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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
    • Ciconiiformes
  • Ardeidae
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  • Ciconiidae
    • Phoenicopteriformes
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    • Anseriformes
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    • Falconiformes
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    • Galliformes
  • Tetraonidae
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    • Gruiformes
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  • Rallidae
  • Otididae
    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
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  • Recurvirostridae
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 132
    total photos: 274
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Common Goldeneye (2025-02-02)
    2. Tufted Duck (2025-02-02)
    3. Black-headed Gull (2025-02-02)
    4. Mew Gull (2025-02-02)
    5. Ring-billed Gull (2025-02-02)
    6. Gadwall (2025-02-02)
    7. Northern Pintail (2025-03-10)
    8. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-03-10)
    9. Grey Heron (2025-03-10)
    10. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-03-10)
    11. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-03-10)
    12. Eurasian Bittern (2025-03-10)
    13. Rook (2025-03-16)
    14. Common Kestrel (2025-03-16)
    15. Common Coot (2025-03-16)
    16. Great Cormorant (2025-03-29)
    17. Greater Flamingo (2025-03-29)
    18. Common Snipe (2025-03-29)
    19. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-03-29)
    20. Ruff (2025-03-29)
    21. Alpine Swift (2025-03-30)
    22. Lesser Kestrel (2025-03-30)
    23. Mallard (2025-04-06)
    24. Dunlin (2025-04-06)
    25. Mute Swan (2025-04-06)
    26. Great White Egret (2025-04-06)
    27. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-06)
    28. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-06)
    29. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-06)
    30. White-headed Duck (2025-04-12)
    31. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-12)
    32. Garganey (2025-04-12)
    33. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-04-12)
    34. Purple Heron (2025-04-12)
    35. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-12)
    36. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-12)
    37. Sand Martin (2025-04-12)
    38. Horned Lark (2025-04-12)
    39. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-12)
    40. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-13)
    41. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
    42. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-13)
    43. Crested Lark (2025-04-13)
    44. Hoopoe (2025-04-13)
    45. Willow Warbler (2025-04-16)
    46. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-16)
    47. White Wagtail (2025-04-16)
    48. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-16)
    49. Eurasian Hobby (2025-04-24)
    50. European Bee-eater (2025-04-29)
    51. Common Rosefinch (2025-04-29)
    52. Syke's Warbler (2025-04-29)
    53. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-29)
    54. Common Whitethroat (2025-04-29)
    55. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-04-29)
    56. Little Tern (2025-05-01)
    57. White-winged Tern (2025-05-01)
    58. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-05-01)
    59. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    60. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    61. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-01)
    62. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-05-01)
    63. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
    64. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-01)
    65. Slender-billed Gull (2025-05-01)
    66. Squacco Heron (2025-05-07)
    67. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-05-07)
    68. Common Redshank (2025-05-07)
    69. Little Stint (2025-05-07)
    70. Common Shelduck (2025-05-10)
    71. Pied Avocet (2025-05-10)
    72. Kentish Plover (2025-05-10)
    73. Shikra (2025-05-10)
    74. Whiskered Tern (2025-05-10)
    75. Citrine Wagtail (2025-05-10)
    76. Grey Plover (2025-05-11)
    77. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-11)
    78. Little Egret (2025-05-31)
    79. Common Swift (2025-05-31)
    80. Common Tern (2025-05-31)
    81. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-06-08)
    82. European Golden Oriole (2025-06-08)
    83. Rosy Starling (2025-06-08)
    84. Common Mynah (2025-06-17)
    85. Carrion Crow (2025-06-17)
    86. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-06-17)
    87. Tree Sparrow (2025-06-19)
    88. Eurasian Magpie (2025-06-19)
    89. Black Kite (2025-06-19)
    90. Yellowhammer (2025-06-19)
    91. Ural Owl (2025-06-19)
    92. Grey Wagtail (2025-06-19)
    93. Masked Wagtail (2025-06-19)
    94. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-06-20)
    95. Common Chiffchaff (2025-06-20)
    96. Hume's Warbler (2025-06-20)
    97. Great Tit (2025-06-20)
    98. Barn Swallow (2025-06-21)
    99. Azure Tit (2025-06-21)
    100. Common Kingfisher (2025-06-21)
    101. Little Bittern (2025-06-21)
    102. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-08-12)
    103. Tree Pipit (2025-08-12)
    104. Sandwich Tern (2025-08-15)
    105. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-08-15)
    106. Red-backed Shrike (2025-08-19)
    107. Garden Warbler (2025-08-19)
    108. Ortolan Bunting (2025-08-19)
    109. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-20)
    110. Sanderling (2025-08-22)
    111. Little Gull (2025-08-22)
    112. Caspian Gull (2025-08-28)
    113. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-09-09)
    114. Northern Wheatear (2025-09-14)
    115. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-09-15)
    116. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-09-28)
    117. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-09-28)
    118. Common Starling (2025-09-28)
    119. Common Cuckoo (2025-09-28)
    120. Siberian Stonechat (2025-10-02)
    121. Eurasian Curlew (2025-10-02)
    122. Osprey (2025-10-05)
    123. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-10-06)
    124. Hooded Crow (2025-10-06)
    125. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-10-06)
    126. Peregrine Falcon (2025-10-07)
    127. Redwing (2025-11-13)
    128. Mistle Thrush (2025-11-13)
    129. Goldcrest (2025-11-25)
    130. Blue Tit (2025-12-05)
    131. Brambling (2025-12-05)
    132. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-12-07)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-08. Pygmy Cormorant, Grey Heron, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great White Egret.

    2025-12-05. Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Brambling.

    2025-10-09. Black Kite.

    2025-10-07. Eurasian Redstart, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Sparrowhawk, Wood Pigeon, Black-headed Gull, Hooded Crow, Rook, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Eurasian Redstart, Peregrine Falcon.

    2025-10-06. Western Marsh-Harrier, Great Cormorant, Mute Swan, Great White Egret, Common Snipe, Osprey.

    2025-10-03. Siberian Stonechat, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Wheatear, Dunlin, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank, Dunlin, Northern Shoveler, Common Shelduck, Slender-billed Gull.

    2025-10-01. Common Coot, Eurasian Bittern, Slender-billed Gull, Eurasian Spoonbill, Grey Heron, Greater Flamingo, Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Redshank, Common Starling, Greater Flamingo, Common Cuckoo, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Chiffchaff, Common Kestrel.

    2025-09-17. Great Cormorant, Greater Flamingo, Little Egret, Common Redshank, Western Marsh-Harrier, Glossy Ibis, Black-headed Gull, Dalmatian Pelican.

    2025-09-16. Northern Wheatear, Red-crested Pochard, Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Black Kite, Great Cormorant, Red-necked Phalarope.

    2025-09-09. Common Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Hobby.

    2025-08-29. Common Snipe, Caspian Gull, Grey Heron, Slender-billed Gull, Common Redshank.

    2025-08-25. Great Cormorant, Common Shelduck, Wood Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, Sanderling, Little Gull, Common Snipe, Black-headed Gull, Red-necked Phalarope.

    2025-08-21. Greater Ringed Plover, Red-crested Pochard, Common Snipe, Ruddy Turnstone, Black-headed Gull, Common Tern, Curlew Sandpiper, Glossy Ibis.

    2025-08-20. Common Snipe, Sandwich Tern, Sandwich Tern, Bar-tailed Godwit, Slender-billed Gull, European Golden Oriole, Red-backed Shrike, Garden Warbler, Ortolan Bunting.

    2025-08-12. Shikra, Lesser Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Shikra, European Golden Oriole.

    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...