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total species: 87
total photos: 217
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1. Whooper Swan (2025-01-03)
2. Smew (2025-01-03)
3. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-08)
4. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-01-08)
5. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-08)
6. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-10)
7. Common Starling (2025-02-22)
8. Common Kestrel (2025-02-22)
9. Calandra Lark (2025-03-16)
10. Pied Wheatear (2025-03-21)
11. Northern Lapwing (2025-03-21)
12. Common Coot (2025-03-21)
13. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-03-22)
14. Red-crested Pochard (2025-03-22)
15. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-22)
16. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-03-22)
17. Grey Heron (2025-03-22)
18. Tufted Duck (2025-03-22)
19. Northern Shoveler (2025-03-22)
20. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-22)
21. Common Buzzard (2025-03-22)
22. Mute Swan (2025-03-22)
23. Black Kite (2025-03-30)
24. Northern Pintail (2025-03-30)
25. Common Oystercatcher (2025-03-30)
26. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-03-30)
27. Rook (2025-03-30)
28. Common Moorhen (2025-03-30)
29. Turkestan Shrike (2025-03-30)
30. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-30)
31. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-30)
32. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-30)
33. Cetti's Warbler (2025-03-30)
34. Common Chiffchaff (2025-03-30)
35. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-04-05)
36. Rock Sparrow (2025-04-05)
37. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-06)
38. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-06)
39. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-04-11)
40. Himalayan Vulture (2025-04-11)
41. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-11)
42. Rock Bunting (2025-04-11)
43. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-12)
44. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-04-12)
45. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-13)
46. Sky Lark (2025-04-17)
47. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-04-18)
48. Chukar Partridge (2025-04-18)
49. Hoopoe (2025-04-18)
50. Rock Pigeon (2025-04-18)
51. Barn Swallow (2025-04-18)
52. Hume's Warbler (2025-04-18)
53. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-18)
54. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-04-18)
55. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-02)
56. Corn Bunting (2025-05-03)
57. Great Reed Warbler (2025-05-10)
58. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-05-10)
59. Common Cuckoo (2025-06-13)
60. Common Whitethroat (2025-06-14)
61. Common Nightingale (2025-06-14)
62. Great White Pelican (2025-06-14)
63. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-07-04)
64. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-08-06)
65. Black-winged Stilt (2025-08-07)
66. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-08-07)
67. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-08-23)
68. Great White Egret (2025-08-23)
69. Common Kingfisher (2025-08-24)
70. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-08-24)
71. Black Stork (2025-09-20)
72. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-09-21)
73. Cinereous Vulture (2025-09-21)
74. Tree Pipit (2025-09-23)
75. European Nightjar (2025-09-27)
76. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-09-27)
77. Great Cormorant (2025-09-30)
78. Carrion Crow (2025-10-21)
79. Eurasian Dipper (2025-10-23)
80. Merlin (2025-11-09)
81. Yellow Wagtail (2025-11-09)
82. Mistle Thrush (2025-11-09)
83. Black-throated Thrush (2025-11-09)
84. European Greenfinch (2025-11-09)
85. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-11-12)
86. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-11-12)
87. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-11-12)

recent uploads


2025-11-17. Eversmann's Redstart.

2025-11-16. Saxaul Sparrow, Red-mantled Rosefinch.

2025-11-14. Common Starling.

2025-11-13. Common Sparrowhawk, Eversmann's Redstart.

2025-11-10. Merlin, Yellow Wagtail, Mistle Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, European Greenfinch.

2025-10-26. Eurasian Dipper, Carrion Crow.

2025-10-07. Common Buzzard.

2025-10-06. Blue-capped Redstart, Blue-capped Redstart, European Nightjar, Short-toed Snake-Eagle.

2025-10-01. Common Buzzard, Tree Pipit.

2025-09-30. Long-legged Buzzard, Great Cormorant, Himalayan Vulture, Steppe Grey Shrike, Common Chiffchaff, Cinereous Vulture, Black Stork, Common Buzzard.

2025-08-27. Long-legged Buzzard, Black-winged Stilt, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Lapwing, Western Marsh-Harrier, Dalmatian Pelican, Lesser Whitethroat, Turkestan Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Common Kingfisher, Great White Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Siberian Stonechat.

2025-07-11. Lesser Whitethroat, Common Kestrel, Masked Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail.

2025-06-23. Common Cuckoo, Red-headed Bunting, Common Whitethroat, Common Nightingale, Siberian Stonechat, Great White Pelican.

2025-05-18. Pied Wheatear, Siberian Stonechat.

2025-05-17. Corn Bunting, Chukar Partridge.

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...