Belyaev Alexandr. Birds of Kazakhstan

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509 photographed species of 532 (95%)

found 32 new species for Kazakhstan

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Gaviiformes

Podicipediformes

Pelecaniformes

Phalacrocoracidae

Ciconiiformes

Threskiornithidae

Phoenicopteriformes

Phoenicopteridae

Anseriformes

Falconiformes

Galliformes

Gruiformes

Charadriiformes

Recurvirostridae

Pterocletiformes

Columbiformes

Cuculiformes

Strigiformes

Caprimulgiformes

Apodiformes

Coraciiformes

Upupiformes

Piciformes

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Paradoxornithidae

Belyaev Alexandr

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total species: 254 total photos: 706 total videos: 0 total blogposts: 1

1. Bearded Tit (2024-01-02)

2. Northern Wren (2024-01-02)

3. Common Teal (2024-01-02)

4. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-02-03)

5. Mallard (2024-02-03)

6. Common Pochard (2024-02-03)

7. Red-crested Pochard (2024-02-03)

8. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-02-03)

9. Smew (2024-02-03)

10. Common Goldeneye (2024-02-03)

11. Great White Egret (2024-02-03)

12. Eurasian Siskin (2024-02-03)

13. Common Kestrel (2024-02-03)

14. Stock Pigeon (2024-02-03)

15. Brambling (2024-02-03)

16. Mistle Thrush (2024-02-03)

17. European Robin (2024-02-03)

18. Upland Buzzard (2024-02-03)

19. Eastern Buzzard (2024-02-03)

20. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-02-03)

21. Hooded Crow (2024-02-03)

22. Northern Bullfinch (2024-02-04)

23. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-02-04)

24. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-04)

25. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-04)

26. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-02-04)

27. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-02-04)

28. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-02-04)

29. Redwing (2024-02-10)

30. Peregrine Falcon (2024-02-10)

31. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-02-11)

32. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-02-11)

33. Ferruginous Duck (2024-02-11)

34. Fieldfare (2024-03-10)

35. Gadwall (2024-03-10)

36. Common Coot (2024-03-10)

37. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-03-10)

38. European Greenfinch (2024-03-10)

39. Azure Tit (2024-03-10)

40. Northern Pintail (2024-03-10)

41. Goosander (2024-03-10)

42. Grey Heron (2024-03-10)

43. Northern Shoveler (2024-03-16)

44. Tufted Duck (2024-03-16)

45. Long-tailed Tit (2024-03-16)

46. Turkestan Tit (2024-03-16)

47. Hen Harrier (2024-03-16)

48. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-03-16)

49. Calandra Lark (2024-03-17)

50. Sky Lark (2024-03-17)

51. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-03-17)

52. Steppe Eagle (2024-03-17)

53. Chukar Partridge (2024-03-17)

54. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-17)

55. Water Pipit (2024-03-17)

56. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-03-22)

57. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-22)

58. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-22)

59. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-03-22)

60. Hoopoe (2024-03-22)

61. Garganey (2024-03-22)

62. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-22)

63. Little Ringed Plover (2024-03-22)

64. Common Shelduck (2024-03-22)

65. Bewick's Swan (2024-03-22)

66. Whooper Swan (2024-03-22)

67. Pied Avocet (2024-03-22)

68. Common Redshank (2024-03-22)

69. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-22)

70. Great Crested Grebe (2024-03-22)

71. Turkestan Shrike (2024-03-22)

72. Mute Swan (2024-03-22)

73. Greylag Goose (2024-03-22)

74. Common Starling (2024-03-22)

75. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-22)

76. Black Redstart (2024-03-22)

77. Rock Bunting (2024-03-22)

78. Eurasian Linnet (2024-03-22)

79. Desert Finch (2024-03-22)

80. House Sparrow (2024-03-22)

81. Spanish Sparrow (2024-03-22)

82. Pallas's Gull (2024-03-22)

83. Crested Lark (2024-03-23)

84. Northern Wheatear (2024-03-23)

85. Little Bustard (2024-03-23)

86. Bimaculated Lark (2024-03-23)

87. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-23)

88. Northern Lapwing (2024-03-23)

89. Caspian Gull (2024-03-23)

90. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-24)

91. Black-throated Accentor (2024-03-24)

92. Black Kite (2024-03-24)

93. Tree Sparrow (2024-03-24)

94. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-24)

95. Tawny Pipit (2024-03-24)

96. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-24)

97. Rock Pigeon (2024-03-24)

98. Pine Bunting (2024-03-24)

99. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-03-31)

100. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-03-31)

101. Great Tit (2024-03-31)

102. Siberian Stonechat (2024-03-31)

103. Bluethroat (2024-03-31)

104. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-03-31)

105. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-31)

106. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-03-31)

107. Great Cormorant (2024-03-31)

108. Alpine Swift (2024-03-31)

109. Common Pheasant (2024-03-31)

110. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-03-31)

111. Eurasian Magpie (2024-03-31)

112. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-06)

113. Common Moorhen (2024-04-06)

114. Little Grebe (2024-04-06)

115. Cetti's Warbler (2024-04-06)

116. Common Chaffinch (2024-04-06)

117. White Wagtail (2024-04-06)

118. Hawfinch (2024-04-13)

119. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-04-13)

120. Black Stork (2024-04-13)

121. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-13)

122. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-04-13)

123. Lesser Kestrel (2024-04-13)

124. Barn Swallow (2024-04-13)

125. Grey Wagtail (2024-04-14)

126. Hume's Warbler (2024-04-14)

127. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-04-14)

128. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-04-20)

129. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-20)

130. Pale Sand Martin (2024-04-20)

131. Red-rumped Swallow (2024-04-20)

132. Savi's Warbler (2024-04-21)

133. Common Tern (2024-04-21)

134. Gull-billed Tern (2024-04-21)

135. Common Nightingale (2024-04-28)

136. Tree Pipit (2024-04-28)

137. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-04-28)

138. Shikra (2024-04-28)

139. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-04-28)

140. Eurasian Roller (2024-04-28)

141. Sand Martin (2024-04-30)

142. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-05-01)

143. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2024-05-01)

144. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-01)

145. Ibisbill (2024-05-05)

146. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-05)

147. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-05)

148. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-05)

149. Carrion Crow (2024-05-05)

150. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-05)

151. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2024-05-07)

152. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-07)

153. Barred Warbler (2024-05-07)

154. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-07)

155. Ortolan Bunting (2024-05-07)

156. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-05-07)

157. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-07)

158. Common Kingfisher (2024-05-07)

159. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-05-07)

160. Greater Sand Plover (2024-05-07)

161. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-07)

162. Rosy Starling (2024-05-07)

163. Indian Sparrow (2024-05-07)

164. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-07)

165. European Bee-eater (2024-05-07)

166. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2024-05-07)

167. Pallid Scops Owl (2024-05-07)

168. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-08)

169. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-05-08)

170. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-08)

171. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-08)

172. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-05-08)

173. Yellow Wagtail (2024-05-08)

174. Golden Eagle (2024-05-09)

175. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-05-09)

176. White-capped Bunting (2024-05-09)

177. Northern House Martin (2024-05-09)

178. Mongolian Finch (2024-05-09)

179. Rock Sparrow (2024-05-09)

180. Little Owl (2024-05-09)

181. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-05-09)

182. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-05-09)

183. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-05-09)

184. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-05-09)

185. Indian Golden Oriole (2024-05-09)

186. Red-fronted Serin (2024-05-10)

187. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-05-10)

188. Himalayan Rubythroat (2024-05-10)

189. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-05-10)

190. Brown Accentor (2024-05-10)

191. Red-billed Chough (2024-05-10)

192. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-05-10)

193. White-headed Duck (2024-05-11)

194. Little Bittern (2024-05-11)

195. Great White Pelican (2024-05-11)

196. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-05-11)

197. Eurasian Curlew (2024-05-11)

198. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-05-11)

199. Common Greenshank (2024-05-11)

200. Spotted Redshank (2024-05-11)

201. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-11)

202. Little Stint (2024-05-11)

203. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-05-11)

204. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-11)

205. White-winged Tern (2024-05-11)

206. Lesser Sand Plover (2024-05-11)

207. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-05-11)

208. Great Reed Warbler (2024-05-18)

209. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-18)

210. Kentish Plover (2024-05-23)

211. Little Tern (2024-05-24)

212. Sanderling (2024-05-25)

213. Caspian Tern (2024-05-25)

214. Booted Warbler (2024-05-27)

215. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-05-27)

216. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-05-29)

217. Desert Wheatear (2024-05-29)

218. Black Lark (2024-05-30)

219. European Golden Oriole (2024-06-08)

220. Willow Warbler (2024-06-12)

221. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-06-14)

222. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-06-14)

223. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-06-14)

224. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-06-14)

225. Coal Tit (2024-06-14)

226. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (2024-06-15)

227. Common Buzzard (2024-06-15)

228. Olive-backed Pipit (2024-06-15)

229. Dusky Warbler (2024-06-15)

230. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-06-15)

231. Demoiselle Crane (2024-06-16)

232. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2024-06-16)

