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    total species: 197
    total photos: 841
    total videos: 0
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    1. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-01-01)
    2. Mallard (2024-01-01)
    3. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-01)
    4. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
    5. Common Starling (2024-01-01)
    6. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-01)
    7. Smew (2024-01-01)
    8. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-01)
    9. Mute Swan (2024-01-01)
    10. Tufted Duck (2024-01-01)
    11. Caspian Gull (2024-01-01)
    12. Whooper Swan (2024-01-01)
    13. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-01)
    14. Northern Pintail (2024-01-01)
    15. Greater Flamingo (2024-01-01)
    16. Rook (2024-01-01)
    17. Hooded Crow (2024-01-01)
    18. Common Kestrel (2024-01-01)
    19. Mew Gull (2024-01-01)
    20. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
    21. Hawfinch (2024-01-01)
    22. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
    23. Greater Scaup (2024-01-01)
    24. Common Snipe (2024-01-01)
    25. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-01)
    26. Great White Egret (2024-01-01)
    27. Grey Heron (2024-01-01)
    28. Bewick's Swan (2024-01-01)
    29. Common Coot (2024-01-01)
    30. Common Pochard (2024-01-01)
    31. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
    32. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-02)
    33. Hen Harrier (2024-01-02)
    34. House Sparrow (2024-01-05)
    35. Desert Finch (2024-01-06)
    36. Crested Lark (2024-01-06)
    37. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-06)
    38. Common Raven (2024-01-07)
    39. Fieldfare (2024-01-07)
    40. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-01-08)
    41. Little Egret (2024-01-09)
    42. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-09)
    43. Bearded Tit (2024-01-09)
    44. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-09)
    45. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-01-09)
    46. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-16)
    47. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-19)
    48. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-19)
    49. Goosander (2024-01-19)
    50. Gadwall (2024-01-19)
    51. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-19)
    52. Common Teal (2024-01-19)
    53. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-21)
    54. Brambling (2024-01-21)
    55. Yellowhammer (2024-01-21)
    56. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-24)
    57. Eurasian Magpie (2024-02-04)
    58. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-04)
    59. Great Tit (2024-02-04)
    60. Ring-billed Gull (2024-02-09)
    61. Great Crested Grebe (2024-02-10)
    62. Tree Sparrow (2024-02-10)
    63. Northern Wren (2024-02-11)
    64. Common Goldeneye (2024-02-11)
    66. Golden Eagle (2024-03-03)
    67. Common Shelduck (2024-03-07)
    68. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-03-07)
    69. White Wagtail (2024-03-10)
    70. Ruff (2024-03-10)
    71. White-headed Duck (2024-03-10)
    72. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-03-10)
    73. Garganey (2024-03-10)
    74. Steppe Eagle (2024-03-10)
    75. Great Grey Shrike (2024-03-12)
    76. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-16)
    77. Mistle Thrush (2024-03-22)
    78. Hoopoe (2024-03-23)
    79. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-23)
    80. Pallid Harrier (2024-03-24)
    81. Black-winged Stilt (2024-03-24)
    82. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-03-24)
    83. Black Redstart (2024-03-24)
    84. Merlin (2024-03-24)
    85. Green Sandpiper (2024-03-24)
    86. Common Swift (2024-03-25)
    87. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-03-25)
    88. Black Kite (2024-03-25)
    89. Bluethroat (2024-03-29)
    90. Pied Avocet (2024-03-29)
    91. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-29)
    92. Common Chiffchaff (2024-03-29)
    93. Song Thrush (2024-03-30)
    94. Dunlin (2024-03-30)
    95. Finsch's Wheatear (2024-03-30)
    96. Kentish Plover (2024-03-30)
    97. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-30)
    98. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-03-30)
    99. Greater Sand Plover (2024-03-30)
    100. Alpine Swift (2024-03-31)
    101. Cinereous Vulture (2024-03-31)
    102. Bimaculated Lark (2024-03-31)
    103. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-31)
    104. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-02)
    105. Barn Swallow (2024-04-05)
    106. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-04-05)
    107. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-05)
    108. Purple Heron (2024-04-06)
    109. Masked Wagtail (2024-04-06)
    110. European Robin (2024-04-06)
    111. Glossy Ibis (2024-04-06)
    112. Tree Pipit (2024-04-07)
    113. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-04-07)
    114. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-04-09)
    115. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-10)
    116. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-04-10)
    117. Little Tern (2024-04-10)
    118. Slender-billed Gull (2024-04-10)
    119. Common Tern (2024-04-10)
    120. Pallas's Gull (2024-04-10)
    121. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-04-13)
    122. Common Redshank (2024-04-14)
    123. Sandwich Tern (2024-04-14)
    124. Calandra Lark (2024-04-27)
    125. Sand Martin (2024-04-27)
    126. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-28)
    127. Gull-billed Tern (2024-04-28)
    128. Common Greenshank (2024-04-29)
    129. Temminck's Stint (2024-04-29)
    130. Wood Sandpiper (2024-04-29)
    131. European Bee-eater (2024-04-29)
    132. Egyptian Vulture (2024-04-30)
    133. Rosy Starling (2024-04-30)
    134. Eurasian Redstart (2024-04-30)
    135. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-02)
    136. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-02)
    137. Little Stint (2024-05-02)
    138. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-05-02)
    139. Cattle Egret (2024-05-04)
    140. White-winged Tern (2024-05-06)
    141. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-05-08)
    142. Laughing Dove (2024-05-09)
    143. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-09)
    144. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-09)
    145. Sedge Warbler (2024-05-09)
    146. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-09)
    147. Syke's Warbler (2024-05-09)
    148. Macqueen's Bustard (2024-05-11)
    149. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-05-15)
    150. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-20)
    151. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-05-20)
    152. Red-headed Bunting (2024-06-01)
    153. Great Reed Warbler (2024-06-01)
    154. Collared Pratincole (2024-06-01)
    155. Caspian Plover (2024-06-02)
    156. Shikra (2024-06-03)
    157. Common Rosefinch (2024-06-05)
    158. Desert Wheatear (2024-06-15)
    159. Little Owl (2024-06-23)
    160. Tawny Pipit (2024-06-30)
    161. Horned Lark (2024-07-04)
    162. Rock Sparrow (2024-07-06)
    163. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-07-15)
    164. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-08-02)
    165. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-08-08)
    166. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-08-26)
    167. Northern Lapwing (2024-09-01)
    168. Levant Sparrowhawk (2024-09-01)
    169. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-09-10)
    170. Ortolan Bunting (2024-09-14)
    171. Grey Wagtail (2024-09-14)
    172. Chukar Partridge (2024-09-15)
    173. Griffon Vulture (2024-09-21)
    174. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-09-21)
    175. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2024-09-21)
    176. Saker Falcon (2024-09-21)
    177. Willow Warbler (2024-10-05)
    178. Hume's Warbler (2024-10-06)
    179. Little Grebe (2024-10-08)
    180. Redwing (2024-10-27)
    181. Common Mynah (2024-11-05)
    182. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-11-05)
    183. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-11-06)
    184. Black-throated Thrush (2024-11-06)
    185. Carrion Crow (2024-11-06)
    186. Common Pheasant (2024-11-06)
    187. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-11-09)
    188. Lammergeier (2024-11-10)
    189. Coal Tit (2024-11-10)
    190. Songar Tit (2024-11-10)
    191. Ibisbill (2024-11-12)
    192. Eurasian Dipper (2024-11-12)
    193. Brown Dipper (2024-11-12)
    194. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-11-15)
    195. Eurasian Siskin (2024-11-15)
    196. European Greenfinch (2024-11-15)
    197. Red-fronted Serin (2024-11-16)

