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    total species: 218
    total photos: 2003
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    1. Common Kestrel (2022-01-01)
    2. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-01-01)
    3. Grey Heron (2022-01-01)
    4. Red-breasted Merganser (2022-01-01)
    5. Tufted Duck (2022-01-01)
    6. Common Teal (2022-01-01)
    7. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-01-01)
    8. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-01-01)
    9. Merlin (2022-01-01)
    10. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-01-01)
    11. Little Grebe (2022-01-01)
    12. Eurasian Golden Plover (2022-01-02)
    13. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-01-02)
    14. Desert Finch (2022-01-02)
    15. Great Grey Shrike (2022-01-02)
    16. Caspian Gull (2022-01-02)
    17. Bearded Tit (2022-01-02)
    18. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-01-02)
    19. Common Redshank (2022-01-02)
    20. Gadwall (2022-01-02)
    21. Bewick's Swan (2022-01-02)
    22. Mute Swan (2022-01-02)
    23. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-01-02)
    24. Black-headed Gull (2022-01-02)
    25. Hen Harrier (2022-01-08)
    26. Rook (2022-01-08)
    27. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-01-08)
    28. White Wagtail (2022-01-10)
    29. Peregrine Falcon (2022-01-13)
    30. Common Goldeneye (2022-01-13)
    31. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2022-01-16)
    32. Eurasian Woodcock (2022-01-17)
    33. Mallard (2022-01-19)
    34. Water Rail (2022-01-20)
    35. Herring Gull (2022-01-21)
    36. Ring-billed Gull (2022-01-21)
    37. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-01-21)
    38. Yellowhammer (2022-01-21)
    39. Macqueen's Bustard (2022-01-21)
    40. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-01-23)
    42. Griffon Vulture (2022-01-26)
    43. Cinereous Vulture (2022-01-26)
    45. Greater Flamingo (2022-02-10)
    46. Great White Egret (2022-02-10)
    47. Black Lark (2022-02-16)
    48. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-02-28)
    49. Azure Tit (2022-02-28)
    50. Great Tit (2022-02-28)
    51. Eurasian Magpie (2022-03-03)
    52. Pallas's Gull (2022-03-07)
    53. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2022-03-09)
    54. Greater Sand Plover (2022-03-09)
    55. Northern Lapwing (2022-03-09)
    56. Ruff (2022-03-09)
    57. Green Sandpiper (2022-03-09)
    58. Masked Wagtail (2022-03-11)
    59. Great Cormorant (2022-03-13)
    60. Common Buzzard (2022-03-13)
    61. Common Shelduck (2022-03-14)
    62. Short-eared Owl (2022-03-15)
    63. Stock Pigeon (2022-03-15)
    64. Eurasian Curlew (2022-03-16)
    65. Northern Pintail (2022-03-16)
    66. Garganey (2022-03-16)
    67. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-16)
    68. Sky Lark (2022-03-17)
    69. Common Starling (2022-03-17)
    70. Slender-billed Gull (2022-03-18)
    71. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-03-19)
    72. Northern Goshawk (2022-03-23)
    73. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-03-23)
    74. Grey Wagtail (2022-03-24)
    75. Hooded Crow (2022-03-24)
    76. Dunnock (2022-03-27)
    77. Kentish Plover (2022-03-27)
    78. Dunlin (2022-03-28)
    79. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-29)
    80. Red-crested Pochard (2022-03-29)
    81. Glossy Ibis (2022-03-29)
    82. Northern House Martin (2022-03-29)
    83. Citrine Wagtail (2022-03-29)
    84. Purple Heron (2022-03-29)
    85. Hoopoe (2022-03-30)
    86. Black-headed Wagtail (2022-03-30)
    87. Jack Snipe (2022-03-30)
    88. Eurasian Redstart (2022-03-31)
    89. Alpine Swift (2022-04-03)
    90. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-04)
    91. Bluethroat (2022-04-05)
    92. Meadow Pipit (2022-04-05)
    93. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-04-05)
    94. Common Pochard (2022-04-05)
    95. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-05)
    96. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-04-05)
    97. Common Chiffchaff (2022-04-05)
    98. Spotted Crake (2022-04-06)
    99. Little Tern (2022-04-06)
    100. Bar-tailed Godwit (2022-04-06)
    101. Common Tern (2022-04-06)
    102. Yellow Wagtail (2022-04-07)
    103. Common Snipe (2022-04-07)
    104. Pied Avocet (2022-04-09)
    105. Pied Wheatear (2022-04-11)
    106. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-04-13)
    107. Siberian Stonechat (2022-04-15)
    108. Cattle Egret (2022-04-15)
    109. Red-throated Pipit (2022-04-15)
    110. Barn Swallow (2022-04-15)
