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total species: 19
total photos: 32
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Baikal Bullfinch (2020-01-08)
2. Black Lark (2020-01-10)
3. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2020-01-10)
4. Meadow Bunting (2020-01-10)
5. Great Rosefinch (2020-01-11)
6. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2020-01-11)
7. Eastern Buzzard (2020-02-08)
8. Great White Egret (2020-02-08)
9. Common Redpoll (2020-02-08)
10. Common Moorhen (2020-02-08)
11. Green Sandpiper (2020-02-08)
12. Mallard (2020-02-08)
13. Little Grebe (2020-02-08)
14. Merlin (2020-02-08)
15. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-02-08)
16. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2020-02-08)
17. Black-throated Thrush (2020-02-08)
18. Blue-capped Redstart (2020-02-10)
19. Red-throated Loon (2020-10-13)

recent uploads


2020-10-14. Red-throated Loon.

2020-02-11. Blue-capped Redstart.

2020-02-09. Great White Egret, Black-throated Thrush, Grey-headed Goldfinch, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Eastern Buzzard, Merlin, Little Grebe, Mallard, Green Sandpiper, Common Moorhen, Common Redpoll, Great White Egret, Eastern Buzzard.

2020-01-16. Red-breasted Rosefinch, Meadow Bunting.

2020-01-15. Baikal Bullfinch, Black Lark, Guldenstadt's Redstart, Spotted Great Rosefinch.

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...