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    total species: 206
    total photos: 627
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 20

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

    recent uploads

    2024-12-15. Great White Egret, Pygmy Cormorant, Mallard, Azure Tit, Common Pheasant.

    2024-12-13. Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Great White Egret.

    2024-12-11. White-headed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Black-Necked Grebe, Black-Necked Grebe, Horned Lark, Eurasian Wigeon, Tree Sparrow, Great Grey Shrike.

    2024-12-10. Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Kentish Plover, Pallas's Gull, Black-headed Gull, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great Cormorant, Smew, Goosander, Northern Reed Bunting, Hen Harrier, Great Crested Grebe, Great Crested Grebe.

    2024-12-08. Bewick's Swan.

    2024-10-15. Goldcrest, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard, Eversmann's Redstart, Common Starling, Common Moorhen.

    2024-10-14. White-crowned Penduline Tit, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Greylag Goose, Pygmy Cormorant, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Mute Swan, White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, White-headed Duck, Eastern Imperial Eagle, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

    2024-10-11. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Ring-necked Pheasant, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

    2024-10-10. Common Redshank, Buff-bellied Pipit, Common Crane, Meadow Bunting, Black-winged Stilt.

    2024-10-08. Isabelline Wheatear, Dunlin, Corn Bunting.

    2024-10-07. Common Greenshank, Water Pipit, White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, White Wagtail, Calandra Lark, Buff-bellied Pipit, Water Pipit, Peregrine Falcon.

    2024-10-06. Sanderling, Northern Reed Bunting, Mute Swan, Water Pipit, Little Grebe, Steppe Eagle, Greylag Goose.

    2024-09-18. Whooper Swan, Crested Lark, Marsh Sandpiper, Dunlin.

    2024-09-17. Greater Short-toed Lark, Common Kingfisher, Mute Swan, White Wagtail, Great White Egret, Pied Avocet, Yellow Wagtail, Black-Necked Grebe, Common Snipe, Common Teal, Common Tern.

    2024-09-16. Little Stint, Little Ringed Plover, Common Redshank, Booted Warbler, Collared Pratincole, Northern Lapwing, Little Bustard, Wood Sandpiper.

    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...