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total species: 227
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1. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-01)
2. Wallcreeper (2024-01-02)
3. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-02)
4. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-01-02)
5. Azure Tit (2024-01-02)
6. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-02)
7. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2024-01-06)
8. Mallard (2024-01-06)
9. European Greenfinch (2024-01-28)
10. Red-fronted Serin (2024-01-28)
11. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-28)
12. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-28)
13. Common Kestrel (2024-01-28)
14. Common Pheasant (2024-01-28)
15. European Robin (2024-01-28)
16. Great White Egret (2024-01-28)
17. Common Chaffinch (2024-02-03)
18. Boreal Owl (2024-02-04)
19. Long-eared Owl (2024-02-04)
20. Eastern Buzzard (2024-02-04)
21. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-02-04)
22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-02-04)
23. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-04)
24. Pine Bunting (2024-02-04)
25. Yellowhammer (2024-02-04)
26. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-02-04)
27. Eurasian Siskin (2024-02-17)
28. Eurasian Dipper (2024-02-18)
29. Brown Dipper (2024-02-18)
30. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-16)
31. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-03-16)
32. Great Cormorant (2024-03-16)
33. Masked Wagtail (2024-03-16)
34. Brambling (2024-03-16)
35. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-03-17)
36. Hooded Crow (2024-03-17)
37. Rock Bunting (2024-03-31)
38. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-31)
39. Mistle Thrush (2024-03-31)
40. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-31)
41. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-31)
42. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-31)
43. Corn Bunting (2024-03-31)
44. Common Moorhen (2024-04-06)
45. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-06)
46. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-04-06)
47. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-06)
48. Great White Pelican (2024-04-07)
49. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-04-07)
50. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-04-07)
51. Northern Pintail (2024-04-07)
52. Calandra Lark (2024-04-07)
53. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-04-07)
54. Bluethroat (2024-04-07)
55. White Wagtail (2024-04-07)
56. Chukar Partridge (2024-04-07)
57. Isabelline Shrike (2024-04-07)
58. White-headed Duck (2024-04-07)
59. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-04-07)
60. Tree Pipit (2024-04-13)
61. Hoopoe (2024-04-13)
62. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-13)
63. Crested Lark (2024-04-13)
64. Turkestan Shrike (2024-04-13)
65. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-13)
66. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-04-13)
67. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-13)
68. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-04-13)
69. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-04-13)
70. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-04-13)
71. Greater Sand Plover (2024-04-13)
72. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-04-13)
73. Black Redstart (2024-04-13)
74. Barn Swallow (2024-04-13)
75. House Sparrow (2024-04-13)
76. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-04-15)
77. Black Kite (2024-04-20)
78. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-04-20)
79. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-04-20)
80. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-20)
81. Red-crested Pochard (2024-04-20)
82. Garganey (2024-04-20)
83. Gadwall (2024-04-20)
84. Montagu's Harrier (2024-04-20)
85. Savi's Warbler (2024-04-20)
86. Caspian Gull (2024-04-20)
87. Common Starling (2024-04-21)
88. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-04-21)
90. Grey Heron (2024-04-28)
91. Whooper Swan (2024-04-28)
92. Eurasian Roller (2024-04-28)
93. Common Shelduck (2024-04-28)
94. Grey Wagtail (2024-04-28)
95. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-28)
96. Common Tern (2024-04-28)
97. Black Tern (2024-04-28)
98. Common Greenshank (2024-04-28)
99. Little Bustard (2024-04-28)
100. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-28)
101. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-28)
102. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-28)
103. Common Redshank (2024-04-28)
104. Ferruginous Duck (2024-04-28)
105. Common Oystercatcher (2024-04-28)
106. Great Crested Grebe (2024-04-28)
107. Hume's Warbler (2024-05-05)
108. Lammergeier (2024-05-05)
109. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-05-05)
110. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-05-05)
111. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2024-05-07)
112. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-07)
113. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-05-07)
114. Common Nightingale (2024-05-07)
115. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-07)
116. Barred Warbler (2024-05-07)
117. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-07)
118. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-07)
119. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-07)
120. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-07)
121. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-05-07)
122. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-05-07)
123. Indian Sparrow (2024-05-07)
124. Rosy Starling (2024-05-07)
125. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-07)
126. Shikra (2024-05-07)
127. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2024-05-07)
128. Turkestan Tit (2024-05-07)
129. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-05-07)
130. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-08)
131. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2024-05-08)
132. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-08)
133. Red-headed Bunting (2024-05-08)
134. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-05-08)
135. Citrine Wagtail (2024-05-08)
136. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-18)
137. Alpine Swift (2024-05-18)
138. Common Mynah (2024-05-18)
139. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-25)
140. Laughing Dove (2024-06-01)
141. European Bee-eater (2024-06-01)
142. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-06-08)
143. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-06-14)
144. White-capped Bunting (2024-06-14)
145. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-06-14)
146. Sky Lark (2024-06-14)
147. Black Stork (2024-06-14)
148. Common Quail (2024-06-14)
149. Richard's Pipit (2024-06-14)
150. Common Crane (2024-06-15)
151. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-06-15)
152. Cinereous Vulture (2024-06-15)
153. Himalayan Vulture (2024-06-15)
154. Pale Sand Martin (2024-06-15)
155. Carrion Crow (2024-06-22)
156. Water Pipit (2024-06-22)
157. Tree Sparrow (2024-07-06)
158. Common Kingfisher (2024-07-08)
159. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-07-21)
160. Himalayan Rubythroat (2024-07-21)
161. Brown Accentor (2024-07-21)
162. Kentish Plover (2024-07-25)
163. Collared Pratincole (2024-07-25)
164. Little Tern (2024-07-25)
165. Relict Gull (2024-07-25)
166. Caspian Tern (2024-07-26)
167. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-07-28)
168. Terek Sandpiper (2024-07-28)
169. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-07-30)
170. Great Reed Warbler (2024-07-31)
171. Tawny Pipit (2024-08-01)
172. Golden Eagle (2024-08-08)
173. Rock Sparrow (2024-08-08)
174. Greenish Warbler (2024-08-08)
175. Horned Lark (2024-08-08)
176. Desert Wheatear (2024-08-09)
177. Eurasian Hobby (2024-08-09)
178. Meadow Bunting (2024-08-09)
179. Eurasian Linnet (2024-08-09)
180. Daurian Partridge (2024-08-09)
181. Common Buzzard (2024-08-12)
182. Little Owl (2024-08-12)
183. Eurasian Magpie (2024-08-15)
184. Red-backed Shrike (2024-08-17)
185. Booted Eagle (2024-08-31)
186. Ortolan Bunting (2024-08-31)
187. Rook (2024-09-04)
188. Sanderling (2024-09-08)
189. Grey Plover (2024-09-08)
190. Little Stint (2024-09-08)
191. Eurasian Curlew (2024-09-08)
192. Northern Shoveler (2024-09-08)
193. Common Snipe (2024-09-08)
194. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-09-08)
195. Wood Sandpiper (2024-09-08)
196. Pied Avocet (2024-09-08)
197. Ruff (2024-09-08)
198. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-08)
199. Northern Lapwing (2024-09-08)
200. Lesser Kestrel (2024-09-08)
201. Steppe Eagle (2024-09-08)
202. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-09-08)
203. Slavonian Grebe (2024-09-14)
204. Common Teal (2024-09-14)
205. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-09-14)
206. Dunlin (2024-09-14)
207. Common Coot (2024-09-21)
208. Spotted Redshank (2024-09-21)
209. Mute Swan (2024-09-21)
210. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-09-29)
211. Great Tit (2024-10-12)
212. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-10-12)
213. Goldcrest (2024-10-12)
214. Alpine Accentor (2024-10-12)
215. Black-throated Accentor (2024-10-12)
216. Songar Tit (2024-10-20)
217. Coal Tit (2024-10-20)
218. Common Treecreeper (2024-10-20)
219. Godlewski's Bunting (2024-11-02)
220. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-11-02)
221. Great Grey Shrike (2024-11-02)
222. Common Raven (2024-11-02)
223. Pallas's Gull (2024-12-07)
224. Goosander (2024-12-07)
225. Smew (2024-12-07)
226. Hen Harrier (2024-12-07)
227. Bewick's Swan (2024-12-07)

