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    • Abi Jummaa Bassel

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    total species: 56
    total photos: 148
    total videos: 0
    total blogposts: 0

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    1. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2018-12-01)
    2. Rough-legged Buzzard (2019-02-02)
    3. Common Chiffchaff (2019-04-20)
    4. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2019-04-20)
    5. Lesser Whitethroat (2019-05-05)
    6. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2019-05-12)
    7. Paddyfield Warbler (2019-09-15)
    8. Yellow-browed Warbler (2019-09-15)
    9. Common Redpoll (2019-12-01)
    10. Northern Reed Bunting (2020-03-01)
    11. Bearded Tit (2020-03-01)
    12. Wood Warbler (2020-05-17)
    13. River Warbler (2020-08-13)
    14. Willow Warbler (2020-08-14)
    15. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2020-08-15)
    16. Oriental Turtle Dove (2020-10-04)
    17. Pallas's Warbler (2020-10-24)
    18. Twite (2020-11-22)
    19. White-winged Lark (2021-01-01)
    20. Red Phalarope (2021-05-16)
    21. Black Lark (2021-06-29)
    22. Black-winged Pratincole (2021-06-30)
    24. Red-flanked Bluetail (2021-07-02)
    25. Dusky Warbler (2021-07-04)
    26. Pine Bunting (2021-07-06)
    27. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2021-07-06)
    28. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2021-07-07)
    29. Water Pipit (2021-07-07)
    30. Masked Wagtail (2021-07-09)
    31. Brown Shrike (2021-07-10)
    32. Song Thrush (2021-10-17)
    33. Spotted Redshank (2022-05-08)
    34. Booted Warbler (2022-05-08)
    35. Siberian Rubythroat (2022-07-18)
    36. Siberian Tit (2022-07-19)
    37. Pacific Swift (2022-07-20)
    38. Marsh Warbler (2022-09-11)
    39. Bluethroat (2022-09-11)
    40. Buff-bellied Pipit (2022-10-09)
    41. Northern Bullfinch (2022-11-06)
    42. Hume's Warbler (2022-11-06)
    43. Black-throated Thrush (2022-11-12)
    44. Common Chaffinch (2023-01-29)
    45. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2023-04-01)
    46. Black Kite (2023-04-02)
    47. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2023-04-02)
    48. Pied Wheatear (2023-04-06)
    49. Himalayan Vulture (2023-04-06)
    50. Yellow Wagtail (2023-04-07)
    51. Citrine Wagtail (2023-04-07)
    52. Corn Bunting (2023-04-07)
    53. Pied Bushchat (2023-04-08)
    54. Black-headed Wagtail (2023-04-08)
    55. Common Swift (2023-04-09)
    56. Common Buzzard (2023-04-11)

    recent uploads

    2026-05-29. Twite.

    2026-05-23. Unkown Bird.

    2026-05-19. Blyth's Reed Warbler, Water Pipit, Brown Shrike, Masked Wagtail, Siberian Tit, Pacific Swift.

    2026-05-16. Siberian Rubythroat.

    2026-05-12. Dusky Warbler, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Dusky Warbler, Pallas's Reed Bunting.

    2026-05-11. Black Lark, Black-winged Pratincole, Black Lark, Red-flanked Bluetail, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler.

    2026-01-19. Song Thrush.

    2026-01-04. Black-throated Thrush.

    2026-01-01. Lesser Whitethroat.

    2025-12-31. Marsh Warbler, Bluethroat.

    2025-12-29. White-winged Lark, Pine Bunting, Common Chiffchaff, Black-eared Kite.

    2025-12-25. Eurasian Reed Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Northern Bullfinch, Siberian Pipit.

    2025-12-24. Spotted Redshank.

    2025-12-23. Eastern Common Swift, Eastern Common Swift, Common Swift.

    2025-12-16. Lesser Whitethroat, Common Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Eurasian Reed Warbler, Eurasian Reed Warbler.

    2025-12-14. Northern Reed Bunting, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Oriental Turtle Dove.

    2025-12-13. Bearded Tit, Willow Warbler.

    2025-12-10. Paddyfield Warbler.

    2025-12-08. Common Redpoll.

    2025-11-06. Wood Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler.

    2025-11-03. Rough-legged Buzzard.

    2025-10-29. Eurasian Stone Curlew, Citrine Wagtail, Pied Wheatear, Grey-headed Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail, Pied Bushchat, Common Chaffinch, Common Chaffinch.

    2025-10-27. Guldenstadt's Redstart, Himalayan Vulture, Steppe Buzzard, Corn Bunting, Hume's Warbler.

    2025-10-18. Booted Warbler.

    2025-10-08. Black-eared Kite.

    2021-08-18. Red Phalarope.

    2020-10-25. Pallas's Warbler.

    2020-08-14. River Warbler.

    2019-09-15. Yellow-browed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler.

    2019-05-18. Blyth's Reed Warbler.

    2019-04-22. Unkown Bird, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Common Chiffchaff.

    2018-12-06. White-tailed Sea-Eagle.

    recent comments

    2025-12-25. to photo # 06310004901 (Northern Bullfinch)

    Канатбек Кенжегулов: Hello! I watched it on my mobile phone, but the map is not visible there.

    2025-12-25. to photo # 06310005001 (Siberian Pipit)

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Yes Qanatbek at Tengiz south evaporation ponds . I had also recorded this species one year earlier at the same location . Below is the link to that ebird list and sighting . https://ebird.org/checklist/S96627712

    2025-12-25. to photo # 06310004901 (Northern Bullfinch)

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Hello Qanatbek , yes In tengiz at exact location on map

    2025-12-25. to photo # 06310004901 (Northern Bullfinch)

    Канатбек Кенжегулов: Tengiz?

    2025-12-25. to photo # 06310005003 (Siberian Pipit)

    Канатбек Кенжегулов: Tengiz?

    2025-11-06. to photo # 06310002903 (Wood Warbler)

    Bassel Abi Jummaa: Yes Andrey . In Tengiz rotational village ( RV ) . Exactly at the pin location on map at our company accommodation camp

    2025-11-06. to photo # 06310002901 (Wood Warbler)

    Андрей Коваленко: Место бы указать - Тенгиз.

    2021-08-19. to photo # 06310001101 (Red Phalarope)

    Анна Ясько: Интересная находка, поздравляю!

    2018-12-07. to photo # 06310000201 (White-tailed Sea-Eagle)

    Аскар Исабеков: Dear Bassel Abi Jummaa,
    welcome to the Birds of Kazalhstan site!

    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...