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    total species: 80
    total photos: 217
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Mistle Thrush (2020-01-02)
    2. Grey Partridge (2020-01-04)
    3. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-01-04)
    4. Corn Bunting (2020-01-04)
    5. Crested Lark (2020-01-04)
    6. Bohemian Waxwing (2020-01-04)
    7. Peregrine Falcon (2020-01-04)
    8. Common Chaffinch (2020-01-04)
    9. Long-eared Owl (2020-01-04)
    10. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2020-01-04)
    11. Eastern Buzzard (2020-01-30)
    12. Upland Buzzard (2020-01-30)
    13. Mute Swan (2020-02-02)
    14. Little Grebe (2020-02-02)
    15. Whooper Swan (2020-02-02)
    16. Common Mynah (2020-02-18)
    17. House Sparrow (2020-03-04)
    18. Common Pheasant (2020-03-14)
    19. Brambling (2020-03-21)
    20. Blue Whistling Thrush (2020-03-21)
    21. Great Tit (2020-04-12)
    22. White-Winged Woodpecker (2020-05-15)
    23. Wood Pigeon (2020-05-15)
    24. Lesser Grey Shrike (2020-05-15)
    25. Eurasian Roller (2020-05-15)
    26. Common Cuckoo (2020-05-16)
    27. Grey Wagtail (2020-05-16)
    28. Turkestan Shrike (2020-05-16)
    29. Eurasian Jackdaw (2020-05-16)
    30. Eurasian Collared Dove (2020-05-16)
    31. Red-headed Bunting (2020-05-16)
    32. Hoopoe (2020-05-16)
    33. Tree Sparrow (2020-05-17)
    34. Barred Warbler (2020-05-17)
    35. Common Tern (2020-05-17)
    36. Common Nightingale (2020-05-17)
    37. Common Whitethroat (2020-05-18)
    38. Wood Sandpiper (2020-05-20)
    39. Black-winged Stilt (2020-05-20)
    40. Spotted Redshank (2020-05-20)
    41. Caspian Gull (2020-05-20)
    42. Northern Lapwing (2020-05-20)
    43. Black-Necked Grebe (2020-05-20)
    44. Common Redshank (2020-05-20)
    45. Mallard (2020-05-20)
    46. Ruddy Shelduck (2020-05-20)
    47. Eurasian Hobby (2020-05-20)
    48. Common Oystercatcher (2020-05-20)
    49. Little Ringed Plover (2020-05-20)
    50. Pied Avocet (2020-05-20)
    51. Great Cormorant (2020-05-20)
    52. Ferruginous Duck (2020-05-20)
    53. Little Bustard (2020-05-20)
    54. Temminck's Stint (2020-05-20)
    55. Western Marsh-Harrier (2020-05-20)
    56. Great White Egret (2020-05-20)
    57. Oriental Turtle Dove (2020-05-20)
    58. Black-tailed Godwit (2020-05-20)
    59. Calandra Lark (2020-05-20)
    60. Red-crested Pochard (2020-05-20)
    61. Long-legged Buzzard (2020-05-20)
    62. Common Coot (2020-05-20)
    63. Terek Sandpiper (2020-05-20)
    64. Isabelline Wheatear (2020-06-06)
    65. Rock Sparrow (2020-06-06)
    66. Chukar Partridge (2020-06-06)
    67. Mongolian Finch (2020-06-06)
    68. Eversmann's Redstart (2020-06-14)
    69. Black-throated Accentor (2020-06-14)
    70. Common Rosefinch (2020-06-14)
    71. Tree Pipit (2020-06-14)
    72. Ibisbill (2020-06-14)
    73. White-winged Grosbeak (2020-06-14)
    74. Eurasian Magpie (2020-06-18)
    75. Siberian Stonechat (2020-07-09)
    76. Grey Heron (2020-07-26)
    77. Shikra (2020-07-26)
    78. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2020-07-26)
    79. Common Kestrel (2020-07-27)
    80. Brown Dipper (2020-12-18)

    recent uploads

    2020-12-20. Brown Dipper.

    2020-07-28. Grey Heron, Shikra, Yellow-eyed Pigeon, Common Kestrel, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2020-07-13. Siberian Stonechat, Common Whitethroat, Eurasian Hobby, Red-headed Bunting, Long-legged Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2020-06-19. Long-eared Owl, Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Magpie, Common Whitethroat.

    2020-06-15. Ibisbill, Tree Pipit, White-winged Grosbeak, Common Rosefinch, Black-throated Accentor, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2020-06-14. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Grey-headed Goldfinch.

    2020-06-11. Grey Wagtail, Brambling.

    2020-06-08. Great White Egret, Chukar Partridge, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Redshank, Black-Necked Grebe, Rock Sparrow, Isabelline Wheatear, Mongolian Finch, Turkestan Shrike, Northern Lapwing, Pied Avocet, Caspian Gull, Spotted Redshank, Black-winged Stilt, Wood Sandpiper.

    2020-05-25. Wood Pigeon, Great Cormorant, Ferruginous Duck, Little Bustard, Temminck's Stint, Western Marsh-Harrier, Oriental Turtle Dove, Black-tailed Godwit, Calandra Lark, Red-crested Pochard, Mallard, Long-legged Buzzard, Whooper Swan, Common Coot, Little Ringed Plover, Terek Sandpiper, Eurasian Hobby, Common Oystercatcher, Eurasian Hobby.

    2020-05-19. Common Cuckoo, Common Whitethroat.

    2020-05-18. Hoopoe, Red-headed Bunting, Eurasian Collared Dove, Eurasian Jackdaw, Tree Sparrow, Lesser Grey Shrike, Eurasian Roller, White-Winged Woodpecker, Common Nightingale, Common Tern, Barred Warbler.

    2020-04-15. Great Tit, House Sparrow, House Sparrow.

    2020-03-21. Common Chaffinch, Blue Whistling Thrush, Common Chaffinch.

    2020-03-20. Common Mynah, Common Pheasant, Whooper Swan.

    2020-02-05. Mute Swan, Little Grebe.

    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...

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    2026-01-18
    Common Kestrel
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    2025-10-31
    Great Cormorant
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    2025-08-31
    Spotted Flycatcher
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    2025-07-01
    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
    Grey-Headed Woodpecker
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    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
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    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    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...