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Gaviiformes
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    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
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  • Phalacrocoracidae
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  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
  • Charadriidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
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    • Columbiformes
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  • Motacillidae
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  • Paradoxornithidae
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    total species: 152
    total photos: 562
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Redwing (2025-01-06)
    2. Fieldfare (2025-01-06)
    3. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-07)
    4. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-07)
    5. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-07)
    6. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-10)
    7. Hooded Crow (2025-01-10)
    8. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-10)
    9. House Sparrow (2025-01-10)
    10. Great Tit (2025-01-10)
    11. Common Teal (2025-01-13)
    12. Mallard (2025-01-13)
    13. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-13)
    14. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-14)
    15. Hawfinch (2025-01-14)
    16. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-14)
    17. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-17)
    18. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-27)
    19. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-02-11)
    20. European Robin (2025-02-22)
    21. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-09)
    22. Common Raven (2025-03-14)
    23. Azure Tit (2025-03-14)
    24. Wood Pigeon (2025-03-26)
    25. Whooper Swan (2025-03-26)
    26. Sky Lark (2025-03-26)
    27. Rook (2025-03-26)
    28. Common Shelduck (2025-04-01)
    29. White Wagtail (2025-04-01)
    30. Common Redshank (2025-04-06)
    31. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-06)
    32. Common Coot (2025-04-06)
    33. Northern Lapwing (2025-04-06)
    34. Common Goldeneye (2025-04-06)
    35. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-06)
    36. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-14)
    38. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-14)
    39. Black-headed Gull (2025-04-14)
    40. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-14)
    41. Mute Swan (2025-04-15)
    42. Garganey (2025-04-15)
    43. Grey Heron (2025-04-15)
    44. Smew (2025-04-15)
    45. Tufted Duck (2025-04-15)
    46. Common Pochard (2025-04-15)
    47. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-04-15)
    48. Common Greenshank (2025-04-18)
    49. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-04-19)
    50. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-19)
    51. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-19)
    52. Common Starling (2025-04-19)
    53. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-19)
    54. Long-tailed Tit (2025-04-19)
    55. Black Kite (2025-04-19)
    56. European Greenfinch (2025-04-19)
    57. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-22)
    58. Greylag Goose (2025-04-22)
    59. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-22)
    60. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-22)
    61. Bean Goose (2025-04-24)
    62. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-24)
    63. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-24)
    64. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-25)
    65. Common Crane (2025-04-30)
    66. Gadwall (2025-04-30)
    67. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-30)
    68. Slavonian Grebe (2025-04-30)
    69. Bluethroat (2025-05-02)
    70. Ruff (2025-05-02)
    71. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-02)
    72. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-05)
    73. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-11)
    74. Booted Warbler (2025-05-14)
    75. Eurasian Redstart (2025-05-14)
    76. Garden Warbler (2025-05-15)
    77. Willow Warbler (2025-05-15)
    78. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-15)
    79. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-15)
    80. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-05-16)
    81. Great Crested Grebe (2025-05-16)
    82. Siberian Stonechat (2025-05-16)
    83. White-winged Tern (2025-05-17)
    84. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-18)
    85. Kentish Plover (2025-05-19)
    86. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-05-19)
    87. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-05-19)
    88. Little Stint (2025-05-19)
    89. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-19)
    90. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-05-19)
    91. Grey Plover (2025-05-21)
    92. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-21)
    93. Dunlin (2025-05-21)
    94. Little Gull (2025-05-21)
    95. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-21)
    96. Common Oystercatcher (2025-05-21)
    97. Hoopoe (2025-05-22)
    98. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-23)
    99. Little Bustard (2025-05-27)
    100. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-27)
    101. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-27)
    102. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-05-27)
    103. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-27)
    104. Sand Martin (2025-05-27)
    105. European Bee-eater (2025-05-27)
    106. Short-eared Owl (2025-05-29)
    107. Eurasian Linnet (2025-05-31)
    108. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-05-31)
    109. Barn Swallow (2025-05-31)
    110. Great Reed Warbler (2025-05-31)
    111. Long-eared Owl (2025-05-31)
    112. Yellowhammer (2025-06-03)
    113. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-06-07)
    114. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-06-09)
    115. Pallid Harrier (2025-06-18)
    116. Tree Pipit (2025-06-21)
    117. Common Rosefinch (2025-06-21)
    118. Eurasian Hobby (2025-06-21)
    119. Common Tern (2025-06-24)
    120. Black Tern (2025-06-24)
    121. Pied Avocet (2025-06-27)
    122. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-07-06)
    123. European Golden Oriole (2025-07-10)
    124. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-07-10)
    125. Eurasian Curlew (2025-07-21)
    126. Sanderling (2025-07-21)
    127. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-07-22)
    128. Common Snipe (2025-07-26)
    129. White-headed Duck (2025-07-26)
    130. Common Kestrel (2025-07-26)
    131. Common Kingfisher (2025-07-29)
    132. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-07-30)
    133. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-07-30)
    134. Grey Wagtail (2025-08-03)
    135. Sedge Warbler (2025-08-04)
    136. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-12)
    137. Great Cormorant (2025-08-14)
    138. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-08-21)
    139. Willow Tit (2025-09-04)
    140. Bewick's Swan (2025-09-13)
    141. Merlin (2025-09-13)
    142. Grey Partridge (2025-09-13)
    143. Common Treecreeper (2025-09-17)
    144. Northern Black Grouse (2025-09-18)
    145. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-10-04)
    146. Meadow Pipit (2025-10-09)
    147. Great White Egret (2025-10-20)
    148. Northern Pintail (2025-10-20)
    149. Blue Tit (2025-10-20)
    150. Northern Bullfinch (2025-10-28)
    151. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-12-18)
    152. Mistle Thrush (2025-12-28)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-28. Mistle Thrush, Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-12-18. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-12-08. Mute Swan.

    2025-11-05. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2025-11-04. Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2025-11-03. White-Backed Woodpecker, Smew, Mute Swan.

    2025-10-28. Northern Bullfinch.

    2025-10-20. Great White Egret, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Wigeon, Blue Tit.

    2025-10-16. Azure Tit, White-Backed Woodpecker, Dunlin.

    2025-10-13. White-Backed Woodpecker, Mallard, Merlin, Little Stint.

    2025-10-09. Meadow Pipit, Northern Wheatear.

    2025-10-04. Red-breasted Merganser.

    2025-10-03. Grey Plover, Ruff, Dunlin.

    2025-09-18. Northern Black Grouse.

    2025-09-17. Common Treecreeper.

    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...