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total species: 74
total photos: 222
total videos: 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...