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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
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    total species: 87
    total photos: 217
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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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...