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    total species: 184
    total photos: 913
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 4

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    1. Common Kestrel (2025-01-19)
    2. Coal Tit (2025-02-23)
    3. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2025-02-24)
    4. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-04-18)
    5. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-04-18)
    6. Greylag Goose (2025-04-19)
    7. White-headed Duck (2025-04-19)
    8. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-19)
    9. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-19)
    10. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-04-19)
    11. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-19)
    12. Caspian Gull (2025-04-19)
    13. Common Shelduck (2025-04-19)
    14. Savi's Warbler (2025-04-19)
    15. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-19)
    16. Common Coot (2025-04-19)
    17. Mute Swan (2025-04-19)
    18. Common Pochard (2025-04-19)
    19. Tufted Duck (2025-04-19)
    20. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-19)
    21. Slender-billed Gull (2025-04-19)
    22. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-19)
    23. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-19)
    24. White-winged Tern (2025-04-19)
    25. Garganey (2025-04-19)
    26. Desert Finch (2025-04-19)
    27. House Sparrow (2025-04-19)
    28. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-23)
    29. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-04-23)
    30. Sand Martin (2025-04-29)
    31. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-04-29)
    32. Grey Heron (2025-04-29)
    33. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-29)
    34. Black-winged Stilt (2025-04-29)
    35. Wood Sandpiper (2025-04-29)
    36. Pied Avocet (2025-05-04)
    37. Macqueen's Bustard (2025-05-05)
    38. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-05)
    39. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-05)
    40. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-15)
    41. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-05-15)
    42. Isabelline Shrike (2025-05-16)
    43. Common Quail (2025-05-17)
    44. European Turtle Dove (2025-05-17)
    45. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-17)
    46. Montagu's Harrier (2025-05-17)
    47. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-17)
    48. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-05-17)
    49. Crested Lark (2025-05-17)
    50. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-17)
    51. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-17)
    52. Little Ringed Plover (2025-05-17)
    53. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-17)
    54. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-17)
    55. Common Mynah (2025-05-17)
    56. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-17)
    57. Black Kite (2025-05-18)
    58. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-05-18)
    59. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2025-05-19)
    60. Chukar Partridge (2025-05-19)
    61. Demoiselle Crane (2025-05-21)
    62. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-05-21)
    64. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-21)
    65. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-05-21)
    66. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2025-05-21)
    67. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-05-21)
    68. Pander's Ground-Jay (2025-05-22)
    69. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-05-22)
    70. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-22)
    71. Black-throated Accentor (2025-05-22)
    72. Little Bustard (2025-05-23)
    73. White-capped Bunting (2025-05-23)
    74. Meadow Bunting (2025-05-24)
    75. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2025-05-24)
    76. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-05-24)
    77. Rufous-necked Stint (2025-05-25)
    78. Lammergeier (2025-05-25)
    79. Lesser Kestrel (2025-05-26)
    80. Himalayan Accentor (2025-05-27)
    81. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-05-27)
    82. Red-fronted Serin (2025-05-28)
    83. Little Bittern (2025-05-28)
    84. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-05-28)
    85. Desert Wheatear (2025-06-10)
    86. White Wagtail (2025-06-10)
    87. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-06-11)
    88. Hoopoe (2025-06-12)
    89. Greater Flamingo (2025-06-17)
    90. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-06-17)
    91. Calandra Lark (2025-06-18)
    92. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-06-21)
    93. Kentish Plover (2025-06-23)
    94. Great White Pelican (2025-06-23)
    95. Little Tern (2025-06-24)
    96. Common Swift (2025-06-24)
    97. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-06-28)
    98. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-06-28)
    99. Common Tern (2025-06-28)
    100. Little Gull (2025-06-28)
    101. Ruff (2025-06-28)
    102. Booted Warbler (2025-08-09)
    103. Great Reed Warbler (2025-08-09)
    104. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-08-09)
    105. Common Snipe (2025-08-09)
    106. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-08-09)
    107. Common Greenshank (2025-08-09)
    108. Temminck's Stint (2025-08-09)
    109. Bearded Tit (2025-08-09)
    110. Grey Partridge (2025-08-11)
    111. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-08-11)
    112. Spotted Crake (2025-08-12)
    113. Little Crake (2025-08-16)
    114. Common Sandpiper (2025-08-16)
    115. Little Stint (2025-08-16)
    116. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-16)
    117. Sanderling (2025-08-16)
    118. Glossy Ibis (2025-08-18)
    119. Steppe Eagle (2025-08-19)
    120. Red-backed Shrike (2025-08-21)
    121. Dunlin (2025-08-23)
    122. Citrine Wagtail (2025-08-23)
    123. Black Tern (2025-08-23)
    124. Northern Wheatear (2025-08-25)
    125. Short-eared Owl (2025-08-27)
    126. Pallid Harrier (2025-08-29)
    127. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-09-13)
    128. Mistle Thrush (2025-09-13)
    129. Eurasian Hobby (2025-09-13)
    130. Water Pipit (2025-09-13)
    131. Pied Wheatear (2025-09-13)
    132. Red Crossbill (2025-09-13)
    133. Little Owl (2025-10-01)
    134. Eurasian Redstart (2025-10-02)
    135. Goldcrest (2025-10-03)
    136. Common Treecreeper (2025-10-03)
    137. European Robin (2025-10-03)
    138. Blue Tit (2025-10-04)
    139. Bluethroat (2025-10-04)
    140. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-10-04)
    141. Great Grey Shrike (2025-10-07)
    142. Pine Bunting (2025-10-11)
    143. Brambling (2025-10-11)
    144. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-10-11)
    145. Cetti's Warbler (2025-10-11)
    146. Laughing Dove (2025-10-12)
    147. Mew Gull (2025-10-13)
    148. Northern Pintail (2025-10-13)
    149. Rook (2025-10-13)
    150. Common Starling (2025-10-13)
    151. Song Thrush (2025-10-13)
    152. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-10-13)
    153. Arctic Loon (2025-10-18)
    154. Water Rail (2025-10-18)
    155. Northern Wren (2025-10-18)
    156. Long-eared Owl (2025-10-19)
    157. Eurasian Siskin (2025-10-19)
    158. Long-tailed Tit (2025-10-19)
    159. Black Redstart (2025-10-22)
    160. Pallas's Rosefinch (2025-10-23)
    161. Yellowhammer (2025-10-23)
    162. Black-throated Thrush (2025-10-24)
    163. Common Goldeneye (2025-10-25)
    164. Redwing (2025-10-25)
    165. Sky Lark (2025-10-25)
    166. Spanish Sparrow (2025-10-25)
    167. Eurasian Linnet (2025-10-25)
    168. Common Chaffinch (2025-10-25)
    169. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-10-25)
    170. Hooded Crow (2025-11-02)
    171. Eurasian Magpie (2025-11-02)
    172. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-12-11)
    173. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-12-11)
    174. Red-billed Chough (2025-12-11)
    175. Eastern Buzzard (2025-12-12)
    176. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-12-12)
    177. Twite (2025-12-12)
    178. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-12-12)
    179. Tree Sparrow (2025-12-12)
    180. Ibisbill (2025-12-14)
    181. Solitary Snipe (2025-12-14)
    182. Eurasian Dipper (2025-12-14)
    183. Green Sandpiper (2025-12-14)
    184. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-12-14)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-16. Ibisbill, White-bellied Dipper, Green Sandpiper, Common Sparrowhawk, Eastern Buzzard, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Common Snipe, Eastern Buzzard, Eastern Buzzard, Eurasian Jackdaw, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Eastern Buzzard, Red-fronted Serin, Red-fronted Serin, Twite, Eurasian Linnet, Ruddy Shelduck, Tree Sparrow.

