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    total species: 261
    total photos: 2412
    total videos: 0
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    1. Ring-billed Gull (2023-01-03)
    2. Solitary Snipe (2023-01-04)
    4. Goosander (2023-01-05)
    5. Baraba Steppe Gull (2023-01-05)
    6. White Wagtail (2023-01-09)
    7. Masked Wagtail (2023-01-09)
    8. Western Marsh-Harrier (2023-01-14)
    9. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-01-14)
    10. Common Snipe (2023-01-14)
    11. Tufted Duck (2023-01-15)
    12. Caspian Gull (2023-01-15)
    13. Mallard (2023-01-15)
    14. Mew Gull (2023-01-15)
    15. Black-headed Gull (2023-01-15)
    16. Greater Scaup (2023-01-15)
    17. Rook (2023-01-15)
    18. Common Redshank (2023-01-15)
    19. Northern Pintail (2023-01-15)
    20. Hooded Crow (2023-01-16)
    21. Common Teal (2023-01-16)
    22. Northern Wren (2023-01-16)
    23. European Robin (2023-01-16)
    24. Tree Sparrow (2023-01-16)
    25. Black-throated Thrush (2023-01-16)
    26. Bewick's Swan (2023-01-18)
    27. Northern Shoveler (2023-01-18)
    28. Whooper Swan (2023-01-18)
    29. Greater Flamingo (2023-01-18)
    30. Eurasian Wigeon (2023-01-18)
    31. Common Coot (2023-01-18)
    32. Mute Swan (2023-01-19)
    33. Brambling (2023-01-21)
    34. Red-crested Pochard (2023-01-21)
    35. Great Grey Shrike (2023-01-22)
    36. Common Kestrel (2023-01-24)
    37. Meadow Pipit (2023-01-26)
    38. Great Crested Grebe (2023-01-27)
    39. Common Goldeneye (2023-01-30)
    40. Bearded Tit (2023-01-30)
    41. Red-breasted Merganser (2023-01-31)
    42. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-02-01)
    43. Great Cormorant (2023-02-05)
    44. Gadwall (2023-02-06)
    45. Long-tailed Tit (2023-02-18)
    46. Great Tit (2023-02-18)
    47. Eurasian Magpie (2023-02-19)
    48. Grey Partridge (2023-02-21)
    49. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-02-21)
    50. Fieldfare (2023-02-24)
    51. Rock Pigeon (2023-02-24)
    52. Hawfinch (2023-02-24)
    53. Azure Tit (2023-02-24)
    54. Snowy Owl (2023-02-25)
    55. Black Lark (2023-02-25)
    56. Northern Black Grouse (2023-02-26)
    57. Eurasian Siskin (2023-02-26)
    58. Green Sandpiper (2023-03-01)
    59. Pygmy Cormorant (2023-03-01)
    60. Crested Lark (2023-03-02)
    61. White-headed Duck (2023-03-05)
    62. Cetti's Warbler (2023-03-05)
    63. Merlin (2023-03-05)
    64. Long-legged Buzzard (2023-03-05)
    65. Eurasian Bittern (2023-03-07)
    66. Yellowhammer (2023-03-07)
    67. Common Starling (2023-03-07)
    68. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-03-07)
    69. Hen Harrier (2023-03-10)
    70. Hoopoe (2023-03-10)
    71. European Stonechat (2023-03-14)
    72. Trumpeter Finch (2023-03-17)
    73. Steppe Eagle (2023-03-17)
    74. Steppe Grey Shrike (2023-03-17)
    75. Calandra Lark (2023-03-18)
    76. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2023-03-18)
    77. Chukar Partridge (2023-03-18)
    78. Bimaculated Lark (2023-03-18)
    79. Common Crane (2023-03-21)
    80. Dunlin (2023-03-22)
    82. Isabelline Wheatear (2023-03-22)
    83. Kentish Plover (2023-03-25)
    84. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-03-25)
    85. Black-tailed Godwit (2023-03-25)
    86. Black Redstart (2023-03-27)
    87. Garganey (2023-03-27)
    88. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-03-27)
    89. Citrine Wagtail (2023-03-30)
    90. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2023-03-30)
    91. Common Chiffchaff (2023-03-30)
    92. Little Ringed Plover (2023-04-02)
    93. Black-headed Wagtail (2023-04-02)
    94. Common Sandpiper (2023-04-02)
    95. Siberian Stonechat (2023-04-02)
    96. Yellow Wagtail (2023-04-02)
    97. Bluethroat (2023-04-02)
    98. Common Swift (2023-04-02)
    99. Barn Swallow (2023-04-02)
    100. Glossy Ibis (2023-04-02)
    101. Purple Heron (2023-04-02)
    102. Stock Pigeon (2023-04-02)
    103. Pied Wheatear (2023-04-03)
    104. Common Kingfisher (2023-04-04)
    105. Ruff (2023-04-04)
    106. Marsh Sandpiper (2023-04-04)
    107. Jack Snipe (2023-04-05)
    108. Blue Rock Thrush (2023-04-05)
    109. Alpine Swift (2023-04-06)
    110. Common Raven (2023-04-06)
    111. Desert Finch (2023-04-06)
    112. Horned Lark (2023-04-06)
    113. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-04-07)
    114. Grey Wagtail (2023-04-07)
    115. Greater Short-toed Lark (2023-04-08)
    116. Slender-billed Gull (2023-04-08)
    117. Little Gull (2023-04-08)
    118. Common Tern (2023-04-08)
    119. Black-winged Stilt (2023-04-08)
    120. Eurasian Collared Dove (2023-04-09)
    121. Eurasian Redstart (2023-04-09)
    122. Eurasian Whimbrel (2023-04-09)
    123. Common Shelduck (2023-04-10)
    124. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2023-04-11)
    125. Bar-tailed Godwit (2023-04-16)
    126. Sand Martin (2023-04-16)
    127. Eurasian Wryneck (2023-04-17)
    128. Spotted Crake (2023-04-17)
    129. Song Thrush (2023-04-17)
    130. Moustached Warbler (2023-04-17)
    131. Red-rumped Swallow (2023-04-18)
    132. Red-necked Phalarope (2023-04-19)
    133. Northern Wheatear (2023-04-19)
    134. Eurasian Curlew (2023-04-22)
