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    total species: 148
    total photos: 500
    total videos: 0
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    1. Mallard (2022-01-17)
    2. Fieldfare (2022-01-17)
    3. Northern Bullfinch (2022-01-17)
    4. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-21)
    5. Horned Lark (2022-03-03)
    6. Snow Bunting (2022-03-03)
    7. Hooded Crow (2022-03-09)
    8. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-03-18)
    9. Rook (2022-03-18)
    10. Great Tit (2022-03-24)
    11. Tree Sparrow (2022-04-01)
    12. Common Starling (2022-04-01)
    13. Common Goldeneye (2022-04-11)
    14. Common Shelduck (2022-04-11)
    15. Tufted Duck (2022-04-11)
    16. Mute Swan (2022-04-12)
    17. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-12)
    18. Common Oystercatcher (2022-04-21)
    19. Northern Lapwing (2022-04-22)
    20. Great White Egret (2022-04-22)
    21. Smew (2022-04-22)
    22. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-04-22)
    23. Red-Necked Grebe (2022-04-22)
    24. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-22)
    25. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-22)
    26. Common Redshank (2022-04-22)
    27. Pied Avocet (2022-04-22)
    28. White Wagtail (2022-04-22)
    29. Red-crested Pochard (2022-04-22)
    30. Citrine Wagtail (2022-04-22)
    31. Grey Heron (2022-04-22)
    32. Garganey (2022-04-22)
    33. Common Teal (2022-04-22)
    34. Bewick's Swan (2022-04-25)
    35. Whooper Swan (2022-04-25)
    36. Common Crane (2022-04-25)
    37. Bean Goose (2022-04-25)
    39. Great Cormorant (2022-04-25)
    40. Gadwall (2022-04-29)
    41. Common Greenshank (2022-05-02)
    42. Ruff (2022-05-02)
    43. Slavonian Grebe (2022-05-02)
    44. House Sparrow (2022-05-03)
    45. Yellow Wagtail (2022-05-05)
    46. Baraba Steppe Gull (2022-05-05)
    47. Northern Shoveler (2022-05-05)
    48. Common Pochard (2022-05-05)
    49. Wood Sandpiper (2022-05-06)
    50. Little Ringed Plover (2022-05-06)
    51. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-05-06)
    52. Eurasian Whimbrel (2022-05-06)
    53. Little Bustard (2022-05-06)
    54. Siberian Stonechat (2022-05-07)
    55. Terek Sandpiper (2022-05-12)
    56. Temminck's Stint (2022-05-12)
    57. Common Sandpiper (2022-05-12)
    58. Spotted Redshank (2022-05-12)
    59. Great Crested Grebe (2022-05-12)
    60. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-05-12)
    61. Grey Plover (2022-05-12)
    62. Sky Lark (2022-05-13)
    63. Eurasian Hobby (2022-05-14)
    64. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-05-14)
    65. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-05-17)
    66. Black-headed Gull (2022-05-17)
    67. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-18)
    68. Bluethroat (2022-05-18)
    69. Common Kestrel (2022-05-18)
    70. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-05-18)
    71. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-05-18)
    72. Eurasian Magpie (2022-05-18)
    73. European Golden Oriole (2022-05-18)
    74. Booted Warbler (2022-05-18)
    75. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-18)
    76. Long-eared Owl (2022-05-19)
    77. Common Chiffchaff (2022-05-19)
    78. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-05-21)
    79. Dunlin (2022-05-21)
    80. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-05-21)
    81. Little Stint (2022-05-21)
    82. Bar-tailed Godwit (2022-05-21)
    83. Greenish Warbler (2022-05-22)
    84. Willow Warbler (2022-05-22)
    85. European Bee-eater (2022-05-25)
    86. Barn Swallow (2022-05-25)
    87. Sand Martin (2022-05-25)
    88. Great Reed Warbler (2022-05-27)
    89. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-27)
    90. Common Chaffinch (2022-05-27)
    91. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-27)
    92. Barred Warbler (2022-05-27)
    93. Yellowhammer (2022-05-27)
    94. Common Quail (2022-05-27)
    95. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-05-31)
    96. Tree Pipit (2022-06-01)
    97. Ural Owl (2022-06-01)
    98. Black Woodpecker (2022-06-01)
    99. White-Backed Woodpecker (2022-06-01)
    100. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-06-01)
    101. Black Kite (2022-06-03)
    102. Wood Pigeon (2022-06-03)
    103. Common Cuckoo (2022-06-03)
    104. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-06-03)
    105. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-06-03)
    106. Common Tern (2022-06-04)
    107. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-06-05)
    108. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-06-06)
    109. Black-winged Pratincole (2022-06-06)
    110. Ortolan Bunting (2022-06-06)
    111. White-winged Tern (2022-06-07)
    112. Demoiselle Crane (2022-06-08)
    113. Eurasian Redstart (2022-06-08)
    114. Garden Warbler (2022-06-11)
    115. Common Raven (2022-06-12)
    116. Green Sandpiper (2022-06-20)
    117. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-07-09)
    118. Kentish Plover (2022-07-09)
    119. Greylag Goose (2022-07-11)
    120. Sanderling (2022-07-20)
    121. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-07-20)
    122. Pallid Harrier (2022-07-29)
    123. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-07-30)
    124. Common Buzzard (2022-07-30)
    125. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-07-30)
    126. Hoopoe (2022-08-04)
    127. White-headed Duck (2022-08-09)
    128. Cetti's Warbler (2022-08-11)
    129. Azure Tit (2022-08-11)
    130. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-08-11)
    131. Icterine Warbler (2022-08-11)
    132. Merlin (2022-08-17)
    133. Red-throated Pipit (2022-09-01)
    134. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-09-01)
    135. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-09-09)
    136. Lapland Longspur (2022-09-19)
    137. Bearded Tit (2022-09-21)
    138. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-09-21)
    139. Steppe Eagle (2022-09-21)
    140. Willow Tit (2022-09-21)
    141. Stock Pigeon (2022-09-28)
    142. Grey Partridge (2022-10-04)
    143. Eurasian Jay (2022-10-07)
    144. Eurasian Siskin (2022-10-27)
    145. Siberian Accentor (2022-10-28)
    146. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-10-28)
    147. Bohemian Waxwing (2022-11-10)
    148. Common Redpoll (2022-12-26)

    recent uploads

    2022-12-26. Common Redpoll.

    2022-12-21. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2022-12-10. Eurasian Siskin, Bohemian Waxwing, Mallard.

    2022-11-10. Bohemian Waxwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Sparrow.

    2022-10-31. Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2022-10-28. Siberian Accentor, Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Goldfinch.

    2022-10-27. Eurasian Siskin.

    2022-10-24. Greylag Goose.

    2022-10-10. Bewick's Swan.

    2022-10-07. Eurasian Jay, Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2022-10-04. Grey Partridge.

    2022-09-28. Stock Pigeon.

    2022-09-22. White-Backed Woodpecker.

    2022-09-21. Bearded Tit, Northern Reed Bunting, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Steppe Eagle, Willow Tit, Mute Swan.

    2022-09-19. Lapland Longspur, Red-throated Pipit, White 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...

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    Great Cormorant
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    2025-08-31
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    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
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    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
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    2025-01-07
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    2024-08-03
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    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

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    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Blyth's reed warbler ( Acrocephalus Dometurum )
    more unidentified birds...