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Gaviiformes
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  • Ploceidae
  • Fringillidae
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    total species: 253
    total photos: 1255
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    1. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-01-03)
    2. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-03)
    3. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-01-03)
    4. Golden Eagle (2025-01-03)
    5. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-03)
    6. Northern Goshawk (2025-01-03)
    7. Black-throated Accentor (2025-01-03)
    8. Himalayan Vulture (2025-01-03)
    9. Coal Tit (2025-01-03)
    10. Common Kestrel (2025-01-03)
    11. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-03)
    12. Common Teal (2025-01-06)
    13. Hooded Crow (2025-01-06)
    14. Eastern Buzzard (2025-01-06)
    15. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-06)
    16. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-06)
    17. Goldcrest (2025-01-06)
    18. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-08)
    19. Brambling (2025-01-08)
    20. Azure Tit (2025-01-08)
    21. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-08)
    22. Carrion Crow (2025-01-08)
    23. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-08)
    24. Brown Dipper (2025-01-11)
    25. Northern Hawk Owl (2025-01-11)
    26. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-01-19)
    27. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-01-25)
    28. Common Pheasant (2025-01-25)
    29. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-25)
    30. Lammergeier (2025-01-26)
    31. Wallcreeper (2025-01-26)
    33. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-26)
    34. Songar Tit (2025-01-26)
    35. Upland Buzzard (2025-02-01)
    36. European Greenfinch (2025-02-01)
    37. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-02-01)
    38. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-02-01)
    39. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-02-01)
    40. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-02-01)
    41. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-02-01)
    42. Peregrine Falcon (2025-02-01)
    43. Great Grey Shrike (2025-02-01)
    44. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-02-01)
    45. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-02-01)
    46. Rook (2025-02-01)
    47. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-02-01)
    48. Crested Lark (2025-02-01)
    49. Solitary Snipe (2025-02-02)
    50. Eurasian Dipper (2025-02-02)
    51. European Robin (2025-02-08)
    52. Hen Harrier (2025-02-15)
    53. Common Raven (2025-02-15)
    54. Black-throated Thrush (2025-02-16)
    55. Great Tit (2025-02-16)
    56. Corn Bunting (2025-02-22)
    57. Little Grebe (2025-02-22)
    58. Common Shelduck (2025-02-22)
    59. Tufted Duck (2025-02-22)
    61. Whooper Swan (2025-02-22)
    62. Grey Partridge (2025-02-22)
    63. Smew (2025-02-22)
    64. Goosander (2025-02-22)
    65. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-02-22)
    66. Horned Lark (2025-02-22)
    67. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-02-22)
    68. Mute Swan (2025-02-22)
    69. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-02-22)
    70. Fieldfare (2025-02-22)
    71. Bearded Tit (2025-02-22)
    72. Common Goldeneye (2025-02-22)
    73. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-02-23)
    74. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-01)
    75. Northern Wren (2025-03-01)
    76. Caspian Gull (2025-03-01)
    77. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-08)
    78. Cetti's Warbler (2025-03-11)
    79. Grey Heron (2025-03-11)
    80. Great Cormorant (2025-03-11)
    81. Mallard (2025-03-11)
    82. Northern Pintail (2025-03-11)
    83. Great White Egret (2025-03-14)
    84. Black Kite (2025-03-14)
    85. Gadwall (2025-03-14)
    86. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-03-15)
    87. Eurasian Linnet (2025-03-15)
    88. Common Moorhen (2025-03-15)
    89. Sky Lark (2025-03-15)
    90. Pine Bunting (2025-03-22)
    91. Common Coot (2025-03-22)
    92. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-22)
    93. Pied Wheatear (2025-03-22)
    94. Common Buzzard (2025-03-22)
    95. Desert Wheatear (2025-03-22)
    96. Black Redstart (2025-03-22)
    97. Spanish Sparrow (2025-03-22)
    98. Yellowhammer (2025-03-22)
    99. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-03-27)
    100. Grey Wagtail (2025-03-27)
    101. Rock Bunting (2025-03-27)
    102. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-30)
    103. Northern Wheatear (2025-03-30)
    104. Northern Shoveler (2025-03-30)
    105. Yellow Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    106. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    107. Red-crested Pochard (2025-03-30)
    108. White-headed Duck (2025-03-30)
    109. Ferruginous Duck (2025-03-30)
    110. Garganey (2025-03-30)
    111. Isabelline Shrike (2025-03-30)
    112. Calandra Lark (2025-03-30)
    113. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-03-30)
    114. Lesser Kestrel (2025-03-30)
    115. Eurasian Curlew (2025-03-30)
    116. Common Redshank (2025-03-30)
    117. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-30)
    118. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-03-30)
    119. Booted Eagle (2025-04-05)
    120. Barn Swallow (2025-04-05)
    121. Water Pipit (2025-04-05)
    122. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-05)
    123. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-06)
    124. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-06)
    125. Common Oystercatcher (2025-04-06)
    126. Rock Pigeon (2025-04-06)
    127. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-06)
    128. Pied Avocet (2025-04-06)
    129. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-06)
    130. Northern Lapwing (2025-04-06)
    131. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-11)
