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    total species: 197
    total photos: 645
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 2

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    1. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-07)
    2. Carrion Crow (2024-01-07)
    3. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-07)
    4. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-02)
    5. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-02-02)
    6. Eurasian Siskin (2024-02-02)
    7. European Greenfinch (2024-02-02)
    8. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-02-04)
    9. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-02-04)
    10. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-02-04)
    11. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-02-04)
    12. Long-tailed Tit (2024-02-04)
    13. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-09)
    14. Azure Tit (2024-02-09)
    15. Great Tit (2024-02-09)
    16. Brambling (2024-02-09)
    17. Common Chaffinch (2024-02-09)
    18. Red-fronted Serin (2024-02-10)
    19. Common Pheasant (2024-02-11)
    20. Northern Goshawk (2024-02-11)
    21. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-11)
    22. Eastern Buzzard (2024-02-11)
    23. Meadow Bunting (2024-02-23)
    24. Songar Tit (2024-02-23)
    25. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-29)
    26. Brown Dipper (2024-02-29)
    27. Rook (2024-03-01)
    28. Great White Egret (2024-03-01)
    29. Mallard (2024-03-01)
    30. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-03-01)
    31. Pine Bunting (2024-03-01)
    32. Northern Wren (2024-03-01)
    33. Yellowhammer (2024-03-01)
    34. Common Raven (2024-03-02)
    35. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-02)
    36. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-02)
    37. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-03-02)
    38. Coal Tit (2024-03-02)
    39. Common Kestrel (2024-03-02)
    40. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2024-03-02)
    41. Mistle Thrush (2024-03-02)
    42. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-17)
    43. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-03-17)
    44. Lammergeier (2024-03-17)
    45. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-03-17)
    46. Grey Heron (2024-03-17)
    47. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-17)
    48. Hooded Crow (2024-03-17)
    49. Great Cormorant (2024-03-17)
    50. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-23)
    51. Great Crested Grebe (2024-03-25)
    52. Common Coot (2024-03-25)
    53. Rock Bunting (2024-03-25)
    54. Tree Sparrow (2024-03-25)
    55. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-03-25)
    56. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-03-28)
    57. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-30)
    58. Black Redstart (2024-03-30)
    59. Chukar Partridge (2024-03-30)
    60. Horned Lark (2024-03-30)
    61. Common Starling (2024-03-30)
    62. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-30)
    63. Sky Lark (2024-03-30)
    64. Grey Wagtail (2024-03-30)
    65. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-31)
    66. Wallcreeper (2024-04-06)
    67. Common Shelduck (2024-04-14)
    68. Common Redshank (2024-04-14)
    69. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-15)
    70. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-15)
    71. Corn Bunting (2024-04-15)
    72. Northern Shoveler (2024-04-15)
    73. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-15)
    74. Turkestan Shrike (2024-04-15)
    75. Gadwall (2024-04-15)
    76. Common Pochard (2024-04-15)
    77. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-04)
    78. Crested Lark (2024-05-04)
    79. Desert Wheatear (2024-05-04)
    80. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-05-04)
    81. Black Kite (2024-05-04)
    82. White-winged Tern (2024-05-05)
    83. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-05-05)
    84. Golden Eagle (2024-05-05)
    85. Common Sandpiper (2024-05-05)
    86. Lesser Kestrel (2024-05-05)
    87. Griffon Vulture (2024-05-05)
    88. Common Oystercatcher (2024-05-31)
    89. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-31)
    90. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-31)
    91. Common Mynah (2024-05-31)
    92. European Bee-eater (2024-05-31)
    93. Caspian Gull (2024-05-31)
    94. Hoopoe (2024-05-31)
    95. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-31)
    96. Montagu's Harrier (2024-05-31)
    97. Common Tern (2024-05-31)
    98. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-31)
    99. Northern Lapwing (2024-06-01)
    100. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-06-01)
    101. Rock Pigeon (2024-06-01)
    102. Eurasian Hobby (2024-06-20)
    103. Tawny Pipit (2024-06-20)
    104. House Sparrow (2024-06-20)
    105. Northern House Martin (2024-06-20)
    106. Great Reed Warbler (2024-06-20)
    107. Kentish Plover (2024-06-20)
    108. Common Moorhen (2024-06-20)
    109. Citrine Wagtail (2024-06-20)
    110. Common Nightingale (2024-06-20)
    111. Little Tern (2024-06-20)
    112. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-06-20)
    113. Great White Pelican (2024-06-20)
    114. Pallas's Gull (2024-06-23)
    115. Indian Golden Oriole (2024-07-16)
    116. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-07-16)
    117. Red Crossbill (2024-07-20)
    118. Common Cuckoo (2024-07-20)
    119. Greenish Warbler (2024-07-20)
    120. Common Rosefinch (2024-07-20)
    121. Booted Eagle (2024-07-25)
    122. Barn Swallow (2024-08-08)
    123. Common Whitethroat (2024-08-08)
    124. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-08-23)
    125. Water Pipit (2024-08-30)
    126. Hume's Warbler (2024-08-30)
    127. Siberian Stonechat (2024-08-30)
    128. Pied Avocet (2024-08-31)
    129. Terek Sandpiper (2024-08-31)
    130. Little Stint (2024-08-31)
    131. Temminck's Stint (2024-08-31)
    132. Northern Pintail (2024-08-31)
    133. Northern Wheatear (2024-08-31)
    134. Common Greenshank (2024-08-31)
    135. Common Crane (2024-08-31)
    136. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-07)
    137. Common Teal (2024-09-07)
    138. Demoiselle Crane (2024-09-07)
    139. Wood Sandpiper (2024-09-07)
    140. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-09-07)
    141. Green Sandpiper (2024-09-07)
    142. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-09-07)
    143. Garganey (2024-09-07)
    144. Steppe Eagle (2024-09-14)
    145. Rosy Starling (2024-09-14)
    146. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-14)
    147. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-09-14)
    148. Eurasian Curlew (2024-09-14)
    149. Dunlin (2024-09-14)
    150. Whooper Swan (2024-09-14)
    151. Ruff (2024-09-14)
    152. Isabelline Shrike (2024-09-14)
    153. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-09-14)
    154. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-09-14)
    155. Grey Partridge (2024-09-14)
    156. Ferruginous Duck (2024-09-14)
    157. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-09-14)
    158. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-09-14)
    159. White Wagtail (2024-09-14)
    160. Yellow Wagtail (2024-09-14)
    161. Little Bustard (2024-09-29)
    162. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-10-05)
    163. Desert Finch (2024-10-05)
    164. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2024-10-05)
    165. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-10-05)
    166. Song Thrush (2024-10-05)
    167. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-10-07)
    168. European Robin (2024-10-07)
    169. Mute Swan (2024-10-08)
    170. Eurasian Redstart (2024-10-08)
    171. Bluethroat (2024-10-09)
    172. Little Egret (2024-10-10)
    173. Slender-billed Gull (2024-10-10)
    174. Osprey (2024-10-10)
    175. Bearded Tit (2024-10-10)
    176. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-10-11)
    177. Water Rail (2024-10-11)
    178. Grey Plover (2024-10-13)
    179. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-10-14)
    180. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-10-15)
    181. Sanderling (2024-10-15)
    182. Greater Scaup (2024-10-15)
    183. Meadow Pipit (2024-10-15)
    184. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-10-17)
    185. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-10-17)
    186. Saker Falcon (2024-10-17)
    187. Pallid Harrier (2024-10-19)
    188. White-headed Duck (2024-10-20)
    189. Greater Flamingo (2024-10-20)
    190. Tufted Duck (2024-10-20)
    191. Merlin (2024-10-20)
    192. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-10-21)
    193. Laughing Dove (2024-11-15)
    194. Black-throated Accentor (2024-11-15)
    195. Cinereous Vulture (2024-12-22)
    196. Godlewski's Bunting (2024-12-22)
    197. Barbary Falcon (2024-12-22)

