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    total species: 222
    total photos: 834
    total videos: 0
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    1. Mallard (2025-01-03)
    2. Black-headed Gull (2025-01-03)
    3. Crested Lark (2025-01-03)
    4. Great White Egret (2025-01-03)
    5. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-03)
    6. Common Coot (2025-01-03)
    7. Great Cormorant (2025-01-03)
    8. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-03)
    9. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-01-03)
    10. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-03)
    11. Caspian Gull (2025-01-03)
    12. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-03)
    13. Mute Swan (2025-01-03)
    14. Tufted Duck (2025-01-03)
    15. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-01-03)
    16. Grey Heron (2025-01-03)
    17. Common Pochard (2025-01-03)
    18. Greater Flamingo (2025-01-03)
    19. Goosander (2025-01-03)
    20. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-01-03)
    21. Mew Gull (2025-01-03)
    22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-04)
    23. Hooded Crow (2025-01-04)
    24. Rook (2025-01-04)
    25. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-04)
    26. Common Raven (2025-01-04)
    27. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-04)
    28. House Sparrow (2025-01-06)
    29. Common Starling (2025-01-07)
    30. Common Kestrel (2025-01-07)
    31. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-09)
    32. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-12)
    33. European Robin (2025-01-13)
    34. Bewick's Swan (2025-01-13)
    35. Whooper Swan (2025-01-13)
    36. Common Teal (2025-01-13)
    37. Northern Pintail (2025-01-13)
    38. Black Redstart (2025-01-13)
    39. Gadwall (2025-01-13)
    40. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-01-13)
    41. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-13)
    42. Meadow Pipit (2025-01-13)
    43. Common Snipe (2025-01-13)
    44. Bearded Tit (2025-01-13)
    45. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-13)
    46. Desert Finch (2025-01-13)
    47. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-13)
    48. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-13)
    49. Common Greenshank (2025-01-13)
    50. Slender-billed Gull (2025-01-13)
    51. Little Grebe (2025-01-13)
    52. Wood Pigeon (2025-01-16)
    53. Sky Lark (2025-01-16)
    54. Dunnock (2025-01-16)
    55. Cetti's Warbler (2025-01-16)
    57. Fieldfare (2025-01-16)
    58. Black Kite (2025-01-23)
    59. Great Tit (2025-02-09)
    60. Eurasian Magpie (2025-02-09)
    61. Azure Tit (2025-02-09)
    62. Grey Partridge (2025-02-09)
    63. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-02-09)
    64. Lammergeier (2025-02-19)
    65. Chukar Partridge (2025-02-19)
    66. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-02-19)
    67. Golden Eagle (2025-02-19)
    68. Rock Sparrow (2025-02-19)
    69. Little Owl (2025-02-19)
    70. Cinereous Vulture (2025-02-19)
    71. Hen Harrier (2025-02-20)
    72. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-02-25)
    73. Kentish Plover (2025-02-25)
    74. Dunlin (2025-02-25)
    75. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-02-25)
    76. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-03-04)
    77. Black-throated Thrush (2025-03-04)
    78. Common Shelduck (2025-03-13)
    79. White Wagtail (2025-03-13)
    80. Green Sandpiper (2025-03-13)
    81. Red-crested Pochard (2025-03-13)
    82. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2025-03-13)
    83. Ruff (2025-03-14)
    84. Brambling (2025-03-14)
    85. Stock Pigeon (2025-03-14)
    86. White-headed Duck (2025-03-14)
    87. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-15)
    88. Laughing Dove (2025-03-17)
    89. Finsch's Wheatear (2025-03-19)
    90. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-21)
    91. Hoopoe (2025-03-25)
    92. Garganey (2025-03-25)
    93. Glossy Ibis (2025-03-25)
    94. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-25)
    95. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-03-25)
    96. Common Swift (2025-03-30)
    97. Black-winged Stilt (2025-03-30)
    98. Barn Swallow (2025-03-30)
    99. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-01)
    100. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-04-01)
    101. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-03)
    102. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-03)
    103. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-03)
    104. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-04-03)
    105. Bimaculated Lark (2025-04-05)
    106. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-05)
    107. Greater Sand Plover (2025-04-06)
    108. Desert Wheatear (2025-04-06)
    109. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-07)
    110. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-04-09)
    111. Willow Warbler (2025-04-09)
    112. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-10)
    113. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-10)
    114. Alpine Swift (2025-04-11)
    115. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-15)
    116. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-19)
    117. Griffon Vulture (2025-04-20)
    118. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-21)
    119. Indian Sparrow (2025-04-21)
    120. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-04-23)
    121. Pied Bushchat (2025-04-24)
    122. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-04-24)
    123. Macqueen's Bustard (2025-04-24)
    124. Horned Lark (2025-04-27)
    125. White-winged Tern (2025-05-01)
    126. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-01)
    127. Sand Martin (2025-05-01)
    128. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-01)
    129. Rosy Starling (2025-05-01)
    130. European Bee-eater (2025-05-01)
    131. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-01)
    132. Gull-billed Tern (2025-05-05)
    133. Calandra Lark (2025-05-05)
    134. Whinchat (2025-05-06)
    135. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-06)
    136. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-07)
    137. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-07)
    138. Pied Avocet (2025-05-09)
    139. Whiskered Tern (2025-05-09)
    140. Common Tern (2025-05-09)
    141. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-09)
    142. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-09)
    143. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-09)
    144. Little Stint (2025-05-09)
    145. Little Tern (2025-05-09)
    146. Squacco Heron (2025-05-09)
    147. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-09)
    148. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-09)
    149. Purple Heron (2025-05-10)
    150. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-05-10)
    151. Little Egret (2025-05-10)
    152. Syke's Warbler (2025-05-10)
    153. Lesser Kestrel (2025-05-10)
    154. Black-headed Bunting (2025-05-14)
    155. Long-tailed Shrike (2025-05-19)
    156. Common Mynah (2025-05-19)
    157. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-19)
    158. Grey Wagtail (2025-05-21)
    159. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-05-21)
    160. Red-billed Chough (2025-05-21)
    161. Common Moorhen (2025-05-23)
    162. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-05-23)
    163. Northern Lapwing (2025-05-23)
    164. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-05-23)
    165. Carrion Crow (2025-05-23)
    166. Turkestan Shrike (2025-05-23)
    167. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-23)
    168. Common Pheasant (2025-05-24)
    169. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-05-29)
    170. Tree Pipit (2025-05-29)
    171. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-05-29)
    172. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-29)
    173. Red Crossbill (2025-05-29)
    174. Mistle Thrush (2025-05-31)
    175. Booted Eagle (2025-05-31)
    176. Rock Bunting (2025-05-31)
    177. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-31)
    178. Common Oystercatcher (2025-06-06)
    179. Common Redshank (2025-06-06)
    180. Great White Pelican (2025-06-06)
    181. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-06-06)
    182. Common Buzzard (2025-06-06)
    183. Brown Dipper (2025-06-07)
    184. Ferruginous Duck (2025-06-15)
    185. Tawny Pipit (2025-06-19)
    186. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-07-16)
    187. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-07-19)
    188. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-07-19)
    189. Steppe Eagle (2025-07-25)
    190. Terek Sandpiper (2025-07-30)
    191. Sanderling (2025-07-30)
    192. Caspian Tern (2025-08-01)
    193. Sandwich Tern (2025-08-01)
    194. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-08-01)
    195. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-08-01)
    196. Common Quail (2025-08-01)
    197. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-08-01)
    198. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-08-01)
    199. Northern House Martin (2025-08-01)
    200. Spotted Redshank (2025-08-01)
    201. Little Bittern (2025-08-02)
    202. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-08-02)
    203. Eurasian Curlew (2025-08-02)
    204. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-08-06)
    205. Booted Warbler (2025-08-09)
    206. Long-eared Owl (2025-08-19)
    207. Red-throated Pipit (2025-08-31)
    208. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-09-01)
    209. European Nightjar (2025-09-06)
    210. Montagu's Harrier (2025-09-06)
    211. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-09-14)
    212. Pallid Harrier (2025-09-14)
    213. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-09-22)
    214. Wallcreeper (2025-09-22)
    215. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-10-07)
    216. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-10-07)
    217. Songar Tit (2025-10-07)
    218. Ibisbill (2025-10-08)
    219. Eurasian Bittern (2025-10-23)
    220. Bluethroat (2025-10-23)
    221. Merlin (2025-11-13)
    222. White-winged Lark (2025-12-21)