    135. White-tailed Lapwing (2023-04-22)
    136. Great White Pelican (2023-04-22)
    137. Dalmatian Pelican (2023-04-22)
    138. Grey Heron (2023-04-22)
    139. Great White Egret (2023-04-22)
    140. Northern Lapwing (2023-04-22)
    141. Turkestan Shrike (2023-04-23)
    142. Griffon Vulture (2023-04-23)
    143. Cinereous Vulture (2023-04-23)
    144. Pallid Harrier (2023-04-23)
    145. Grey-necked Bunting (2023-04-23)
    146. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2023-04-23)
    147. Spanish Sparrow (2023-04-23)
    148. Isabelline Shrike (2023-04-23)
    149. Wood Pigeon (2023-04-24)
    150. Carrion Crow (2023-04-24)
    151. Booted Eagle (2023-04-25)
    152. Himalayan Vulture (2023-04-25)
    153. Yellow-billed Chough (2023-04-25)
    154. Golden Eagle (2023-04-25)
    155. Common Buzzard (2023-04-25)
    156. Common Mynah (2023-04-26)
    157. Tree Pipit (2023-04-26)
    158. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2023-04-27)
    159. Black Kite (2023-04-27)
    160. Sky Lark (2023-04-27)
    161. Blue Whistling Thrush (2023-04-27)
    162. Common Pheasant (2023-04-27)
    163. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2023-04-27)
    164. Hume's Warbler (2023-04-30)
    165. Brown Dipper (2023-04-30)
    166. Blue-capped Redstart (2023-04-30)
    167. Black-throated Accentor (2023-05-02)
    168. Northern Goshawk (2023-05-02)
    169. Coal Tit (2023-05-04)
    170. Rosy Starling (2023-05-06)
    171. Eurasian Hobby (2023-05-06)
    172. Shikra (2023-05-06)
    173. Cattle Egret (2023-05-07)
    174. Whiskered Tern (2023-05-07)
    175. White-winged Tern (2023-05-08)
    176. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2023-05-08)
    177. Wood Sandpiper (2023-05-08)
    178. Little Tern (2023-05-08)
    179. Grey Plover (2023-05-08)
    180. Sanderling (2023-05-08)
    181. Squacco Heron (2023-05-08)
    182. Red-backed Shrike (2023-05-08)
    183. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-05-10)
    184. European Nightjar (2023-05-10)
    185. Spotted Flycatcher (2023-05-10)
    186. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-05-16)
    187. Common Whitethroat (2023-05-16)
    188. Sedge Warbler (2023-05-16)
    189. Little Bittern (2023-05-16)
    190. Great Reed Warbler (2023-05-16)
    191. European Bee-eater (2023-05-16)
    192. Little Egret (2023-05-18)
    193. Willow Warbler (2023-05-18)
    194. Terek Sandpiper (2023-05-18)
    196. Red-headed Bunting (2023-05-19)
    197. Ruddy Turnstone (2023-05-20)
    198. Garden Warbler (2023-05-20)
    199. Barred Warbler (2023-05-20)
    200. Thrush Nightingale (2023-05-20)
    201. Syke's Warbler (2023-05-20)
    202. Common Rosefinch (2023-05-20)
    203. Paddyfield Warbler (2023-05-23)
    204. Eurasian Roller (2023-05-23)
    205. Tawny Pipit (2023-05-24)
    206. Booted Warbler (2023-05-25)
    207. European Golden Oriole (2023-05-29)
    208. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2023-06-07)
    209. Egyptian Vulture (2023-06-14)
    210. Black-crowned Night Heron (2023-06-14)
    211. Caspian Tern (2023-06-21)
    212. Common Cuckoo (2023-06-23)
    213. Arctic Loon (2023-06-24)
    214. Eurasian Spoonbill (2023-07-02)
    215. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2023-07-02)
    216. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2023-07-02)
    217. Desert Wheatear (2023-07-02)
    218. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2023-07-02)
    219. Finsch's Wheatear (2023-07-06)
    220. Pallas's Gull (2023-07-13)
    221. Common Oystercatcher (2023-07-19)
    222. Sandwich Tern (2023-07-19)
    223. Curlew Sandpiper (2023-07-19)
    224. Little Stint (2023-07-26)
    225. Savi's Warbler (2023-08-08)
    226. Marsh Warbler (2023-08-10)
    227. Little Crake (2023-08-14)
    228. Temminck's Stint (2023-08-15)
    229. Greater Ringed Plover (2023-08-16)
    230. Whinchat (2023-08-18)
    231. Ortolan Bunting (2023-08-20)
    232. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-08-22)
    233. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-08-22)
    234. Common Moorhen (2023-08-26)
    235. Levant Sparrowhawk (2023-08-28)
    236. Little Owl (2023-09-03)
    237. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2023-09-09)
    238. Osprey (2023-09-16)
    239. Blackcap (2023-09-16)
    240. Pied Flycatcher (2023-09-16)
    241. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2023-09-17)
    242. Black Tern (2023-09-18)
    243. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2023-09-20)
    244. River Warbler (2023-09-26)
    245. Red Crossbill (2023-10-01)
    246. Goldcrest (2023-10-05)
    247. Saker Falcon (2023-10-13)
    248. Water Rail (2023-10-14)
    249. Common Greenshank (2023-10-14)
    250. Blue Tit (2023-10-20)
    251. Peregrine Falcon (2023-10-21)
    252. Redwing (2023-10-22)
    253. European Greenfinch (2023-10-30)
    254. Common Chaffinch (2023-10-30)
    255. Eurasian Woodcock (2023-10-30)
    256. Dunnock (2023-11-18)
    257. Mistle Thrush (2023-11-20)
    258. Eversmann's Redstart (2023-11-27)
    259. Black-Necked Grebe (2023-11-29)
    260. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2023-12-24)
    261. Little Grebe (2023-12-29)

