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total species: 24
total photos: 41
total videos: 0
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1. Blue Whistling Thrush (2020-05-17)
2. Little Owl (2020-06-10)
3. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse (2020-06-14)
4. Turkestan Tit (2020-06-24)
5. Hume's Warbler (2020-08-31)
6. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-08-31)
7. Common Whitethroat (2020-08-31)
8. Black Woodpecker (2020-09-21)
9. Common Buzzard (2020-09-23)
10. Common Chiffchaff (2020-09-24)
11. Willow Warbler (2020-09-24)
12. Eurasian Redstart (2020-09-24)
13. Blue Tit (2020-09-24)
14. Common Chaffinch (2020-09-27)
15. Yellowhammer (2020-09-27)
16. Pine Bunting (2020-09-27)
17. Hen Harrier (2020-09-28)
18. White Wagtail (2020-09-29)
19. Meadow Pipit (2020-09-29)
20. Little Bustard (2020-10-01)
21. Grey Partridge (2020-10-01)
22. Eurasian Goldfinch (2020-10-07)
23. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2020-10-08)
24. Coal Tit (2020-10-08)

recent uploads


2020-12-18. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse, Little Owl, Turkestan Tit.

2020-12-09. Black Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Eurasian Redstart, Pine Bunting, Yellowhammer, Common Chaffinch, Grey Partridge, Little Bustard, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Hen Harrier, Common Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Willow Warbler, White Wagtail, Eurasian Goldfinch, Common Buzzard, Meadow Pipit, Meadow Pipit.

2020-09-09. Spotted Flycatcher, Hume's Warbler, Hume's Warbler, Common Whitethroat.

2020-05-20. Blue Whistling Thrush.

2020-03-13. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Common Snipe, Pallid Harrier, Siberian Stonechat, Long-tailed Tit, Azure Tit, Northern Lapwing, House Sparrow, Black-headed Gull, Spotted Redshank, Mute Swan, White-Backed Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, Rough-legged Buzzard, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Sparrowhawk, Bluethroat, Sky Lark, Ruff, White-winged Tern, Pallid Harrier, Whooper Swan, Red-Necked Grebe, Garganey, Tree Pipit, Eurasian Redstart, White Wagtail, Slavonian Grebe, Fieldfare, Icterine Warbler, Common Crane, Lesser Whitethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Citrine Wagtail, Oriental Turtle Dove, Grey Partridge, Common Chaffinch, Common Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Northern Shoveler, Great Crested Grebe, Yellow Wagtail, Black Kite, Northern Reed Bunting, Common Redshank, Ruddy Shelduck.

2020-03-05. Calandra Lark, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Mute Swan, Common Shelduck, Steppe Grey Shrike, Little Stint, Gull-billed Tern, Eurasian Whimbrel, Common Oystercatcher, Northern Wheatear, Long-legged Buzzard, Gadwall, Red-necked Phalarope, White Wagtail, Whinchat, Ruff, White-winged Tern, Steppe Eagle, Black Lark, Long-legged Buzzard, White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Western Marsh-Harrier.

2020-03-03. Cattle Egret, Wood Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole, White-tailed Lapwing, Glossy Ibis, Willow Warbler, Common Rosefinch, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

2020-02-20. Baraba Steppe Gull, Hen Harrier, Yellowhammer, European Greenfinch, Golden Eagle, Grey-headed Goldfinch.

2020-02-18. Egyptian Vulture, Cinereous Vulture, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Shikra, Shikra, Shikra, Glossy Ibis.

2020-02-13. Pied Flycatcher.

2020-02-06. Hen Harrier.

2020-02-05. Baraba Steppe Gull, Caspian Gull, Northern Reed Bunting.

2020-01-28. Eurasian Goldfinch, Blyth's Reed Warbler.

2020-01-27. Common Buzzard.

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...