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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 180
    total photos: 397
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 1

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    1. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-01)
    2. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
    3. Common Mynah (2024-01-01)
    4. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-01)
    5. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-01-03)
    6. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-01-03)
    7. Golden Eagle (2024-01-03)
    8. Common Raven (2024-01-03)
    9. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-01-03)
    10. Red-fronted Serin (2024-01-03)
    11. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-04)
    12. Hooded Crow (2024-01-05)
    13. Mallard (2024-01-05)
    14. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-08)
    15. Lammergeier (2024-01-08)
    16. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-09)
    17. Great Tit (2024-01-09)
    18. Brambling (2024-01-12)
    19. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-12)
    20. Himalayan Snowcock (2024-01-13)
    21. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-13)
    22. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2024-01-13)
    23. White-winged Snowfinch (2024-01-13)
    24. Brandt's Rosefinch (2024-01-13)
    25. Eurasian Magpie (2024-01-14)
    26. Azure Tit (2024-01-17)
    27. House Sparrow (2024-01-17)
    28. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-17)
    29. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-17)
    30. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-19)
    31. Wood Pigeon (2024-01-22)
    32. Carrion Crow (2024-01-22)
    33. Rook (2024-01-22)
    34. Common Pheasant (2024-01-22)
    35. European Greenfinch (2024-01-28)
    36. Common Kestrel (2024-01-28)
    37. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-01-28)
    38. European Robin (2024-01-28)
    39. Great White Egret (2024-01-28)
    40. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-28)
    41. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-28)
    42. Long-eared Owl (2024-02-04)
    43. Boreal Owl (2024-02-04)
    44. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-02-04)
    45. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-04)
    46. Hen Harrier (2024-02-04)
    47. Yellowhammer (2024-02-04)
    48. Pine Bunting (2024-02-04)
    49. Eurasian Linnet (2024-02-04)
    50. Eurasian Dipper (2024-03-02)
    51. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-03-06)
    52. Black Kite (2024-03-06)
    53. Caspian Gull (2024-03-06)
    54. Common Starling (2024-03-06)
    55. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-03-06)
    56. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-03-09)
    57. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-03-10)
    58. Calandra Lark (2024-03-10)
    59. Sky Lark (2024-03-10)
    60. Crested Lark (2024-03-10)
    61. Chukar Partridge (2024-03-10)
    62. Common Goldeneye (2024-03-10)
    63. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-03-10)
    64. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-03-13)
    65. Great Cormorant (2024-03-13)
    66. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-13)
    67. Common Coot (2024-03-23)
    68. Great Crested Grebe (2024-03-23)
    69. Grey Wagtail (2024-03-24)
    70. Brown Dipper (2024-03-24)
    71. Hoopoe (2024-03-25)
    72. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-03-25)
    73. Northern Shoveler (2024-03-25)
    74. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-25)
    75. Rock Bunting (2024-03-26)
    76. Grey Heron (2024-03-28)
    77. Gadwall (2024-03-28)
    78. Tufted Duck (2024-03-28)
    79. Little Ringed Plover (2024-03-28)
    80. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-28)
    81. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-03-28)
    82. Himalayan Vulture (2024-04-05)
    83. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-04-05)
    84. Wallcreeper (2024-04-07)
    85. Alpine Swift (2024-04-10)
    86. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-11)
    87. Bluethroat (2024-04-11)
    88. Coal Tit (2024-04-13)
    89. Northern Wren (2024-04-13)
    90. Laughing Dove (2024-04-15)
    91. Barn Swallow (2024-04-18)
    92. Common Moorhen (2024-04-21)
    93. Black Tern (2024-04-28)
    94. Isabelline Shrike (2024-04-28)
    95. Eurasian Roller (2024-04-28)
    96. Syke's Warbler (2024-04-28)
    97. White-headed Duck (2024-04-28)
    98. Whooper Swan (2024-04-28)
    99. Great White Pelican (2024-04-28)
    100. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-04-28)
    101. Common Shelduck (2024-04-28)
    102. Common Redshank (2024-04-28)
    103. Corn Bunting (2024-04-28)
    104. Common Tern (2024-04-28)
    105. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-28)
    106. Common Oystercatcher (2024-04-28)
    107. Red-crested Pochard (2024-04-28)
    108. Garganey (2024-04-28)
    109. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    110. Masked Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    111. Pied Avocet (2024-04-28)
    112. White Wagtail (2024-04-28)
    113. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-28)
    114. Northern Pintail (2024-04-28)
    115. Eurasian Curlew (2024-04-28)
    116. Common Pochard (2024-04-28)
    117. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-28)
    118. Mute Swan (2024-04-28)
    119. Tree Pipit (2024-04-28)
    120. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-03)
    121. Great Reed Warbler (2024-05-03)
    122. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-05-03)
    123. Northern Lapwing (2024-05-03)
    124. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-05-03)
    125. Little Stint (2024-05-03)
    126. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-03)
    127. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-03)
    128. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-03)
    129. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-03)
    130. Barred Warbler (2024-05-07)
    131. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-05-07)
    132. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-07)
    133. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-07)
    134. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-07)
    135. Hume's Warbler (2024-05-07)
    136. Common Nightingale (2024-05-07)
    137. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-07)
    138. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-05-07)
    139. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-07)
    140. Rosy Starling (2024-05-07)
    141. Greater Sand Plover (2024-05-07)
    142. Turkestan Shrike (2024-05-07)
    143. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-07)
    144. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-05-07)
    145. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-05-07)
    146. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2024-05-07)
    147. Shikra (2024-05-07)
    148. Turkestan Tit (2024-05-07)
    149. Northern Wheatear (2024-05-07)
    150. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-05-08)
    151. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-05-08)
    152. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-05-08)
    153. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-05-08)
    154. Pied Wheatear (2024-05-08)
    155. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-05-11)
    156. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-05-13)
    157. Little Bittern (2024-05-13)
    158. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2024-05-13)
    159. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-05-17)
    160. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-21)
    161. Lesser Sand Plover (2024-05-21)
    162. Spotted Redshank (2024-05-21)
    163. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-05-21)
    164. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-21)
    165. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-28)
    166. Himalayan Accentor (2024-06-09)
    167. Himalayan Rubythroat (2024-06-09)
    168. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-06-09)
    169. Brown Accentor (2024-06-09)
    170. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-06-09)
    171. Water Pipit (2024-06-09)
    172. Black Stork (2024-06-14)
    173. White-capped Bunting (2024-06-14)
    174. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-06-14)
    175. Richard's Pipit (2024-06-14)
    176. Common Crane (2024-06-15)
    177. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-06-15)
    178. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-06-15)
    179. Common Swift (2024-07-08)
    180. Booted Eagle (2024-07-11)

