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total species: 7
total photos: 12
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Little Bunting (2017-08-24)
2. Yellow-browed Warbler (2017-10-04)
3. Pied Bushchat (2018-05-11)
4. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2018-09-17)
5. Collared Flycatcher (2019-05-07)
6. Olive-backed Pipit (2019-05-10)
7. Masked Shrike (2019-05-20)

recent uploads


2024-10-22. Masked Shrike.

2019-05-25. Collared Flycatcher, Olive-backed Pipit.

2018-09-18. Great Spotted Woodpecker.

2018-07-10. Pied Bushchat, Little Bunting, Yellow-browed Warbler.

recent comments


2024-10-23. to photo # 06180000801 (Masked Shrike)

Анна Ясько: Сообщение о мертвой птице ошибочное.


2024-10-23. to photo # 06180000801 (Masked Shrike)

Анна Ясько: Тим уточнил данные: птицу наблюдали с 20 по 28 мая 2019 г. А 30 июня 2020 Тим видел живого самца.


2024-10-22. to photo # 06180000801 (Masked Shrike)

Анна Ясько: Тим пишет, что видел еще мертвую птицу 4 июня 2020 г.


2024-10-20. to photo # 06180000701 (Olive-backed Pipit)

Андрей Коваленко: Hello Tim! I saw in the reports on Tengiz that in May 2019 you photographed a Masked Shrike on Prorva. Could you please upload these photos to this site? Thanks in advance!


2018-07-11. to photo # 06180000301 (Little Bunting)

Анна Ясько: Очень интересная встреча! В западной части Казахстана, если не ошибаюсь, отмечается впервые.


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...