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    total species: 225
    total photos: 819
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 9

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    1. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-01-11)
    2. Smew (2025-01-11)
    3. Tufted Duck (2025-01-11)
    4. Mute Swan (2025-01-11)
    5. Whooper Swan (2025-01-11)
    6. Red-crested Pochard (2025-01-11)
    7. Common Pochard (2025-01-11)
    8. Water Rail (2025-01-11)
    9. Great White Egret (2025-01-11)
    10. Steppe Eagle (2025-01-11)
    11. Eastern Buzzard (2025-01-11)
    12. Horned Lark (2025-01-11)
    13. Corn Bunting (2025-01-11)
    14. Yellowhammer (2025-01-11)
    15. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-01-11)
    17. European Robin (2025-01-11)
    18. Rock Bunting (2025-01-11)
    19. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-11)
    20. Pine Bunting (2025-01-11)
    21. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-12)
    22. Mew Gull (2025-01-12)
    23. Caspian Gull (2025-01-12)
    24. Goosander (2025-01-12)
    25. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-12)
    26. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-12)
    27. Meadow Bunting (2025-01-12)
    28. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-12)
    29. Turkestan Tit (2025-01-12)
    30. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-01-12)
    31. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-12)
    32. Hen Harrier (2025-01-12)
    33. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-08)
    34. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-02-08)
    35. Brambling (2025-02-08)
    36. Goldcrest (2025-02-08)
    37. Mallard (2025-02-08)
    38. Eurasian Siskin (2025-02-09)
    39. Mistle Thrush (2025-02-09)
    40. Common Chaffinch (2025-02-09)
    41. Eurasian Dipper (2025-02-15)
    42. Coal Tit (2025-02-15)
    43. Black-throated Thrush (2025-02-15)
    44. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-02-15)
    45. Cinereous Vulture (2025-02-15)
    46. Wallcreeper (2025-02-15)
    47. Common Kestrel (2025-02-15)
    48. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2025-02-15)
    49. Northern Goshawk (2025-02-15)
    50. Alpine Accentor (2025-02-15)
    51. Black-throated Accentor (2025-02-15)
    52. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-02-15)
    53. Long-tailed Tit (2025-02-15)
    54. Azure Tit (2025-02-15)
    55. Common Teal (2025-03-02)
    56. Grey Heron (2025-03-02)
    57. Northern Wren (2025-03-02)
    58. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-06)
    59. Golden Eagle (2025-04-06)
    60. Black Kite (2025-04-06)
    61. Common Pheasant (2025-04-06)
    62. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-13)
    63. White-headed Duck (2025-04-13)
    64. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-13)
    65. Turkestan Shrike (2025-04-13)
    66. Isabelline Shrike (2025-04-13)
    67. Black Redstart (2025-04-13)
    68. Common Redshank (2025-04-13)
    69. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-13)
    70. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-13)
    71. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-13)
    72. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-13)
    73. Great Cormorant (2025-04-13)
    74. Great White Pelican (2025-04-13)
    75. Little Bustard (2025-04-13)
    76. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-13)
    77. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-13)
    78. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-13)
    79. Rook (2025-04-13)
    80. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-13)
    81. Brown Dipper (2025-04-26)
    82. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-04-26)
    83. Common Mynah (2025-04-26)
    84. Eurasian Magpie (2025-04-26)
    85. Wood Pigeon (2025-04-26)
    86. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-04-26)
    87. Crested Lark (2025-04-27)
    88. Glossy Ibis (2025-05-03)
    89. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-03)
    90. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-05-03)
    91. Lesser Sand Plover (2025-05-03)
    92. Common Greenshank (2025-05-03)
    93. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-03)
    94. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-03)
    95. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-03)
    96. Common Tern (2025-05-03)
    97. Black-headed Gull (2025-05-03)
    98. Black Tern (2025-05-03)
    99. Kentish Plover (2025-05-03)
    100. Common Oystercatcher (2025-05-03)
    101. Little Stint (2025-05-03)
    102. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-03)
    103. Chukar Partridge (2025-05-03)
    104. Rosy Starling (2025-05-03)
    105. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-05-03)
    106. Common Snipe (2025-05-03)
    107. Collared Pratincole (2025-05-03)
    108. Little Tern (2025-05-03)
    109. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-03)
    110. Syke's Warbler (2025-05-03)
    111. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-05-07)
    112. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-07)
    113. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-05-07)
    114. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-05-07)
    115. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-05-07)
    116. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-07)
    117. Calandra Lark (2025-05-07)
    118. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-05-07)
    119. Spanish Sparrow (2025-05-07)
    120. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-07)
    121. Long-toed Stint (2025-05-10)
    122. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-10)
    123. Common Swift (2025-05-10)
    124. Long-tailed Shrike (2025-05-10)
    125. Black Stork (2025-05-10)
    126. European Bee-eater (2025-05-10)
    127. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-10)
    128. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-10)
    129. Common Kingfisher (2025-05-10)
    130. Osprey (2025-05-10)
    131. Common Starling (2025-05-10)
    132. Pied Avocet (2025-05-10)
    133. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-10)
    134. White Wagtail (2025-05-10)
    135. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-10)
    136. Indian Sparrow (2025-05-10)
    137. Barn Swallow (2025-05-10)
    138. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-18)
    139. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-18)
    140. Northern House Martin (2025-05-18)
    141. Grey Plover (2025-05-18)
    142. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-18)
    143. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-05-18)
    144. Brown-necked Raven (2025-05-18)
    145. European Nightjar (2025-05-18)
    146. Rufous Bush Robin (2025-05-18)
    147. Greater Sand Plover (2025-05-18)
    148. Caspian Plover (2025-05-18)
    149. Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-18)
    150. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-18)
    151. Desert Finch (2025-05-18)
    152. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-18)
    153. Common Coot (2025-06-01)
    154. Garganey (2025-06-01)
    155. Sky Lark (2025-06-01)
    156. Eurasian Linnet (2025-06-01)
    157. Pale Sand Martin (2025-06-01)
    158. Himalayan Vulture (2025-06-01)
    159. Red-billed Chough (2025-06-01)
    160. Tawny Pipit (2025-06-01)
    161. Long-eared Owl (2025-06-07)
    162. Daurian Partridge (2025-06-08)
    163. Carrion Crow (2025-06-08)
    164. Masked Wagtail (2025-06-08)
    165. Northern Lapwing (2025-06-08)
    166. Greenish Warbler (2025-06-08)
    167. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-06-08)
    168. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-06-08)
    169. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-06-08)
    170. European Greenfinch (2025-07-05)
    171. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-07-07)
    172. Brown Accentor (2025-07-08)
    173. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-07-09)
    174. Water Pipit (2025-07-09)
    175. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-07-09)
    176. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-07-09)
    177. Eurasian Hobby (2025-07-09)
    178. Himalayan Accentor (2025-07-09)
    179. Himalayan Rubythroat (2025-07-09)
    180. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-08-09)
    181. Gadwall (2025-08-09)
    182. Pacific Golden Plover (2025-08-09)
    183. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-09)
    184. Eurasian Curlew (2025-08-09)
    185. Caspian Tern (2025-08-09)
    186. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-08-09)
    187. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-08-09)
    188. Tree Pipit (2025-08-23)
    189. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-08-24)
    190. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2025-08-24)
    191. White-Winged Woodpecker (2025-08-24)
    192. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-08-24)
    193. Northern Pintail (2025-08-24)
    194. Barred Warbler (2025-08-24)
    195. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-08-24)
    196. Booted Eagle (2025-08-24)
    197. Shikra (2025-08-24)
    198. Lesser Kestrel (2025-09-06)
    199. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-09-06)
    200. Dunlin (2025-09-06)
    201. Sanderling (2025-09-06)
    202. Ruff (2025-09-06)
    203. Little Grebe (2025-09-06)
    204. Ferruginous Duck (2025-09-06)
    205. Slavonian Grebe (2025-09-06)
    206. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-09-06)
    207. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-09-13)
    208. Red Crossbill (2025-09-13)
    209. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-09-13)
    210. Meadow Pipit (2025-10-11)
    211. Common Chiffchaff (2025-10-11)
    212. Greylag Goose (2025-10-11)
    213. Common Moorhen (2025-10-19)
    214. Common Crane (2025-11-02)
    215. Hoopoe (2025-11-02)
    216. Lammergeier (2025-11-09)
    217. Great Grey Shrike (2025-11-09)
    219. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-11-15)
    220. Bearded Tit (2025-11-15)
    221. Bewick's Swan (2025-11-15)
    222. Common Raven (2025-12-06)
    223. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-12-13)
    224. Ibisbill (2025-12-16)
    225. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-12-21)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-29. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2025-12-24. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2025-12-21. Long-eared Owl, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Azure Tit.

