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Talgar Pass. Ile Alatau.

2013-06-30 | Askar Isabekov

Every year in Apliniada Day the funicular to the Talgar Pass is free. Sanzhar Abdikhalyk initiated this trip with the nest of Red-breasted Rosefinch as main target, and other birds of highlands in this less explored by birdwatchers spot. Day is sometimes sunny but mostly overcast with rain and snow. We tried to find birds in the rather fresh moraine under the rocks, but unsuccessfully. There are no insects and plants in this moraine. We only heard the sounds of Raven and Red-bill Choughs from a far. We thought that birds could be in the places with insects, but insects could be in the place with plants, and went to the old moraine covered by mosses and lichens and joined to juniper bushes. In the bushes we immediately noticed singing Black-throated Accentors, Himalayan Accentors flying with insects in beaks, and the couple of Himalayan Rubythroats. Male Rubythroat came, perched in the top of spruce-tree and flew away; but female with food in beak was flying into the juniper bush, but was [...... read more ]


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Бура, Жельтуранга, Топар

2013-06-30 | Vassiliy Fedorenko

В прошлый раз, быстро проехав от Каншенгеля до Баканаса, практически ничего из птиц не увидели, поэтому решили съездить ещё раз. На этот раз предварительно изучили перспективные точки по сайту и забили их в навигатор. Однако поездка получилась не более успешной.Долгая дорога до Буры и вот, наконец, нашли саксаульного воробья на кладбище у поселка. Здесь же прыгали индийские и полевые воробьи, а так же сизые голуби и деревенские ласточки. Вокруг под саксаулами за нами наблюдали множество больших песчанок. Проехав немного по пустыне вокруг, кроме [...... read more ]


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Караганда - трясогузки

2013-06-28 | Gennadiy Dyakin

Белая и маскированая трясогузки носили корм в одно ито же место конструкции стадиона Шахтер в Караганде. Получается это смешаная пара и там либо гнездо либо слетки. [...... read more ]


Алматы. Окольцованный сизый голубь

2013-06-25 | Alexandra Makhnina

Не знаю, можно ли о таком здесь писать. Если что, сообщите, я удалю. Нашёлся сизый голубь, окольцованный, не летает. Поймали его, посадили в коробку, дали воды, хлеба, сидит в тишине, в гараже. Людей не боится. Номер на кольце: 109426 CHN 2008-30. Нашелся в Алматы, в районе гаражей на р. Весновка выше ул. Сатпаева. Я лично его пока не видела, поэтому фото нет. Позвонили, сообщили. Что с ним делать? (этот же текст на форуме сайта СОПР).заранее спасибо. [...... read more ]


Alakol. Akchi village.

2013-06-23 | Askar Isabekov

The sunny and windy day. Due to today is departing day I was all the time in the beach with my family. Only after the lunch during the trip to shops I watched birds. I saw couple of Kites soaring over the village. I guess that Kites were hunting to chickens because Kite were flying very low and always over the backyards. Also in the village there were House Martins and two Mynahs. Nests of House Martins are on the two-floors buildings, but without nestlings and Martins didn’t approach to nests. Due to wind I couldn’t take photos both House Martins and Mynahs. [...... read more ]


На колонию кумаев в Чарыне

2013-06-23 | Vassiliy Fedorenko

Весной мы так не смогли проехать к колонии кумаев на Чарыне. Пришло время повторить заезд, пока птенцы ещё в гнездах. К тому же, в прошлый раз на кокпекском перевале мы с Тоней слышали одну птичку, песня которой потом мне показалась похоже на запись соловья-белошейки в интернете, и надо было попытаться поискать и его. Поехали с Олегом.Дорогу до Маловодного я решил проехать вдоль БАКа, там машин и гаишников нет, и хотелось снять кладку иволги в одном из гнезд, которое было пустым неделей ранее. Однако, в прошлую поездку на Актереке я раздавил свой [...... read more ]


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Alakol. Akchi village.

2013-06-22 | Askar Isabekov

I was in the beach all day again. Sun and heat. The most significant birds in the hotel vicinity were two Common Nightingales. Also to the list of birds of previous days I added two new species: I heard Golden Oriole and saw two Collared Doves. Unfortunately I didn't watch Oriole, it's interesting in which of subspecies related this birds. I wanted to visit the sandy spit once again, but didn't have some hours of free time. [...... read more ]


Каншенгель - Топар

2013-06-22 | Vassiliy Fedorenko

По пути заскочили на Савковое, поглядеть чего там народилось. Савки плавают среди массы молодых чаек все на том же месте у ближнего берега. Примерно с десяток взрослых самцов с самками и всего одна самка с маленьким утёнком. Вероятно, это только первый вылупившийся птенец. Не может же быть он единственным? Кроме савок из интересного, наверное, только волчки на канале, которые сейчас стали заметны.Где-то за Куртами на трассе пробило заднее колесо. И, хотя, колесо починили на месте, в итоге в Каншенгель прибыли уже после восьми. Первым делом поехали [...... read more ]


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Alakol. Akchi village.

