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    total species: 213
    total photos: 1807
    total videos: 0
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    1. Ring-billed Gull (2024-01-01)
    3. Caspian Gull (2024-01-02)
    4. Great White Egret (2024-01-02)
    6. Great White Pelican (2024-01-02)
    7. Little Egret (2024-01-02)
    8. Grey Heron (2024-01-05)
    9. Great Cormorant (2024-01-05)
    10. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-05)
    11. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-05)
    12. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-05)
    13. Whooper Swan (2024-01-05)
    14. Bewick's Swan (2024-01-05)
    15. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-05)
    16. Hen Harrier (2024-01-05)
    17. Dunnock (2024-01-07)
    18. Pallid Harrier (2024-01-11)
    19. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-14)
    20. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-01-14)
    21. Common Starling (2024-01-14)
    22. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-01-18)
    23. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-20)
    24. Griffon Vulture (2024-01-20)
    25. Mew Gull (2024-01-23)
    26. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-01-23)
    27. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-24)
    28. Horned Lark (2024-01-24)
    29. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-30)
    30. Great Grey Shrike (2024-02-01)
    31. Common Chiffchaff (2024-02-01)
    32. Brambling (2024-02-01)
    33. European Robin (2024-02-02)
    34. Northern Wren (2024-02-05)
    35. Black Kite (2024-02-11)
    36. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-02-11)
    37. Golden Eagle (2024-02-11)
    38. Blue Tit (2024-02-13)
    39. Glaucous Gull (2024-02-14)
    40. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-02-14)
    41. Hooded Crow (2024-02-19)
    42. Little Owl (2024-03-01)
    43. Common Goldeneye (2024-03-07)
    44. Fieldfare (2024-03-07)
    45. Steppe Eagle (2024-03-12)
    46. Common Raven (2024-03-12)
    47. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-03-14)
    48. Slender-billed Gull (2024-03-17)
    49. Jack Snipe (2024-03-26)
    50. Garganey (2024-03-26)
    51. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-26)
    52. Siberian Stonechat (2024-03-27)
    53. Grey Wagtail (2024-03-28)
    54. Hume's Warbler (2024-03-28)
    55. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-03-28)
    56. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-29)
    57. Hoopoe (2024-03-29)
    58. Tree Pipit (2024-03-30)
    59. Stock Pigeon (2024-03-30)
    60. Redwing (2024-03-30)
    61. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-04-05)
    62. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-04-07)
    63. Common Tern (2024-04-08)
    64. Caspian Tern (2024-04-08)
    65. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-08)
    66. Black-legged Kittiwake (2024-04-09)
    67. Pallas's Gull (2024-04-10)
    68. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-04-13)
    69. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-04-13)
    70. Little Stint (2024-04-13)
    71. Caspian Plover (2024-04-13)
    72. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-04-13)
    73. Common Kestrel (2024-04-14)
    74. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-04-15)
    75. Bimaculated Lark (2024-04-16)
    76. Calandra Lark (2024-04-16)
    77. White Wagtail (2024-04-16)
    78. Pied Wheatear (2024-04-16)
    79. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-16)
    80. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-17)
    81. Greater Sand Plover (2024-04-17)
    82. Desert Finch (2024-04-19)
    83. Crested Lark (2024-04-19)
    84. Syke's Warbler (2024-04-21)
    85. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-04-24)
    86. Little Tern (2024-04-24)
    87. Whiskered Tern (2024-04-24)
    88. White-winged Tern (2024-04-24)
    89. Sanderling (2024-04-24)
    90. Dunlin (2024-04-24)
    91. Great Tit (2024-04-27)
    92. Common Mynah (2024-04-27)
    93. Mistle Thrush (2024-04-29)
    94. Coal Tit (2024-04-29)
    95. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-04-29)
    96. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-04-29)
    97. Shikra (2024-05-04)
    98. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-04)
    99. Willow Warbler (2024-05-04)
    100. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-08)
    101. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-08)
    102. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-05-08)
    103. Rosy Starling (2024-05-08)
    104. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-08)
    105. European Bee-eater (2024-05-09)
    106. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-09)
    107. Ortolan Bunting (2024-05-09)
    108. Whinchat (2024-05-09)
    109. Squacco Heron (2024-05-09)
    110. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-09)
    111. Purple Heron (2024-05-11)
    112. Mallard (2024-05-13)
    113. Northern House Martin (2024-05-13)
    114. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    115. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    116. Kentish Plover (2024-05-13)
    117. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-13)
    118. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-05-13)
    119. Common Redshank (2024-05-13)
    120. Common Greenshank (2024-05-13)
    121. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
    122. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-14)
    123. Cattle Egret (2024-05-15)
    124. Common Moorhen (2024-05-16)
    125. Wood Warbler (2024-05-18)
    126. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-18)
    127. Garden Warbler (2024-05-18)
    128. Little Bittern (2024-05-18)
    129. European Golden Oriole (2024-05-18)
    130. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-19)
    131. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-19)
    132. Greater Flamingo (2024-05-20)
    133. Pied Avocet (2024-05-21)
    134. Levant Sparrowhawk (2024-05-25)
    135. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-26)
    136. European Nightjar (2024-05-27)
    137. Rock Sparrow (2024-05-27)
    138. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-27)
    139. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-05-27)
    140. Gull-billed Tern (2024-05-27)
    141. Common Shelduck (2024-05-27)
    142. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-27)
    143. Tufted Duck (2024-05-27)
    144. Great Crested Grebe (2024-05-28)
    145. Corn Bunting (2024-05-29)
    146. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-05-29)
    147. Egyptian Vulture (2024-05-29)
    148. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-05-29)
    149. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-29)
    150. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-29)
    151. Tawny Pipit (2024-05-29)
    153. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-06-01)
    154. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2024-06-02)
    155. Wood Pigeon (2024-06-02)
    156. Spotted Redshank (2024-06-04)
    157. Eurasian Magpie (2024-06-10)
    158. Eurasian Linnet (2024-06-11)
    159. Mute Swan (2024-06-13)
    160. Northern Lapwing (2024-07-10)
    161. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-07-12)
    162. Red-footed Falcon (2024-08-02)
    163. White-winged Lark (2024-08-02)
    164. Little Gull (2024-08-03)
    165. Black Tern (2024-08-03)
    166. Temminck's Stint (2024-08-11)
    167. Barn Swallow (2024-08-12)
    168. Thrush Nightingale (2024-08-13)
    169. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-08-19)
    170. Sandwich Tern (2024-08-20)
    171. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-08-25)
    172. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2024-08-27)
    173. Spotted Crake (2024-08-27)
    174. Bluethroat (2024-08-27)
    175. Citrine Wagtail (2024-08-28)
    176. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-08-29)
    177. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-09-01)
    178. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-09-01)
    179. Ibisbill (2024-09-02)
    180. Isabelline Shrike (2024-09-03)
    181. Ferruginous Duck (2024-09-03)
    182. Rook (2024-09-08)
    183. Azure Tit (2024-09-15)
    184. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-21)
    185. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-22)
    186. Sedge Warbler (2024-09-23)
    187. Great Reed Warbler (2024-09-23)
    188. Osprey (2024-09-24)
    189. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-09-28)
    190. Chukar Partridge (2024-09-30)
    191. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-10-01)
    192. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-10-04)
    193. Song Thrush (2024-10-05)
    194. Black-throated Thrush (2024-10-08)
    195. Laughing Dove (2024-10-10)
    196. Pied Bushchat (2024-10-10)
    197. Blackcap (2024-10-12)
    198. Common Buzzard (2024-10-13)
    199. Water Rail (2024-10-13)
    200. Merlin (2024-10-14)
    201. White-headed Duck (2024-10-24)
    202. Slavonian Grebe (2024-10-29)
    203. Little Crake (2024-10-30)
    204. Bearded Tit (2024-10-31)
    205. Goldcrest (2024-11-01)
    206. European Stonechat (2024-11-01)
    207. Herring Gull (2024-11-03)
    208. Little Grebe (2024-11-09)
    209. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-11-09)
    210. Solitary Snipe (2024-11-16)
    211. Common Kingfisher (2024-11-26)
    212. Common Snipe (2024-12-10)
    213. Arctic Loon (2024-12-16)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-18. Arctic Loon, Caspian Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Arctic Loon.

