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    total species: 33
    total photos: 66
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Spotted Nutcracker (2019-10-05)
    2. Rook (2019-10-05)
    3. Brown Accentor (2019-10-05)
    4. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2019-10-05)
    5. Brambling (2019-10-05)
    6. Eversmann's Redstart (2019-10-05)
    7. Carrion Crow (2019-10-05)
    8. Black-throated Accentor (2019-10-05)
    9. Plain Mountain Finch (2019-10-05)
    10. Northern Goshawk (2019-10-05)
    11. Eurasian Crag Martin (2019-10-05)
    12. Bluethroat (2019-10-05)
    13. Coal Tit (2019-10-05)
    14. Yellow-billed Chough (2019-10-05)
    15. Wallcreeper (2019-10-05)
    16. Lammergeier (2019-10-05)
    17. Common Chiffchaff (2019-10-05)
    18. Hume's Warbler (2019-10-05)
    19. Common Sparrowhawk (2019-10-05)
    20. Hen Harrier (2019-10-06)
    21. Cinereous Vulture (2019-10-06)
    22. Common Kestrel (2019-10-06)
    23. Golden Eagle (2019-10-06)
    24. Blue-capped Redstart (2019-10-06)
    25. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2019-10-06)
    26. Black-throated Thrush (2019-10-06)
    27. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2019-10-06)
    28. Eastern Buzzard (2019-10-06)
    29. Eurasian Magpie (2019-10-06)
    30. Hooded Crow (2019-10-06)
    31. Rock Bunting (2019-10-06)
    32. Common Pheasant (2019-10-06)
    33. Barn Swallow (2019-10-06)

    recent uploads

    2019-10-08. Common Kestrel, Eversmann's Redstart, Black-throated Thrush, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Pheasant.

    2019-10-07. Hen Harrier, Cinereous Vulture, Common Kestrel, Brambling, Golden Eagle, Blue-capped Redstart, Eversmann's Redstart, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Blue-capped Redstart.

    2019-10-06. Barn Swallow, Black-throated Thrush, Common Pheasant, Rock Bunting, Hooded Crow, Common Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Magpie, Eastern Buzzard, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Common Sparrowhawk, Northern Goshawk, Unkown Bird, Northern Goshawk.

    2019-10-05. Rook, Spotted Nutcracker, Yellow-billed Chough, Wallcreeper, Lammergeier, Common Chiffchaff, Brown Accentor, Common Chiffchaff, Hume's Warbler, Hume's Warbler, Eversmann's Redstart, Common Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit, Common Sparrowhawk, Bluethroat, Northern Goshawk, Eurasian Crag Martin, Northern Goshawk, Plain Mountain Finch, Black-throated Accentor, Carrion Crow, Eversmann's Redstart, Brambling, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Brown Accentor.

    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...