2013-06-21 | Askar Isabekov

Today is sunny and hot day. All the day I was in the beach with my family. To the yesterday list of birds I added House Martins which were flying over the hotel in lunch time; but Barn Swallows this time were feeding the fledglings. I wanted to take photos of House Martins but they were flying very high. Barn Swallows came to the fledglings not many a time. I saw Gull-billed Terns flying over the bay. I guess this species because I saw long wings and sprawling flight but I am not sure in 100%. Over the beach and the joined part of lake I periodically saw birds, mostly Cormorants, Common and Little Terns, sometimes other birds, for example today I saw Pranticoles. There are Little Ringed Plovers, Black-winged Stilts, both Terns in the bay. I didn’t see birds from the target list of Alakol – Relict Gull, Pallas’s Gull, Caspian Tern, Pelicans. [...... read more ]


Alakol. Akchi village.

2013-06-20 | Askar Isabekov

Day is cloudy or even overcast. I went to the sand spit where I saw Relict Gulls and many Caspian Terns in the May. It’s short distance to car, and I thought I reach it after about 30-40 minutes. I was without clocks but all today trip from the hotel to the end of sand spit and back was 6.5 hours of permanently hiking with some crawl on sand to birds. What did I see? The last visit I was worry that I didn’t explore the saline marsh on the road to sand spit. Now I crossed it twice and noticed nothing only tens Black-headed Wagtails of different age and gender. As at last visit in the bay in base of spit the White-winged Terns, Black-winged Stilts, Common Redshanks, Collared Pratincoles were noticed, today Black and Little Terns added to lists. The last visit numerous Caspian Terns are absent now. But Common Terns flying with fish in bill are abundant. When I move on to spit I was attacked by the screaming flock of Common Terns. I continued moving and Caspian Gulls and couple of Caspian [...... read more ]


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A Pavel
Abdikhalyk Sanzhar
Aleinikova Svetlana
Amirekul Kudaibergen
Andryuchshenko Artem
Artyushina Svetlana
Babalyk Yelbossyn
Bairashev Raouf
Balykin Alexandr
Barbosa Armando
Baskakova Svetlana
Batyrkhanuly Kanat
Belousov Yevgeny
Belyaev Alexandr
Belyaev Ivan
Belyalov Oleg
Bolbotov Gleb
Borovaya Natalya
Buhl Johannes
Chapurin Vladimir
Dyachenko Egor
Dyakin Gennadiy
Dyussebayeva Madina
Fedorenko Vassiliy
Feldman Aleksandr
Flechtner Georg Stephan
Fokina Antonina
Gavrilov Andrey
Gubin Boris
Guskov Aleksandr
Isabekov Askar
Isabekova Anar
Isakul Elnur
Ivanova Maria
izoya sergey
Kalashnikov Miphail
Kalashnikova Irina
Kalistratov Sergey
Kalyuzhnov Viktor
Kanunnikov Nikita
Karassev Vladilen
Karimbay Amir
Karyakin Igor
Katuncev Alexandr
Kazenas Vladimir
Kenzhegulov Qanatbek
Khalitov Ildar
Khasanov Grigory
Kim Natali
Klasan Steve
Klyubina Yuliya
Kolenov Sergey
Kolesnikov Viktor
Kondratenko Galina
Korshikov Leonid
Koshkin Aleksey
Koshkina Alyona
Kovalenko Andrey
Kovalev Konstantin
Kuderinova Svetlana
Kurochkin Alexey
Kuryashkin Andrei
Makhnina Alexandra
Malkov Yuriy
Meek Albert
Motyshev Nursultan
Muravskiy Vladimir
Naizagarin Aidar
Nukusbekov Malik
Omarov Dauren
Ongarbayev Nurlan
Ortlieb Leon
Plotnikova Olga
Rekuts Irina
Rosenberg Galina
Roux Jean Paul
Saparbayev Aldiyar
Shakula Fedor
Shapira Michael
Shatalov Andrey
Shefer Vladimir
Shmygalev Sergei
Silan Serg
Simon Andrew
Sofronov Evgeniy
Telegin Ruslan
Timoshenko Alexey
Turkovskiy ivan
Ukolov Ilya
Urazaliyev Ruslan
Vilyayev Andrey
Volkov Sergey L.
Voronova Vera
Yasko Anna
Zenkov Valentin
Zharilkasin Sirimbet
Zotova Anastassiya
Zvyaginceva Viktoriya

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.

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