    recent uploads

    2024-07-27. Black Stork, White-capped Bunting, Eurasian Crag Martin, Tibetan Common Crane, Richard's Pipit, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Grey-necked Bunting.

    2024-07-12. Booted Eagle, Eurasian Roller, Common Pheasant, Laughing Dove, House Sparrow, Common Mynah, Eurasian Collared Dove, Tree Sparrow, Common Mynah.

    2024-07-09. Common Swift.

    2024-07-03. Mistle Thrush, Tree Pipit, Water Pipit, Lammergeier, Plain Mountain Finch.

    2024-06-30. Himalayan Accentor, Himalayan Rubythroat, Plain Mountain Finch, Brown Accentor, Red-billed Chough, White-winged Grosbeak, Guldenstadt's Redstart, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2024-06-24. Common Sparrowhawk, Common Mynah, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Tree Sparrow, Common Pheasant, Carrion Crow, Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Blackbird, Masked Wagtail, Common Mynah.

    2024-06-18. Tree Pipit, Red-fronted Serin, Carrion Crow, Golden Eagle, Ruddy Shelduck, Red-fronted Serin, Eversmann's Redstart.

    2024-06-08. Blue Whistling Thrush, Common Pheasant, Wood Pigeon, Terek Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, Lesser Sand Plover, Spotted Redshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Eurasian Hobby, White-headed Duck.

    2024-06-04. Long-tailed Shrike, Greenish Warbler, Golden Eagle.

    2024-06-02. Saxaul Sparrow, Pallas's Sandgrouse, White-Winged Woodpecker, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Common Rosefinch, Pied Wheatear.

    2024-06-01. Barred Warbler, Eurasian Wryneck, Eurasian Redstart, Common Rosefinch, Spotted Flycatcher, Hume's Warbler, Common Nightingale, Lesser Whitethroat, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Oriental Turtle Dove, Common Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, Lesser Grey Shrike, Rosy Starling, Greater Sand Plover, Turkestan Shrike, Red-headed Bunting, Black-headed Wagtail, White Wagtail, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Yellow-eyed Pigeon, Shikra, Turkestan Tit, Siberian Stonechat, Isabelline Wheatear, Long-legged Buzzard, Calandra Lark, Crested Lark, Hoopoe, Northern Wheatear, Rosy Starling.

    2024-05-25. Little Bittern, Black-crowned Night Heron, Clamorous Reed Warbler.

    2024-05-24. Glossy Ibis, Great Reed Warbler, Eurasian Roller, Isabelline Wheatear, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Whimbrel, Gadwall, Little Stint, Temminck's Stint, Common Redshank, Garganey, Oriental Turtle Dove, Long-legged Buzzard, Common Cuckoo.

    2024-05-22. Syke's Warbler.

    2024-05-20. Black Tern, Isabelline Shrike, Eurasian Roller, White-headed Duck, Whooper Swan, Great White Pelican, Dalmatian Pelican, Common Shelduck, Common Redshank, Corn Bunting, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, Common Oystercatcher, Red-crested Pochard, Garganey, North Mongolian Yellow Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Pied Avocet, White Wagtail, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Curlew, Common Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-Necked Grebe, Mute Swan, Tree Pipit.

    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...