13)
    9. Dunlin (2014-01-13)
    10. Common Chaffinch (2014-01-13)
    11. Common Coot (2014-01-13)
    12. Northern Reed Bunting (2014-01-13)
    13. Whooper Swan (2014-01-13)
    14. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2014-01-13)
    15. Crested Lark (2014-01-13)
    16. Grey Heron (2014-01-13)
    17. Saker Falcon (2014-01-13)
    18. Eurasian Collared Dove (2014-01-13)
    19. European Robin (2014-01-13)
    20. Fieldfare (2014-01-13)
    21. Eurasian Blackbird (2014-01-13)
    22. Great Cormorant (2014-01-13)
    23. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2014-01-13)
    24. Goosander (2014-01-13)
    25. Great White Egret (2014-01-15)
    26. Gadwall (2014-02-10)
    27. Long-legged Buzzard (2014-02-12)
    28. Pygmy Cormorant (2014-02-12)
    29. House Sparrow (2014-02-12)
    30. Eurasian Jackdaw (2014-02-15)
    31. Common Goldeneye (2014-02-15)
    32. Brambling (2014-02-17)
    33. Wood Pigeon (2014-02-17)
    34. Common Pochard (2014-02-17)
    35. European Greenfinch (2014-02-17)
    36. Indian Sparrow (2014-03-03)
    37. Eurasian Magpie (2014-03-04)
    38. Great Tit (2014-03-04)
    39. Hooded Crow (2014-03-04)
    40. Black-throated Thrush (2014-03-10)
    41. Rock Pigeon (2014-03-10)
    42. Eurasian Siskin (2014-03-16)
    43. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2014-03-16)
    44. Rook (2014-03-16)
    45. Common Pheasant (2014-03-22)
    46. Masked Wagtail (2014-03-22)
    47. Eversmann's Redstart (2014-03-23)
    48. Rock Bunting (2014-03-30)
    49. Carrion Crow (2014-03-30)
    50. Pied Wheatear (2014-03-30)
    51. Common Buzzard (2014-03-30)
    52. Hoopoe (2014-04-02)
    53. Common Chiffchaff (2014-04-05)
    54. Common Sparrowhawk (2014-04-06)
    55. Demoiselle Crane (2014-04-09)
    56. Lesser Kestrel (2014-04-09)
    57. Isabelline Wheatear (2014-04-09)
    58. Bearded Tit (2014-04-09)
    59. Bluethroat (2014-04-09)
    60. White Wagtail (2014-04-09)
    61. Black Lark (2014-04-09)
    62. Steppe Eagle (2014-04-09)
    63. Turkestan Shrike (2014-04-09)
    64. Northern Wheatear (2014-04-09)
    65. Green Sandpiper (2014-04-18)
    66. Grey Wagtail (2014-04-18)
    67. Isabelline Shrike (2014-04-21)
    68. Tree Pipit (2014-04-21)
    69. Hume's Warbler (2014-04-21)
    70. Lesser Whitethroat (2014-04-24)
    71. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2014-04-24)
    72. Tree Sparrow (2014-04-24)
    73. Little Ringed Plover (2014-04-24)
    74. Black Redstart (2014-04-27)
    75. Himalayan Vulture (2014-04-27)
    76. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2014-05-02)
    77. Greenish Warbler (2014-05-05)
    78. Northern House Martin (2014-05-05)
    79. Black Kite (2014-05-05)
    81. Ortolan Bunting (2014-05-05)
    82. Brown Dipper (2014-05-07)
    83. Common Whitethroat (2014-05-07)
    84. Siberian Stonechat (2014-05-07)
    85. Eurasian Hobby (2014-05-09)
    86. Common Kestrel (2014-05-09)
    87. Barn Swallow (2014-05-14)
    88. Common Swift (2014-05-14)
    89. Willow Warbler (2014-05-16)
    90. Common Starling (2014-05-16)
    91. Calandra Lark (2014-05-16)
    92. Sky Lark (2014-05-16)
    93. Whinchat (2014-05-16)
    94. Caspian Plover (2014-05-16)
    95. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2014-05-17)
    96. Bimaculated Lark (2014-05-17)
    97. Horned Lark (2014-05-17)
    98. European Bee-eater (2014-05-17)
    99. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2014-05-17)
    100. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2014-05-17)
    101. Red-headed Bunting (2014-05-17)
    102. Spotted Flycatcher (2014-05-17)
    103. Eurasian Redstart (2014-05-17)
    104. Common Cuckoo (2014-05-19)
    105. Little Owl (2014-05-20)
    106. Steppe Grey Shrike (2014-05-20)
    107. Grey Partridge (2014-05-20)
    108. Greylag Goose (2014-05-20)
    109. Common Redshank (2014-05-20)
    110. Northern Lapwing (2014-05-20)
    111. Common Sandpiper (2014-05-20)
