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    total species: 129
    total photos: 1331
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Song Thrush (2025-01-05)
    2. Redwing (2025-01-05)
    3. Fieldfare (2025-01-05)
    4. Brambling (2025-01-05)
    5. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-05)
    6. Goldcrest (2025-01-11)
    7. European Robin (2025-01-11)
    8. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-11)
    9. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-11)
    10. Common Treecreeper (2025-01-11)
    11. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-13)
    12. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-13)
    13. Eurasian Linnet (2025-01-17)
    14. Hawfinch (2025-01-17)
    15. European Greenfinch (2025-01-17)
    16. Blue Tit (2025-01-17)
    17. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-17)
    18. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-17)
    19. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-17)
    20. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-19)
    21. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-21)
    22. Black Woodpecker (2025-02-01)
    23. Yellowhammer (2025-02-01)
    24. Great Tit (2025-02-02)
    25. Hooded Crow (2025-02-02)
    26. Mistle Thrush (2025-02-06)
    27. Eurasian Siskin (2025-02-06)
    28. House Sparrow (2025-02-19)
    29. Tree Sparrow (2025-02-19)
    30. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-02-26)
    31. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-03-02)
    32. Pine Bunting (2025-03-14)
    33. Whooper Swan (2025-03-18)
    34. Hen Harrier (2025-03-18)
    35. Black Redstart (2025-03-24)
    36. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-03-24)
    37. Common Kestrel (2025-03-24)
    38. Rook (2025-03-28)
    39. Mallard (2025-03-28)
    40. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-28)
    41. Merlin (2025-03-30)
    42. White Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    43. Grey Heron (2025-03-30)
    44. Great Cormorant (2025-03-30)
    45. Common Starling (2025-04-01)
    46. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-02)
    47. Common Crane (2025-04-02)
    48. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-02)
    50. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-04)
    51. Greylag Goose (2025-04-04)
    52. Mute Swan (2025-04-04)
    53. Bewick's Swan (2025-04-04)
    54. Sky Lark (2025-04-04)
    55. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-05)
    56. Black Kite (2025-04-05)
    58. Common Shelduck (2025-04-08)
    59. Cetti's Warbler (2025-04-09)
    60. Caspian Tern (2025-04-09)
    61. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
    62. Tree Pipit (2025-04-13)
    63. Black-headed Gull (2025-04-13)
    64. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-15)
    65. Willow Warbler (2025-04-15)
    66. Common Raven (2025-04-16)
    67. Great White Egret (2025-04-19)
    68. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-19)
    69. Eurasian Hobby (2025-04-21)
    70. Gadwall (2025-04-25)
    71. Montagu's Harrier (2025-04-25)
    72. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-27)
    73. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-27)
    74. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-05-01)
    75. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    76. Tufted Duck (2025-05-01)
    77. Northern Shoveler (2025-05-01)
    78. Siberian Stonechat (2025-05-01)
    79. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-01)
    80. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-05-01)
    81. Little Bustard (2025-05-02)
    82. Ruff (2025-05-02)
    83. Little Gull (2025-05-02)
    84. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-02)
    85. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-05)
    86. Common Tern (2025-05-07)
    87. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-09)
    88. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-05-09)
    89. Booted Warbler (2025-05-09)
    90. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-10)
    91. White-winged Tern (2025-05-10)
    92. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-12)
    93. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-12)
    94. Whinchat (2025-05-12)
    95. Northern Lapwing (2025-05-15)
    96. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-19)
    97. Levant Sparrowhawk (2025-05-21)
    98. Grey Partridge (2025-05-21)
    99. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-22)
    100. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-22)
    101. Slavonian Grebe (2025-05-24)
    102. Caspian Gull (2025-05-24)
    103. Garganey (2025-05-24)
    104. Shikra (2025-05-25)
    105. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-26)
    106. Common Coot (2025-05-27)
    107. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-27)
    108. Sand Martin (2025-05-27)
    109. Common Moorhen (2025-05-28)
    110. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-30)
    111. Common Quail (2025-06-04)
    112. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-06-12)
    113. Common Pochard (2025-06-28)
    114. Mew Gull (2025-07-05)
    115. Barn Swallow (2025-07-05)
    116. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-07-06)
    117. Common Kingfisher (2025-07-21)
    118. Hoopoe (2025-07-28)
    119. Rock Pigeon (2025-07-28)
    120. Sedge Warbler (2025-08-03)
    121. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-08-31)
    122. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-09-12)
    123. Long-tailed Tit (2025-09-22)
    124. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-09-30)
    125. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-10-10)
    126. Willow Tit (2025-10-10)
    127. Azure Tit (2025-10-30)
    128. Coal Tit (2025-11-01)
    129. Common Redpoll (2025-12-01)

    recent uploads

    2026-01-10. Bohemian Waxwing, Eurasian Linnet, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Bohemian Waxwing, Azure Tit, Blue Tit, European Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-12-02. Northern Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Redpoll, Bohemian Waxwing, European Greenfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Rook, Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Willow Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-11-26. Eurasian Siskin, Blue Tit, Willow Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-11-23. Great Tit, Yellowhammer, Eurasian Magpie.

    2025-11-18. Eurasian Goldfinch, European Greenfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Azure Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Blue Tit.

    2025-11-15. Common Sparrowhawk, Azure Tit, Blue Tit, European Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Mew Gull.

    2025-11-10. Mallard, Fieldfare, European Greenfinch, Common Sparrowhawk, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Blue Tit, Azure Tit, European Greenfinch, Eurasian Jackdaw.

    2025-11-03. Coal Tit, Willow Tit, Yellowhammer, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2025-11-02. Eurasian Magpie.

    2025-10-31. Azure Tit, Common Chaffinch, Blue Tit, European Black Redstart, Fieldfare, Mew Gull, Northern Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Great Crested Grebe.

    2025-10-29. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Common Raven, Northern Bullfinch, Yellowhammer, Northern Bullfinch, European Greenfinch, Eurasian Magpie, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-23. Long-tailed Tit, Northern Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Blue Tit.

    2025-10-21. Tree Sparrow, Mallard, Long-tailed Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-20. Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Song Thrush, Rough-legged Buzzard, Black-headed Gull, Long-tailed Tit, Mistle Thrush, Mew Gull, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-17. Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron, Mallard, European Black Redstart.

    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...