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Gaviiformes
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    map of photoshootings

    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...