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total species: 54
total photos: 81
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 3

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1. Yellowhammer (2024-01-02)
2. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-01-02)
3. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-02)
4. Hooded Crow (2024-01-02)
5. Mallard (2024-01-02)
6. Brambling (2024-01-02)
7. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-01-02)
8. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-05-10)
9. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-05-10)
10. Black-throated Accentor (2024-05-10)
11. Hume's Warbler (2024-05-10)
12. Coal Tit (2024-05-10)
13. Rosy Starling (2024-05-21)
14. Tawny Pipit (2024-05-21)
15. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-22)
16. Barn Swallow (2024-05-22)
17. House Sparrow (2024-05-22)
18. Common Chiffchaff (2024-05-22)
19. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-22)
20. Rock Pigeon (2024-05-22)
21. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-08-30)
22. Turkestan Shrike (2024-08-30)
23. Little Owl (2024-08-30)
24. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-08-30)
25. Bimaculated Lark (2024-08-30)
26. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-08-30)
27. Siberian Stonechat (2024-08-31)
28. Wood Sandpiper (2024-09-14)
29. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-09-14)
30. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-09-14)
31. Yellow Wagtail (2024-09-14)
32. Northern Lapwing (2024-09-14)
33. Temminck's Stint (2024-09-14)
34. White Wagtail (2024-09-14)
35. Whooper Swan (2024-09-14)
36. Caspian Gull (2024-09-14)
37. Turkestan Tit (2024-09-14)
38. Pallid Harrier (2024-09-14)
39. Eurasian Hobby (2024-09-14)
40. Crested Lark (2024-09-14)
41. Lesser Kestrel (2024-09-14)
42. Common Kestrel (2024-09-14)
43. Black-headed Gull (2024-09-14)
44. Spotted Redshank (2024-09-14)
45. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-14)
46. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-09-14)
47. Great White Egret (2024-09-14)
48. Common Snipe (2024-09-14)
49. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-14)
50. Ferruginous Duck (2024-09-14)
51. Slavonian Grebe (2024-09-14)
52. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-09-14)
53. Common Starling (2024-09-14)
54. Dunlin (2024-09-14)

recent uploads


2024-10-29. Greater Short-toed Lark, Common Kestrel, Lesser Kestrel, White Wagtail, Black-headed Gull, Northern Lapwing, Wood Sandpiper, Western Marsh-Harrier, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Yellow Wagtail, Siberian Stonechat, Siberian Stonechat, Temminck's Stint, White Wagtail, Northern Lapwing, Whooper Swan, Caspian Gull, Spotted Flycatcher, Turkestan Tit, Pallid Harrier, Eurasian Hobby, Crested Lark.

2024-10-26. Dunlin, Common Starling, Black-Necked Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Ferruginous Duck, Red-necked Phalarope, Common Snipe, Great White Egret, Black-crowned Night Heron, Common Kingfisher, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Turkestan Shrike, Little Owl, Spotted Flycatcher, Siberian Stonechat, Spotted Redshank.

2024-10-16. Isabelline Wheatear, Bimaculated Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark.

2024-06-15. Mallard, Blue Whistling Thrush, Eversmann's Redstart, White-winged Grosbeak, Black-throated Accentor, Hume's Warbler, Coal Tit, Rosy Starling, Tawny Pipit, Eurasian Blackbird, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Rock Pigeon, Common Chiffchaff, House Sparrow, Barn Swallow, Spotted Flycatcher.

2024-01-02. Plain Mountain Finch, Yellowhammer, Blue Whistling Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Hooded Crow, Mallard, Brambling.

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...