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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
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  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    total species: 28
    total photos: 55
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Sky Lark (2022-04-26)
    2. White-headed Duck (2022-04-26)
    3. Mute Swan (2022-04-26)
    4. Whooper Swan (2022-04-26)
    5. Bluethroat (2022-04-26)
    6. Gull-billed Tern (2022-04-28)
    7. Black Lark (2022-04-28)
    8. Steppe Eagle (2022-04-28)
    9. Pallid Harrier (2022-04-30)
    10. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-04-30)
    11. Twite (2022-04-30)
    12. Common Cuckoo (2022-04-30)
    13. Smew (2022-05-19)
    14. Slavonian Grebe (2022-05-19)
    15. Common Crane (2022-05-19)
    16. Demoiselle Crane (2022-05-19)
    17. Tree Pipit (2022-05-19)
    18. Mew Gull (2022-05-20)
    19. Tawny Pipit (2022-06-26)
    20. Great Crested Grebe (2022-06-29)
    21. Goosander (2022-06-29)
    22. Montagu's Harrier (2022-08-26)
    23. Red-footed Falcon (2022-08-26)
    24. Common Kestrel (2022-08-26)
    25. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-08-27)
    26. Baraba Steppe Gull (2022-08-30)
    27. Arctic Loon (2022-09-26)
    28. Cinereous Vulture (2022-12-21)

    recent uploads

    2022-12-22. Cinereous Vulture.

    2022-10-14. Common Kestrel.

    2022-10-05. Arctic Loon, Goosander.

    2022-09-09. Long-legged Buzzard, Steppe Eagle.

    2022-09-08. Montagu's Harrier, Red-footed Falcon, Baraba Steppe Gull, Common Kestrel.

    2022-07-26. Tawny Pipit.

    2022-07-22. Great Crested Grebe, Goosander, Black-tailed Godwit, Steppe Eagle.

    2022-06-20. Tree Pipit.

    2022-05-24. Mew Gull.

    2022-05-22. Whooper Swan, Smew, Slavonian Grebe, Common Crane, Demoiselle Crane.

    2022-05-15. White-headed Duck, Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Bluethroat, Black Lark, Gull-billed Tern.

    2022-05-13. Sky Lark, Steppe Eagle.

    2022-05-09. Black-tailed Godwit, Pallid Harrier, Common Cuckoo, Twite.

    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
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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
    (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...