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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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  • Muscicapidae
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  • Paradoxornithidae
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  • Certhiidae
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  • Fringillidae
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    total species: 248
    total photos: 1254
    total videos: 1
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Common Chaffinch (2023-02-18)
    2. Common Kestrel (2023-02-22)
    3. Great Tit (2023-02-24)
    4. Rook (2023-02-24)
    5. Rock Pigeon (2023-02-24)
    6. Brambling (2023-03-02)
    7. Eurasian Siskin (2023-03-02)
    8. Carrion Crow (2023-03-03)
    9. Common Pheasant (2023-03-03)
    10. Mallard (2023-03-03)
    11. Tree Sparrow (2023-03-08)
    12. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-03-08)
    13. Hooded Crow (2023-03-09)
    14. Common Mynah (2023-03-10)
    15. Mistle Thrush (2023-03-14)
    16. Eurasian Magpie (2023-03-14)
    17. Wood Pigeon (2023-03-21)
    18. Black-throated Thrush (2023-03-23)
    19. Masked Wagtail (2023-03-24)
    20. Grey Wagtail (2023-03-24)
    21. Black Kite (2023-03-24)
    22. Citrine Wagtail (2023-03-24)
    23. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2023-03-25)
    24. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-03-26)
    25. House Sparrow (2023-03-27)
    26. Hawfinch (2023-03-30)
    27. European Greenfinch (2023-03-31)
    28. Siberian Stonechat (2023-03-31)
    29. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-03-31)
    30. Corn Bunting (2023-03-31)
    31. Black-headed Gull (2023-03-31)
    32. Rock Bunting (2023-03-31)
    33. Great Crested Grebe (2023-04-01)
    34. Little Ringed Plover (2023-04-01)
    35. Common Chiffchaff (2023-04-01)
    36. Common Moorhen (2023-04-02)
    37. Azure Tit (2023-04-02)
    38. Eversmann's Redstart (2023-04-02)
    39. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-04-03)
    40. Eurasian Dipper (2023-04-05)
    41. Great Cormorant (2023-04-08)
    42. Eurasian Collared Dove (2023-04-10)
    43. Golden Eagle (2023-04-12)
    44. Common Buzzard (2023-04-14)
    45. Hume's Warbler (2023-04-14)
    46. Barn Swallow (2023-04-16)
    47. Brown Dipper (2023-04-20)
    48. Green Sandpiper (2023-04-21)
    49. Blue Whistling Thrush (2023-04-24)
    50. Common Coot (2023-04-29)
    51. Ferruginous Duck (2023-04-29)
    52. Pied Wheatear (2023-04-29)
    53. Common Starling (2023-04-29)
    54. Common Sandpiper (2023-04-29)
    55. Common Cuckoo (2023-04-30)
    56. Turkestan Shrike (2023-04-30)
    57. Crested Lark (2023-04-30)
    58. Northern House Martin (2023-04-30)
    59. Tree Pipit (2023-04-30)
    60. Isabelline Wheatear (2023-04-30)
    61. Hoopoe (2023-04-30)
    62. Syke's Warbler (2023-04-30)
    63. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2023-04-30)
    64. Black-headed Wagtail (2023-04-30)
    65. Common Greenshank (2023-04-30)
    66. Turkestan Tit (2023-04-30)
    67. Rosy Starling (2023-05-01)
    68. Bluethroat (2023-05-01)
    69. Common Kingfisher (2023-05-01)
    70. Cetti's Warbler (2023-05-01)
    71. Glossy Ibis (2023-05-06)
    72. Common Oystercatcher (2023-05-06)
    73. Black-crowned Night Heron (2023-05-06)
    74. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-05-06)
    75. White Stork (2023-05-06)
    76. Cinereous Vulture (2023-05-06)
    77. Common Rosefinch (2023-05-06)
    78. Eurasian Roller (2023-05-06)
    79. Spotted Flycatcher (2023-05-06)
    80. Eurasian Hobby (2023-05-06)
    81. Black Stork (2023-05-06)
    82. Little Bustard (2023-05-06)
    83. Great Bustard (2023-05-06)
    84. Caspian Gull (2023-05-06)
    85. Calandra Lark (2023-05-07)
    86. Red-backed Shrike (2023-05-07)
    87. European Bee-eater (2023-05-07)
    88. Black-winged Stilt (2023-05-07)
    89. Pied Bushchat (2023-05-07)
    90. Laughing Dove (2023-05-07)
    91. Red-headed Bunting (2023-05-07)
    92. Booted Eagle (2023-05-07)
    93. Menetries Warbler (2023-05-07)
    94. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-05-07)
    95. Long-legged Buzzard (2023-05-07)
    96. Common Swift (2023-05-07)
    97. Greenish Warbler (2023-05-07)
    98. Desert Finch (2023-05-07)
    99. Wood Sandpiper (2023-05-07)
    100. White Wagtail (2023-05-07)
    101. Paddyfield Warbler (2023-05-07)
    102. Spanish Sparrow (2023-05-07)
    103. Indian Sparrow (2023-05-07)
    104. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2023-05-07)
    105. Rufous Bush Robin (2023-05-07)
    106. Finsch's Wheatear (2023-05-07)
    107. Ortolan Bunting (2023-05-07)
    108. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2023-05-07)
    109. Little Owl (2023-05-07)
    110. Common Snipe (2023-05-07)
    111. Great White Egret (2023-05-08)
    112. White-tailed Lapwing (2023-05-08)
    113. Purple Heron (2023-05-08)
    114. Red-crested Pochard (2023-05-08)
    115. Black-tailed Godwit (2023-05-08)
    116. Spotted Redshank (2023-05-08)
    117. Northern Shoveler (2023-05-08)
    118. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2023-05-08)
    119. Grey Heron (2023-05-08)
    120. Garganey (2023-05-08)
    121. Western Marsh-Harrier (2023-05-08)
