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    total species: 284
    total photos: 2229
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    1. Grey Partridge (2025-01-01)
    2. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-11)
    3. Great Tit (2025-01-14)
    4. White Wagtail (2025-01-15)
    5. Caspian Gull (2025-01-19)
    6. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-23)
    7. European Robin (2025-01-23)
    8. Bluethroat (2025-01-28)
    9. Mallard (2025-01-30)
    10. Gadwall (2025-01-31)
    11. Common Coot (2025-02-06)
    12. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-02-07)
    13. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-02-18)
    14. Brown Dipper (2025-02-18)
    15. Azure Tit (2025-02-20)
    16. Red-fronted Serin (2025-02-20)
    17. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-02-20)
    18. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-02-20)
    19. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-20)
    20. Mistle Thrush (2025-02-20)
    21. Common Pheasant (2025-02-20)
    22. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-02-23)
    23. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-02-23)
    24. Common Treecreeper (2025-02-23)
    25. Coal Tit (2025-02-23)
    26. Wallcreeper (2025-02-23)
    27. Lammergeier (2025-02-23)
    28. Golden Eagle (2025-02-23)
    29. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2025-02-24)
    30. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-02-24)
    31. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-02-24)
    32. Red-billed Chough (2025-02-24)
    33. Carrion Crow (2025-02-24)
    34. Eurasian Dipper (2025-02-24)
    35. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-03-02)
    36. European Greenfinch (2025-03-07)
    37. Fieldfare (2025-03-07)
    38. Eurasian Magpie (2025-03-12)
    40. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-18)
    41. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-19)
    42. Little Crake (2025-03-25)
    43. European Stonechat (2025-03-25)
    44. Grey Heron (2025-03-25)
    45. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-25)
    46. Great White Egret (2025-03-25)
    47. Slender-billed Gull (2025-03-25)
    48. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-03-28)
    49. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-03-28)
    50. Chukar Partridge (2025-03-28)
    51. Common Tern (2025-03-30)
    52. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2025-03-31)
    53. Garganey (2025-04-01)
    54. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-02)
    55. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-02)
    56. Whinchat (2025-04-03)
    57. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-04-04)
    58. Water Pipit (2025-04-04)
    59. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-04)
    60. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-05)
    61. Little Egret (2025-04-07)
    62. Crested Lark (2025-04-07)
    63. Little Grebe (2025-04-09)
    64. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-04-09)
    65. Willow Warbler (2025-04-12)
    66. Kentish Plover (2025-04-13)
    67. Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-13)
    68. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-13)
    69. Caspian Tern (2025-04-13)
    70. Great Cormorant (2025-04-13)
    71. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-13)
    72. Common Shelduck (2025-04-13)
    73. Rock Sparrow (2025-04-13)
    74. Common Kestrel (2025-04-13)
    75. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-04-15)
    76. Spotted Crake (2025-04-16)
    77. Sand Martin (2025-04-17)
    78. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-17)
    79. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-17)
    80. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-18)
    81. Common Snipe (2025-04-18)
    82. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-18)
    83. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-04-22)
    84. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-22)
    85. Syke's Warbler (2025-04-23)
    86. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-23)
    87. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-25)
    88. Common Greenshank (2025-04-25)
    89. White-winged Tern (2025-04-25)
    90. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-04-25)
    91. House Sparrow (2025-04-25)
    92. Wood Warbler (2025-04-28)
    93. Shikra (2025-04-29)
    94. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-29)
    95. Western Capercaillie (2025-05-01)
    96. Willow Tit (2025-05-01)
    97. Pallid Harrier (2025-05-01)
    98. Pine Bunting (2025-05-01)
    99. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-05-01)
    100. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-03)
    101. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-05-03)
    102. Northern Black Grouse (2025-05-03)
    103. Demoiselle Crane (2025-05-03)
    104. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-03)
    105. Little Bustard (2025-05-04)
    106. Greylag Goose (2025-05-04)
    107. Mew Gull (2025-05-04)
    108. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-05-04)
    109. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-09)
    110. Greater Sand Plover (2025-05-09)
    111. Upcher's Warbler (2025-05-09)
    112. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-09)
    113. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-09)
    114. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-05-10)
    115. Little Owl (2025-05-10)
    116. Calandra Lark (2025-05-10)
    117. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-13)
    118. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-13)
    119. Collared Flycatcher (2025-05-16)
    120. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-16)
    121. Common Redshank (2025-05-17)
    122. Greater Flamingo (2025-05-17)
    123. Pied Avocet (2025-05-17)
    124. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-17)
    125. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-17)
    126. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-17)
    127. Ruff (2025-05-17)
    128. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-19)
    129. Common Moorhen (2025-05-19)
    130. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-19)
    131. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-19)
    132. Masked Shrike (2025-05-20)
    133. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-20)
    134. Red-crested Pochard (2025-05-20)
    135. Little Tern (2025-05-20)
    136. Hooded Crow (2025-05-21)