    132. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-11)
    133. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-11)
    134. Common Pochard (2025-04-11)
    135. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-11)
    136. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-11)
    137. Collared Pratincole (2025-04-11)
    138. Great White Pelican (2025-04-11)
    139. Turkestan Shrike (2025-04-13)
    140. Tree Pipit (2025-04-23)
    141. Northern Black Grouse (2025-04-23)
    142. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-04-26)
    143. Northern House Martin (2025-04-26)
    144. Mongolian Finch (2025-04-27)
    145. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-04-27)
    146. Hume's Whitethroat (2025-04-27)
    147. Common Tern (2025-05-02)
    148. Common Sandpiper (2025-05-02)
    149. Common Swift (2025-05-02)
    150. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-05-03)
    151. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-03)
    152. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-03)
    153. Hoopoe (2025-05-03)
    154. Rosy Starling (2025-05-03)
    155. Common Greenshank (2025-05-08)
    156. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-08)
    157. White Wagtail (2025-05-08)
    158. Common Kingfisher (2025-05-08)
    159. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-08)
    160. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-08)
    161. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-05-09)
    162. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-05-09)
    163. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-09)
    164. Ibisbill (2025-05-09)
    165. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-10)
    166. Common Mynah (2025-05-10)
    167. Steppe Eagle (2025-05-10)
    168. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-10)
    169. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-10)
    170. Black Tern (2025-05-10)
    171. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-05-10)
    172. Little Bittern (2025-05-11)
    173. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-25)
    174. Glossy Ibis (2025-05-31)
    175. House Sparrow (2025-05-31)
    176. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-05-31)
    177. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-05-31)
    178. Montagu's Harrier (2025-05-31)
    179. Brown-necked Raven (2025-05-31)
    180. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-31)
    181. Turkestan Tit (2025-06-01)
    182. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2025-06-01)
    183. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-06-01)
    184. Long-eared Owl (2025-06-06)
    185. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-06-07)
    186. Himalayan Rubythroat (2025-06-15)
    187. Himalayan Accentor (2025-06-15)
    188. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-06-15)
    189. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-06-15)
    190. Common Rosefinch (2025-08-03)
    191. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2025-08-09)
    192. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-08-09)
    193. Greenish Warbler (2025-08-09)
    194. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-08-09)
    195. Little Owl (2025-08-09)
    196. European Bee-eater (2025-08-09)
    197. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-08-09)
    198. Bimaculated Lark (2025-08-09)
    199. Little Stint (2025-08-09)
    200. Wood Sandpiper (2025-08-09)
    201. Merlin (2025-08-16)
    202. Tawny Pipit (2025-08-16)
    203. Red-billed Chough (2025-08-16)
    204. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-08-24)
    205. Sand Martin (2025-08-24)
    206. Shikra (2025-08-24)
    207. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-24)
    208. Ruff (2025-08-24)
    209. Terek Sandpiper (2025-08-24)
    210. Red-backed Shrike (2025-09-06)
    211. Sanderling (2025-09-22)
    212. Pallas's Gull (2025-09-22)
    213. Dunlin (2025-09-22)
    214. Kentish Plover (2025-09-22)
    215. Pallid Harrier (2025-09-22)
    216. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-09-22)
    217. Greater Flamingo (2025-09-23)
    218. Slender-billed Gull (2025-09-23)
    219. Eurasian Redstart (2025-09-23)
    220. Bluethroat (2025-09-23)
    221. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-09-24)
    222. White-winged Tern (2025-09-27)
    223. Desert Finch (2025-09-28)
    224. Common Starling (2025-09-28)
    225. Stock Pigeon (2025-09-28)
    226. Song Thrush (2025-09-28)
    227. Grey Plover (2025-09-28)
    228. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-09-28)
    229. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-09-28)
    230. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2025-09-29)
    231. Rock Sparrow (2025-10-05)
    232. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2025-10-05)
    233. Greylag Goose (2025-10-05)
    234. Saker Falcon (2025-10-06)
    235. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-10-11)
    236. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-10-11)
    237. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-10-11)
    238. Alpine Accentor (2025-10-18)
    239. Long-tailed Tit (2025-11-02)
    240. Great Rosefinch (2025-11-08)
    241. Himalayan Snowcock (2025-11-08)
    242. Brown Accentor (2025-11-08)
    243. Meadow Bunting (2025-11-08)
    244. Tree Sparrow (2025-11-29)
    245. Twite (2025-11-29)
    246. Bewick's Swan (2025-11-29)
    247. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-12-14)
    248. Common Treecreeper (2025-12-20)
    249. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-12-20)
    250. Northern Bullfinch (2025-12-20)
    251. Redwing (2025-12-22)
    252. Willow Tit (2025-12-23)
    253. Baikal Bullfinch (2025-12-23)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-27. White-bellied Dipper, Common Chaffinch, Green Sandpiper, White-Winged Woodpecker, Ibisbill, Northern Goshawk, European Greenfinch, Hen Harrier, Eastern Buzzard, Great Grey Shrike, Pine Bunting, Common Chaffinch, Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer, Pine Bunting.