    122. Baillon's Crake (2023-05-08)
    123. Common Tern (2023-05-08)
    124. Steppe Eagle (2023-05-08)
    125. Variable Wheatear (2023-05-08)
    126. Grey-necked Bunting (2023-05-08)
    127. Yellow Wagtail (2023-05-08)
    128. Demoiselle Crane (2023-05-08)
    129. Gull-billed Tern (2023-05-08)
    130. Common Teal (2023-05-08)
    131. Black-breasted Tit (2023-05-09)
    132. Yellow-breasted Tit (2023-05-09)
    133. Yellow-billed Chough (2023-05-09)
    134. Lammergeier (2023-05-09)
    135. Himalayan Vulture (2023-05-09)
    136. Temminck's Stint (2023-05-13)
    137. Mute Swan (2023-05-13)
    138. Northern Lapwing (2023-05-13)
    139. Pied Avocet (2023-05-13)
    140. Common Shelduck (2023-05-13)
    141. Collared Pratincole (2023-05-13)
    142. Common Nightingale (2023-05-13)
    143. Black-Necked Grebe (2023-05-13)
    144. Common Redshank (2023-05-13)
    145. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-05-13)
    146. Dalmatian Pelican (2023-05-13)
    147. White-winged Tern (2023-05-13)
    148. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-05-13)
    149. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-05-13)
    150. Common Whitethroat (2023-05-24)
    151. Coal Tit (2023-05-26)
    152. Blue-capped Redstart (2023-05-26)
    153. Meadow Bunting (2023-05-30)
    154. Eurasian Linnet (2023-05-30)
    155. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2023-05-30)
    156. Long-tailed Tit (2023-06-07)
    157. White-winged Grosbeak (2023-06-09)
    158. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2023-06-09)
    159. Red-billed Chough (2023-06-09)
    160. Brown Accentor (2023-06-09)
    161. Water Pipit (2023-06-09)
    162. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2023-06-09)
    163. Plain Mountain Finch (2023-06-09)
    164. Northern Wren (2023-06-09)
    165. Black-throated Accentor (2023-06-09)
    166. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2023-06-09)
    167. Spotted Nutcracker (2023-06-09)
    168. Goldcrest (2023-06-12)
    169. Alpine Swift (2023-06-15)
    170. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2023-07-16)
    171. Little Bittern (2023-07-29)
    172. Gadwall (2023-07-30)
    173. Long-tailed Shrike (2023-07-31)
    174. Blue Rock Thrush (2023-08-07)
    175. Eurasian Crag Martin (2023-08-07)
    176. Tawny Pipit (2023-08-07)
    177. Desert Wheatear (2023-08-08)
    178. Chukar Partridge (2023-08-20)
    179. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2023-08-25)
    180. Red-rumped Swallow (2023-08-26)
    181. White-headed Duck (2023-08-30)
    182. Red-necked Phalarope (2023-08-30)
    183. Eurasian Curlew (2023-08-30)
    184. Northern Pintail (2023-08-30)
    185. Pacific Golden Plover (2023-08-30)
    186. Terek Sandpiper (2023-08-30)
    187. Little Stint (2023-08-30)
    188. Ruff (2023-08-30)
    189. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2023-08-30)
    190. Lesser Kestrel (2023-08-30)
    191. Marsh Sandpiper (2023-08-30)
    192. Sand Martin (2023-08-30)
    193. Pale Sand Martin (2023-08-30)
    194. Whooper Swan (2023-08-30)
    195. Common Raven (2023-09-07)
    196. Great White Pelican (2023-09-10)
    197. Tufted Duck (2023-09-10)
    198. Dunlin (2023-09-10)
    199. Kentish Plover (2023-09-10)
    200. Songar Tit (2023-09-11)
    201. Greater Ringed Plover (2023-09-23)
    202. Peregrine Falcon (2023-09-23)
    203. Isabelline Shrike (2023-09-23)
    204. Greater Spotted Eagle (2023-09-23)
    205. Grey Plover (2023-09-23)
    206. Common Quail (2023-09-24)
    207. Eastern Buzzard (2023-09-24)
    208. Eurasian Nuthatch (2023-10-02)
    209. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-10-02)
    210. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2023-10-03)
    211. Hen Harrier (2023-10-05)
    212. Baraba Steppe Gull (2023-10-05)
    213. Common Pochard (2023-10-06)
    214. Song Thrush (2023-10-07)
    215. Pine Bunting (2023-10-10)
    216. Eurasian Wigeon (2023-10-14)
    217. Grey Partridge (2023-10-14)
    218. Little Grebe (2023-10-14)
    219. Rustic Bunting (2023-10-24)
    220. Upland Buzzard (2023-11-01)
    221. Yellowhammer (2023-11-02)
    222. Red-fronted Serin (2023-11-11)
    223. Fieldfare (2023-11-12)
    224. European Robin (2023-11-12)
    225. Smew (2023-11-12)
    226. Common Goldeneye (2023-11-12)
    227. Bewick's Swan (2023-11-12)
    228. Goosander (2023-11-12)
    229. White-Winged Woodpecker (2023-11-12)
    230. Merlin (2023-11-26)
    231. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-11-26)
    232. Great Grey Shrike (2023-11-26)
    233. Little Gull (2023-11-26)
    234. Eurasian Goldfinch (2023-11-28)
    235. Meadow Pipit (2023-12-03)
    236. Bean Goose (2023-12-03)
    237. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-12-06)
    238. Greylag Goose (2023-12-06)
    239. Northern Bullfinch (2023-12-23)
    240. Common Redpoll (2023-12-23)
    241. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2023-12-24)
    242. Eurasian Jay (2023-12-24)
    243. Willow Tit (2023-12-24)
    244. Ural Owl (2023-12-24)
    245. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2023-12-27)
    246. Red Crossbill (2023-12-27)
    247. Baikal Bullfinch (2023-12-27)
    248. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2023-12-31)