233. Great Grey Shrike (2024-06-16)

234. Red-backed Shrike (2024-06-17)

235. Water Rail (2024-06-23)

236. Montagu's Harrier (2024-08-30)

237. Pallid Harrier (2024-08-30)

238. Common Mynah (2024-08-31)

239. Booted Eagle (2024-08-31)

240. Ruff (2024-09-08)

241. Grey Plover (2024-09-08)

242. Wood Sandpiper (2024-09-08)

243. Common Snipe (2024-09-08)

244. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-08)

245. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-09-08)

246. Collared Pratincole (2024-09-14)

247. Slavonian Grebe (2024-09-14)

248. Dunlin (2024-09-14)

249. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-09-14)

250. Pacific Golden Plover (2024-09-14)

251. Red-throated Pipit (2024-10-06)

252. Yellowhammer (2024-10-06)

253. Naumann's Thrush (2024-12-15)

254. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-12-22)

recent uploads

2024-12-25. Bearded Tit, White-winged Grosbeak, Common Kestrel, Great Grey Shrike, Long-tailed Tit.

2024-12-17. Naumann's Thrush.

2024-10-19. Northern Wren, Northern Wren, Common Chiffchaff.

2024-10-08. Common Sparrowhawk, Common Sparrowhawk, White-Winged Woodpecker, Black-throated Accentor, Black-throated Accentor, Bluethroat, Oriental Turtle Dove, Desert Wheatear, Water Pipit, Water Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Steppe Eagle, Yellowhammer.

2024-10-07. Common Chaffinch, Common Chiffchaff, Lesser Whitethroat, Long-tailed Tit, Long-legged Buzzard, Cetti's Warbler, White Wagtail, Ibisbill, Black Redstart, Eastern Rock Nuthatch.

2024-10-02. Ortolan Bunting, Caspian Gull, Grey Plover, Dalmatian Pelican, Common Redshank, Booted Warbler, Collared Pratincole, Northern Lapwing, Little Bustard, Little Stint, Little Stint, Little Stint, Little Stint, Kentish Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Red-necked Phalarope, Greater Short-toed Lark, Common Kingfisher, Unkown Bird, Wood Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Pied Avocet, Temminck's Stint, Yellow Wagtail, Slavonian Grebe, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Common Tern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-Necked Grebe, Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, Ruff, Little Stint, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Little Stint, Peregrine Falcon, Crested Lark, Marsh Sandpiper, Pacific Golden Plover.

2024-09-25. Common Snipe, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Black Stork, Black-headed Gull, Black-crowned Night Heron, Wood Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, Pied Avocet, Dalmatian Pelican, Red-necked Phalarope, Whooper Swan, Common Starling, Eurasian Curlew, Common Greenshank, Lesser Kestrel, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull.

2024-09-19. Great Cormorant, Sanderling, Kentish Plover, Ruff, Black-headed Gull, Grey Plover, Little Stint, Temminck's Stint, Eurasian Curlew, Ruddy Shelduck, Kentish Plover, Great Cormorant, White Wagtail, Black-Necked Grebe, Yellow Wagtail, Black-winged Stilt, Wood Sandpiper, Sanderling, Yellow Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Oriental Turtle Dove.

2024-09-17. Common Chiffchaff, Common Rosefinch, Oriental Turtle Dove, Turkestan Shrike, Booted Eagle.

2024-09-06. Lesser Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, Hume's Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, Montagu's Harrier, Pallid Harrier, Northern Wheatear, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Chukar Partridge, Siberian Stonechat, Tawny Pipit, Common Sparrowhawk, Pied Wheatear, Daurian Shrike, Common Mynah, Calandra Lark, Shikra, Booted Eagle, Calandra Lark, Great Tit, Isabelline Shrike, Crested Lark, Tawny Pipit.

2024-09-05. Clamorous Reed Warbler, Citrine Wagtail, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Masked Wagtail.

2024-08-12. Greenish Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Booted Warbler, Booted Warbler.

2024-08-08. Great Reed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler, Bearded Tit, Great Reed Warbler, European Bee-eater, Cetti's Warbler.

2024-07-03. Common Rosefinch, Black Redstart, Ortolan Bunting, European Greenfinch, Eurasian Linnet, Siberian Stonechat, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Olive-backed Pipit, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Pine Bunting, Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, Ortolan Bunting, Black Stork, Black Stork, Willow Warbler.

2024-06-28. Tree Pipit, Water Pipit.

Big Year 2026

1. Qanatbek Kenzhegulov (287)
2. Galym Baitimbet (241)
3. Zhaskairat Ermek (240)
4. Nikita Kanunnikov (213)
5. Aizhan Baitimbet (212)
6. Gennadiy Dyakin (204)
7. Sirimbet Zharilkasin (196)
8. Vladimir Muravskiy (196)
9. Gani Nazarbek (161)
10. Andrey Kovalenko (153)

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.

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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)

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...