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Gaviiformes
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    total species: 101
    total photos: 125
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-10)
    2. Common Coot (2024-01-11)
    3. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-11)
    4. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-15)
    5. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-15)
    6. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-15)
    7. Common Buzzard (2024-01-15)
    8. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-15)
    9. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-16)
    10. Little Owl (2024-01-16)
    11. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-17)
    12. Common Kestrel (2024-01-17)
    13. Common Starling (2024-01-19)
    14. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-25)
    15. Common Pheasant (2024-02-01)
    16. Common Crane (2024-02-04)
    17. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-10)
    18. Turkestan Tit (2024-02-12)
    19. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-12)
    20. Mute Swan (2024-02-13)
    21. Great Cormorant (2024-02-15)
    22. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-02-25)
    23. Great White Egret (2024-02-25)
    24. White Stork (2024-02-29)
    25. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-05)
    26. White Wagtail (2024-03-05)
    27. Merlin (2024-03-05)
    28. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-05)
    29. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2024-03-06)
    30. Finsch's Wheatear (2024-03-06)
    31. Steppe Eagle (2024-03-06)
    32. Gadwall (2024-03-06)
    33. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-03-06)
    34. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-03-10)
    35. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-10)
    36. Chukar Partridge (2024-03-10)
    37. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-17)
    38. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-17)
    39. Black Stork (2024-03-17)
    40. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-17)
    41. Demoiselle Crane (2024-03-17)
    42. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-17)
    43. Ruff (2024-03-17)
    44. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-03-17)
    45. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-03-17)
    46. Crested Lark (2024-03-18)
    47. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-18)
    48. Little Bustard (2024-03-28)
    49. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-03-28)
    50. Eurasian Curlew (2024-03-28)
    51. Black Redstart (2024-03-29)
    52. Egyptian Vulture (2024-03-29)
    53. Barn Swallow (2024-03-29)
    54. Rock Pigeon (2024-03-29)
    55. Caspian Gull (2024-03-29)
    56. Montagu's Harrier (2024-03-29)
    57. Hoopoe (2024-03-29)
    58. Common Redshank (2024-04-02)
    59. Kentish Plover (2024-04-02)
    60. Common Mynah (2024-04-02)
    61. Common Teal (2024-04-02)
    62. Golden Eagle (2024-04-02)
    63. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-02)
    64. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-03)
    65. Jack Snipe (2024-04-04)
    66. Osprey (2024-04-04)
    67. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-04-04)
    68. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-04)
    69. Desert Finch (2024-04-04)
    70. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-04)
    71. Variable Wheatear (2024-04-10)
    72. Pied Avocet (2024-04-10)
    73. Purple Heron (2024-04-10)
    74. Collared Pratincole (2024-04-22)
    75. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-22)
    76. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-22)
    77. Common Moorhen (2024-04-23)
    78. Turkestan Shrike (2024-04-23)
    79. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-04-23)
    80. Ortolan Bunting (2024-04-23)
    81. Upcher's Warbler (2024-04-23)
    82. Menetries Warbler (2024-04-24)
    83. Little Stint (2024-04-28)
    84. Shikra (2024-04-30)
    85. European Bee-eater (2024-04-30)
    86. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-01)
    87. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-15)
    88. Bluethroat (2024-05-15)
    89. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-05-15)
    90. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-15)
    91. European Nightjar (2024-05-15)
    92. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-05-16)
    93. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-05-19)
    94. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-05-24)
    95. Glossy Ibis (2024-07-20)
    96. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-08-15)
    97. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-08-16)
    98. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-08-16)
    99. Brown-necked Raven (2024-08-16)
    100. Wood Sandpiper (2024-08-16)
    101. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-08-20)

    recent uploads

    2024-08-26. Black-crowned Night Heron, Eurasian Stone Curlew, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Collared Pratincole.

    2024-08-19. Northern Lapwing, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Eurasian Spoonbill, Purple Heron, Brown-necked Raven, Shikra, Great White Egret, Long-tailed Shrike, Wood Sandpiper.

    2024-07-22. Glossy Ibis.

    2024-05-24. Red-necked Phalarope.

    2024-05-21. Macqueen's Bustard, Spotted Flycatcher, Bluethroat, Grey-necked Bunting, Greenish Warbler, European Nightjar, Eurasian Stone Curlew.

    2024-05-06. European Bee-eater, Hoopoe.

    2024-05-03. Shikra, Eurasian Curlew, Eurasian Roller.

    2024-04-29. Little Stint.

    2024-04-26. Common Moorhen, Turkestan Shrike, Steppe Grey Shrike, Menetries Warbler, Collared Pratincole, Yellow Wagtail, Ortolan Bunting, Common Sandpiper, Upcher's Warbler.

    2024-04-16. Pied Avocet, Siberian Stonechat, Purple Heron.

    2024-04-15. Variable Wheatear, Common Starling.

    2024-04-14. Black-winged Stilt.

    2024-04-09. Golden Eagle.

    2024-04-05. Common Mynah, Steppe Buzzard, Desert Finch, Siberian Stonechat, Black Redstart, Northern Wheatear, Common Teal.

    2024-04-04. Jack Snipe, Osprey, White-tailed Lapwing, Common Redshank, Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover.

    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...