    2025-12-14. Ibisbill, Solitary Snipe, White-Winged Woodpecker.

    2025-12-12. White-winged Snowfinch, Red-billed Chough.

    2025-12-11. Brandt's Rosefinch.

    2025-11-04. Common Goldeneye, Common Sparrowhawk, Redwing, Sky Lark, Redwing, Calandra Lark, Spanish Sparrow, Eurasian Linnet, Desert Finch, Calandra Lark, Yellowhammer, Common Chaffinch, Northern Reed Bunting, Northern Reed Bunting, Song Thrush.

    2025-11-03. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Black-throated Accentor, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Rook, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Hooded Crow, Eurasian Magpie, Steppe Eagle.

    2025-10-26. Bearded Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit.

    2025-10-24. Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling, European Black Redstart, European Robin, Bearded Tit, Northern Wren, Caspian Gull, Black-throated Thrush, Yellowhammer, Pallas's Rosefinch.

    2025-10-23. Pallas's Rosefinch.

    2025-10-20. Arctic Loon, Black-throated Accentor, Black-throated Accentor, Red-backed Shrike, Long-eared Owl, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Tit, Water Rail, Spotted Crake, Tawny Pipit, Bearded Tit, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Goldcrest, Crested Lark.

    2025-10-14. Cetti's Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Mew Gull, Northern Pintail, Rook, Common Starling, Desert Finch, Pine Bunting, Brambling, Steppe Lesser Short-toed Lark, Laughing Dove, Oriental Turtle Dove, Song Thrush, Eurasian Blackbird, Hoopoe, Oriental Turtle Dove, Song Thrush, Crested Lark, Bluethroat, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Red-crested Pochard, Cetti's Warbler.

    2025-10-12. Laughing Dove.

    2025-10-09. Long-legged Buzzard.

    2025-10-07. Long-legged Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Great Grey Shrike.

    2025-10-05. Blue Tit, Bluethroat, Paddyfield Warbler, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Common Chiffchaff.

    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...