    2025-12-24. Hooded Crow, Common Treecreeper, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Dipper, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Goldeneye, Bohemian Waxwing, Mallard, Goosander, Goosander, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Northern Bullfinch, Northern Bullfinch, Hybrid Crow, Eurasian Siskin, Great Tit, Goldcrest, Bohemian Waxwing, Eurasian Magpie, Eurasian Blackbird, Common Sparrowhawk, Redwing, Eurasian Blackbird, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Willow Tit, Baikal Bullfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Fieldfare, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2025-12-15. Bohemian Waxwing, Red-fronted Serin, Goldcrest.

    2025-12-11. Eastern Buzzard.

    2025-11-29. Northern Reed Bunting, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Tree Sparrow, Merlin, Long-eared Owl, Common Kestrel, Dalmatian Pelican, Twite, Eurasian Linnet, Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2025-11-24. Steppe Buzzard, Long-tailed Tit, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Coal Tit, Common Raven, Golden Eagle.

    2025-11-09. Red-billed Chough, Common Kestrel, Spotted Great Rosefinch, Himalayan Accentor, Himalayan Snowcock, Red-billed Chough, Common Kestrel, Brown Accentor, Brandt's Rosefinch, Meadow Bunting, Brown Accentor, Brown Accentor, Black-throated Thrush, Eastern Buzzard, Carrion Crow.

    2025-11-02. Common Raven, Yellow-billed Chough, Long-tailed Tit.

    2025-10-29. Spotted Nutcracker, Brambling, Yellowhammer, Cinereous Vulture, Long-legged Buzzard, Golden Eagle, Pine Bunting, Wallcreeper.

    2025-10-18. Northern Wren, Eurasian Dipper, Azure Tit, Rock Bunting, Blue-capped Redstart, Great Tit, Common Chaffinch, Eversmann's Redstart, Common Chiffchaff, Alpine Accentor, Wallcreeper, Lammergeier, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Carrion Crow, Yellow-billed Chough.

    2025-10-14. Masked Wagtail.

    2025-10-13. Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Chaffinch, Black Redstart, Northern Reed Bunting.

    2025-10-12. Great Crested Grebe, Northern Pintail, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Tufted Duck, Sky Lark, White Wagtail, White Wagtail, Water Pipit, Northern Wren, Whooper Swan, Caspian Gull, Grey Plover, Ruff, Northern Lapwing, Eastern Imperial Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Water Pipit, Mute Swan, Common Starling, Common Chiffchaff, Common Teal, Ferruginous Duck, Gadwall, Marsh Sandpiper, Crested Lark, Red-crested Pochard, Common Pochard, Common Pochard, Tufted Duck, Western Marsh-Harrier, Common Pochard, Rook, Common Shelduck, Black-Necked Grebe, Steppe Eagle, Common Mynah, Common Starling.

    2025-10-06. Saker Falcon, Saker Falcon, Rock Sparrow, Sky Lark, Steppe Grey Shrike, Chukar Partridge, Long-legged Buzzard, Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Golden Eagle, Eurasian Crag Martin, Golden Eagle, Rock Bunting, Greylag Goose, Unkown Bird, Little Owl.

    2025-10-04. Common Kingfisher.

    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...