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    total species: 48
    total photos: 50
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Crested Lark (2025-01-10)
    2. Hooded Crow (2025-02-05)
    3. Steppe Eagle (2025-02-12)
    4. Wallcreeper (2025-02-20)
    5. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-02-20)
    6. Red-crested Pochard (2025-02-20)
    7. Masked Wagtail (2025-02-22)
    8. Turkestan Tit (2025-02-22)
    9. White Wagtail (2025-02-25)
    10. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-02-26)
    11. Little Owl (2025-02-26)
    12. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-04)
    13. Hen Harrier (2025-03-04)
    14. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-03-04)
    15. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-08)
    16. Common Chaffinch (2025-03-10)
    17. Greylag Goose (2025-03-10)
    18. Mute Swan (2025-03-11)
    19. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-03-12)
    20. Stock Pigeon (2025-03-12)
    21. Variable Wheatear (2025-03-12)
    22. Osprey (2025-03-12)
    23. Corn Bunting (2025-03-12)
    24. Greater Sand Plover (2025-03-12)
    25. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-03-12)
    26. Little Bustard (2025-03-12)
    27. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-17)
    28. Hoopoe (2025-03-17)
    29. Common Mynah (2025-03-17)
    30. Rook (2025-03-17)
    31. Common Redshank (2025-03-19)
    32. Mallard (2025-03-19)
    33. Black Redstart (2025-03-19)
    34. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-03-19)
    35. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-03-19)
    36. Common Starling (2025-03-19)
    37. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-03-23)
    38. Turkestan Shrike (2025-03-23)
    39. White Stork (2025-03-26)
    40. Great White Pelican (2025-03-27)
    41. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-03-27)
    42. Demoiselle Crane (2025-03-28)
    43. Common Oystercatcher (2025-03-28)
    44. Pied Avocet (2025-03-28)
    45. Glossy Ibis (2025-03-28)
    46. Great Crested Grebe (2025-03-29)
    47. Desert Finch (2025-03-30)
    48. Common Crane (2025-11-13)

    recent uploads

    2025-11-16. Common Crane.

    2025-03-30. Desert Finch.

    2025-03-29. Greater Short-toed Lark, Turkestan Shrike, White Stork, Great Crested Grebe, Great White Pelican, White-tailed Lapwing, Demoiselle Crane, Common Oystercatcher, Pied Avocet, Glossy Ibis.

    2025-03-21. Citrine Wagtail, Hoopoe, Common Mynah, Rook, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Western Marsh-Harrier, Long-legged Buzzard, Turkestan Black Redstart, Mallard, Common Redshank.

    2025-03-20. Common Starling, Variable Wheatear.

    2025-03-16. Greylag Goose.

    2025-03-15. Osprey, Mute Swan, Eurasian Jackdaw, Ruddy Shelduck, Hen Harrier, Long-legged Buzzard, Corn Bunting, Greater Sand Plover, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Little Bustard, Stock Pigeon, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Hooded Crow, Wallcreeper, Dalmatian Pelican, Red-crested Pochard, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-02-27. White Wagtail, Little Owl, Finsch's Wheatear, Steppe Eagle, Crested Lark.

    2025-02-24. Turkestan Tit, Masked Wagtail.

    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...