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total species: 17
total photos: 24
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Mallard (2022-02-18)
2. Brown Dipper (2022-02-18)
3. Tree Sparrow (2022-04-23)
4. Calandra Lark (2022-04-23)
5. Demoiselle Crane (2022-04-23)
6. Black-headed Gull (2022-04-23)
7. Great White Egret (2022-04-23)
8. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-04-23)
9. Masked Wagtail (2022-05-25)
10. Common Kingfisher (2022-06-07)
11. Little Bittern (2022-06-18)
12. Laughing Dove (2022-06-21)
13. Barn Swallow (2022-06-21)
14. Little Ringed Plover (2022-06-24)
15. Black Tern (2022-06-26)
16. Mute Swan (2022-08-29)
17. Bearded Tit (2022-11-13)

recent uploads


2022-12-25. Demoiselle Crane, Northern Pintail, Grey Heron, Greylag Goose, Black-crowned Night Heron.

2022-11-19. Common Kingfisher, White-headed Duck.

2022-11-14. Bearded Tit.

2022-09-08. Carrion Crow, Pine Bunting, Northern Wheatear.

2022-09-07. Little Ringed Plover.

2022-09-06. Black-headed Gull, Great White Egret, Dalmatian Pelican, Brown Dipper, Mallard, Calandra Lark, Tree Sparrow, Laughing Dove, Barn Swallow, Barn Swallow.

2022-09-05. Black Tern, Little Bittern.

2022-09-02. Demoiselle Crane, Mute Swan, Masked Wagtail.

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...