    112. White-tailed Lapwing (2014-05-20)
    113. Little Tern (2014-05-20)
    114. Red-necked Phalarope (2014-05-20)
    115. Black-winged Stilt (2014-05-20)
    116. Collared Pratincole (2014-05-20)
    117. Wood Sandpiper (2014-05-20)
    118. Little Stint (2014-05-20)
    119. Western Marsh-Harrier (2014-05-20)
    120. Whiskered Tern (2014-05-20)
    121. Yellow Wagtail (2014-05-20)
    122. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2014-05-23)
    123. Sand Martin (2014-05-23)
    124. Kentish Plover (2014-05-23)
    125. Eurasian Curlew (2014-05-23)
    126. Common Oystercatcher (2014-05-23)
    127. Red-crested Pochard (2014-05-25)
    128. Common Moorhen (2014-05-25)
    129. Slender-billed Gull (2014-05-25)
    130. Red-backed Shrike (2014-05-25)
    131. Paddyfield Warbler (2014-05-25)
    132. Black Tern (2014-05-25)
    133. Temminck's Stint (2014-05-25)
    134. Common Shelduck (2014-05-25)
    135. Glossy Ibis (2014-05-25)
    136. Gull-billed Tern (2014-05-25)
    137. Ruddy Turnstone (2014-05-25)
    138. White-headed Duck (2014-05-25)
    139. Ruff (2014-05-25)
    140. Cetti's Warbler (2014-05-31)
    141. Great Crested Grebe (2014-06-04)
    142. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2014-06-07)
    143. Pallas's Gull (2014-06-19)
    144. Black-crowned Night Heron (2014-06-20)
    145. Black-headed Wagtail (2014-06-21)
    146. Black-Necked Grebe (2014-06-21)
    147. Red-Necked Grebe (2014-06-21)
    148. Purple Heron (2014-06-21)
    149. Pied Avocet (2014-06-21)
    150. Northern Shoveler (2014-06-21)
    151. Eurasian Roller (2014-06-21)
    152. Common Tern (2014-06-22)
    153. Caspian Tern (2014-06-22)
    154. Pied Bushchat (2014-06-22)
    155. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2014-06-22)
    156. Dalmatian Pelican (2014-06-22)
    157. Black-tailed Godwit (2014-06-22)
    158. White-winged Tern (2014-06-23)
    159. Ruddy Shelduck (2014-06-23)
    160. Spotted Redshank (2014-06-23)
    161. Red-footed Falcon (2014-06-23)
    162. Red-fronted Serin (2014-07-05)
    163. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2014-07-05)
    164. Common Rosefinch (2014-07-05)
    165. Mistle Thrush (2014-07-05)
    166. Great White Pelican (2014-07-12)
    167. Rosy Starling (2014-07-12)
    168. Lesser Grey Shrike (2014-07-12)
    169. Common Greenshank (2014-07-12)
    170. Pallas's Sea-Eagle (2014-07-12)
    171. Blue Whistling Thrush (2014-08-03)
    172. Laughing Dove (2014-08-14)
    173. Long-tailed Shrike (2014-08-22)
    174. Common Snipe (2014-09-10)
    175. Northern Pintail (2014-09-11)
    176. Blue Tit (2014-09-18)
    177. Garden Warbler (2014-09-18)
    178. Pallid Harrier (2014-09-26)
    179. Little Bustard (2014-09-26)
    180. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2014-09-26)
    181. Great Grey Shrike (2014-10-04)
    182. Song Thrush (2014-10-04)
    183. Greater Spotted Eagle (2014-10-05)
    184. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2014-10-10)
    185. Hawfinch (2014-10-12)
    186. Stock Pigeon (2014-10-18)
    187. Redwing (2014-10-20)
    188. Rough-legged Buzzard (2014-10-22)
    189. Jack Snipe (2014-10-26)
    190. Hen Harrier (2014-10-27)
    191. Greater White-fronted Goose (2014-10-28)
    192. Pied Flycatcher (2014-11-02)
    193. Bohemian Waxwing (2014-12-04)
    194. White-winged Lark (2014-12-06)
    195. Spanish Sparrow (2014-12-08)
    196. Little Grebe (2014-12-09)
    197. Common Raven (2014-12-09)
    198. Herring Gull (2014-12-09)
    199. Red-breasted Merganser (2014-12-11)
    200. Bewick's Swan (2014-12-11)
    201. Common Teal (2014-12-11)
    202. Eurasian Wigeon (2014-12-11)
    203. Rock Sparrow (2014-12-12)
    204. Glaucous Gull (2014-12-12)
    205. Greater Scaup (2014-12-13)
    206. Northern Goshawk (2014-12-27)
    207. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2014-12-27)
    208. Azure Tit (2014-12-27)

