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Gaviiformes
  • Gaviidae
    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
    • Pelecaniformes
  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    • Charadriiformes
  • Burhinidae
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    total species: 217
    total photos: 874
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 2

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    1. Coal Tit (2025-01-03)
    2. Rook (2025-01-05)
    3. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-05)
    4. Brambling (2025-01-05)
    5. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-05)
    6. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-05)
    7. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-05)
    8. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-05)
    9. Hooded Crow (2025-01-05)
    10. Carrion Crow (2025-01-05)
    11. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-09)
    12. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-01-09)
    13. Great Tit (2025-01-09)
    14. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-10)
    15. Common Pheasant (2025-01-10)
    16. Long-tailed Tit (2025-01-10)
    17. Mallard (2025-01-12)
    18. Black-throated Accentor (2025-01-26)
    19. Common Mynah (2025-01-26)
    20. Crested Lark (2025-02-01)
    21. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-02-01)
    22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-02-01)
    23. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-02-01)
    24. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-02-01)
    25. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-02-01)
    26. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-02-01)
    27. Peregrine Falcon (2025-02-01)
    28. Azure Tit (2025-02-01)
    29. Great Grey Shrike (2025-02-01)
    30. Goldcrest (2025-02-01)
    31. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-02-01)
    32. European Greenfinch (2025-02-01)
    33. Tree Sparrow (2025-02-01)
    34. Eastern Buzzard (2025-02-01)
    35. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-02-01)
    36. Eurasian Dipper (2025-02-09)
    37. Brown Dipper (2025-02-09)
    38. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-02-23)
    39. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-02-23)
    40. Cinereous Vulture (2025-02-23)
    41. House Sparrow (2025-03-04)
    42. Upland Buzzard (2025-03-07)
    43. Common Raven (2025-03-07)
    44. Steppe Eagle (2025-03-07)
    45. Horned Lark (2025-03-07)
    46. Common Kestrel (2025-03-07)
    47. Golden Eagle (2025-03-08)
    48. Wallcreeper (2025-03-08)
    49. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-03-08)
    50. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-03-08)
    51. Laughing Dove (2025-03-09)
    52. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-03-09)
    53. Caspian Gull (2025-03-09)
    54. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-03-10)
    55. Gadwall (2025-03-10)
    56. Grey Heron (2025-03-14)
    57. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-14)
    58. Common Teal (2025-03-14)
    59. Great White Egret (2025-03-14)
    60. Great Cormorant (2025-03-14)
    61. Black Kite (2025-03-15)
    62. Corn Bunting (2025-03-15)
    63. Eurasian Linnet (2025-03-15)
    64. Chukar Partridge (2025-03-15)
    65. Hen Harrier (2025-03-15)
    66. Pied Wheatear (2025-03-16)
    67. Common Starling (2025-03-16)
    68. Pine Bunting (2025-03-16)
    69. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-03-23)
    70. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-03-23)
    71. Water Pipit (2025-03-23)
    72. Red-billed Chough (2025-03-23)
    73. Brown Accentor (2025-03-23)
    74. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-03-23)
    75. Desert Finch (2025-04-06)
    76. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-06)
    77. Common Shelduck (2025-04-06)
    78. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-06)
    79. Common Oystercatcher (2025-04-06)
    80. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-06)
    81. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-06)
    82. Common Redshank (2025-04-06)
    83. Desert Wheatear (2025-04-06)
    84. Kentish Plover (2025-04-06)
    85. Dunlin (2025-04-06)
    86. Water Rail (2025-04-07)
    87. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-07)
    88. Barn Swallow (2025-04-07)
    89. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-07)
    90. White Wagtail (2025-04-07)
    91. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-07)
    92. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-07)
    93. Pallas's Gull (2025-04-08)
    94. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-08)
    95. Slender-billed Gull (2025-04-08)
    96. Mute Swan (2025-04-08)
    97. Common Snipe (2025-04-08)
    98. Tufted Duck (2025-04-08)
    99. Common Tern (2025-04-08)
    100. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-08)
    101. Common Coot (2025-04-08)
    102. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-08)
    103. Common Goldeneye (2025-04-08)
    104. Meadow Pipit (2025-04-09)
    105. Garganey (2025-04-09)
    106. Song Thrush (2025-04-09)
    107. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-04-09)
    108. Little Stint (2025-04-09)
    109. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-09)
    110. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-11)
    111. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-04-11)
    112. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-11)
    113. European Robin (2025-04-11)
    114. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-04-12)
    115. Alpine Swift (2025-04-12)
    116. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-04-13)
    117. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-14)
    118. Bearded Tit (2025-04-14)
    119. Red-footed Falcon (2025-04-14)
    120. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-14)
    121. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-14)
    122. Bluethroat (2025-04-14)
    123. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-14)
    124. Little Tern (2025-04-14)
    125. Sand Martin (2025-04-14)
    126. Willow Warbler (2025-04-16)
    127. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-16)
    128. Caspian Plover (2025-04-17)
    129. Greater Sand Plover (2025-04-18)
    130. Bimaculated Lark (2025-04-18)
    131. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-18)
    132. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-18)
    133. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-04-18)
    134. Common Swift (2025-04-18)
    135. Syke's Warbler (2025-04-18)
    136. Hoopoe (2025-04-19)
    137. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-04-19)
    138. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-04-19)
    139. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-20)
    140. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-20)
    141. Pallid Harrier (2025-04-20)
    142. Little Owl (2025-04-21)
    143. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-04-21)
    144. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-04-21)
    145. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-21)
    146. Collared Pratincole (2025-04-21)
    147. Rock Pigeon (2025-04-22)
    148. Ortolan Bunting (2025-04-23)
    149. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-04-23)
    150. Indian Sparrow (2025-04-23)
    151. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-24)
    152. Purple Heron (2025-04-26)
    153. Whiskered Tern (2025-04-26)
    154. White-winged Tern (2025-04-26)
    155. Sandwich Tern (2025-04-26)
    156. Grey Plover (2025-04-26)
    157. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-04-26)
    158. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-04-26)
    159. Greater Flamingo (2025-04-26)
    160. Little Egret (2025-04-27)
    161. Rosy Starling (2025-04-27)
    162. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-04-28)
    163. Whinchat (2025-04-28)
    164. Wood Sandpiper (2025-04-28)
    165. Temminck's Stint (2025-04-29)
    166. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-04-29)
    167. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-29)
    168. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-29)
    169. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-04-29)
    170. Cattle Egret (2025-04-30)
    171. Squacco Heron (2025-04-30)
    172. European Bee-eater (2025-04-30)
    173. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-30)
    174. Northern Pintail (2025-04-30)
    175. Masked Wagtail (2025-05-01)
    176. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-05-03)
    177. Red-throated Pipit (2025-05-03)
    178. Pale Sand Martin (2025-05-03)
    179. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-03)
    180. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-05-03)
    181. Spanish Sparrow (2025-05-04)
    182. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2025-05-04)
    183. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-05-04)
    184. Common Kingfisher (2025-05-04)
    185. Common Buzzard (2025-05-08)
    186. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-08)
    187. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-14)
    188. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-14)
    189. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-14)
    190. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-05-14)
    191. Tree Pipit (2025-05-14)
    192. Little Bittern (2025-05-15)
    193. Cetti's Warbler (2025-05-15)
    194. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-15)
    195. Common Moorhen (2025-05-15)
    196. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-16)
    197. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-16)
    198. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-17)
    199. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-05-17)
    200. Montagu's Harrier (2025-05-17)
    201. Long-eared Owl (2025-05-24)
    202. Northern Wren (2025-06-01)
    203. Common Nightingale (2025-06-22)
    204. Eurasian Roller (2025-06-22)
    205. Indian Golden Oriole (2025-07-11)
    206. Rock Bunting (2025-07-14)
    207. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-07-16)
    208. Himalayan Rubythroat (2025-07-17)
    209. Terek Sandpiper (2025-07-20)
    210. Pied Avocet (2025-07-27)
    211. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-07-27)
    212. European Nightjar (2025-08-24)
    213. Turkestan Tit (2025-08-24)
    215. Booted Eagle (2025-09-07)
    216. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-09-07)
    217. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2025-09-07)

