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total species: 56
total photos: 228
total videos: 0
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1. White-Backed Woodpecker (2014-02-24)
2. Mallard (2014-02-28)
3. Bohemian Waxwing (2014-04-14)
4. Fieldfare (2014-05-17)
5. Common Sandpiper (2014-05-20)
6. Turkestan Shrike (2014-05-22)
7. Eurasian Magpie (2014-05-28)
8. Red-backed Shrike (2014-05-28)
9. Yellow Wagtail (2014-05-28)
10. Short-eared Owl (2014-05-28)
11. Booted Warbler (2014-06-06)
12. Siberian Stonechat (2014-06-06)
13. Red-headed Bunting (2014-06-06)
14. Pied Wheatear (2014-06-08)
15. Ruddy Shelduck (2014-06-15)
16. Masked Wagtail (2014-06-15)
17. Northern Wheatear (2014-06-15)
18. Black-winged Stilt (2014-06-15)
19. Steppe Eagle (2014-06-15)
20. Common Redshank (2014-06-15)
21. Black-tailed Godwit (2014-06-15)
22. Rosy Starling (2014-06-15)
23. Great White Egret (2014-06-16)
24. Great Crested Grebe (2014-06-16)
25. Hooded Crow (2014-06-28)
26. Tree Sparrow (2014-06-28)
27. Northern Lapwing (2014-06-29)
28. Caspian Gull (2014-07-07)
29. Common Kestrel (2014-07-07)
30. Long-legged Buzzard (2014-07-12)
31. Grey Wagtail (2014-07-12)
32. Common Teal (2014-07-13)
33. Black Kite (2014-07-20)
34. Spotted Flycatcher (2014-08-06)
35. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2014-08-06)
36. Barn Swallow (2014-08-10)
37. Black-headed Gull (2014-08-11)
38. Demoiselle Crane (2014-08-11)
39. Caspian Tern (2014-08-11)
40. Little Ringed Plover (2014-08-11)
41. Common Coot (2014-08-11)
42. Dalmatian Pelican (2014-08-11)
43. Pied Avocet (2014-08-11)
44. Ruff (2014-08-11)
45. Great Cormorant (2014-08-11)
46. Grey Heron (2014-08-11)
47. Greylag Goose (2014-08-17)
48. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2014-08-17)
49. Red-necked Phalarope (2014-08-25)
50. Eurasian Hobby (2014-08-28)
51. Great Tit (2014-09-06)
52. Lesser Whitethroat (2014-09-06)
53. Rook (2014-09-09)
54. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2014-09-21)
55. Black-throated Thrush (2014-09-21)
56. Common Chaffinch (2014-09-21)

recent uploads


2014-11-22. Bohemian Waxwing.

2014-09-22. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Black-throated Thrush, Common Chaffinch.

2014-09-11. Black Kite, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Tern.

2014-09-09. Rook.

2014-09-06. Siberian Stonechat, Great Tit, Mallard, Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher.

2014-09-01. Spotted Flycatcher.

2014-08-28. Eurasian Hobby.

2014-08-26. Pied Wheatear.

2014-08-25. Mallard, Red-necked Phalarope.

2014-08-24. Great Cormorant.

2014-08-23. Long-legged Buzzard, Black Kite, Greylag Goose, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Hybrid Shrike.

2014-08-18. Pallas's Sandgrouse, Northern Wheatear.

2014-08-15. Black-headed Gull.

2014-08-14. Bohemian Waxwing, Mallard, Mallard, White-Backed Woodpecker, Demoiselle Crane.

2014-08-13. Caspian Tern, Great Cormorant, Northern Lapwing, Great White Egret, Steppe Eagle, Ruff, Pied Avocet, Dalmatian Pelican, Common Coot, Masked Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover, Common Redshank, Barn Swallow, Grey Heron, Ruddy Shelduck, Great Crested Grebe, Yellow Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail.

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...