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    total species: 165
    total photos: 519
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Common Swift (2023-04-21)
    2. Bluethroat (2023-04-21)
    3. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2023-04-22)
    4. Eurasian Redstart (2023-04-22)
    5. Purple Heron (2023-04-22)
    6. Common Kestrel (2023-04-23)
    7. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2023-04-23)
    8. Willow Warbler (2023-04-23)
    9. Greater Flamingo (2023-04-23)
    10. Black-winged Stilt (2023-04-23)
    11. Eurasian Whimbrel (2023-04-23)
    12. Common Greenshank (2023-04-23)
    13. Kentish Plover (2023-04-23)
    14. Eurasian Golden Plover (2023-04-23)
    15. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-04-23)
    16. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2023-04-23)
    17. Greater Short-toed Lark (2023-04-23)
    18. Great White Egret (2023-04-23)
    19. Eurasian Curlew (2023-04-23)
    20. Gull-billed Tern (2023-04-24)
    21. Long-legged Buzzard (2023-04-28)
    22. Common Mynah (2023-04-30)
    23. Golden Eagle (2023-04-30)
    24. Cattle Egret (2023-05-01)
    25. Macqueen's Bustard (2023-05-01)
    26. Spotted Flycatcher (2023-05-13)
    27. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-05-13)
    28. Cinereous Vulture (2023-05-22)
    29. Griffon Vulture (2023-05-22)
    30. Greater Sand Plover (2023-05-24)
    31. Brown-necked Raven (2023-05-26)
    32. Eurasian Collared Dove (2023-05-30)
    33. Glossy Ibis (2023-05-31)
    34. Black-headed Gull (2023-05-31)
    35. White-headed Duck (2023-05-31)
    36. Red-crested Pochard (2023-05-31)
    37. Red-necked Phalarope (2023-05-31)
    38. Rosy Starling (2023-05-31)
    39. Caspian Gull (2023-06-05)
    40. Great Cormorant (2023-06-05)
    41. Mute Swan (2023-06-05)
    42. Common Tern (2023-06-05)
    43. Little Tern (2023-06-05)
    44. Slender-billed Gull (2023-06-05)
    45. Western Marsh-Harrier (2023-06-05)
    46. Great Crested Grebe (2023-06-05)
    47. Rock Pigeon (2023-06-07)
    48. House Sparrow (2023-06-10)
    49. Red-headed Bunting (2023-06-11)
    50. Little Ringed Plover (2023-06-11)
    51. Black-Necked Grebe (2023-06-11)
    52. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2023-06-11)
    53. Whiskered Tern (2023-06-11)
    54. Eurasian Roller (2023-06-11)
    55. Common Coot (2023-06-11)
    56. Shikra (2023-06-11)
    57. Garganey (2023-06-13)
    58. Barn Swallow (2023-06-16)
    59. White-winged Tern (2023-06-19)
    60. Crested Lark (2023-06-19)
    61. Common Sandpiper (2023-06-19)
    62. Northern Shoveler (2023-06-19)
    63. Green Sandpiper (2023-06-19)
    64. Spotted Redshank (2023-06-19)
    65. Fieldfare (2023-06-20)
    66. Common Redshank (2023-06-21)
    67. Common Pochard (2023-06-21)
    68. Oriental Turtle Dove (2023-06-25)
    69. Hoopoe (2023-06-25)
    70. Black-headed Wagtail (2023-06-25)
    71. Black-tailed Godwit (2023-06-25)
    72. Northern Lapwing (2023-06-25)
    73. Pied Wheatear (2023-06-25)
    74. Wood Sandpiper (2023-06-25)
    75. Marsh Sandpiper (2023-06-26)
    76. Ruff (2023-06-26)
    77. Syke's Warbler (2023-06-26)
    78. Common Starling (2023-06-26)
    79. Black Kite (2023-06-26)
    80. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-06-30)
    81. Eurasian Magpie (2023-06-30)
    82. Hooded Crow (2023-06-30)
    83. White Wagtail (2023-06-30)
    84. Mallard (2023-06-30)
    85. Tree Sparrow (2023-06-30)
    86. Great Tit (2023-06-30)
    87. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-07-03)
    88. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-07-03)
    89. Egyptian Vulture (2023-07-05)
    90. Common Raven (2023-07-05)
    91. Steppe Grey Shrike (2023-07-05)
    92. Horned Lark (2023-07-05)
    93. Finsch's Wheatear (2023-07-06)
    94. Bimaculated Lark (2023-07-06)
    95. Isabelline Wheatear (2023-07-06)
    96. Alpine Swift (2023-07-06)
    97. Little Stint (2023-07-08)
