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Big Year 2024

The winner will submit the pictures of the largest number of bird species taken on the territory of our country during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2024
8. Rekuts Irina (40)
9. A Pavel (36)
11. Yasko Anna (35)
14. Sivokon Olga (33)
15. Merz Marina (32)
17. Silan Serg (31)
19. Parker Robert (27)
22. Malkov Yuriy (22)
25. Ishkov Leonid (19)
29. Morozov Maxim (15)
35. izoya sergey (11)
44. Bevza Ivan (3)

all species photographed in 2024


* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )
1. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-01)
2. Great Tit (2024-01-01)
3. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-01)
4. Mallard (2024-01-01)
5. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
6. Yellowhammer (2024-01-01)
7. Fieldfare (2024-01-01)
8. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-01)
9. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-01)
10. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-01)
11. Azure Tit (2024-01-01)
12. Pallas's Rosefinch (2024-01-01)
13. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-01-01)
14. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-01)
15. Common Starling (2024-01-01)
16. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-01)
17. Smew (2024-01-01)
18. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-01)
19. Mute Swan (2024-01-01)
20. Tufted Duck (2024-01-01)
21. Caspian Gull (2024-01-01)
22. Whooper Swan (2024-01-01)
23. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-01)
24. Northern Pintail (2024-01-01)
25. Greater Flamingo (2024-01-01)
26. Rook (2024-01-01)
27. Hooded Crow (2024-01-01)
28. Common Kestrel (2024-01-01)
29. Mew Gull (2024-01-01)
30. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
31. Hawfinch (2024-01-01)
32. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
33. Greater Scaup (2024-01-01)
34. Common Snipe (2024-01-01)
35. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-01)
36. Ring-billed Gull (2024-01-01)
37. Great White Egret (2024-01-01)
38. Grey Heron (2024-01-01)
39. Bewick's Swan (2024-01-01)
40. Common Coot (2024-01-01)
41. Common Pochard (2024-01-01)
42. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
43. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
44. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-01)
45. Common Mynah (2024-01-01)
46. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-01)
47. Common Redpoll (2024-01-02)
48. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-01-02)
49. Lammergeier (2024-01-02)
50. Brambling (2024-01-02)
51. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-01-02)
52. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2024-01-02)
53. Hodgson's Rosefinch (2024-01-02)
54. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-01-02)
55. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-02)
56. Wallcreeper (2024-01-02)
57. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-02)
58. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-01-02)
59. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-01-02)
60. Black-Billed Magpie (2024-01-02)
61. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-02)
62. Bearded Tit (2024-01-02)
63. Northern Wren (2024-01-02)
64. Common Teal (2024-01-02)
65. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-02)
66. Goldcrest (2024-01-02)
67. Cinereous Vulture (2024-01-02)
68. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-02)
71. Great White Pelican (2024-01-02)
72. Little Egret (2024-01-02)
73. Hen Harrier (2024-01-02)
74. Carrion Crow (2024-01-03)
75. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-03)
76. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
77. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
78. Brown Dipper (2024-01-03)
79. Wood Pigeon (2024-01-03)
80. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
81. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-01-03)
82. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-01-03)
83. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-01-03)
84. Golden Eagle (2024-01-03)
85. Common Raven (2024-01-03)
86. Red-fronted Serin (2024-01-03)
87. Willow Tit (2024-01-04)
88. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-04)
89. Turkestan Tit (2024-01-04)
90. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-04)
91. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-04)
92. Common Pheasant (2024-01-04)
93. House Sparrow (2024-01-04)
94. Crested Lark (2024-01-04)
95. European Greenfinch (2024-01-05)
96. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-05)
97. Masked Wagtail (2024-01-05)
98. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-05)
99. White Wagtail (2024-01-05)
100. Laughing Dove (2024-01-05)
101. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-01-06)
102. Desert Finch (2024-01-06)
103. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-01-07)
104. Dunnock (2024-01-07)
105. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-07)
106. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-01-08)
107. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-08)
108. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-01-08)
109. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-09)
110. Pallid Harrier (2024-01-11)
111. Blue Tit (2024-01-11)
112. Coal Tit (2024-01-12)
113. Grey Partridge (2024-01-12)
114. Short-eared Owl (2024-01-13)
115. Horned Lark (2024-01-13)
116. Himalayan Snowcock (2024-01-13)
117. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-13)
118. Pine Bunting (2024-01-13)
119. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-01-13)
120. European Robin (2024-01-13)
121. Red-breasted Rosefinch (2024-01-13)
122. White-winged Snowfinch (2024-01-13)
123. Greylag Goose (2024-01-13)
124. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-13)
125. Great Crested Grebe (2024-01-13)
126. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-13)
127. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-14)
128. Corn Bunting (2024-01-14)
129. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-14)
130. Common Moorhen (2024-01-14)
131. Little Grebe (2024-01-14)
132. Goosander (2024-01-14)
133. Great Bustard (2024-01-14)
134. Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse (2024-01-14)
135. Little Bustard (2024-01-14)
136. Calandra Lark (2024-01-14)
137. Little Owl (2024-01-14)
138. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-15)
139. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-15)
140. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-15)
141. Merlin (2024-01-15)
142. Common Buzzard (2024-01-15)
143. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-16)
144. Northern Black Grouse (2024-01-16)
145. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-16)
146. Black-throated Accentor (2024-01-17)
147. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-17)
148. Chukar Partridge (2024-01-17)
149. Alpine Accentor (2024-01-17)
150. Asian Rosy-Finch (2024-01-17)
151. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-01-18)
152. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-19)
153. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-19)
154. Gadwall (2024-01-19)
155. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-19)
156. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-20)
157. Griffon Vulture (2024-01-20)
158. White-winged Lark (2024-01-20)
159. Black Redstart (2024-01-21)
160. Snowy Owl (2024-01-21)
161. Black Lark (2024-01-21)
162. Meadow Bunting (2024-01-21)
163. Yellow-breasted Tit (2024-01-22)
164. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-01-23)
165. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-27)
166. Common Chiffchaff (2024-01-28)
167. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-28)
168. Black Woodpecker (2024-01-31)
169. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-02)
170. Stock Pigeon (2024-02-03)
171. Boreal Owl (2024-02-04)
172. Red-throated Thrush (2024-02-04)
173. White-Winged Woodpecker (2024-02-04)
174. Common Crane (2024-02-04)
175. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-02-04)
176. Eurasian Linnet (2024-02-04)
177. Pine Grosbeak (2024-02-07)
178. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2024-02-10)
179. Redwing (2024-02-10)
180. Ibisbill (2024-02-10)
182. Black Kite (2024-02-11)
183. Ferruginous Duck (2024-02-11)
184. Water Pipit (2024-02-11)
185. Meadow Pipit (2024-02-11)
186. Sky Lark (2024-02-11)
187. Glaucous Gull (2024-02-14)
188. Snow Bunting (2024-02-20)
189. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-02-22)
190. Songar Tit (2024-02-23)
191. Great Rosefinch (2024-02-27)
192. Common Shelduck (2024-02-28)
193. White Stork (2024-02-29)
194. Twite (2024-02-29)
195. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2024-03-06)
196. Finsch's Wheatear (2024-03-06)
197. Slender-billed Gull (2024-03-08)
198. Ruff (2024-03-10)
199. White-headed Duck (2024-03-10)
200. Garganey (2024-03-10)
201. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-03-10)
202. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-10)
203. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2024-03-10)
204. Syrian Woodpecker (2024-03-12)
205. Rock Bunting (2024-03-12)
206. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-03-14)
207. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-16)
208. Hoopoe (2024-03-16)
209. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-16)
210. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-16)
211. Water Rail (2024-03-17)
212. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-17)
213. Black Stork (2024-03-17)
214. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-17)
215. Demoiselle Crane (2024-03-17)
216. Common Swift (2024-03-17)
217. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-17)
218. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-03-17)

