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    total species: 73
    total photos: 107
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 1

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    1. Eastern Buzzard (2023-03-26)
    2. Grey Wagtail (2023-04-02)
    3. Common Chaffinch (2023-04-02)
    4. Brambling (2023-04-02)
    5. Lesser Kestrel (2023-04-02)
    6. Black-throated Accentor (2023-04-02)
    7. Songar Tit (2023-04-02)
    8. Black-throated Thrush (2023-04-09)
    9. Turkestan Shrike (2023-04-09)
    10. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-04-09)
    11. Ferruginous Duck (2023-04-09)
    12. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-04-09)
    13. Long-legged Buzzard (2023-04-09)
    14. Black Redstart (2023-04-09)
    15. Hoopoe (2023-04-09)
    16. Rook (2023-04-09)
    17. Citrine Wagtail (2023-04-09)
    18. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-04-09)
    19. Black-Necked Grebe (2023-04-09)
    20. Common Chiffchaff (2023-04-09)
    21. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2023-04-15)
    22. Common Mynah (2023-04-15)
    23. Blue Whistling Thrush (2023-04-15)
    24. Eurasian Magpie (2023-04-15)
    25. Mistle Thrush (2023-04-15)
    26. Brown Dipper (2023-04-15)
    27. Golden Eagle (2023-04-15)
    28. Cinereous Vulture (2023-04-15)
    29. Meadow Bunting (2023-04-15)
    30. Common Snipe (2023-04-15)
    31. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-04-15)
    32. Hume's Warbler (2023-04-15)
    33. Northern Wheatear (2023-04-15)
    34. Black Kite (2023-04-15)
    35. Chukar Partridge (2023-04-15)
    36. Black-crowned Night Heron (2023-04-23)
    37. Northern House Martin (2023-04-23)
    38. Common Oystercatcher (2023-04-23)
    40. Little Ringed Plover (2023-04-23)
    41. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-04-23)
    42. Booted Eagle (2023-04-23)
    43. Black-winged Stilt (2023-04-23)
    44. Rock Pigeon (2023-04-29)
    45. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-04-29)
    46. Dalmatian Pelican (2023-04-29)
    47. Common Cuckoo (2023-04-29)
    48. Eurasian Wryneck (2023-05-07)
    49. Water Pipit (2023-05-07)
    50. Common Buzzard (2023-05-07)
    51. Goldcrest (2023-05-07)
    52. Eurasian Hobby (2023-05-07)
    53. Coal Tit (2023-05-07)
    54. Tree Pipit (2023-05-07)
    55. Common Kestrel (2023-05-07)
    56. Common Swift (2023-05-13)
    57. Common Kingfisher (2023-05-13)
    58. Common Whitethroat (2023-05-21)
    59. Rosy Starling (2023-05-28)
    60. Common Tern (2023-05-28)
    61. Little Bustard (2023-05-28)
    62. Western Marsh-Harrier (2023-05-28)
    63. Eurasian Roller (2023-05-28)
    64. Red-rumped Swallow (2023-05-28)
    65. Red-headed Bunting (2023-05-28)
    66. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-05-28)
    67. Cetti's Warbler (2023-05-28)
    68. Greater Spotted Eagle (2023-05-28)
    69. Shikra (2023-05-28)
    70. Greenish Warbler (2023-06-05)
    71. Spotted Nutcracker (2023-06-05)
    72. Blue-capped Redstart (2023-06-05)
    73. Himalayan Rubythroat (2023-06-05)

    recent uploads

    2023-06-07. Greenish Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Spotted Nutcracker, Blue-capped Redstart, Himalayan Rubythroat.

    2023-05-30. Cetti's Warbler, Common Kestrel, Lesser Grey Shrike, Red-headed Bunting, Little Bustard, Red-rumped Swallow, Eurasian Roller, Western Marsh-Harrier, Little Bustard, Dalmatian Pelican, Common Tern, Rosy Starling, White-crowned Penduline Tit.

    2023-05-29. Shikra, Shikra, Shikra, Greater Spotted Eagle.

    2023-05-22. Common Whitethroat.

    2023-05-13. Common Swift, Common Kingfisher.

    2023-05-09. Eurasian Wryneck.

    2023-05-08. Common Kestrel, Common Sparrowhawk, Steppe Buzzard, Tree Pipit, Coal Tit, Eurasian Hobby, Goldcrest, Black-throated Accentor, Common Buzzard, Water Pipit.

    2023-05-02. Rock Pigeon, Common Sparrowhawk, Dalmatian Pelican, Black Kite, Common Cuckoo.

    2023-04-26. Booted Eagle, Oriental Turtle Dove, Black-winged Stilt, Little Ringed Plover, White-crowned Penduline Tit, Common Oystercatcher, Northern House Martin, Black-crowned Night Heron.

    2023-04-18. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Chukar Partridge, Black Kite, Northern Wheatear, Hume's Warbler, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Snipe, Meadow Bunting, Cinereous Vulture, Golden Eagle, Brown Dipper, Mistle Thrush, Eurasian Magpie, Grey Wagtail, Blue Whistling Thrush, Common Mynah.

    2023-04-11. Turkestan Shrike.

    2023-04-10. Common Chiffchaff, Black-Necked Grebe, Northern Reed Bunting, Citrine Wagtail, Rook, Hoopoe, Black Redstart, Black-throated Thrush, Long-legged Buzzard, Turkestan Shrike, Eurasian Jackdaw, Ferruginous Duck, Eurasian Blackbird.

    2023-04-03. Grey Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, Brambling, Lesser Kestrel, Black-throated Accentor, Songar Tit.

    2023-03-26. Eastern Buzzard.

    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
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    2025-07-01
    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
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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
    (sergey izoya)

    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    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...