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total species: 11
total photos: 27
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Lammergeier (2020-02-08)
2. Common Cuckoo (2020-05-24)
3. Himalayan Vulture (2020-05-29)
4. Common Kestrel (2020-11-21)
5. Mistle Thrush (2021-02-06)
6. Common Chaffinch (2021-04-07)
7. Northern Black Grouse (2021-04-17)
8. Spotted Nutcracker (2021-04-17)
9. Hawfinch (2021-04-17)
10. Common Rosefinch (2021-05-08)
11. Brown Dipper (2022-04-09)

recent uploads


2022-04-10. Brown Dipper.

2021-05-08. Common Rosefinch.

2021-04-17. Northern Black Grouse, Spotted Nutcracker, Hawfinch.

2021-04-08. Common Chaffinch.

2021-03-30. Lammergeier, Common Kestrel, Mistle Thrush, Himalayan Vulture, Common Cuckoo.

recent comments


2021-04-01. to photo # 07620000501 (Himalayan Vulture)

Константин Потапов: Спасибо @Аскар!


2021-03-31. to photo # 07620000502 (Himalayan Vulture)

Аскар Исабеков: судя по всему, молодой кумай (такие же - раз, два).


2021-03-30. to photo # 07620000401 (Mistle Thrush)

Константин Потапов: Спасибо, @Анна! Исправил.


2021-03-30. to photo # 07620000403 (Mistle Thrush)

Анна Ясько: Константин, добро пожаловать на сайт!На фото - деряба. У него на брюшной стороне округлые пятнышки, как здесь. А у певчего они по форме похожи [....]


2021-03-30. to photo # 07620000301 (Common Kestrel)

Константин Потапов: Thank you @Jochen!


2021-03-30. to photo # 07620000301 (Common Kestrel)

Jochen Roeder: Falco tinnunculus?
Very beautiful landscape. :)


2021-03-30. to photo # 07620000201 (Lammergeier)

Константин Потапов: Спасибо Андрей,добавил.


2021-03-30. to photo # 07620000202 (Lammergeier)

Андрей Баздырев: Бородач


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...