    111. Common Swift (2022-04-15)
    112. Sand Martin (2022-04-15)
    113. Brambling (2022-04-16)
    114. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-04-17)
    115. Wood Sandpiper (2022-04-17)
    116. Common Greenshank (2022-04-17)
    117. Corn Bunting (2022-04-19)
    118. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-04-21)
    119. White-winged Tern (2022-04-21)
    120. Eurasian Whimbrel (2022-04-21)
    121. Whinchat (2022-04-22)
    122. Ortolan Bunting (2022-04-23)
    123. Pied Bushchat (2022-04-28)
    124. House Sparrow (2022-04-28)
    125. Little Egret (2022-04-30)
    126. Whiskered Tern (2022-04-30)
    127. Willow Warbler (2022-04-30)
    128. Temminck's Stint (2022-05-01)
    129. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-03)
    130. Sedge Warbler (2022-05-03)
    131. Booted Warbler (2022-05-03)
    132. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-05-03)
    133. Grey Plover (2022-05-03)
    134. Gull-billed Tern (2022-05-04)
    135. White-tailed Lapwing (2022-05-05)
    136. Baillon's Crake (2022-05-05)
    137. Caspian Tern (2022-05-05)
    138. Rosy Starling (2022-05-06)
    139. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-06)
    140. Little Bittern (2022-05-08)
    141. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2022-05-08)
    142. Squacco Heron (2022-05-08)
    143. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-08)
    144. Common Coot (2022-05-10)
    145. Common Sandpiper (2022-05-10)
    146. Terek Sandpiper (2022-05-10)
    147. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-05-10)
    148. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-12)
    149. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-05-12)
    150. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-05-13)
    151. Little Stint (2022-05-14)
    152. Chukar Partridge (2022-05-15)
    153. Egyptian Vulture (2022-05-15)
    154. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-05-15)
    155. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2022-05-15)
    156. Thrush Nightingale (2022-05-16)
    157. Greenish Warbler (2022-05-16)
    158. Eurasian Bittern (2022-05-17)
    159. Eurasian Roller (2022-05-17)
    160. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-19)
    161. Turkestan Shrike (2022-05-21)
    162. Common Quail (2022-05-24)
    163. Great Reed Warbler (2022-05-25)
    164. Syke's Warbler (2022-06-10)
    165. Rock Sparrow (2022-06-11)
    166. Eurasian Spoonbill (2022-06-18)
    167. Red-Necked Grebe (2022-07-05)
    168. Common Raven (2022-07-05)
    169. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2022-07-05)
    170. Black Tern (2022-07-05)
    171. Common Kingfisher (2022-08-04)
    172. European Bee-eater (2022-08-05)
    173. Sandwich Tern (2022-08-16)
    174. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-08-21)
    175. Laughing Dove (2022-09-01)
    176. Common Rosefinch (2022-09-01)
    177. Barred Warbler (2022-09-01)
    178. Common Whitethroat (2022-09-01)
    179. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-09-03)
    180. European Nightjar (2022-09-06)
    181. Levant Sparrowhawk (2022-09-08)
    182. Pallid Harrier (2022-09-09)
    183. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-09-09)
    184. Tree Pipit (2022-09-11)
    185. Garden Warbler (2022-09-11)
    186. Eurasian Hobby (2022-09-14)
    187. Osprey (2022-09-14)
    188. Black Kite (2022-09-18)
    189. White-headed Duck (2022-09-18)
    190. Sanderling (2022-09-18)
    191. Northern Black Grouse (2022-10-02)
    192. Arctic Loon (2022-10-06)
    193. Song Thrush (2022-10-17)
    194. Eurasian Siskin (2022-10-20)
    195. European Robin (2022-10-23)
    196. Long-eared Owl (2022-10-24)
    197. Tree Sparrow (2022-10-26)
    198. Slavonian Grebe (2022-10-30)
    199. Great Crested Grebe (2022-10-31)
    200. Redwing (2022-11-06)
    201. Wood Pigeon (2022-11-06)
    202. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-11-06)
    203. Crested Lark (2022-11-07)
    204. Bohemian Waxwing (2022-11-11)
    205. Fieldfare (2022-11-11)
    206. Black-throated Thrush (2022-11-18)
    207. Northern Wren (2022-11-19)
    208. Smew (2022-11-20)
    209. Mistle Thrush (2022-11-20)
    210. Black Redstart (2022-11-21)
    211. Solitary Snipe (2022-11-27)
    212. Goosander (2022-12-01)
    213. Rough-legged Buzzard (2022-12-03)
    214. Long-tailed Duck (2022-12-05)
    215. Mew Gull (2022-12-07)
    216. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-12-10)
    217. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-12-10)
    218. Little Owl (2022-12-27)

