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Gaviiformes
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    • Podicipediformes
  • Podicipedidae
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  • Pelecanidae
  • Phalacrocoracidae
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    map of photoshootings

    total species: 66
    total photos: 223
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Tit (2018-01-01)
    2. Tree Sparrow (2018-01-01)
    3. Northern Bullfinch (2018-01-01)
    4. Eurasian Blackbird (2018-01-02)
    5. Fieldfare (2018-01-02)
    6. Bohemian Waxwing (2018-01-02)
    7. Common Redpoll (2018-01-02)
    8. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2018-01-02)
    9. Black-throated Thrush (2018-01-02)
    10. Baikal Bullfinch (2018-01-06)
    11. Brambling (2018-01-06)
    12. Hawfinch (2018-01-07)
    13. Eurasian Dipper (2018-01-07)
    14. Common Treecreeper (2018-01-21)
    15. Eurasian Nuthatch (2018-01-21)
    16. Eurasian Magpie (2018-01-28)
    17. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2018-01-30)
    18. Willow Tit (2018-02-04)
    19. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2018-02-07)
    20. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2018-02-07)
    21. Common Goldeneye (2018-02-07)
    22. Rock Pigeon (2018-02-11)
    23. Goosander (2018-02-11)
    24. House Sparrow (2018-02-11)
    25. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2018-02-11)
    26. Mistle Thrush (2018-02-14)
    27. Carrion Crow (2018-02-19)
    28. Hooded Crow (2018-02-19)
    29. Eurasian Siskin (2018-02-19)
    30. Smew (2018-03-01)
    31. Common Chaffinch (2018-03-23)
    32. Baraba Steppe Gull (2018-03-23)
    33. Azure Tit (2018-03-25)
    34. Mew Gull (2018-03-25)
    35. Tree Pipit (2018-04-24)
    36. Common Starling (2018-04-24)
    37. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2018-05-11)
    38. Common Rosefinch (2018-05-11)
    39. Spotted Flycatcher (2018-05-13)
    40. Common Whitethroat (2018-05-13)
    41. Red-backed Shrike (2018-05-13)
    42. Masked Wagtail (2018-05-13)
    43. Oriental Turtle Dove (2018-05-13)
    44. Eurasian Hobby (2018-05-27)
    45. Common Chiffchaff (2018-05-27)
    46. Sand Martin (2018-05-28)
    47. Barn Swallow (2018-05-28)
    48. Common Tern (2018-05-28)
    49. Demoiselle Crane (2018-06-02)
    50. Common Sandpiper (2018-06-21)
    51. Hoopoe (2018-08-02)
    52. Common Sparrowhawk (2018-09-02)
    53. Hume's Warbler (2018-09-23)
    55. Great White Egret (2018-10-15)
    57. Caspian Gull (2018-10-18)
    58. Northern Shoveler (2018-10-30)
    59. Mallard (2018-11-01)
    60. Wood Warbler (2018-11-01)
    61. Coal Tit (2018-11-01)
    62. Northern Pintail (2018-11-02)
    63. Long-tailed Tit (2018-11-04)
    64. Eurasian Wigeon (2018-11-05)
    65. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2018-11-07)
    66. Tufted Duck (2018-11-13)

    recent uploads

    2018-12-31. Goosander, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Smew.

    2018-12-19. Eurasian Siskin.

    2018-12-15. Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Dipper, Goosander, Common Goldeneye, Tree Sparrow, Rock Pigeon, Mallard.

    2018-11-27. Northern Bullfinch.

    2018-11-24. Hawfinch.

    2018-11-22. Northern Pintail, Tufted Duck, Eurasian Dipper.

    2018-11-21. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2018-11-18. Long-tailed Rosefinch.

    2018-11-17. Smew.

    2018-11-14. Goosander, Tufted Duck, Eurasian Dipper.

    2018-11-11. Eurasian Blackbird, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Black-throated Thrush.

    2018-11-07. Common Treecreeper, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

    2018-11-05. Caspian Gull, Eurasian Wigeon.

    2018-11-04. Long-tailed Tit.

    2018-11-02. Northern Pintail, Wood Warbler, Mallard, Great Tit, Common Treecreeper.

    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...