    2025-12-18. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Northern Wren, Common Sparrowhawk, Eversmann's Redstart, Black-throated Thrush, Himalayan Vulture.

    2025-12-16. Ibisbill, Eurasian Dipper, Green Sandpiper, Common Pheasant, Northern Wren, Pygmy Cormorant.

    2025-12-14. Carrion Crow.

    2025-12-13. Mistle Thrush, Bohemian Waxwing, Black-throated Thrush, Common Kestrel.

    2025-12-07. Eastern Buzzard.

    2025-12-06. Cinereous Vulture, Golden Eagle, Common Raven, Lammergeier, Himalayan Vulture.

    2025-11-29. Mistle Thrush.

    2025-11-24. Lapland Longspur.

    2025-11-22. Great White Egret, Mallard.

    2025-11-16. Pygmy Cormorant, Greylag Goose, Western Marsh-Harrier, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Chiffchaff, Great Grey Shrike, Common Crane, Long-legged Buzzard, Common Pheasant, Hybrid Bunting, Steppe Eagle, Rook.

    2025-11-15. Long-tailed Rosefinch, Bearded Tit, Dalmatian Pelican, Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan, Mute Swan, Grey-headed Goldfinch, Northern Lapwing.

    2025-11-09. Lammergeier, Great Grey Shrike, Common Sparrowhawk, Chukar Partridge, Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker, Golden Eagle.

    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...