    recent uploads

    2025-09-29. Turkestan Shrike, Common Shelduck, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Greater Short-toed Lark.

    2025-09-26. Black-headed Wagtail, Red-throated Pipit, Indian Sparrow, Common Oystercatcher, Red-necked Phalarope, Curlew Sandpiper, Slender-billed Gull, Collared Pratincole, Desert Finch, Bar-tailed Godwit, Marsh Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck, Black-headed Gull, Pale Sand Martin, Common Shelduck.

    2025-09-21. European Nightjar.

    2025-09-18. Greater Sand Plover.

    2025-09-15. White-winged Grosbeak, Carrion Crow, Coal Tit.

    2025-09-11. Turkestan Tit, Eurasian Wryneck, Great Cormorant, Great Tit, Chukar Partridge, Black-headed Gull, Masked Wagtail, Rosy Starling, Common Mynah, Common Kingfisher, Common Sandpiper, Northern Shoveler.

    2025-09-10. Cattle Egret, Squacco Heron, European Bee-eater, Grey Heron, Northern Shoveler, Garganey, Black-winged Stilt, Wood Sandpiper, Ortolan Bunting, Willow Warbler, Red-crested Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit, Great Cormorant, Western Marsh-Harrier, Mute Swan, Common Coot, Great Crested Grebe, Bar-tailed Godwit, Northern Pintail, Greater Flamingo.

    2025-09-08. Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker, Blue-capped Redstart, Booted Eagle, Yellow-billed Chough, Coal Tit, Sulphur-bellied Warbler, Goldcrest, Common Kestrel, Grey Wagtail.

    2025-09-07. White-winged Tern, Masked Wagtail, Eurasian Redstart, Northern Wheatear, Black-headed Gull, Common Sandpiper, Common Kestrel, Hooded Crow, Spotted Flycatcher, Wood Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt.

    2025-09-06. Great Cormorant, Common Moorhen, Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, Azure Tit, Common Moorhen, Wood Pigeon, Spotted Flycatcher, Eurasian Magpie, Common Pheasant.

    2025-09-05. Azure Tit, Grey Wagtail, Northern Wren, Common Rosefinch, Greenish Warbler.

    2025-09-04. Rock Bunting, Hume's Warbler, Blue Whistling Thrush, Oriental Turtle Dove, Turkestan Shrike, Common Whitethroat, Azure Tit, Common Cuckoo, Black Kite, Grey Wagtail, European Greenfinch.

    2025-09-03. Indian Golden Oriole, Pied Wheatear, Great Cormorant, Black Kite, Masked Wagtail, Steppe Eagle, Masked Wagtail, House Sparrow, Common Rosefinch, Carrion Crow, Grey Wagtail, Greenish Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Hume's Warbler, Rock Bunting, Hume's Warbler, Great Tit, Pied Wheatear, Himalayan Rubythroat, Black-throated Accentor, Common Rosefinch, Common Nightingale, Eurasian Roller.

    2025-09-02. Carrion Crow.

    2025-09-01. Common Rosefinch, Hume's Warbler, Common Cuckoo, Greenish Warbler, Blue-capped Redstart, Hume's Warbler, Common Kestrel, Chukar Partridge, Tree Pipit, Carrion Crow, Mistle Thrush.

    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...