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total species: 136
total photos: 583
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1. Great Grey Shrike (2014-01-08)
2. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2014-01-08)
3. Common Goldeneye (2014-01-11)
4. Smew (2014-01-11)
5. Mallard (2014-01-12)
6. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2014-01-12)
7. Black-throated Thrush (2014-01-14)
8. Common Redpoll (2014-01-14)
9. Eurasian Siskin (2014-01-15)
10. Eurasian Goldfinch (2014-01-15)
11. Azure Tit (2014-01-15)
12. European Greenfinch (2014-01-16)
13. Fieldfare (2014-01-16)
14. Eurasian Dipper (2014-01-16)
15. Eurasian Nuthatch (2014-01-16)
16. Northern Bullfinch (2014-01-16)
17. Redwing (2014-01-19)
18. Bohemian Waxwing (2014-01-19)
19. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2014-01-20)
20. Goosander (2014-01-22)
21. Great Tit (2014-01-22)
22. Eurasian Blackbird (2014-01-29)
23. Northern Reed Bunting (2014-02-11)
24. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2014-02-11)
25. Baikal Bullfinch (2014-02-15)
26. Whooper Swan (2014-02-18)
27. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2014-02-22)
28. Brambling (2014-02-24)
29. White-Backed Woodpecker (2014-03-03)
30. Rock Pigeon (2014-03-07)
31. Eurasian Jackdaw (2014-03-19)
32. Common Buzzard (2014-03-19)
33. Caspian Gull (2014-03-19)
34. Common Chaffinch (2014-03-26)
35. Common Kestrel (2014-03-26)
36. Masked Wagtail (2014-03-26)
37. Black-headed Gull (2014-03-28)
38. Yellowhammer (2014-04-01)
39. Meadow Bunting (2014-04-01)
40. Black Kite (2014-04-01)
41. White Wagtail (2014-04-16)
42. Osprey (2014-04-18)
43. Common Pochard (2014-04-18)
44. Northern Shoveler (2014-04-18)
45. Black-tailed Godwit (2014-04-18)
46. Common Redshank (2014-04-18)
47. Ruddy Shelduck (2014-04-18)
48. Northern Lapwing (2014-04-18)
49. Common Starling (2014-04-18)
50. Black-Necked Grebe (2014-04-22)
51. Garganey (2014-04-22)
52. Northern Pintail (2014-04-22)
53. Peregrine Falcon (2014-04-22)
54. Common Sparrowhawk (2014-04-25)
55. Tree Pipit (2014-04-25)
56. Green Sandpiper (2014-04-25)
57. Song Thrush (2014-04-29)
58. Coal Tit (2014-04-29)
59. Eurasian Redstart (2014-04-29)
60. Yellow Wagtail (2014-05-04)
61. Pied Wheatear (2014-05-05)
62. Eurasian Hobby (2014-05-05)
63. Common Crane (2014-05-06)
64. Tawny Pipit (2014-05-12)
65. Siberian Stonechat (2014-05-12)
66. Grey Wagtail (2014-05-12)
67. Lesser Whitethroat (2014-05-12)
68. Eurasian Magpie (2014-05-12)
69. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2014-05-13)
70. Common Cuckoo (2014-05-13)
71. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2014-05-15)
72. Great White Egret (2014-05-15)
73. Baraba Steppe Gull (2014-05-15)
74. Common Nightingale (2014-05-15)
75. Oriental Turtle Dove (2014-05-15)
76. Booted Warbler (2014-05-19)
77. Common Rosefinch (2014-05-19)
78. Paddyfield Warbler (2014-05-22)
79. Red-backed Shrike (2014-05-22)
80. Spotted Flycatcher (2014-05-23)
81. Common Whitethroat (2014-05-27)
82. Common Chiffchaff (2014-05-27)
83. Common Tern (2014-05-27)
84. Hooded Crow (2014-05-29)
85. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2014-05-29)
86. Great Reed Warbler (2014-06-01)
87. Citrine Wagtail (2014-06-01)
88. Demoiselle Crane (2014-06-01)
89. Tree Sparrow (2014-06-01)
90. Greenish Warbler (2014-06-03)
91. Red-headed Bunting (2014-06-05)
92. Eurasian Linnet (2014-06-05)
93. Northern Wheatear (2014-06-06)
94. Short-eared Owl (2014-06-10)
95. European Golden Oriole (2014-06-10)
96. Long-eared Owl (2014-06-12)
97. Common Oystercatcher (2014-06-12)
98. Indian Sparrow (2014-06-18)
99. Red-crested Pochard (2014-06-18)
100. Savi's Warbler (2014-06-18)
101. Eurasian Roller (2014-06-18)
102. Bearded Tit (2014-06-18)
103. Greater Short-toed Lark (2014-06-18)
104. Pallas's Gull (2014-06-18)
105. Hoopoe (2014-06-18)
106. Caspian Tern (2014-06-18)
107. Ferruginous Duck (2014-06-18)
108. Black-headed Wagtail (2014-06-18)
109. Common Teal (2014-06-18)
110. Turkestan Shrike (2014-06-18)
111. Common Coot (2014-06-18)
112. Black-winged Stilt (2014-06-18)
113. Little Ringed Plover (2014-06-18)
114. Great Crested Grebe (2014-06-18)
115. Barn Swallow (2014-06-18)
116. Northern House Martin (2014-06-18)
117. Rosy Starling (2014-06-20)
118. Lesser Grey Shrike (2014-06-20)
119. Bluethroat (2014-06-20)
120. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2014-06-20)
121. Sedge Warbler (2014-06-20)
122. House Sparrow (2014-07-01)
123. Common Kingfisher (2014-08-01)
124. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2014-08-01)
125. Great Cormorant (2014-08-01)
126. Rook (2014-08-14)
127. Little Stint (2014-08-21)
128. Cetti's Warbler (2014-08-21)
129. Hume's Warbler (2014-08-21)
130. Northern Black Grouse (2014-09-18)
131. Pine Bunting (2014-09-28)
132. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2014-10-18)
133. Eurasian Wigeon (2014-10-18)
134. Willow Tit (2014-10-23)
135. Eurasian Jay (2014-10-23)
136. Black Woodpecker (2014-10-23)

recent uploads


2014-12-21. Mallard.

2014-12-09. Great Reed Warbler.

2014-12-08. Great Reed Warbler.

2014-11-22. Bohemian Waxwing, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

2014-11-02. Coal Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch.

2014-10-24. Eurasian Jay, Black Woodpecker.

2014-10-23. Willow Tit.

2014-10-21. Eastern Imperial Eagle.

2014-10-20. Northern Black Grouse.

2014-10-19. Hume's Warbler, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Wigeon.

2014-10-18. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

2014-10-08. European Greenfinch, Common Chaffinch, Black-throated Thrush, Common Sparrowhawk.

2014-09-28. Pine Bunting, Hume's Warbler, Great Tit.

2014-09-21. Common Chaffinch.

2014-09-18. Eurasian Linnet.

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...