    recent uploads

    2023-01-05. Merlin, Streaked Scrub Warbler, Chukar Partridge, Little Owl.

    2023-01-04. Red-footed Falcon, Western Marsh-Harrier, Long-legged Buzzard, Baraba Steppe Gull.

    2023-01-03. Greylag Goose, Greylag Goose, Greylag Goose, Wallcreeper, White-winged Grosbeak.

    2022-12-24. Caspian Gull, Common Goldeneye, Caspian Gull, Grey Heron, Black Redstart, Grey Heron, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Shelduck, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Kestrel, Bohemian Waxwing, Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Teal, White Wagtail.

    2022-12-20. Whiskered Tern, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2022-12-15. Common Teal, Solitary Snipe, Common Goldeneye, Solitary Snipe, Mallard, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Mew Gull.

    2022-12-14. Whiskered Tern, Whiskered Tern.

    2022-12-11. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Teal, Dunlin, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Great White Egret, Common Kingfisher, Pygmy Cormorant, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Pochard, Common Snipe, Common Redshank, Common Teal, Common Kingfisher, Red-breasted Merganser, Gadwall, Great Cormorant, Black-headed Gull, Eastern Imperial Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2022-12-08. Common Snipe, Great Crested Grebe, Common Sparrowhawk, Water Rail, Mew Gull, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Mallard, Long-eared Owl, Dunlin, Common Goldeneye, Common Snipe, Solitary Snipe, White Wagtail.

    2022-12-06. Little Egret, Bewick's Swan, Common Redshank, Red-crested Pochard, Greater Flamingo, Long-eared Owl, Tufted Duck, Long-tailed Duck, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Long-eared Owl.

    2022-12-03. Mistle Thrush, European Robin, Eurasian Blackbird, Black-headed Gull, Water Rail, Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Snipe, Mistle Thrush, Hooded Crow, Great Grey Shrike, European Robin, Great White Egret, Goosander, Common Starling, Common Snipe, Common Chiffchaff, Long-eared Owl, Mistle Thrush, Solitary Snipe, Black-headed Gull, Rough-legged Buzzard, Great White Egret.

    2022-11-27. Solitary Snipe, Water Rail.

    2022-11-25. European Black Redstart, Common Kestrel, Common Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Peregrine Falcon.

    2022-11-20. Northern Wren, Water Rail, Song Thrush, Redwing, Northern Wren, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Black Kite, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Starling, Caspian Gull, White Wagtail, Smew, Mistle Thrush, Barn Swallow.

    2022-11-19. Caspian Gull, Black-throated Thrush, Greater Flamingo, Great Cormorant, Greater Flamingo.

    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...