    137. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-05-23)
    138. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-24)
    139. Little Bittern (2025-05-25)
    140. Sedge Warbler (2025-05-25)
    141. Hoopoe (2025-05-28)
    142. Common Raven (2025-06-01)
    143. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-06-01)
    144. Little Gull (2025-06-01)
    145. Sandwich Tern (2025-06-01)
    146. Squacco Heron (2025-06-04)
    147. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-06-04)
    148. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-06-04)
    149. Wood Sandpiper (2025-06-04)
    150. Little Stint (2025-06-04)
    151. Common Oystercatcher (2025-06-12)
    152. Little Ringed Plover (2025-06-13)
    153. Barn Swallow (2025-06-13)
    154. Common Swift (2025-06-13)
    155. Corn Bunting (2025-06-17)
    156. Citrine Wagtail (2025-06-21)
    157. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-06-21)
    159. Pied Wheatear (2025-06-25)
    160. Red-headed Bunting (2025-07-01)
    161. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-07-03)
    162. Black-winged Stilt (2025-07-03)
    163. Glossy Ibis (2025-07-03)
    164. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-07-03)
    165. Temminck's Stint (2025-07-16)
    166. Rosy Starling (2025-07-20)
    167. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-07-20)
    168. Common Starling (2025-07-21)
    169. Common Kingfisher (2025-07-25)
    170. Black Tern (2025-07-28)
    171. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-08-01)
    172. Tree Pipit (2025-08-10)
    173. Barred Warbler (2025-08-11)
    174. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-08-13)
    175. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-08-15)
    176. Booted Warbler (2025-08-15)
    177. Garden Warbler (2025-08-17)
    178. Savi's Warbler (2025-08-19)
    179. Marsh Warbler (2025-08-19)
    180. Steppe Eagle (2025-08-28)
    181. Lesser Kestrel (2025-08-28)
    182. Black Kite (2025-08-28)
    183. Black Lark (2025-08-28)
    184. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-09-02)
    185. Great Bustard (2025-09-12)
    186. Baillon's Crake (2025-09-21)
    187. Water Rail (2025-09-21)
    188. Spotted Redshank (2025-09-21)
    189. Common Rosefinch (2025-09-21)
    190. Stock Pigeon (2025-09-22)
    191. Osprey (2025-09-22)
    192. European Nightjar (2025-09-23)
    193. Griffon Vulture (2025-09-23)
    194. Common Chiffchaff (2025-09-23)
    195. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-09-26)
    196. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-09-26)
    197. Northern Wheatear (2025-09-29)
    198. Slavonian Grebe (2025-09-29)
    199. Hume's Warbler (2025-09-30)
    200. Song Thrush (2025-09-30)
    201. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-09-30)
    202. Goldcrest (2025-10-01)
    203. Desert Wheatear (2025-10-01)
    204. Blue Tit (2025-10-01)
    205. Hen Harrier (2025-10-01)
    206. Montagu's Harrier (2025-10-01)
    207. Dunlin (2025-10-03)
    208. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-10-08)
    209. Common Chaffinch (2025-10-08)
    210. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-10-10)
    211. Pallas's Warbler (2025-10-11)
    212. Dusky Warbler (2025-10-13)
    213. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-10-16)
    214. Northern Pintail (2025-10-18)
    215. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-10-20)
    216. Black-headed Gull (2025-10-20)
    217. Laughing Dove (2025-10-21)
    218. Jack Snipe (2025-10-22)
    219. Moustached Warbler (2025-10-23)
    220. Cetti's Warbler (2025-10-24)
    221. Yellowhammer (2025-10-26)
    222. Black Redstart (2025-10-26)
    223. Bearded Tit (2025-11-01)
    224. Common Teal (2025-11-02)
    225. Redwing (2025-11-03)
    226. Tree Sparrow (2025-11-03)
    227. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-11-04)
    228. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-11-06)
    229. Brambling (2025-11-07)
    230. Smew (2025-11-09)
    231. Spanish Sparrow (2025-11-09)
    232. Solitary Snipe (2025-11-10)
    233. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-11-10)
    234. White-headed Duck (2025-11-10)
    235. Horned Lark (2025-11-11)
    236. Northern Wren (2025-11-13)
    237. Saker Falcon (2025-11-15)
    238. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-11-17)
    239. Eurasian Siskin (2025-11-17)
    240. Great Grey Shrike (2025-11-18)
    241. Rock Pigeon (2025-11-20)
    242. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-11-23)
    243. Ring-billed Gull (2025-11-23)
    244. Black Woodpecker (2025-11-25)
    245. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-11-25)
    246. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-11-25)
    247. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-11-25)
    248. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-11-25)
    249. Hawfinch (2025-11-26)
    250. Baikal Bullfinch (2025-12-02)
    251. Northern Bullfinch (2025-12-02)
    252. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-12-02)
    253. Great Rosefinch (2025-12-11)
    254. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-12-11)
    255. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-12-11)
    256. Brown Accentor (2025-12-11)
    257. Peregrine Falcon (2025-12-11)
    258. Eastern Buzzard (2025-12-12)
    259. Twite (2025-12-12)
    260. Eurasian Linnet (2025-12-12)
    261. Sky Lark (2025-12-12)
    262. Common Mynah (2025-12-12)
    263. Ibisbill (2025-12-14)
    264. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-12-14)
    265. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-12-14)
    266. Lapland Longspur (2025-12-19)
    267. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-12-19)
    268. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-12-23)
    269. Dunnock (2025-12-23)
    270. Tufted Duck (2025-12-24)
    271. Rook (2025-12-24)
    272. Common Pochard (2025-12-24)
    273. Common Goldeneye (2025-12-24)
    274. Northern Shoveler (2025-12-26)
    275. Bewick's Swan (2025-12-26)
    276. Whooper Swan (2025-12-26)
    277. White-winged Lark (2025-12-26)
    278. Great Black-backed Gull (2025-12-26)
    279. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-12-26)
    280. Mute Swan (2025-12-26)
    281. Greater Scaup (2025-12-27)
    282. Long-tailed Duck (2025-12-27)
    283. Eurasian Bittern (2025-12-30)
    284. Goosander (2025-12-30)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-31. Water Rail, European Black Redstart, Bohemian Waxwing, Fieldfare, Common Kestrel, Dunnock, European Black Redstart.