    recent uploads

    2025-12-31. White-winged Lark, Golden Eagle, Common Raven, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-11-17. Bewick's Swan, Mute Swan, Grey Heron, Great White Egret, Black-headed Gull, Northern Reed Bunting, Great Cormorant, Common Coot, Mallard, Whooper Swan, Red-breasted Merganser, Great Cormorant, Pygmy Cormorant, Merlin.

    2025-11-09. Long-legged Buzzard.

    2025-10-29. Bluethroat.

    2025-10-24. Eurasian Bittern, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle.

    2025-10-17. Eastern Imperial Eagle, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-10-08. Ibisbill.

    2025-10-07. Yellow-billed Chough, Spotted Nutcracker, Songar Tit, Azure Tit.

    2025-10-05. Wallcreeper.

    2025-09-22. Eastern Imperial Eagle.

    2025-09-20. Desert Wheatear, Common Chiffchaff, Rock Sparrow, Common Raven, Common Raven, Chukar Partridge.

    2025-09-15. Pallas's Sandgrouse, Pallid Harrier, Steppe Eagle, Long-legged Buzzard.

    2025-09-06. European Nightjar, Montagu's Harrier, Whinchat.

    2025-09-01. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Northern Lapwing, Red-backed Shrike, Common Whitethroat, Steppe Buzzard, Yellow Wagtail, Ruff, Common Pochard, Sanderling.

    2025-08-31. Greater Ringed Plover, Red-throated Pipit, Sanderling, Green Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, Common Shelduck, Common Snipe, Grey Wagtail, Dunlin.

    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...