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    total species: 79
    total photos: 186
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. Great Tit (2023-01-01)
    2. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-01-01)
    3. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-01-01)
    4. Hooded Crow (2023-01-01)
    5. Tree Sparrow (2023-01-01)
    6. Eurasian Dipper (2023-01-09)
    7. Common Goldeneye (2023-01-09)
    8. Goosander (2023-01-09)
    9. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-01-19)
    10. Smew (2023-01-19)
    11. Mallard (2023-01-19)
    12. Long-tailed Tit (2023-02-22)
    13. Northern Bullfinch (2023-02-22)
    14. Common Treecreeper (2023-02-25)
    15. Carrion Crow (2023-02-25)
    16. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-03-05)
    17. Rock Pigeon (2023-03-09)
    18. Fieldfare (2023-03-13)
    19. Black-throated Thrush (2023-03-13)
    20. Brambling (2023-03-13)
    21. Eurasian Siskin (2023-03-13)
    22. Rook (2023-03-23)
    23. Mew Gull (2023-03-25)
    24. Black-headed Gull (2023-04-09)
    25. Gadwall (2023-04-09)
    26. Tree Pipit (2023-04-18)
    27. Common Chaffinch (2023-04-18)
    28. Masked Wagtail (2023-04-18)
    29. Common Chiffchaff (2023-04-18)
    30. Northern House Martin (2023-04-18)
    31. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-04-30)
    32. Common Kestrel (2023-06-16)
    33. Hoopoe (2023-06-16)
    34. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-06-16)
    35. Common Nightingale (2023-06-16)
    36. Turkestan Shrike (2023-06-16)
    37. Common Moorhen (2023-06-17)
    38. Black-winged Pratincole (2023-06-17)
    39. Little Bittern (2023-06-17)
    40. Little Ringed Plover (2023-06-17)
    41. Barred Warbler (2023-06-17)
    42. Citrine Wagtail (2023-06-17)
    43. Common Redshank (2023-06-18)
    44. Dalmatian Pelican (2023-06-18)
    45. Common Starling (2023-06-18)
    46. Barn Swallow (2023-06-18)
    47. Red-crested Pochard (2023-06-19)
    48. Bearded Tit (2023-06-19)
    49. Greater Short-toed Lark (2023-06-19)
    50. Great White Egret (2023-06-19)
    51. Great Crested Grebe (2023-06-19)
    52. Common Cuckoo (2023-06-19)
    53. Black-winged Stilt (2023-06-19)
    54. Paddyfield Warbler (2023-06-19)
    55. Common Coot (2023-06-19)
    56. Eurasian Collared Dove (2023-06-20)
    57. Common Tern (2023-08-04)
    58. Caspian Gull (2023-08-09)
    59. Common Sandpiper (2023-08-09)
    60. Greenish Warbler (2023-08-14)
    61. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-08-14)
    62. Common Swift (2023-08-17)
    63. Grey Heron (2023-08-17)
    64. Common Kingfisher (2023-08-17)
    65. Great Cormorant (2023-08-31)
    66. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-08-31)
    67. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-09-12)
    68. Tufted Duck (2023-10-13)
    69. Common Pochard (2023-10-16)
    70. Coal Tit (2023-10-21)
    71. Eurasian Magpie (2023-10-25)
    72. Goldcrest (2023-10-25)
    73. Eurasian Nuthatch (2023-10-25)
    74. Whooper Swan (2023-10-27)
    75. Baikal Bullfinch (2023-11-04)
    76. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-12-15)
    77. Hawfinch (2023-12-15)
    78. Common Redpoll (2023-12-30)
    79. House Sparrow (2023-12-31)

    recent uploads

    2024-01-04. Hawfinch.

    2023-12-31. House Sparrow.

    2023-12-30. Common Redpoll, Eurasian Siskin, Eurasian Jackdaw, Hybrid Crow, Carrion Crow, Citrine Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail, Common Redshank, Dalmatian Pelican, Common Starling, Barn Swallow, Rook, Rock Pigeon.

    2023-12-15. Bohemian Waxwing.

    2023-12-02. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Treecreeper, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Smew.

    2023-11-04. Fieldfare, Baikal Bullfinch, Common Treecreeper, Smew, Eurasian Siskin, Northern Bullfinch.

    2023-10-27. Tufted Duck, Eurasian Magpie, Goldcrest, Eurasian Nuthatch, Coal Tit, Common Treecreeper, Whooper Swan.

    2023-10-22. Coal Tit.

    2023-10-17. Common Pochard.

    2023-10-13. Tufted Duck.

    2023-09-12. Common Kingfisher, Lesser Whitethroat.

    2023-09-05. Turkestan Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Turkestan Shrike, Turkestan Shrike.

    2023-09-04. Great Cormorant, Blyth's Reed Warbler, Masked Wagtail, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Common Kingfisher, Black-headed Gull, Common Nightingale.

    2023-08-17. Common Swift, Grey Heron, Common Kingfisher.

    2023-08-14. Greenish Warbler, Common Sparrowhawk.

    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...