recent uploads


2025-01-01. Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Blackbird, Brambling, White-winged Grosbeak, Lesser Whitethroat.

2024-12-31. Common Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Hobby, Greenish Warbler, Grey Plover, Dalmatian Pelican, Collared Pratincole, Northern Lapwing, Little Stint, Red-necked Phalarope, Wood Sandpiper, Pied Avocet, Temminck's Stint, Slavonian Grebe, Ferruginous Duck, Common Snipe, Common Teal, Great White Egret, Common Kingfisher, Black-crowned Night Heron, Black-Necked Grebe, Dunlin, Crested Lark, Western Marsh-Harrier, Azure Tit, Common Sparrowhawk, Common Coot, Common Chiffchaff, Dalmatian Pelican, Eurasian Curlew, Common Starling, Spotted Redshank, Siberian Stonechat, Desert Wheatear, Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Common Kingfisher, Northern Lapwing, Ruff, Great Cormorant, Dalmatian Pelican, Eurasian Curlew, Caspian Gull, Ruff, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Calandra Lark, Common Kestrel, Little Bustard, Northern Shoveler, Ruff, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Pied Avocet, White Wagtail, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Hobby, Booted Eagle, Crested Lark, Great Crested Grebe, Water Pipit, Whooper Swan, Common Starling, Pied Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Siberian Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Whitethroat, Common Kestrel, Black-throated Thrush, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Goldcrest, Kentish Plover, Pallas's Gull, Goosander, Smew, Great Crested Grebe, Hen Harrier, Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, Mute Swan, Steppe Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