    recent uploads

    2023-12-31. Ring-billed Gull, Caspian Gull, European Black Redstart, Hooded Crow, Common Chiffchaff, Siberian Black-backed Gull.

    2023-12-29. Mallard, Common Goldeneye, Water Rail, Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Great Cormorant, Red-breasted Merganser, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe.

    2023-12-26. Caspian Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Water Rail, Black-throated Thrush, Tufted Duck, Tufted Duck, Greater White-fronted Goose, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Grey Heron.

    2023-12-22. Water Rail, Northern Wren, Caspian Gull, Mew Gull, Eurasian Siskin, Tree Sparrow, Ring-billed Gull, Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Meadow Pipit, Solitary Snipe.

    2023-12-03. Ring-billed Gull, Mew Gull, Fieldfare, Common Sparrowhawk, Hen Harrier, Common Chiffchaff, Goldcrest.

    2023-11-30. Northern Reed Bunting, Hen Harrier, Common Goldeneye, Unkown Bird, Fieldfare, Common Sparrowhawk, Pallid Harrier, Pallas's Gull, Pallid Harrier, Black-Necked Grebe, Black-headed Gull.

    2023-11-27. Eversmann's Redstart, Goldcrest, Dunnock.

    2023-11-24. Red-breasted Merganser, Eurasian Blackbird, Blue Tit, Pallid Harrier, Hen Harrier.

    2023-11-23. Solitary Snipe, Dunnock, Hen Harrier.

    2023-11-21. Long-legged Buzzard, Hen Harrier, Common Sparrowhawk, Goldcrest, Redwing, Mistle Thrush.

    2023-11-18. Blue Tit, Northern Wren, Common Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Northern Wren, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2023-11-14. Siberian Black-backed Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Fieldfare, Redwing, Hooded Crow.

    2023-11-09. Lesser Short-toed Lark, Fieldfare, Bohemian Waxwing, Common Chiffchaff, Redwing, Eurasian Blackbird, Common Coot, European Black Redstart, Sky Lark, Common Chaffinch, Common Starling, Goldcrest, Eurasian Woodcock, Sky Lark, Calandra Lark, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse.

    2023-10-31. Blue Tit, European Greenfinch, Northern Wren, Common Chiffchaff, Common Chaffinch, Song Thrush, Brambling, Blue Tit, Eurasian Woodcock.

    2023-10-29. Blue Tit, Turkestan Shrike, Northern Reed Bunting, Greater Flamingo, Common Teal.

    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...