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    total species: 103
    total photos: 473
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Greater Flamingo (2016-02-20)
    2. Mallard (2016-02-20)
    3. Great Tit (2016-02-24)
    4. Rook (2016-02-24)
    5. Eurasian Blackbird (2016-02-24)
    6. Common Mynah (2016-02-24)
    7. House Sparrow (2016-02-24)
    8. Citrine Wagtail (2016-03-26)
    9. Hoopoe (2016-03-26)
    10. Common Kestrel (2016-03-26)
    11. Green Sandpiper (2016-03-26)
    12. Common Redshank (2016-03-26)
    13. Kentish Plover (2016-03-26)
    14. White Wagtail (2016-03-26)
    15. Common Shelduck (2016-03-26)
    16. Sky Lark (2016-03-26)
    17. White-tailed Lapwing (2016-03-26)
    18. Garganey (2016-03-26)
    19. Northern Shoveler (2016-03-26)
    20. Great Cormorant (2016-04-02)
    21. Grey Heron (2016-04-02)
    22. Caspian Gull (2016-04-02)
    23. Slender-billed Gull (2016-04-02)
    24. Caspian Plover (2016-04-16)
    25. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2016-04-16)
    26. Greater Short-toed Lark (2016-04-16)
    27. Eurasian Whimbrel (2016-04-16)
    28. Barn Swallow (2016-04-16)
    29. Crested Lark (2016-04-19)
    30. Song Thrush (2016-04-19)
    31. Common Swift (2016-04-19)
    32. Glossy Ibis (2016-04-19)
    33. Common Crane (2016-04-19)
    34. Common Chiffchaff (2016-05-02)
    35. Bar-tailed Godwit (2016-05-02)
    36. Red-crested Pochard (2016-05-02)
    37. Eurasian Redstart (2016-05-03)
    38. Long-legged Buzzard (2016-05-03)
    39. Rosy Starling (2016-05-03)
    40. Hooded Crow (2016-05-13)
    41. Ruddy Turnstone (2016-05-13)
    42. White-winged Tern (2016-05-13)
    43. Little Tern (2016-05-13)
    44. Red-headed Bunting (2016-05-16)
    45. Lesser Grey Shrike (2016-05-16)
    46. Little Ringed Plover (2016-05-16)
    47. Isabelline Wheatear (2016-05-16)
    48. Pied Wheatear (2016-05-16)
    49. Chukar Partridge (2016-05-28)
    50. European Bee-eater (2016-05-28)
    51. Rock Sparrow (2016-05-28)
    52. Bimaculated Lark (2016-06-03)
    53. Greater Sand Plover (2016-06-03)
    54. Syke's Warbler (2016-06-23)
    55. Common Tern (2016-06-25)
    56. Calandra Lark (2016-06-28)
    57. Finsch's Wheatear (2016-06-28)
    58. Steppe Grey Shrike (2016-06-28)
    59. Golden Eagle (2016-07-03)
    60. Black-headed Gull (2016-07-18)
    61. Red-necked Phalarope (2016-07-18)
    62. Baraba Steppe Gull (2016-07-18)
    63. Mew Gull (2016-07-18)
    64. Slavonian Grebe (2016-07-19)
    65. Black-winged Stilt (2016-08-01)
    66. Rock Pigeon (2016-08-03)
    67. Ruff (2016-08-25)
    68. Little Stint (2016-08-25)
    69. Wood Sandpiper (2016-08-25)
    70. Eurasian Collared Dove (2016-08-26)
    71. Common Whitethroat (2016-09-02)
    72. Red-backed Shrike (2016-09-07)
    73. Willow Warbler (2016-09-07)
    74. Common Snipe (2016-09-10)
    75. Garden Warbler (2016-09-10)
    76. Horned Lark (2016-09-10)
    77. Common Teal (2016-09-10)
    78. Spotted Flycatcher (2016-09-10)
    79. Common Buzzard (2016-09-10)
    80. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2016-09-10)
    81. Gadwall (2016-09-10)
    82. Pallid Harrier (2016-09-17)
    83. Northern Wheatear (2016-09-23)
    84. Common Chaffinch (2016-10-08)
    85. Common Raven (2016-10-08)
    86. Common Sparrowhawk (2016-10-08)
    87. Common Starling (2016-10-08)
    88. Western Marsh-Harrier (2016-10-08)
    89. Northern Pintail (2016-10-08)
    90. Greater Ringed Plover (2016-10-13)
    91. Great Crested Grebe (2016-10-29)
    92. European Robin (2016-10-29)
    93. Little Bustard (2016-10-29)
    94. Dunlin (2016-10-29)
    95. Common Coot (2016-10-29)
    96. White-headed Duck (2016-11-04)
    97. Mistle Thrush (2016-11-10)
    98. Tufted Duck (2016-11-14)
    99. Mute Swan (2016-11-14)
    100. Hawfinch (2016-12-04)
    101. Fieldfare (2016-12-20)
    102. Redwing (2016-12-20)
    103. Black-Necked Grebe (2016-12-20)

    recent uploads

    2016-12-22. Fieldfare, Redwing, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Black-Necked Grebe.

    2016-12-13. Mistle Thrush, European Robin, Common Chaffinch, Rook, Mew Gull.

    2016-12-06. Great Crested Grebe, Hawfinch, European Robin.

    2016-11-24. Dunlin, Black-headed Gull, Common Teal, Mistle Thrush, Dunlin, Hooded Crow, Tufted Duck, Mute Swan, Common Chaffinch.

    2016-11-09. White-headed Duck.

    2016-11-02. Great Crested Grebe, European Robin, Common Chaffinch, Little Bustard, Dunlin, Common Starling, Common Coot.

    2016-10-19. Mallard, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull.

    2016-10-15. Western Marsh-Harrier, Ruddy Turnstone, Greater Ringed Plover.

    2016-10-12. Western Marsh-Harrier, Northern Pintail, Pallid Harrier, White Wagtail, Ruff.

    2016-10-11. Common Kestrel, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Starling, Common Snipe.

    2016-10-10. Great Cormorant, Long-legged Buzzard, Common Kestrel, House Sparrow, Common Chaffinch, Common Raven.

    2016-09-28. Ruff.

    2016-09-27. Wood Sandpiper, Ruff, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Northern Shoveler, Common Teal, Gadwall, Horned Lark, Calandra Lark, Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Wheatear.

    2016-09-26. Red-necked Phalarope, Black-winged Stilt, Common Snipe, Ruff, Garden Warbler, Eurasian Redstart, Crested Lark, Common Buzzard, Steppe Buzzard, Glossy Ibis, Long-legged Buzzard, Pallid Harrier, Northern Wheatear, Mallard.

    2016-09-09. Little Tern.

    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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    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
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    2025-04-14
    Grey-Headed Woodpecker
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    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
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    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...