    98. Laughing Dove (2023-07-10)
    99. Terek Sandpiper (2023-07-15)
    100. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2023-07-17)
    101. Curlew Sandpiper (2023-07-19)
    102. Temminck's Stint (2023-07-19)
    103. Pied Avocet (2023-07-20)
    104. Black-crowned Night Heron (2023-07-21)
    105. Common Oystercatcher (2023-07-23)
    106. Sandwich Tern (2023-07-23)
    107. Ruddy Turnstone (2023-07-23)
    108. Bar-tailed Godwit (2023-07-23)
    109. Grey Heron (2023-07-23)
    110. Common Cuckoo (2023-07-23)
    111. Red-backed Shrike (2023-07-23)
    112. Chukar Partridge (2023-07-23)
    113. Paddyfield Warbler (2023-07-23)
    114. Bearded Tit (2023-07-23)
    115. Desert Finch (2023-07-23)
    116. European Bee-eater (2023-07-25)
    117. Sand Martin (2023-07-26)
    118. Tawny Pipit (2023-07-30)
    119. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2023-08-01)
    120. Dunlin (2023-08-03)
    121. Citrine Wagtail (2023-08-05)
    122. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-08-09)
    123. Greater Ringed Plover (2023-08-10)
    124. Yellow Wagtail (2023-08-10)
    125. Tree Pipit (2023-08-13)
    126. Common Whitethroat (2023-08-13)
    127. Barred Warbler (2023-08-13)
    128. Garden Warbler (2023-08-13)
    129. Eurasian Wryneck (2023-08-15)
    130. Greenish Warbler (2023-08-27)
    131. Great Reed Warbler (2023-08-29)
    132. Ortolan Bunting (2023-09-03)
    133. Levant Sparrowhawk (2023-09-03)
    134. European Golden Oriole (2023-09-08)
    135. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-09-09)
    136. Hawfinch (2023-09-16)
    137. White-tailed Lapwing (2023-09-24)
    138. Common Chiffchaff (2023-09-27)
    139. Little Owl (2023-10-12)
    140. Common Chaffinch (2023-10-12)
    141. Spanish Sparrow (2023-10-12)
    142. Hen Harrier (2023-10-12)
    143. Yellowhammer (2023-10-23)
    144. Brambling (2023-10-23)
    145. Steppe Eagle (2023-10-23)
    146. Mistle Thrush (2023-10-24)
    147. Merlin (2023-10-24)
    148. Calandra Lark (2023-10-24)
    149. European Robin (2023-10-24)
    150. Rook (2023-10-29)
    151. Red-breasted Merganser (2023-12-08)
    152. Eurasian Siskin (2023-12-08)
    153. White-winged Lark (2023-12-12)
    154. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-12-12)
    155. Tufted Duck (2023-12-16)
    156. Dalmatian Pelican (2023-12-16)
    157. Goosander (2023-12-16)
    158. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-12-16)
    159. Water Rail (2023-12-16)
    160. Common Goldeneye (2023-12-16)
    161. Common Snipe (2023-12-16)
    162. Pygmy Cormorant (2023-12-16)
    163. Common Teal (2023-12-16)
    164. Black Redstart (2023-12-17)
    165. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-12-22)

    recent uploads

    2023-12-24. Northern Reed Bunting.

    2023-12-21. Common Teal, Red-breasted Merganser, Calandra Lark, Red-breasted Merganser, Greater Ringed Plover.

    2023-12-20. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Black-Necked Grebe, Water Rail, Common Goldeneye, Grey Heron, Great Crested Grebe, Common Snipe, Caspian Gull, Caspian Gull, Pygmy Cormorant.

    2023-12-19. European Black Redstart, Dalmatian Pelican, Goosander.

    2023-12-18. Tufted Duck, Greater Flamingo.

    2023-12-15. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2023-12-14. White-winged Lark.

    2023-12-13. Lesser Short-toed Lark, Common Raven, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse.

    2023-12-08. Red-breasted Merganser, Eurasian Siskin.

    2023-10-30. European Robin, Rook.

    2023-10-27. Common Chaffinch, Spanish Sparrow, Hen Harrier, Yellowhammer, Brambling, Steppe Eagle, Mistle Thrush, Merlin, Calandra Lark.

    2023-10-14. Little Owl.

    2023-09-29. Spotted Flycatcher, Rock Pigeon.

    2023-09-28. Eurasian Collared Dove.

    2023-09-27. 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...

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