    recent uploads

    2025-01-09. Barbary Falcon.

    2024-12-31. Pygmy Cormorant, Cinereous Vulture, Godlewski's Bunting, Wallcreeper.

    2024-12-30. Black-throated Accentor, Merlin, Pallid Harrier, Saker Falcon, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Sanderling, Greater Scaup, Meadow Pipit, Dunlin.

    2024-11-23. Grey Plover, Common Shelduck, Dunlin.

    2024-11-22. Common Teal, Great Crested Grebe, Mute Swan, Greater Ringed Plover, Grey Heron.

    2024-11-21. Eurasian Golden Plover, Common Chiffchaff, Common Pochard, Bluethroat, Dunlin, Red-breasted Merganser.

    2024-11-20. Red-breasted Flycatcher, White Wagtail, Great Crested Grebe, Slender-billed Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, Grey Plover.

    2024-11-19. Grey Plover.

    2024-11-15. Laughing Dove.

    2024-11-04. Lammergeier, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Coal Tit.

    2024-11-02. Greater Flamingo, Tufted Duck, Little Egret, Common Coot, White-headed Duck.

    2024-10-29. Rook, Desert Wheatear, Rock Pigeon, White Wagtail.

    2024-10-28. Rock Pigeon, Great White Egret, Mute Swan, Pygmy Cormorant, Common Starling, Lesser Black-backed Gull.

    2024-10-27. Mallard, Black-headed Gull, Greater Ringed Plover, Caspian Gull, Common Kestrel, European Robin.

    2024-10-26. Bearded Tit, Great White Egret, Western Marsh-Harrier, Great Cormorant, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull.

    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...