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    total species: 122
    total photos: 564
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 3

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    1. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-02-10)
    2. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-02-11)
    3. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-02-11)
    4. Common Kestrel (2024-02-11)
    5. Peregrine Falcon (2024-02-17)
    6. Hooded Crow (2024-02-17)
    7. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2024-03-02)
    8. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-03-02)
    9. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-03-02)
    10. Eastern Buzzard (2024-03-02)
    11. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-03-02)
    12. Fieldfare (2024-03-02)
    13. Laughing Dove (2024-03-06)
    14. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-03-19)
    15. Corn Bunting (2024-04-14)
    16. Hume's Warbler (2024-04-26)
    17. Thrush Nightingale (2024-04-26)
    18. Blackcap (2024-04-27)
    19. Savi's Warbler (2024-04-29)
    20. Pied Wheatear (2024-04-30)
    21. Eurasian Redstart (2024-04-30)
    22. Tawny Pipit (2024-04-30)
    23. Red-backed Shrike (2024-04-30)
    24. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-04-30)
    25. Common Whitethroat (2024-04-30)
    26. Horned Lark (2024-04-30)
    28. Common Shelduck (2024-05-09)
    29. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-05-13)
    30. Common Starling (2024-05-14)
    31. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-05-17)
    32. Steppe Eagle (2024-05-18)
    33. Calandra Lark (2024-05-18)
    34. Northern Wheatear (2024-05-18)
    35. European Nightjar (2024-05-21)
    36. Common Cuckoo (2024-06-03)
    37. Barn Swallow (2024-06-03)
    38. Richard's Pipit (2024-06-14)
    39. White-capped Bunting (2024-06-14)
    40. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-06-14)
    41. Sky Lark (2024-06-14)
    42. Hen Harrier (2024-06-14)
    43. Black Stork (2024-06-14)
    44. Citrine Wagtail (2024-06-14)
    45. Common Quail (2024-06-14)
    46. Himalayan Vulture (2024-06-15)
    47. Common Crane (2024-06-15)
    48. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-06-15)
    49. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-08-14)
    50. White-headed Duck (2024-08-17)
    51. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-08-17)
    52. Glossy Ibis (2024-08-17)
    53. Little Gull (2024-08-17)
    54. Mute Swan (2024-08-21)
    55. Grey Plover (2024-08-21)
    56. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-08-21)
    57. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-08-26)
    58. Grey Partridge (2024-09-03)
    59. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-09-05)
    60. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-09-05)
    61. Willow Warbler (2024-09-09)
    63. Black Kite (2024-09-14)
    64. Carrion Crow (2024-09-14)
    65. Isabelline Shrike (2024-09-14)
    66. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-09-14)
    67. Common Mynah (2024-09-14)
    68. Rosy Starling (2024-09-14)
    69. Greenish Warbler (2024-09-14)
    70. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-14)
    71. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-09-14)
    72. Caspian Gull (2024-09-14)
    73. Eurasian Curlew (2024-09-14)
    74. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-09-14)
    75. Northern Lapwing (2024-09-14)
    76. Grey Heron (2024-09-14)
    77. Lesser Kestrel (2024-09-14)
    78. Common Coot (2024-09-14)
    79. Common Greenshank (2024-09-14)
    80. Great White Pelican (2024-09-21)
    81. Greater Flamingo (2024-09-22)
    82. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-09-26)
    83. Kentish Plover (2024-09-26)
    84. Pacific Golden Plover (2024-09-26)
    85. Black-winged Stilt (2024-09-26)
    86. Ruff (2024-09-26)
    87. Pied Avocet (2024-09-26)
    88. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-09-26)
    89. Whooper Swan (2024-09-26)
    90. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-09-26)
    91. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-09-28)
    92. Common Pheasant (2024-09-28)
    93. Greylag Goose (2024-10-05)
    94. Buff-bellied Pipit (2024-10-05)
    95. Meadow Bunting (2024-10-05)
    96. Common Chaffinch (2024-10-05)
    97. Goldcrest (2024-10-05)
    98. Water Pipit (2024-10-05)
    99. Blue Tit (2024-10-09)
    100. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2024-10-23)
    101. Great Grey Shrike (2024-10-24)
    102. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-10-24)
    103. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-10-24)
    104. Black Redstart (2024-10-24)
    105. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-10-24)
    106. Water Rail (2024-10-26)
    107. Common Chiffchaff (2024-10-26)
    108. Northern Wren (2024-10-26)
    109. Mew Gull (2024-10-26)
    110. House Sparrow (2024-10-26)
    111. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-10-26)
    112. Bearded Tit (2024-10-29)
    113. Moustached Warbler (2024-10-29)
    114. Long-tailed Duck (2024-10-31)
    115. Greater Scaup (2024-10-31)
    116. Spanish Sparrow (2024-10-31)
    117. Common Goldeneye (2024-10-31)
    118. Common Pochard (2024-10-31)
    119. Brambling (2024-10-31)
    120. Desert Finch (2024-10-31)
    121. Black Tern (2024-11-04)
    122. Eurasian Linnet (2024-11-04)

    recent uploads

    2024-11-12. White-headed Duck, Black Tern, Common Chiffchaff, Eurasian Linnet, Common Chiffchaff.

    2024-11-08. Water Rail, Hen Harrier, Blue Tit, Moustached Warbler, Long-legged Buzzard, Northern Wren, Long-tailed Duck.

    2024-11-02. Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Bearded Tit, Bearded Tit, Blue Tit, Common Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Northern Reed Bunting, Common Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Blue Tit, Blue Tit, Greater Scaup, Common Chaffinch, Mute Swan, Northern Reed Bunting, Western Marsh-Harrier, Northern Wren, Mute Swan, Spanish Sparrow, Common Shelduck, Common Goldeneye, Common Pochard, Mute Swan, Northern Reed Bunting, Common Chiffchaff, Common Chiffchaff, Common Chaffinch, Northern Reed Bunting, Brambling, Desert Finch, Common Chaffinch.

    2024-11-01. Bar-tailed Godwit, Long-tailed Duck, Willow Warbler.

    2024-10-30. Mute Swan, Bearded Tit, Northern Wren, Moustached Warbler.

    2024-10-27. Water Rail, Common Chiffchaff, Northern Wren, Blue Tit, Northern Reed Bunting, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Mute Swan, Northern Reed Bunting, European Black Redstart, Pied Avocet, Mew Gull, European Black Redstart, Fieldfare, House Sparrow, Common Chaffinch, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2024-10-25. Long-legged Buzzard.

    2024-10-24. Great Grey Shrike, Baraba Steppe Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, European Black Redstart, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2024-10-23. Eurasian Penduline Tit.

    2024-10-20. Goldcrest.

    2024-10-14. Oriental Turtle Dove.

    2024-10-09. Blue Tit.

    2024-10-06. Ring-necked Pheasant, Ring-necked Pheasant, Greylag Goose, Buff-bellied Pipit, Isabelline Wheatear, Corn Bunting, Central Asia Starling, Buff-bellied Pipit, Meadow Bunting, Common Chaffinch, Goldcrest, Calandra Lark, Water Pipit.

    2024-10-04. Greater Flamingo, Mute Swan, Great White Pelican, Great White Pelican.

    2024-10-02. Pied Avocet, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Whooper Swan, Ruddy Shelduck, Whooper Swan, Rosy Starling, Lesser Kestrel, Common Kestrel, Eurasian Jackdaw, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Black-eared Kite.

    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
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    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...