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total species: 50
total photos: 222
total videos: 0
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1. Mew Gull (2019-02-05)
2. Horned Lark (2019-02-15)
3. Black-headed Gull (2019-02-24)
4. Mallard (2019-02-24)
5. Caspian Gull (2019-02-24)
6. Common Redshank (2019-04-06)
7. White Wagtail (2019-04-06)
8. Western Marsh-Harrier (2019-04-06)
9. Red-necked Phalarope (2019-04-06)
10. Little Ringed Plover (2019-04-06)
11. Steppe Grey Shrike (2019-04-06)
12. Common Tern (2019-04-11)
13. Purple Heron (2019-04-26)
14. House Sparrow (2019-05-01)
15. Little Tern (2019-05-01)
16. Wood Sandpiper (2019-05-11)
17. Black-winged Stilt (2019-05-11)
18. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2019-05-11)
19. Ruddy Turnstone (2019-05-17)
20. Common Sandpiper (2019-05-17)
21. Great Cormorant (2019-05-25)
22. Pied Avocet (2019-05-30)
23. Gull-billed Tern (2019-05-30)
24. Kentish Plover (2019-05-30)
25. Common Shelduck (2019-05-30)
26. White-winged Tern (2019-06-30)
27. Crested Lark (2019-07-26)
28. Sandwich Tern (2019-08-03)
29. Grey Heron (2019-08-03)
30. Terek Sandpiper (2019-08-03)
31. Common Snipe (2019-08-17)
32. Ruddy Shelduck (2019-08-17)
33. Pied Wheatear (2019-08-17)
34. Temminck's Stint (2019-08-17)
35. Bar-tailed Godwit (2019-08-17)
36. Black-tailed Godwit (2019-08-17)
37. Greater Ringed Plover (2019-08-17)
38. Ruff (2019-08-17)
39. Common Pochard (2019-08-17)
40. Grey Plover (2019-08-17)
41. Little Stint (2019-09-01)
42. Spotted Flycatcher (2019-09-01)
43. Little Owl (2019-09-01)
44. Spotted Crake (2019-09-06)
45. Hooded Crow (2019-09-11)
46. Curlew Sandpiper (2019-09-16)
47. Great White Egret (2019-10-04)
48. Common Teal (2019-10-16)
49. Gadwall (2019-10-16)
50. Mistle Thrush (2019-12-13)

recent uploads


2020-01-09. Mistle Thrush.

2020-01-04. Black-headed Gull.

2019-10-16. Caspian Gull, Caspian Gull, Black-headed Gull, Mallard, Common Teal, Gadwall, Gadwall, Great Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Hooded Crow.

2019-10-08. Little Stint.

2019-10-07. Wood Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, White Wagtail, White Wagtail, Mallard, Hooded Crow, Black-headed Gull, Great Cormorant, Great Cormorant.

2019-10-05. Little Stint.

2019-10-04. Grey Heron, Grey Heron, Mallard, Great White Egret.

2019-09-17. Common Pochard, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Gull.

2019-09-11. Greater Ringed Plover, Sandwich Tern, Hooded Crow, Hooded Crow, Hooded Crow, Wood Sandpiper, Ruff.

2019-09-08. Black-winged Stilt, Crested Lark, Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Crake, Ruff, Black-winged Stilt, Ruff, White Wagtail.

2019-09-03. Little Stint, Ruff, Spotted Flycatcher, Little Stint, Black-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Spotted Flycatcher, Red-necked Phalarope, Little Owl.

2019-08-20. Common Snipe, Common Snipe, Ruddy Shelduck, Ruddy Shelduck, Ruddy Shelduck, Pied Wheatear, Temminck's Stint, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Tern, Little Ringed Plover, Greater Ringed Plover, Ruff, Common Pochard, Common Pochard, Grey Plover, Grey Plover, Grey Plover.

2019-08-18. Ruddy Turnstone, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper.

2019-08-13. Black-headed Gull.

2019-08-12. Great Cormorant, Common Tern, Common Tern, Common Tern, Common Tern, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, White-winged Tern, Mallard.

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...