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Best photos of the month, February 2020.

Grey Partridge | Gleb Bolbotov | 24

White-winged Grosbeak | Vladimir Vorobyov | 23

European Robin | Mikhail Kim | 22

Northern Wren | Alexandr Belyaev | 21

Redwing | Anna Yasko | 19

Long-eared Owl | Viktor Kolesnikov | 18

Goldcrest | Viktor Kolesnikov | 18

Brambling | Natali Kim | 18

Common Kestrel | Askar Isabekov | 17

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 17

Eurasian Blackbird | Natali Kim | 17

Smew | Natali Kim | 17

Peregrine Falcon | Natali Kim | 17

Peregrine Falcon | Anna Yasko | 17

Common Redpoll | Natali Kim | 16

Red Crossbill | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 16

Long-tailed Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 16

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 15

Hawfinch | Natali Kim | 15

Goosander | Natali Kim | 15

Bohemian Waxwing | Serg Silan | 15

Cetti's Warbler | Alexandr Belyaev | 15

Blue Tit | Anna Yasko | 15

Common Pheasant | Ihsan Eroglu | 15

Common Sparrowhawk | Ihsan Eroglu | 15

Wood Pigeon | Andrey Shatalov | 15

Black-throated Thrush | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 15

Common Redpoll | Natali Kim | 14

Eurasian Blackbird | Natali Kim | 14

Common Redpoll | Natali Kim | 14

Common Starling | Malik Nukusbekov | 14

Ibisbill | Alexandr Belyaev | 14

Solitary Snipe | Alexandr Belyaev | 14

Grey Partridge | Andrey Shatalov | 14

Blue Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 14

Great Grey Shrike | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 14

Eastern Buzzard | Askar Isabekov | 13

Upland Buzzard | Gennadiy Dyakin | 13

Goosander | Viktor Kolesnikov | 13

Bohemian Waxwing | Viktor Kolesnikov | 13

Eurasian Dipper | Serg Silan | 13

White-winged Grosbeak | Vladimir Vorobyov | 13

Bearded Tit | Sergei Shmygalev | 13

Great Tit | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 13

Fieldfare | Andrei Kuryashkin | 13

European Greenfinch | Marina Merz | 13

Common Redpoll | Marina Merz | 13

Black Redstart | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 13

Long-eared Owl | Viktor Kolesnikov | 13

Eurasian Siskin | Askar Isabekov | 12

Eurasian Goldfinch | Natali Kim | 12

European Greenfinch | Natali Kim | 12

Common Goldeneye | Natali Kim | 12

European Greenfinch | Natali Kim | 12

Eurasian Siskin | Natali Kim | 12

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 12

Eurasian Siskin | Natali Kim | 12

European Greenfinch | Natali Kim | 12

Spotted Nutcracker | Vladimir Vorobyov | 12

Bohemian Waxwing | Yuriy Malkov | 12

European Robin | Alexandr Belyaev | 12

Rough-legged Buzzard | Alexandr Belyaev | 12

Eurasian Goldfinch | Anna Yasko | 12

Bohemian Waxwing | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 12

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Konstantin Andrussenko | 12

Long-tailed Rosefinch | Konstantin Andrussenko | 12

Eurasian Blackbird | Marina Merz | 12

Bohemian Waxwing | Marina Merz | 12

Turkestan Tit | Ihsan Eroglu | 12

Fieldfare | Andrey Shatalov | 12

Coal Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 12

Mistle Thrush | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 12

Great Tit | Viktor Kolesnikov | 11

Eurasian Blackbird | Viktor Kolesnikov | 11

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Viktor Kolesnikov | 11

Northern Bullfinch | Natali Kim | 11

Northern Bullfinch | Natali Kim | 11

Common Redpoll | Natali Kim | 11

Eastern Buzzard | Yevgeny Belousov | 11

Red Crossbill | Serg Silan | 11

Meadow Bunting | Alexandr Belyaev | 11

Long-tailed Tit | Alexandr Belyaev | 11

Common Chaffinch | Anna Yasko | 11

Mistle Thrush | Anna Yasko | 11

Common Treecreeper | Anna Yasko | 11

Grey-headed Goldfinch | Marina Merz | 11

Northern Bullfinch | Marina Merz | 11

Brambling | Aleksandr Polyakov | 11

Black-throated Thrush | Ihsan Eroglu | 11

Eurasian Penduline Tit | Ihsan Eroglu | 11

Long-tailed Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 11

