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    total species: 69
    total photos: 188
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Hawfinch (2022-01-02)
    2. Eurasian Magpie (2022-01-02)
    3. Black-throated Thrush (2022-01-02)
    4. Fieldfare (2022-01-02)
    5. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-01-02)
    6. Brambling (2022-01-02)
    7. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-16)
    8. Common Goldeneye (2022-01-30)
    9. Redwing (2022-01-30)
    10. Eurasian Nuthatch (2022-01-30)
    11. Smew (2022-02-14)
    12. Goosander (2022-02-14)
    13. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-02-15)
    14. Peregrine Falcon (2022-02-18)
    15. Mistle Thrush (2022-02-21)
    16. Eurasian Siskin (2022-02-21)
    17. Hooded Crow (2022-02-21)
    18. Great Tit (2022-02-21)
    19. Eurasian Dipper (2022-02-22)
    20. Azure Tit (2022-02-24)
    21. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-02-24)
    22. Willow Tit (2022-02-24)
    23. Common Treecreeper (2022-02-24)
    24. House Sparrow (2022-02-27)
    25. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-03-01)
    26. Common Chaffinch (2022-03-01)
    27. Northern Pintail (2022-03-09)
    28. Mallard (2022-03-09)
    29. Carrion Crow (2022-03-09)
    30. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-03-14)
    31. Caspian Gull (2022-03-14)
    32. Great White Egret (2022-03-17)
    33. Red Crossbill (2022-03-18)
    34. Rook (2022-03-19)
    35. Masked Wagtail (2022-04-03)
    36. Black-headed Gull (2022-04-03)
    37. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-04-03)
    38. Black Kite (2022-04-03)
    39. Northern Shoveler (2022-04-07)
    40. White Wagtail (2022-04-07)
    41. Tree Sparrow (2022-04-07)
    42. Citrine Wagtail (2022-04-09)
    43. Garganey (2022-04-09)
    44. Common Teal (2022-04-09)
    45. Grey Heron (2022-04-12)
    46. Great Cormorant (2022-04-12)
    47. Common Starling (2022-04-28)
    48. Eurasian Redstart (2022-04-28)
    49. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-28)
    50. Greenish Warbler (2022-05-13)
    51. Common Tern (2022-05-21)
    52. Ortolan Bunting (2022-05-22)
    53. Siberian Stonechat (2022-05-22)
    54. Common Kestrel (2022-05-22)
    55. Yellow Wagtail (2022-05-26)
    56. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-05-26)
    57. Booted Warbler (2022-05-26)
    58. Sedge Warbler (2022-06-08)
    59. Common Chiffchaff (2022-07-27)
    60. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-07-27)
    61. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-08-25)
    62. Red-breasted Goose (2022-10-05)
    63. Common Pochard (2022-10-11)
    64. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-10-17)
    65. Coal Tit (2022-10-19)
    66. Hume's Warbler (2022-10-25)
    67. Black Woodpecker (2022-11-04)
    68. Long-tailed Tit (2022-11-04)
    69. Tufted Duck (2022-11-14)

    recent uploads

    2022-11-21. Common Treecreeper, Smew, Long-tailed Tit.

    2022-11-14. Goosander, Tufted Duck, Tree Sparrow.

    2022-11-10. Peregrine Falcon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Dipper, Eurasian Magpie.

    2022-11-04. Eurasian Magpie, Common Treecreeper, Black Woodpecker, Eurasian Nuthatch, Long-tailed Tit.

    2022-10-29. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Dipper, Azure Tit.

    2022-10-25. Peregrine Falcon, Hume's Warbler.

    2022-10-19. Eurasian Dipper, Coal Tit.

    2022-10-17. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Mallard, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2022-10-11. Common Pochard, Great Cormorant, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2022-10-05. Red-breasted Goose, Great Cormorant, White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    2022-08-26. White Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Heron.

    2022-07-31. Grey Heron, Great Cormorant, Common Chiffchaff, Blyth's Reed Warbler.

    2022-06-09. Sedge Warbler.

    2022-05-26. Yellow Wagtail, Paddyfield Warbler, Booted Warbler.

    2022-05-23. Common Tern, Ortolan Bunting, Siberian Stonechat, Common Kestrel, Mallard, 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...

    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...