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    total species: 96
    total photos: 138
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Hooded Crow (2022-01-15)
    2. Green Sandpiper (2022-01-20)
    3. Upland Buzzard (2022-01-25)
    4. Common Chaffinch (2022-01-25)
    5. Common Kingfisher (2022-01-28)
    6. Common Crane (2022-02-03)
    7. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-02-03)
    8. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-02-03)
    9. Spanish Sparrow (2022-02-03)
    10. Merlin (2022-02-03)
    11. Crested Lark (2022-02-03)
    12. Whooper Swan (2022-02-03)
    13. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-02-03)
    14. Smew (2022-02-03)
    15. Common Coot (2022-02-03)
    16. Common Kestrel (2022-02-03)
    17. Bewick's Swan (2022-02-03)
    18. Great Grey Shrike (2022-02-03)
    19. Common Starling (2022-02-04)
    20. Mallard (2022-02-04)
    21. Red-crested Pochard (2022-02-04)
    22. Great Crested Grebe (2022-02-04)
    23. Great White Egret (2022-02-05)
    24. Rock Pigeon (2022-02-06)
    25. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-02-06)
    26. Common Mynah (2022-02-06)
    27. Turkestan Tit (2022-02-06)
    28. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-02-06)
    29. Rook (2022-02-06)
    30. Laughing Dove (2022-02-06)
    31. House Sparrow (2022-02-06)
    32. Mute Swan (2022-02-07)
    33. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-02-09)
    34. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-02-10)
    35. Little Owl (2022-02-10)
    36. Long-eared Owl (2022-02-10)
    37. Common Pheasant (2022-02-16)
    38. Goosander (2022-03-02)
    39. White Stork (2022-03-04)
    40. Calandra Lark (2022-03-10)
    41. Caspian Gull (2022-03-10)
    42. Short-eared Owl (2022-03-11)
    43. Common Oystercatcher (2022-03-12)
    44. Masked Wagtail (2022-03-15)
    45. Citrine Wagtail (2022-03-21)
    46. Hoopoe (2022-03-21)
    47. Ruff (2022-03-21)
    48. Common Swift (2022-03-21)
    49. Yellow Wagtail (2022-03-21)
    50. White Wagtail (2022-03-21)
    51. Demoiselle Crane (2022-03-21)
    52. Black-winged Stilt (2022-03-21)
    53. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-21)
    54. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2022-03-25)
    55. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-03-30)
    56. Isabelline Shrike (2022-03-30)
    57. Black Redstart (2022-03-30)
    58. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2022-03-30)
    59. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-30)
    60. Eurasian Curlew (2022-03-30)
    61. Slender-billed Gull (2022-04-06)
    62. Common Chiffchaff (2022-04-06)
    63. Turkestan Shrike (2022-04-06)
    64. Barn Swallow (2022-04-07)
    65. Pied Avocet (2022-04-07)
    66. Northern Lapwing (2022-04-11)
    67. Glossy Ibis (2022-04-14)
    68. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-04-17)
    69. Purple Heron (2022-04-25)
    70. Eurasian Spoonbill (2022-04-25)
    71. Common Teal (2022-04-28)
    72. Spotted Redshank (2022-04-28)
    73. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-28)
    74. Little Tern (2022-04-28)
    75. Lesser Sand Plover (2022-04-28)
    76. Rosy Starling (2022-04-28)
    77. Bluethroat (2022-04-29)
    78. Siberian Stonechat (2022-04-29)
    79. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2022-04-29)
    80. Booted Eagle (2022-04-29)
    81. Red-headed Bunting (2022-04-29)
    82. European Bee-eater (2022-04-29)
    83. Eurasian Redstart (2022-04-29)
    84. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-03)
    85. Common Greenshank (2022-05-03)
    86. Griffon Vulture (2022-05-03)
    87. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-11)
    88. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-11)
    89. Collared Pratincole (2022-05-15)
    90. Common Redshank (2022-05-15)
    91. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-15)
    92. Great White Pelican (2022-05-16)
    93. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-05-16)
    94. Ferruginous Duck (2022-05-16)
    95. Shikra (2022-05-18)
    96. Greater Spotted Eagle (2022-07-22)

    recent uploads

    2022-10-07. Greater Spotted Eagle.

    2022-08-01. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse.

    2022-05-20. Common Oystercatcher.

    2022-05-19. Shikra.

    2022-05-17. Great White Pelican, Purple Heron, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-crowned Night Heron, Red-crested Pochard, Ferruginous Duck, Collared Pratincole, Common Redshank, Common Cuckoo.

    2022-05-12. Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Grey Shrike, Common Rosefinch.

    2022-05-06. Common Greenshank, Griffon Vulture.

    2022-05-05. Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Common Rosefinch, Booted Eagle, White Stork.

    2022-04-29. Common Teal, Spotted Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Little Tern, Lesser Sand Plover, Rosy Starling, Bluethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Eurasian Stone Curlew, Booted Eagle, Red-headed Bunting, European Bee-eater, Eurasian Redstart.

    2022-04-26. Purple Heron, Black-winged Stilt, Eurasian Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis.

    2022-04-18. Common Pheasant, Northern Lapwing, Red-rumped Swallow.

    2022-04-15. Black-winged Stilt, Barn Swallow, Pied Avocet.

    2022-04-14. Glossy Ibis.

    2022-04-08. Slender-billed Gull, Common Chiffchaff, Western Marsh-Harrier, Turkestan Shrike.

    2022-04-02. House Sparrow.

    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...