Merlin | Andrey Kovalenko | 10

Rock Pigeon | Viktor Kolesnikov | 10

Eurasian Dipper | Viktor Kolesnikov | 10

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Viktor Kolesnikov | 10

Eurasian Blackbird | Viktor Kolesnikov | 10

Eurasian Nuthatch | Viktor Kolesnikov | 10

Brambling | Natali Kim | 10

White-winged Grosbeak | Yevgeny Belousov | 10

White Stork | Yevgeny Belousov | 10

Azure Tit | Serg Silan | 10

Eversmann's Redstart | Sergei Shmygalev | 10

Ibisbill | Sergei Shmygalev | 10

Goosander | Alexandr Belyaev | 10

Eurasian Dipper | Konstantin Andrussenko | 10

Bohemian Waxwing | Marina Merz | 10

Common Sparrowhawk | Ihsan Eroglu | 10

House Sparrow | Ihsan Eroglu | 10

Common Sparrowhawk | Ihsan Eroglu | 10

Hawfinch | Andrey Shatalov | 10

Mallard | Askar Isabekov | 9

White-tailed Sea-Eagle | Viktor Kolesnikov | 9

Fieldfare | Viktor Kolesnikov | 9

Bohemian Waxwing | Natali Kim | 9

Baikal Bullfinch | Natali Kim | 9

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 9

Brambling | Natali Kim | 9

Common Redpoll | Natali Kim | 9

Brambling | Natali Kim | 9

Golden Eagle | Yevgeny Belousov | 9

Northern Bullfinch | Serg Silan | 9

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Vorobyov | 9

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Yuriy Malkov | 9

Grey-headed Goldfinch | Alexandr Belyaev | 9

Bearded Tit | Alexandr Belyaev | 9

Corn Bunting | Alexandr Belyaev | 9

Common Sparrowhawk | Alexandr Belyaev | 9

Hawfinch | Anna Yasko | 9

Yellowhammer | Anna Yasko | 9

Common Chiffchaff | Anna Yasko | 9

Northern Bullfinch | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 9

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 9

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 9

Bohemian Waxwing | Ruslan Telegin | 9

Long-tailed Rosefinch | Ihsan Eroglu | 9

Willow Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 9

Long-tailed Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 9

Blue Tit | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 9

Common Kestrel | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 9

Corn Bunting | Georgiy Shakula | 9

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 9

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 9

Pander's Ground-Jay | Georgiy Shakula | 9

Red-fronted Serin | Alexey Timoshenko | 8

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natali Kim | 8

Grey-headed Goldfinch | Natali Kim | 8

Brambling | Natali Kim | 8

Eurasian Goldfinch | Natali Kim | 8

Mallard | Natali Kim | 8

Eurasian Goldfinch | Natali Kim | 8

European Greenfinch | Natali Kim | 8

Common Mynah | Yevgeny Belousov | 8

Masked Wagtail | Yevgeny Belousov | 8

Great White Egret | Yevgeny Belousov | 8

Northern Reed Bunting | Yevgeny Belousov | 8

Pygmy Cormorant | Yevgeny Belousov | 8

Black-throated Thrush | Serg Silan | 8

Great Rosefinch | Vladimir Vorobyov | 8

Hawfinch | Alexandr Belyaev | 8

Common Chiffchaff | Alexandr Belyaev | 8

Eurasian Blackbird | Alexandr Belyaev | 8

Brambling | Anna Yasko | 8

Hybrid Bunting | Anna Yasko | 8

Tree Sparrow | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 8

Tree Sparrow | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 8

Bohemian Waxwing | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 8

Northern Bullfinch | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 8

Northern Bullfinch | Viktor Kalyuzhnov | 8

Brown Dipper | Viktoriya Zvyaginceva | 8

Hooded Crow | Konstantin Andrussenko | 8

Tree Sparrow | Ruslan Telegin | 8

Hawfinch | Marina Gudimova | 8

White-tailed Sea-Eagle | Marina Gudimova | 8

Great Grey Shrike | Marina Gudimova | 8

Eurasian Goldfinch | Marina Merz | 8

Fieldfare | Marina Merz | 8

Eurasian Siskin | Marina Merz | 8

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Marina Merz | 8

Grey-headed Goldfinch | Marina Merz | 8

Great Tit | Marina Merz | 8

Common Pheasant | Ihsan Eroglu | 8

Northern Reed Bunting | Ihsan Eroglu | 8

Desert Finch | