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1. Common Pheasant (2024-01-04)
2. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-12)
3. Common Mynah (2024-01-12)
4. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-12)
5. Brambling (2024-01-12)
6. Black-throated Accentor (2024-01-17)
7. Great Tit (2024-01-17)
8. Azure Tit (2024-01-17)
9. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-22)
10. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-25)
11. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-31)
12. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-02-01)
13. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-02)
14. Eastern Buzzard (2024-02-03)
15. Eurasian Siskin (2024-02-14)
16. Hooded Crow (2024-02-21)
17. European Greenfinch (2024-02-29)
18. Brown Dipper (2024-03-02)
19. Mallard (2024-03-02)
20. Common Kestrel (2024-05-11)
21. Gull-billed Tern (2024-05-11)
22. Yellow Wagtail (2024-05-11)
23. Common Sandpiper (2024-05-11)
24. Common Tern (2024-05-11)
25. Purple Heron (2024-05-11)
26. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-11)
27. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-11)
28. White Wagtail (2024-05-12)
29. Grey Wagtail (2024-05-12)
30. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-12)
31. Common Kingfisher (2024-05-12)
32. European Bee-eater (2024-05-12)
33. Spanish Sparrow (2024-05-12)
34. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-05-12)
35. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-05-12)
36. Calandra Lark (2024-05-12)
37. Brown-necked Raven (2024-05-12)
38. Rosy Starling (2024-05-12)
39. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2024-05-12)
40. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-12)
41. Eurasian Magpie (2024-05-12)
42. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-12)
43. Ruff (2024-05-12)
44. Common Swift (2024-05-12)
45. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-05-12)
46. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-05-12)
47. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-05-12)
48. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-05-12)
49. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-13)
50. Booted Eagle (2024-05-13)
51. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-13)
52. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-13)
53. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-13)
54. Pander's Ground-Jay (2024-05-13)
55. Crested Lark (2024-05-13)
56. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-05-14)
57. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-05-14)
58. Montagu's Harrier (2024-05-14)
59. Shikra (2024-05-14)
60. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-14)
61. Carrion Crow (2024-05-14)
63. Ferruginous Duck (2024-05-15)
64. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-15)
65. Red-crested Pochard (2024-05-15)
66. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-05-15)
67. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-15)
68. Common Chiffchaff (2024-05-15)
69. House Sparrow (2024-05-15)
70. Chukar Partridge (2024-05-15)
71. Pied Wheatear (2024-05-15)
72. Northern Lapwing (2024-05-15)
73. Menetries Warbler (2024-05-15)
74. Greater Sand Plover (2024-05-15)
75. Turkestan Shrike (2024-05-15)
76. Golden Eagle (2024-05-15)
77. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-05-15)
78. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-15)
79. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse (2024-05-16)
80. Desert Finch (2024-05-16)
81. Wood Pigeon (2024-05-16)
82. European Golden Oriole (2024-05-16)
83. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-05-16)
84. Kentish Plover (2024-05-16)
85. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-05-16)
86. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-05-16)
87. Common Redshank (2024-05-16)
88. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-05-16)
89. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-16)
90. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-05-16)
91. Common Raven (2024-05-17)
92. Cinereous Vulture (2024-05-17)
93. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-17)
94. Little Owl (2024-05-17)
95. Desert Wheatear (2024-05-17)
96. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-05-17)
97. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-17)
98. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-05-17)
99. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-05-17)
100. Steppe Eagle (2024-05-17)
101. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-05-17)
102. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-05-18)
103. Black-headed Gull (2024-06-11)
104. Great White Egret (2024-06-11)
105. White-winged Tern (2024-06-11)
106. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-06-11)
107. Upland Buzzard (2024-06-11)
108. Pallid Harrier (2024-06-11)
109. Black Lark (2024-06-12)
110. Sky Lark (2024-06-12)
111. Northern Wheatear (2024-06-12)
112. Tawny Pipit (2024-06-12)
113. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-06-12)
114. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-06-12)
115. Saker Falcon (2024-06-12)
116. Eurasian Curlew (2024-06-12)
117. Common Oystercatcher (2024-06-12)
118. Little Tern (2024-06-12)
119. Caspian Gull (2024-06-12)
120. Caspian Tern (2024-06-12)
121. Pallas's Gull (2024-06-12)
122. Mute Swan (2024-06-12)
123. Masked Wagtail (2024-06-13)
124. Meadow Bunting (2024-06-13)
125. Red-billed Chough (2024-06-14)
126. Ortolan Bunting (2024-06-14)
127. Common Whitethroat (2024-06-14)
128. Siberian Stonechat (2024-06-14)
129. Barred Warbler (2024-06-14)
130. Barn Swallow (2024-06-14)
131. Lesser Kestrel (2024-06-14)
132. Little Bustard (2024-06-14)
133. Red-backed Shrike (2024-06-14)
134. Goosander (2024-06-15)
135. Northern Shoveler (2024-06-15)
136. Northern House Martin (2024-06-16)
137. Sand Martin (2024-06-16)
138. Common Starling (2024-06-16)
139. Richard's Pipit (2024-06-16)
140. Common Cuckoo (2024-06-16)
141. Black Kite (2024-06-16)
142. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-06-16)
143. Common Rosefinch (2024-06-17)
144. Common Snipe (2024-06-17)
145. Hoopoe (2024-06-17)
146. Common Pochard (2024-06-18)
147. Gadwall (2024-06-18)
148. Northern Pintail (2024-06-18)
149. Demoiselle Crane (2024-06-18)
150. Red-footed Falcon (2024-06-18)
151. Short-eared Owl (2024-07-04)
152. Bluethroat (2024-07-04)
153. Booted Warbler (2024-07-04)
154. Eurasian Linnet (2024-07-04)
155. Black Redstart (2024-07-05)
156. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-07-05)
157. Great Cormorant (2024-07-07)
158. Grey Heron (2024-07-07)
159. Great Bustard (2024-07-09)
160. White-winged Lark (2024-07-09)
161. Horned Lark (2024-07-10)
162. Common Shelduck (2024-07-15)
163. Rook (2024-07-16)
164. Pied Avocet (2024-07-17)
165. Whooper Swan (2024-08-01)
166. Mew Gull (2024-08-02)
167. Garganey (2024-08-02)
168. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-08-02)
169. Great Crested Grebe (2024-08-03)
170. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-08-06)
171. Little Stint (2024-08-06)
172. Common Greenshank (2024-08-06)
173. Green Sandpiper (2024-08-06)
174. European Nightjar (2024-08-07)
175. Turkestan Tit (2024-08-11)
176. Dunlin (2024-09-17)
177. Northern Black Grouse (2024-09-18)
178. Twite (2024-09-24)
179. Common Teal (2024-09-24)
180. Song Thrush (2024-10-03)
181. Grey Partridge (2024-10-03)
182. Mistle Thrush (2024-10-03)
183. Common Coot (2024-10-14)
184. Merlin (2024-10-15)
185. Hen Harrier (2024-10-15)
186. European Robin (2024-10-15)
187. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-10-16)
188. Smew (2024-10-16)
189. Stock Pigeon (2024-10-17)
190. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-11-04)
191. Pine Bunting (2024-11-04)
192. Yellowhammer (2024-11-04)

recent uploads


2024-12-17. White Wagtail, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Twite, Temminck's Stint, Common Teal, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Common Snipe, Dunlin, Northern Black Grouse, Yellow Wagtail.

2024-12-12. Golden Eagle, Syke's Warbler, European Greenfinch, Common Chaffinch, European Robin, Brambling.

2024-12-11. Black-throated Accentor.

2024-12-10. House Sparrow, Chukar Partridge, Little Ringed Plover, Pied Wheatear, Common Kestrel, Cinereous Vulture, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Roller, Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse, Menetries Warbler, Temminck's Stint, Western Marsh-Harrier, Greater Sand Plover, Syke's Warbler, Desert Finch, Wood Pigeon, House Sparrow, Little Owl, Red-headed Bunting, Turkestan Shrike, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, European Golden Oriole, European Bee-eater, Desert Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, Paddyfield Warbler, Long-legged Buzzard, Collared Pratincole, Greater Short-toed Lark, Kentish Plover, Ruddy Shelduck, Asian Desert Warbler, Steppe Grey Shrike, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Calandra Lark, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Common Redshank, Rufous Bush Robin, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Wood Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Black-headed Wagtail, Spanish Sparrow, Syke's Warbler, Eastern Imperial Eagle.

2024-12-09. Red-headed Bunting, Greenish Warbler, Common Kingfisher, European Bee-eater, Spanish Sparrow, Isabelline Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eurasian Collared Dove, Montagu's Harrier, Booted Eagle, Booted Eagle, Booted Eagle, Calandra Lark, Brown-necked Raven, Rosy Starling, Purple Heron, Purple Heron, Eurasian Roller, Streaked Scrub Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Eurasian Magpie, Rufous Bush Robin, Shikra, Shikra, Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Gull-billed Tern, Eurasian Hobby, Carrion Crow, Grey-headed Wagtail, White-crowned Penduline Tit, Common Swift, Eurasian Stone Curlew, Macqueen's Bustard, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Isabelline Wheatear, Greenish Warbler, Long-legged Buzzard, Pander's Ground-Jay, Crested Lark, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Purple Heron, Spotted Flycatcher, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-headed Wagtail, Ferruginous Duck, Ferruginous Duck, Western Marsh-Harrier, Glossy Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Red-crested Pochard, Pygmy Cormorant, Little Ringed Plover, Common Raven, Common Tern, Purple Heron, Common Chiffchaff.