rare birds records


Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)

© Muhammed-Rahim Boranbaev
2024-03-04
Tasorpa, Kyzylsay natural park, Mangystau

A very rare wintering species for Mangystau, known only from the remains of the skin obtained from the vicinity of Fort Aleksandrovsky in 1892/93. (Zarudny, 1896).


Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)

© Galina Rosenberg
2019-11-22
g.Altai.Vostochno-Kazachstanskaia oblast

The first registration of the species in the mountainous part of Altai.


White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis)

© Serg Silan
2024-02-28
Kazakhstan

The first record of the White-winged Snowfinch in Western Altai. Photo recording was made in the southern spurs of the Ulbinsky ridge in the valley of the Urankhaika River at an altitude of less than 800 m above sea level. The White-winged Snowfinch was previously not known for the Kazakh part of Altai, but was first recorded in Southern Altai on January 26, 2017 in the upper reaches of the Tautekeli River at an altitude of 2400 m, where it was subsequently recorded on March 10, 2021, and there were also several sightings in January and February 2023 in the Sarykora tract (Vorobiev, 2023).


Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos)

© Aldiyar Saparbayev
2024-01-26
Outskirts of Uralsk

The first photographic record of a rare species for the region. In the past, it nested in places around Ilek and the Urals, and by the 60s of the 20th century only vagrants were encountered in the summer (Korelov, 1962). There is information about record of two single birds on September 18 and September 19, 2007 in the area of the Karachaganak gas condensate field (V.A. Kovshar, 2008).

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