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Gaviiformes
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  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    total species: 154
    total photos: 560
    total videos: 0
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    1. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-02)
    2. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-02)
    3. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-02)
    4. Common Redpoll (2024-01-02)
    5. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
    6. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-03)
    7. Carrion Crow (2024-01-03)
    8. Hawfinch (2024-01-03)
    9. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-03)
    10. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-04)
    11. Fieldfare (2024-01-04)
    12. Pallas's Rosefinch (2024-01-04)
    13. Willow Tit (2024-01-04)
    14. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-04)
    15. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-04)
    16. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-05)
    17. European Greenfinch (2024-01-05)
    18. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-01-05)
    19. House Sparrow (2024-01-05)
    20. Yellowhammer (2024-01-05)
    21. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-05)
    22. Brambling (2024-01-07)
    23. Red Crossbill (2024-01-07)
    24. Great Tit (2024-01-07)
    25. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-08)
    26. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-11)
    27. Hooded Crow (2024-01-12)
    28. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-17)
    29. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-01-23)
    30. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-01-25)
    31. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-27)
    32. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-27)
    33. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-28)
    34. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-28)
    35. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-28)
    36. Mallard (2024-01-28)
    37. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-27)
    38. Wood Pigeon (2024-02-27)
    39. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-02-28)
    40. Asian Rosy-Finch (2024-03-03)
    41. Azure Tit (2024-03-21)
    42. Meadow Bunting (2024-03-24)
    43. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-24)
    44. Rook (2024-03-24)
    45. Black Kite (2024-03-24)
    46. Rock Bunting (2024-03-27)
    47. Great White Egret (2024-03-28)
    48. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-30)
    49. White Wagtail (2024-03-30)
    50. Sky Lark (2024-03-31)
    51. Common Kestrel (2024-03-31)
    52. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-31)
    53. Pine Bunting (2024-03-31)
    54. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-04-02)
    55. Goosander (2024-04-02)
    56. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-04-03)
    57. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-04-03)
    58. Caspian Gull (2024-04-03)
    59. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-04)
    60. Citrine Wagtail (2024-04-05)
    61. Northern Black Grouse (2024-04-07)
    62. Common Goldeneye (2024-04-07)
    63. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-07)
    64. Eurasian Linnet (2024-04-11)
    65. Black-headed Gull (2024-04-12)
    66. Common Starling (2024-04-15)
    67. Garganey (2024-04-15)
    68. Song Thrush (2024-04-16)
    69. Whooper Swan (2024-04-18)
    70. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-04-18)
    71. Bluethroat (2024-04-18)
    72. Pied Wheatear (2024-04-18)
    73. Common Buzzard (2024-04-18)
    74. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-18)
    75. Tufted Duck (2024-04-18)
    76. Barn Swallow (2024-04-21)
    77. Great Cormorant (2024-04-25)
    78. Siberian Stonechat (2024-05-01)
    79. Tree Pipit (2024-05-02)
    80. Yellow Wagtail (2024-05-04)
    81. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-05-04)
    82. Booted Eagle (2024-05-04)
    83. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-05-05)
    84. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-05)
    85. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-05)
    86. Gadwall (2024-05-06)
    87. Hoopoe (2024-05-06)
    88. Grey Wagtail (2024-05-06)
    89. European Bee-eater (2024-05-07)
    90. Bearded Tit (2024-05-07)
    91. Red-crested Pochard (2024-05-07)
    92. Grey Heron (2024-05-07)
    93. Great Crested Grebe (2024-05-07)
    94. Common Coot (2024-05-07)
    95. Green Sandpiper (2024-05-08)
    96. Common Pochard (2024-05-08)
    97. Caspian Tern (2024-05-08)
    98. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-05-08)
    99. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-08)
    100. Slavonian Grebe (2024-05-16)
    101. Booted Warbler (2024-05-16)
    102. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-17)
    103. Northern Shoveler (2024-05-17)
    104. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-17)
    105. Common Tern (2024-05-17)
    106. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-05-17)
    107. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-18)
    108. Tawny Pipit (2024-05-18)
    109. Mute Swan (2024-05-18)
    110. Common Redshank (2024-05-18)
    111. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-05-18)
    112. Northern Lapwing (2024-05-18)
    113. Greylag Goose (2024-05-20)
    114. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-20)
    115. Rosy Starling (2024-05-26)
    116. Sand Martin (2024-05-26)
    117. Black Lark (2024-05-26)
    118. Steppe Eagle (2024-05-26)
    119. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-27)
    120. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-30)
    121. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-30)
    122. Stock Pigeon (2024-06-07)
    123. Long-eared Owl (2024-06-16)
    124. Hen Harrier (2024-06-30)
    125. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-07-13)
    126. Red-backed Shrike (2024-07-13)
    127. Ortolan Bunting (2024-07-13)
    128. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2024-07-17)
    129. European Golden Oriole (2024-07-17)
    130. Pale Sand Martin (2024-07-25)
    131. Grey Partridge (2024-07-25)
    132. Great Reed Warbler (2024-08-07)
    133. Eurasian Hobby (2024-08-22)
    134. Richard's Pipit (2024-08-24)
    135. Common Sandpiper (2024-08-26)
    136. Dunlin (2024-08-31)
    137. Lesser Kestrel (2024-09-02)
    138. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-04)
    139. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-04)
    140. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2024-09-05)
    141. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-09-09)
    142. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-09-13)
    143. Golden Eagle (2024-09-13)
    144. Common Mynah (2024-09-15)
    145. Hume's Warbler (2024-09-18)
    146. Laughing Dove (2024-09-19)
    147. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-09-20)
    148. Mistle Thrush (2024-09-20)
    149. Chukar Partridge (2024-09-20)
    150. Eurasian Roller (2024-09-21)
    151. Northern Pintail (2024-09-30)
    152. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-10-01)
    153. Water Pipit (2024-10-09)
    154. Common Teal (2024-10-30)

    recent uploads

    2024-12-15. Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Hybrid (Black-throated x Red-throated) Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-11-28. Hawfinch.

    2024-11-27. Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2024-11-12. Hawfinch.

    2024-11-10. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2024-11-05. White-Backed Woodpecker.

    2024-11-04. Tree Sparrow, Willow Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Common Teal, Mallard.

    2024-11-02. Azure Tit.

    2024-10-30. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Bullfinch, Great White Egret.

    2024-10-28. European Greenfinch.

    2024-10-26. Great White Egret, Tufted Duck.

    2024-10-24. Northern Pintail, Tufted Duck.

    2024-10-21. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Tufted Duck.

    2024-10-20. Black-throated Thrush.

    2024-10-19. Great White Egret.

    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...

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    Great Cormorant
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    2025-08-31
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    Great White Egret
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    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 )
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    Bassel Abi Jummaa: OK great . Thanks Anna
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