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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 99
    total photos: 794
    total videos: 12
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. White-Backed Woodpecker (2019-01-03)
    2. Merlin (2019-01-03)
    3. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2019-01-12)
    4. Hawfinch (2019-02-12)
    5. Tree Sparrow (2019-02-23)
    7. Rook (2019-03-17)
    8. Hooded Crow (2019-03-17)
    9. Great Tit (2019-03-21)
    10. Black Woodpecker (2019-03-21)
    11. Eurasian Blackbird (2019-03-21)
    12. Eurasian Jackdaw (2019-03-25)
    13. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2019-03-27)
    14. Long-tailed Tit (2019-03-27)
    15. Common Chaffinch (2019-04-01)
    16. Bluethroat (2019-04-07)
    17. Black Kite (2019-04-07)
    18. Common Cuckoo (2019-06-02)
    19. Northern Wheatear (2019-06-11)
    20. Green Sandpiper (2019-06-21)
    21. Turkestan Shrike (2019-06-22)
    22. Tawny Pipit (2019-06-22)
    23. Yellow Wagtail (2019-06-22)
    24. Siberian Stonechat (2019-06-22)
    25. Red-headed Bunting (2019-06-22)
    26. Sky Lark (2019-06-22)
    27. Hoopoe (2019-06-27)
    28. Lesser Whitethroat (2019-07-01)
    29. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2019-07-01)
    30. Tree Pipit (2019-07-01)
    31. Great Reed Warbler (2019-07-02)
    32. Booted Warbler (2019-07-02)
    33. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2019-07-02)
    34. Common Kestrel (2019-07-02)
    35. Eurasian Goldfinch (2019-07-03)
    36. Little Ringed Plover (2019-07-17)
    37. Grey Heron (2019-07-17)
    38. Black-headed Gull (2019-07-17)
    39. Black-winged Stilt (2019-07-17)
    40. Black-Necked Grebe (2019-07-17)
    41. Common Starling (2019-07-17)
    42. Common Shelduck (2019-07-17)
    43. Ruddy Shelduck (2019-07-17)
    44. Common Pochard (2019-07-17)
    45. Eurasian Redstart (2019-07-18)
    46. Mallard (2019-07-18)
    47. Paddyfield Warbler (2019-07-18)
    48. Common Tern (2019-07-18)
    49. Common Redshank (2019-07-18)
    50. Pale Sand Martin (2019-07-18)
    51. Common Coot (2019-07-18)
    52. Black-tailed Godwit (2019-07-18)
    53. Northern Lapwing (2019-07-18)
    54. Baraba Steppe Gull (2019-07-26)
    55. Fieldfare (2019-07-28)
    56. European Bee-eater (2019-07-28)
    57. Common Snipe (2019-07-31)
    58. Common Moorhen (2019-07-31)
    59. Red-backed Shrike (2019-08-03)
    60. Black-throated Thrush (2019-08-03)
    61. Song Thrush (2019-08-03)
    62. Common Rosefinch (2019-08-04)
    64. Northern Reed Bunting (2019-08-04)
    65. Arctic Loon (2019-08-04)
    66. Citrine Wagtail (2019-08-04)
    67. Greenish Warbler (2019-08-04)
    68. Grey Wagtail (2019-08-05)
    69. Common Treecreeper (2019-08-05)
    70. Siberian Rubythroat (2019-08-05)
    71. Common Whitethroat (2019-08-10)
    72. Water Pipit (2019-08-10)
    73. Common Chiffchaff (2019-08-10)
    74. Black-throated Accentor (2019-08-10)
    75. Spotted Nutcracker (2019-08-11)
    76. White Wagtail (2019-08-11)
    77. Willow Tit (2019-08-11)
    78. Spotted Flycatcher (2019-08-14)
    79. Red-necked Phalarope (2019-08-30)
    80. Ruff (2019-08-30)
    81. Terek Sandpiper (2019-08-30)
    82. Wood Sandpiper (2019-08-30)
    83. Little Stint (2019-08-30)
    84. Great White Egret (2019-09-15)
    85. Great Cormorant (2019-09-15)
    86. Great Crested Grebe (2019-10-05)
    87. Eurasian Nuthatch (2019-11-01)
    88. Ural Owl (2019-11-03)
    89. Common Redpoll (2019-11-03)
    90. Bohemian Waxwing (2019-11-03)
    91. Northern Bullfinch (2019-11-03)
    92. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2019-11-14)
    93. Common Mynah (2019-11-14)
    94. Crested Lark (2019-11-14)
    95. House Sparrow (2019-11-14)
    96. Steppe Eagle (2019-11-14)
    97. Eurasian Collared Dove (2019-11-15)
    98. Masked Wagtail (2019-11-15)
    99. Turkestan Tit (2019-11-16)

    recent uploads

    2019-12-16. Common Redpoll, Eurasian Goldfinch, Arctic Redpoll, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2019-12-09. Common Redpoll, Northern Bullfinch, Common Redpoll, Common Redpoll, Arctic Redpoll.

    2019-12-04. Bohemian Waxwing, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2019-11-20. Eurasian Collared Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Mynah, Common Mynah, Masked Wagtail, Tree Sparrow, Common Mynah, Common Mynah, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Mynah, Common Mynah, Rook, Turkestan Tit, Common Mynah, Turkestan Tit, Common Chaffinch, Turkestan Tit.

    2019-11-19. Eastern Rock Nuthatch, Rook, Common Chaffinch, Common Mynah, Tree Sparrow, Crested Lark, House Sparrow, Great White Egret, Steppe Eagle.

    2019-11-07. Eurasian Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Great Tit, Mallard, Mallard.

    2019-11-04. Ural Owl, Common Redpoll, Bohemian Waxwing, Northern Bullfinch, Bohemian Waxwing, Great Tit, Common Redpoll, Northern Bullfinch.

    2019-11-01. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Tree Sparrow, Eurasian Nuthatch.

    2019-10-06. Great White Egret, Great Crested Grebe, Great White Egret.

    2019-09-29. Sky Lark.

    2019-09-18. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

    2019-09-16. Northern Reed Bunting, Bluethroat, Northern Reed Bunting, Citrine Wagtail, Great White Egret, Great White Egret, Tree Sparrow, Great Cormorant, Grey Heron.

    2019-09-08. Northern Wheatear, Northern Wheatear, Northern Wheatear.

    2019-09-02. Little Stint.

    2019-08-31. Little Ringed Plover, Common Kestrel, White Wagtail, Black-winged Stilt, Red-necked Phalarope, Ruff, Terek Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper.

    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...