2024-12-06. White Wagtail, White-Winged Woodpecker, Western Marsh-Harrier, Oriental Turtle Dove, Common Kestrel, Grey Wagtail, Grey Wagtail.

2024-12-05. Baraba Steppe Gull, Baraba Steppe Gull, Baraba Steppe Gull.

2024-12-04. Saker Falcon, Great Cormorant, Turkestan Tit, Little Owl, Greater Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Greater Sand Plover, European Nightjar, Tawny Pipit, Little Stint, Long-legged Buzzard, Common Greenshank, Kentish Plover, Greenish Warbler, Tawny Pipit, Desert Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Asian Desert Warbler, Steppe Grey Shrike, Horned Lark, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Spotted Flycatcher, Greater Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark, Lesser Whitethroat, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Turkestan Shrike, Hoopoe, Black Kite, Green Sandpiper, Oriental Turtle Dove, Bluethroat, Barn Swallow, Northern Wheatear, Masked Wagtail, Mew Gull, Mew Gull, Garganey, Great Crested Grebe, Sand Martin, Booted Eagle, Whooper Swan.

2024-12-02. Eurasian Collared Dove, White-winged Lark, Merlin, Red-breasted Merganser, Smew, Black-headed Gull, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Sparrowhawk, Tree Sparrow, Sky Lark, Sky Lark, Hen Harrier, Hooded Crow, Grey Partridge, Grey Heron, Mew Gull, Common Starling, Calandra Lark, Little Bustard, Little Bustard, Northern Lapwing, Great Cormorant, Black Redstart, European Robin, Song Thrush, Common Chiffchaff, Dunlin, Stock Pigeon.

2024-11-29. Song Thrush, Grey Partridge, Mistle Thrush, Great Crested Grebe, Common Coot, Mute Swan.

2024-11-28. Tawny Pipit, Ortolan Bunting.

2024-11-27. White-winged Lark, Rook, Yellow Wagtail, Greater Short-toed Lark, Tawny Pipit, Long-legged Buzzard, Demoiselle Crane, Long-legged Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Great Bustard, Great Bustard, Tree Sparrow, Common Kestrel, Black Kite, Black Lark, Black Lark, Black Lark, White-winged Lark, Pallid Harrier, Pallid Harrier, Pallid Harrier, Short-eared Owl, Bluethroat, Red-headed Bunting, Paddyfield Warbler, Booted Warbler, Eurasian Linnet, Siberian Stonechat, Black Redstart, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Northern Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Grey-necked Bunting, Grey-necked Bunting, Grey-necked Bunting, Lesser Whitethroat, Lesser Kestrel, Siberian Stonechat, Common Swift, Oriental Turtle Dove, Eurasian Curlew, Eurasian Curlew, Little Bustard, Ruddy Shelduck, Sand Martin, Booted Warbler, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Lapwing, Pied Avocet, Black-winged Stilt, Little Ringed Plover, Great Cormorant, Bluethroat, Little Ringed Plover, Common Tern, Grey Heron, Lesser Kestrel, Common Redshank, Northern Wheatear, Eurasian Linnet, Common Kestrel, Steppe Eagle, Horned Lark, Rosy Starling, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Turkestan Shrike, Sky Lark, Tawny Pipit, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Steppe Eagle, Greater Short-toed Lark, Common Shelduck, Azure Tit.

2024-11-20. Red-footed Falcon.

2024-11-19. Sand Martin, Common Pochard, Gadwall, Ruddy Shelduck, Black-headed Gull, Northern Lapwing, Caspian Tern, Yellow Wagtail, Pallas's Gull, Caspian Gull, Upland Buzzard, Mountain Long-legged Buzzard, Sand Martin, Steppe Eagle, Sky Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark, Common Swift, Pied Wheatear, Upland Buzzard, Upland Buzzard, Black Lark, Little Ringed Plover, Eurasian Curlew, Northern Pintail, Mallard, Pallas's Gull, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Calandra Lark, Pied Wheatear, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Grey Shrike, Steppe Eagle, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Pallid Harrier, Demoiselle Crane, Eurasian Jackdaw, Tree Sparrow, Pallid Harrier, Sky Lark, Common Rosefinch, Oriental Turtle Dove.

2024-11-18. Northern House Martin, Masked Wagtail, Tree Sparrow, Common Whitethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Common Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Hobby, Common Snipe, Oriental Turtle Dove, European Bee-eater, Siberian Stonechat, Common Cuckoo, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Hobby, Montagu's Harrier, Montagu's Harrier, Tawny Pipit, Lesser Kestrel, Hoopoe, Common Redshank, Northern Lapwing.

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...