    2024-12-17. Long-eared Owl, Northern Wren, Great Crested Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Whooper Swan.

    2024-12-11. Greater Flamingo, Common Kingfisher, Common Snipe, Common Kingfisher, Common Snipe, Dunlin, Greater Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greater Ringed Plover.

    2024-12-08. Great White Egret.

    2024-12-07. Hooded Crow, Caspian Gull, Caspian Gull.

    2024-12-06. Great Crested Grebe, Hooded Crow, Common Kestrel.

    2024-12-03. Caspian Gull, Water Rail, Black-Necked Grebe.

    2024-11-26. Ring-billed Gull, Common Kingfisher, Pygmy Cormorant, Great White Egret, Great Cormorant, Great White Egret.

    2024-11-18. Eurasian Woodcock, Bluethroat, Solitary Snipe, Little Crake.

    2024-11-11. Little Crake, Unkown Bird, Pied Avocet, Little Grebe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Slender-billed Gull, Great Crested Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Pallas's Gull, Mew Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull.

    2024-11-05. Eurasian Reed Warbler, Goldcrest, European Stonechat, European Stonechat.

    2024-11-03. Herring Gull.

    2024-11-01. Unkown Bird.

    2024-10-31. Little Crake, Bearded Tit, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2024-10-30. Great White Egret, Great Crested Grebe, Slavonian Grebe, Unkown Bird, Mew Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Song Thrush.

    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

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    Common Kestrel
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    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
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    2025-06-01
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    2025-04-14
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    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
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    Common Kestrel
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    2025-03-23
    Common Sparrowhawk
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    Great Tit
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    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
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    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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    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...