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    total species: 54
    total photos: 153
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Black-backed Gull (2026-02-12)
    2. Eurasian Bittern (2026-02-12)
    3. Wood Lark (2026-02-13)
    4. Water Pipit (2026-02-14)
    5. Lesser Whitethroat (2026-02-14)
    6. Ring-billed Gull (2026-02-15)
    7. Hawfinch (2026-02-15)
    8. Common Chiffchaff (2026-02-15)
    9. Black Kite (2026-02-15)
    10. Red-crested Pochard (2026-02-16)
    11. Black Redstart (2026-02-16)
    12. Spanish Sparrow (2026-02-16)
    13. Common Pochard (2026-02-16)
    14. Black-Necked Grebe (2026-02-16)
    15. Greater Scaup (2026-02-16)
    16. Tufted Duck (2026-02-16)
    17. Caucasian Chiffchaff (2026-02-18)
    18. Bearded Tit (2026-02-18)
    19. Horned Lark (2026-02-19)
    20. Sky Lark (2026-02-19)
    21. Rock Sparrow (2026-02-19)
    22. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2026-02-19)
    23. Common Snipe (2026-02-19)
    24. Hen Harrier (2026-02-21)
    25. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2026-02-21)
    26. Desert Finch (2026-02-21)
    27. Northern Bullfinch (2026-02-24)
    28. Caspian Gull (2026-02-24)
    29. Fieldfare (2026-02-24)
    30. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2026-02-24)
    31. Eurasian Siskin (2026-02-24)
    32. Common Redpoll (2026-02-24)
    33. Bohemian Waxwing (2026-02-24)
    35. White-Backed Woodpecker (2026-03-04)
    36. Long-tailed Tit (2026-03-04)
    37. Eurasian Nuthatch (2026-03-04)
    38. Willow Tit (2026-03-04)
    39. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2026-03-04)
    40. Coal Tit (2026-03-04)
    41. Eurasian Dipper (2026-03-05)
    42. Common Treecreeper (2026-03-05)
    43. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2026-03-05)
    44. Rustic Bunting (2026-03-06)
    45. Azure Tit (2026-03-06)
    46. Ferruginous Duck (2026-03-06)
    47. Pallas's Gull (2026-03-08)
    48. Citrine Wagtail (2026-03-08)
    49. Calandra Lark (2026-03-08)
    50. Dalmatian Pelican (2026-03-08)
    51. Little Ringed Plover (2026-03-08)
    52. Masked Wagtail (2026-03-08)
    53. Bewick's Swan (2026-03-08)
    54. Whooper Swan (2026-03-08)

    recent uploads

    2026-03-09. Black Kite, Azure Tit, Pallas's Gull, Citrine Wagtail, Calandra Lark, Dalmatian Pelican, Little Ringed Plover, Black Redstart, Pine Bunting, Masked Wagtail, Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan.

    2026-03-06. Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker, White-Backed Woodpecker, Black Woodpecker, Long-tailed Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Willow Tit, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Coal Tit, Eurasian Dipper, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Common Treecreeper, Common Redpoll, Eurasian Nuthatch, Rustic Bunting, Azure Tit, Ferruginous Duck.

    2026-02-24. Bohemian Waxwing, Hawfinch, Common Redpoll, Eurasian Siskin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Fieldfare, Caspian Gull, Common Goldeneye, Northern Bullfinch.

    2026-02-21. Desert Finch, Greater Scaup, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Hen Harrier.

    2026-02-19. Caucasian Chiffchaff, Greater Scaup, Common Chiffchaff, Bearded Tit, Caucasian Chiffchaff, Greater Scaup, Common Snipe, Ring-billed Gull, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Rock Sparrow, Sky Lark, Horned Lark.

    2026-02-16. Black Kite, Greater Scaup, Tufted Duck, Black-Necked Grebe, Ring-billed Gull, Common Pochard, Spanish Sparrow, Red-crested Pochard, European Black Redstart.

    2026-02-15. Ring-billed Gull, Hawfinch, Common Chiffchaff.

    2026-02-14. Wood Lark, Great Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Bittern, Caucasian Water Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat.

    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...