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    total species: 68
    total photos: 215
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Tree Sparrow (2020-01-01)
    2. Baikal Bullfinch (2020-01-01)
    3. Great Tit (2020-01-01)
    4. Bohemian Waxwing (2020-01-01)
    5. Rook (2020-01-01)
    6. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2020-01-06)
    7. Northern Bullfinch (2020-01-06)
    8. Common Redpoll (2020-01-07)
    9. Ural Owl (2020-01-07)
    10. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2020-01-16)
    11. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-01-17)
    12. Brambling (2020-01-18)
    13. Eurasian Goldfinch (2020-01-18)
    14. Common Goldeneye (2020-01-19)
    15. Smew (2020-01-19)
    16. Eurasian Siskin (2020-01-19)
    17. European Greenfinch (2020-01-21)
    18. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2020-01-23)
    19. Peregrine Falcon (2020-01-27)
    20. Long-eared Owl (2020-02-01)
    21. Rock Pigeon (2020-02-01)
    22. Eurasian Dipper (2020-02-03)
    23. Mallard (2020-02-05)
    24. Goosander (2020-02-05)
    25. Eurasian Blackbird (2020-02-08)
    26. Fieldfare (2020-02-09)
    27. Goldcrest (2020-02-13)
    28. Eurasian Nuthatch (2020-02-15)
    29. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2020-02-15)
    30. Coal Tit (2020-02-22)
    31. Black-throated Thrush (2020-03-01)
    32. Redwing (2020-03-05)
    33. Little Grebe (2020-03-11)
    34. Caspian Gull (2020-03-14)
    35. Masked Wagtail (2020-03-21)
    36. Common Chaffinch (2020-03-24)
    37. Black Kite (2020-03-24)
    38. White Wagtail (2020-03-28)
    39. Common Chiffchaff (2020-04-10)
    40. Black-headed Gull (2020-04-10)
    41. Eurasian Wigeon (2020-04-10)
    42. Northern Shoveler (2020-04-10)
    43. Gadwall (2020-04-10)
    44. Great Cormorant (2020-04-16)
    45. House Sparrow (2020-04-28)
    46. Eurasian Redstart (2020-04-30)
    47. Common Tern (2020-05-16)
    48. Common Teal (2020-05-16)
    49. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-07-30)
    50. Common Whitethroat (2020-07-30)
    51. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2020-08-12)
    52. Greenish Warbler (2020-08-13)
    53. Lesser Whitethroat (2020-08-15)
    54. Meadow Bunting (2020-08-17)
    55. Common Rosefinch (2020-08-24)
    56. Common Kestrel (2020-08-26)
    57. Tree Pipit (2020-08-27)
    58. Barn Swallow (2020-08-27)
    59. Siberian Stonechat (2020-08-27)
    60. Song Thrush (2020-08-29)
    61. Eurasian Jackdaw (2020-09-06)
    62. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2020-09-21)
    63. Baraba Steppe Gull (2020-09-22)
    64. Eurasian Jay (2020-09-22)
    65. Tufted Duck (2020-09-22)
    66. Ruddy Shelduck (2020-09-22)
    67. Northern Goshawk (2020-11-22)
    68. Hawfinch (2020-12-29)

    recent uploads

    2020-12-29. Hawfinch, Bohemian Waxwing.

    2020-12-25. Coal Tit.

    2020-12-19. Little Grebe, Peregrine Falcon, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Goldeneye.

    2020-12-15. Eurasian Dipper.

    2020-12-01. Peregrine Falcon.

    2020-11-28. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2020-11-22. Northern Goshawk.

    2020-11-18. Eurasian Jay, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Great Cormorant, Tufted Duck, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Goldeneye, Smew.

    2020-11-07. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Peregrine Falcon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Baraba Steppe Gull, Smew, Mallard, Great Tit, Mallard.

    2020-10-21. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

    2020-10-17. Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Great Cormorant, Black-throated Thrush.

    2020-10-10. Coal Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Blackbird, Black-throated Thrush.

    2020-10-03. Eurasian Jay, Common Chaffinch, Lesser Whitethroat, Black-throated Thrush.

    2020-09-21. Crested Honey-Buzzard, Great Cormorant.

    2020-09-14. Caspian Gull.

    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...

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    2026-01-18
    Common Kestrel
    (Ruslan Abutrapov)

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    Great Cormorant
    (Raouf Bairashev)

    2025-08-31
    Spotted Flycatcher
    (Anna Yasko)

    2025-07-01
    Northern Hawk Owl
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    2025-06-17
    Great White Egret
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    2025-06-01
    Blyth's Reed Warbler
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    2025-04-14
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    2025-03-30
    Great White Egret
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    Common Kestrel
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    2025-03-23
    Common Sparrowhawk
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    Great Tit
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    2025-02-07
    Arctic Loon
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    2025-02-06
    Red Crossbill
    (Viktoriya Zvyaginceva)

    2025-01-07
    Eurasian Penduline Tit
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    2024-08-03
    Common Tern
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    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...