    recent uploads

    2023-12-31. Eurasian Jay, Willow Tit, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Northern Bullfinch, Red Crossbill, Baikal Bullfinch, Ural Owl, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2023-12-28. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Hybrid Crow, Spotted Nutcracker.

    2023-12-23. Northern Bullfinch, Common Redpoll, Common Goldeneye, Smew.

    2023-12-21. Eversmann's Redstart, Yellow-billed Chough, Great White Egret, Eurasian Siskin, Brambling, Bohemian Waxwing, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2023-12-16. Common Pheasant, Eastern Buzzard, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling, Brambling.

    2023-12-07. Bohemian Waxwing, Greylag Goose.

    2023-12-06. Lesser Short-toed Lark.

    2023-12-05. Bean Goose.

    2023-12-04. Common Pheasant, Common Sparrowhawk, Azure Tit, Wood Pigeon, Mallard, Meadow Pipit.

    2023-11-29. Little Gull, Northern Wren, Eurasian Goldfinch, Eurasian Magpie.

    2023-11-27. Merlin, Northern Reed Bunting, Eurasian Linnet, Great Grey Shrike, Great Grey Shrike.

    2023-11-25. Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Tit.

    2023-11-23. Common Pheasant, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2023-11-19. White-browed Tit-Warbler, Eastern Buzzard, White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2023-11-17. Northern Wren, Northern Wren, Northern Wren, Red-mantled Rosefinch.

    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...