2024-12-30. Spotted Flycatcher, Turkestan Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Hoopoe, Little Owl, Greenish Warbler, Hume's Warbler, Turkestan Tit, Common Whitethroat, White-Winged Woodpecker, Crested Honey-Buzzard, Booted Eagle, Ortolan Bunting, Turkestan Shrike, Grey Wagtail, Mallard, Rook, Common Mynah, Carrion Crow, Lesser Whitethroat, Eurasian Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Turkestan Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Turkestan Shrike, White-headed Duck, Isabelline Shrike, Caspian Gull, Sanderling, Little Ringed Plover, Grey Plover, Temminck's Stint, Little Stint, Eurasian Curlew, Kentish Plover, Great Cormorant, Spotted Flycatcher, Northern Shoveler, Yellow Wagtail, Common Snipe, Short-toed Snake-Eagle, Common Kingfisher, Wood Sandpiper, Pied Avocet, Black-Necked Grebe, Ruff, Dalmatian Pelican, Red-necked Phalarope, Whooper Swan, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Curlew, Ruddy Turnstone, Lesser Kestrel, Steppe Eagle, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Ring-necked Pheasant.

2024-12-29. Ring-necked Pheasant, Great White Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove, Mallard, Pygmy Cormorant, Green Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Rosy Starling, Long-legged Buzzard, Turkestan Shrike, Common Buzzard, Eurasian Linnet, Siberian Stonechat, Common Whitethroat, Greenish Warbler, Pied Wheatear, Little Owl, Laughing Dove, Long-legged Buzzard, Pied Wheatear, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Grey-necked Bunting, Horned Lark, Black-headed Wagtail, Greater Short-toed Lark, Long-legged Buzzard, Rosy Starling, Green Sandpiper, Turkestan Shrike, Spotted Flycatcher, Eurasian Magpie, Common Whitethroat, Turkestan Shrike, Lesser Whitethroat, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Eurasian Roller, Tree Pipit, Shikra, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Eurasian Collared Dove, Red-backed Shrike, Common Rosefinch, Eurasian Blackbird, Common Whitethroat, Wood Pigeon, Hoopoe, Greenish Warbler.

2024-12-22. Black-throated Accentor, Plain Mountain Finch, Lammergeier, Cinereous Vulture, Godlewski's Bunting, Alpine Accentor, White-browed Tit-Warbler, White-winged Grosbeak.

2024-11-02. Godlewski's Bunting, Golden Eagle, Cinereous Vulture, Alpine Accentor, Coal Tit, Spotted Nutcracker, Mistle Thrush, Great Grey Shrike, Chukar Partridge, Common Raven, Wallcreeper, Alpine Accentor, White-browed Tit-Warbler.

2024-10-21. Eversmann's Redstart, Alpine Accentor, Black-throated Thrush, Azure Tit, Common Chiffchaff, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Red-mantled Rosefinch, Songar Tit, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Common Treecreeper, Black-throated Accentor, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Eversmann's Redstart, Wallcreeper.

2024-10-17. Great Tit, Common Chaffinch, Golden Eagle, Blue-capped Redstart, Goldcrest, Alpine Accentor, White-browed Tit-Warbler, Black-throated Accentor, Rock Bunting, Eversmann's Redstart.

2024-10-14. Wallcreeper.

2024-09-26. Long-legged Buzzard, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Green Sandpiper, Northern Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Eurasian Hobby, Black Kite, Tawny Pipit, Common Rosefinch, Meadow Bunting, Common Whitethroat, Eurasian Linnet, Red-headed Bunting, Pied Wheatear, Hoopoe, Siberian Stonechat, European Bee-eater, Northern Wheatear, Turkestan Shrike, Himalayan Vulture, Himalayan Vulture, Eurasian Roller, Pine Bunting, Daurian Partridge.

2024-09-23. Turkestan Shrike, Greenish Warbler, Chukar Partridge, Pied Wheatear, Rock Bunting, Golden Eagle, Turkestan Shrike, Horned Lark, Green Sandpiper, Sky Lark, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Isabelline Wheatear, Laughing Dove.

2024-09-06. Common Nightingale, Common Moorhen, Collared Pratincole, Relict Gull, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Common Tern, Kentish Plover, Great Reed Warbler, Common Sandpiper, Temminck's Stint, Great Cormorant, Black-winged Stilt, Common Tern, Eurasian Roller, Common Mynah, Lesser Grey Shrike, Crested Lark, Tawny Pipit, Black-headed Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Barn Swallow, Tree Sparrow.

2024-09-02. Lesser Grey Shrike, Crested Lark, Turkestan Shrike, Black Kite, Rosy Starling, Hoopoe, Common Nightingale, Caspian Gull, Black-headed Gull, Kentish Plover, Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Black-winged Stilt, Black-headed Wagtail, Collared Pratincole, Black-headed Gull, Caspian Tern, Relict Gull, Ruddy Turnstone, Common Tern, Common Tern, Terek Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Black-winged Stilt.

2024-08-25. Greater Short-toed Lark.

2024-08-18. Blyth's Reed Warbler, Long-legged Buzzard, Golden Eagle, Rock Sparrow, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Pied Wheatear, Turkestan Shrike, Chukar Partridge.

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...