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    total species: 74
    total photos: 222
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Hawfinch (2019-01-01)
    2. Northern Bullfinch (2019-01-01)
    3. Fieldfare (2019-01-01)
    4. Hooded Crow (2019-01-01)
    5. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2019-01-07)
    6. Eurasian Blackbird (2019-01-08)
    7. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2019-01-08)
    8. Goosander (2019-01-08)
    9. Mallard (2019-01-08)
    10. White-Backed Woodpecker (2019-01-11)
    11. Eurasian Siskin (2019-01-14)
    12. Eurasian Magpie (2019-01-18)
    13. Little Grebe (2019-01-19)
    14. Tree Sparrow (2019-01-20)
    15. Rook (2019-01-21)
    16. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2019-01-23)
    17. Bean Goose (2019-01-23)
    18. Carrion Crow (2019-02-04)
    19. Smew (2019-02-04)
    20. Eurasian Nuthatch (2019-02-12)
    21. Eurasian Dipper (2019-02-12)
    22. Common Goldeneye (2019-02-12)
    23. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2019-02-17)
    24. Great Tit (2019-02-17)
    25. House Sparrow (2019-02-21)
    26. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2019-02-21)
    27. Common Treecreeper (2019-02-24)
    28. Black-throated Thrush (2019-02-26)
    29. Willow Tit (2019-03-14)
    30. Great Cormorant (2019-03-21)
    31. Black Kite (2019-03-23)
    32. Caspian Gull (2019-03-23)
    33. Mew Gull (2019-03-23)
    34. Common Chaffinch (2019-03-23)
    35. European Greenfinch (2019-03-24)
    36. Coal Tit (2019-03-25)
    37. Black-headed Gull (2019-04-11)
    38. Gadwall (2019-04-11)
    39. Northern Shoveler (2019-04-11)
    40. Dalmatian Pelican (2019-04-16)
    41. Tree Pipit (2019-04-20)
    42. White Wagtail (2019-04-20)
    43. Masked Wagtail (2019-04-20)
    44. Common Chiffchaff (2019-04-22)
    45. Common Teal (2019-04-22)
    46. Hume's Warbler (2019-04-23)
    47. Garganey (2019-04-28)
    48. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2019-04-29)
    49. Eurasian Redstart (2019-05-20)
    50. Spotted Flycatcher (2019-05-20)
    51. Common Cuckoo (2019-05-23)
    52. Eurasian Jackdaw (2019-06-08)
    53. Greenish Warbler (2019-07-23)
    54. Common Kestrel (2019-07-23)
    55. Long-legged Buzzard (2019-07-28)
    56. Grey Wagtail (2019-08-07)
    57. Common Tern (2019-08-07)
    58. Yellow Wagtail (2019-08-07)
    59. European Golden Oriole (2019-08-15)
    60. Lesser Whitethroat (2019-08-25)
    61. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2019-08-25)
    62. Meadow Bunting (2019-09-05)
    63. Great White Egret (2019-09-06)
    64. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2019-09-13)
    65. Common Kingfisher (2019-09-16)
    66. Common Rosefinch (2019-09-17)
    67. Brambling (2019-09-17)
    68. Northern Reed Bunting (2019-09-20)
    69. Barn Swallow (2019-09-20)
    70. Northern Wheatear (2019-10-05)
    71. Eurasian Wigeon (2019-10-14)
    72. Baikal Bullfinch (2019-12-02)
    73. Bohemian Waxwing (2019-12-02)
    74. Common Redpoll (2019-12-02)

    recent uploads

    2019-12-04. Baikal Bullfinch.

    2019-12-02. Northern Bullfinch, Baikal Bullfinch, Bohemian Waxwing, Common Redpoll.

    2019-10-23. Mew Gull.

    2019-10-14. Eurasian Wigeon.

    2019-10-12. Tree Sparrow, Brambling, Meadow Bunting.

    2019-10-10. Black-throated Thrush, Fieldfare, Hybrid (Black-throated x Naumann's) Thrush, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Meadow Bunting.

    2019-10-05. Northern Wheatear.

    2019-10-04. Eurasian Siskin.

    2019-09-24. Barn Swallow.

    2019-09-21. Northern Reed Bunting.

    2019-09-17. Black-throated Thrush, Common Kingfisher, Common Rosefinch, Brambling.

    2019-09-13. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Common Kestrel.

    2019-09-10. Tree Pipit.

    2019-09-08. Grey-Headed Woodpecker.

    2019-09-06. Mallard, Coal Tit, Meadow Bunting, Great White Egret, Masked Wagtail.

    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...