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    total species: 32
    total photos: 99
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Water Pipit (2016-09-24)
    2. Common Sparrowhawk (2016-09-24)
    3. Yellow-billed Chough (2016-09-24)
    4. Eversmann's Redstart (2016-09-24)
    5. Black-throated Accentor (2016-09-24)
    6. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2016-09-24)
    7. Wallcreeper (2016-09-24)
    8. Carrion Crow (2016-09-24)
    9. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2016-09-24)
    10. Blue-capped Redstart (2016-09-24)
    11. Songar Tit (2016-09-24)
    12. Red Crossbill (2016-09-24)
    13. Coal Tit (2016-09-24)
    14. Black Redstart (2016-09-24)
    15. Black-throated Thrush (2016-09-24)
    16. Northern Wren (2016-09-24)
    17. Brown Accentor (2016-09-24)
    18. Spotted Nutcracker (2016-09-24)
    19. Plain Mountain Finch (2016-09-24)
    20. Ruddy Shelduck (2016-09-24)
    21. Common Kestrel (2016-09-24)
    22. Mistle Thrush (2016-09-24)
    23. Oriental Turtle Dove (2016-09-25)
    24. Hume's Warbler (2016-09-25)
    25. Chukar Partridge (2016-09-25)
    26. Black Kite (2016-09-27)
    27. Common Pheasant (2016-09-28)
    28. Masked Wagtail (2016-09-28)
    29. Blue Whistling Thrush (2016-09-28)
    30. Grey Wagtail (2016-09-28)
    31. Eurasian Magpie (2016-09-28)
    32. Booted Eagle (2016-09-28)

    recent uploads

    2016-09-29. Booted Eagle.

    2016-09-28. Ring-necked Pheasant, Masked Wagtail, Blue Whistling Thrush, Grey Wagtail, Eurasian Magpie.

    2016-09-27. Oriental Turtle Dove, Black Kite.

    2016-09-26. Black-throated Thrush, Brown Accentor, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Blue-capped Redstart, Songar Tit, Eversmann's Redstart, Red Crossbill, Coal Tit, Chukar Partridge, Hume's Warbler, Oriental Turtle Dove, Common Kestrel, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2016-09-24. Wallcreeper, Northern Wren, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Spotted Nutcracker, Mistle Thrush, Plain Mountain Finch, Ruddy Shelduck, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Turkestan Black Redstart, Brown Accentor, Black Redstart, Common Kestrel, Brown Accentor, Common Sparrowhawk, Yellow-billed Chough, Eversmann's Redstart, Common Sparrowhawk, Black-throated Accentor, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Water Pipit, Water Pipit, Carrion Crow.

    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...