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total species: 32
total photos: 43
total videos: 0
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1. Barn Swallow (2025-04-09)
2. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-09)
3. Slender-billed Gull (2025-04-09)
4. Mallard (2025-04-09)
5. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-09)
6. Common Kestrel (2025-04-09)
7. House Sparrow (2025-04-09)
8. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-16)
9. Northern Wheatear (2025-05-04)
10. Woodchat Shrike (2025-05-04)
11. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-04)
12. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-05-04)
13. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-04)
14. Willow Warbler (2025-05-04)
15. Syke's Warbler (2025-05-04)
16. Whinchat (2025-05-04)
17. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-04)
18. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-10)
19. Crested Lark (2025-05-10)
20. European Nightjar (2025-05-10)
21. Rosy Starling (2025-05-10)
22. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-10)
23. Sandwich Tern (2025-05-10)
24. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-10)
25. Red-crested Pochard (2025-05-10)
26. Garganey (2025-05-10)
27. Glossy Ibis (2025-05-10)
28. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-05-10)
29. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-05-10)
30. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-10)
31. Common Shelduck (2025-05-10)
32. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-10)

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2025-05-27. Terek Sandpiper, Common Shelduck, Ruddy Turnstone, Crested Lark, Eurasian Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Glossy Ibis, Garganey, Red-crested Pochard, Black-winged Stilt, Sandwich Tern, Little Ringed Plover, Ortolan Bunting, Rosy Starling, Willow Warbler, European Nightjar, Crested Lark, Red-headed Bunting.

2025-05-04. Red-backed Shrike, Whinchat, Syke's Warbler, Willow Warbler, Whinchat, Little Ringed Plover, Black-Necked Grebe, Wood Sandpiper, Woodchat Shrike, Northern Wheatear.

2025-04-16. House Sparrow, Barn Swallow, Common Sandpiper, Slender-billed Gull, Mallard, Hybrid Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Common Kestrel, Wood Pigeon.

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...