    recent uploads

    2014-12-31. Greater Scaup, Mute Swan.

    2014-12-29. Greater Spotted Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2014-12-27. Red-fronted Serin, Northern Goshawk, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Azure Tit, Great White Pelican, Northern Reed Bunting, Great White Egret, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Hen Harrier.

    2014-12-20. Stock Pigeon.

    2014-12-16. Redwing, Caspian Gull, Northern Lapwing, Song Thrush, Little Grebe, Common Raven, Crested Lark, Herring Gull, Common Kestrel, Grey Heron, Little Grebe, Common Sandpiper, Hen Harrier, Northern Reed Bunting, Red-breasted Merganser, Great Cormorant, Bewick's Swan, Common Teal, Dunlin, Common Redshank, Eurasian Wigeon, Saker Falcon, Great Grey Shrike, Little Owl, Black-Necked Grebe, Rock Sparrow, Herring Gull, Glaucous Gull, Spanish Sparrow, White-winged Lark, Greater Scaup.

    2014-12-04. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2014-11-20. Grey Partridge, Black-headed Gull, Hooded Crow.

    2014-11-17. Steppe Horned Lark.

    2014-11-16. Eurasian Redstart, Black Redstart, Tree Sparrow, Common Chiffchaff.

    2014-11-12. Black-headed Gull, Sky Lark.

    2014-11-06. White Wagtail, Blue Tit, Eurasian Blackbird, Song Thrush.

    2014-11-02. Great Crested Grebe, Pied Flycatcher, Eurasian Redstart, Great Crested Grebe, Eurasian Jackdaw.

    2014-11-01. Eurasian Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great Crested Grebe, Pallas's Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Rock Pigeon, European Greenfinch, Pallas's Gull.

    2014-10-31. Greater White-fronted Goose, European Robin, European Black Redstart.

    2014-10-30. Sky Lark, Northern Lapwing, Whooper Swan, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Hen Harrier, Greater White-fronted Goose, Rook, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    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
    (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
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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

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    2026-06-02

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus Dometurum )
    more unidentified birds...