    2025-12-30. Eurasian Bittern, Goosander.

    2025-12-29. Greater Scaup.

    2025-12-28. Long-eared Owl, Saker Falcon, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Spanish Sparrow, White Wagtail, Common Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Northern Wren, Dunnock, Pygmy Cormorant, Tufted Duck, White Wagtail, Caspian Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, Rook, Great Grey Shrike, Western Marsh-Harrier, Tufted Duck, Common Pochard, Chukar Partridge, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Goldeneye, Common Pochard, Eurasian Wigeon, Little Egret, Dalmatian Pelican, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Northern Shoveler, Common Teal, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Great Cormorant, Pygmy Cormorant, Grey Heron, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Snipe, Bewick's Swan, Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Whooper Swan, Lesser Short-toed Lark, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Sky Lark, Sky Lark, White-winged Lark, White-winged Lark, Great Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Jackdaw, Rook, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Goldeneye, Mute Swan, Ruddy Shelduck, Horned Lark, Dunlin, Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Greater Scaup, Dunlin, Long-tailed Duck, Common Pochard, Greater Ringed Plover, Pied Avocet, Unkown Bird, Tufted Duck, Whooper Swan, Greater White-fronted Goose.

    2025-12-26. Goldcrest, Northern Bullfinch, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark.

    2025-12-22. Common Pheasant, Great Spotted Woodpecker, European Robin, Tree Sparrow, Lapland Longspur, Sky Lark, Rough-legged Buzzard, Black Lark, Horned Lark, Long-eared Owl, Long-eared Owl.

    2025-12-16. Eastern Buzzard, Great Tit, White-bellied Dipper, Green Sandpiper, Brown Dipper, Ibisbill, Carrion Crow, Eastern Buzzard, Eversmann's Redstart, White-Winged Woodpecker, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Solitary Snipe.

    2025-12-15. Great Rosefinch, Brandt's Rosefinch, White-winged Snowfinch, Brown Accentor, Common Kestrel, Red-billed Chough, Lammergeier, Peregrine Falcon, Green Sandpiper, Water Pipit, Eastern Buzzard, Eastern Buzzard, Red-fronted Serin, Common Snipe, Twite, Eurasian Linnet, Sky Lark, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Mynah, Goldcrest, Red-fronted Serin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Magpie, Eastern Buzzard.

    2025-12-07. Baikal Bullfinch, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2025-12-02. Grey Partridge, Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Baikal Bullfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Bohemian Waxwing, Grey Partridge, Azure Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-11-30. Black Woodpecker, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Goldfinch, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Common Treecreeper, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Hawfinch, European Greenfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2025-11-23. Hooded Crow, Rock Pigeon, Tree Sparrow, Jack Snipe, Mallard, Red-breasted Merganser, Ring-billed Gull.

    2025-11-21. Common Chiffchaff, Common Chiffchaff.

    2025-11-18. Long-eared Owl, Great Grey Shrike, Eurasian Woodcock.

    2025-11-17. Common Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Mistle Thrush, Eurasian Woodcock, Northern Reed Bunting, Hume's Warbler, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eurasian Siskin.

    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...