    recent uploads

    2024-11-18. Common Pheasant.

    2024-11-16. Red-fronted Serin, Common Kestrel.

    2024-11-15. Grey-headed Goldfinch, Eurasian Siskin, European Greenfinch.

    2024-11-13. Yellow-billed Chough, Yellow-billed Chough.

    2024-11-12. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Rock Pigeon, Eurasian Blackbird, Ibisbill, Eurasian Dipper, Brown Dipper, Unkown Bird, Hooded Crow, Eurasian Magpie.

    2024-11-11. Common Starling.

    2024-11-10. Lammergeier, Coal Tit, Songar Tit.

    2024-11-09. Yellow-billed Chough.

    2024-11-08. Laughing Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2024-11-06. Eurasian Blackbird, Great Tit, Black-throated Thrush, Carrion Crow, Common Pheasant, Common Kestrel, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2024-11-05. Common Mynah, White-Winged Woodpecker, Ruddy Shelduck, Tree Sparrow, Common Sparrowhawk.

    2024-10-28. Common Cuckoo.

    2024-10-27. Redwing, Eurasian Redstart, Common Raven, Eurasian Collared Dove.

    2024-10-26. Eurasian Collared Dove, Laughing Dove, Song Thrush, House Sparrow.

    2024-10-21. Common Raven, Hawfinch.

    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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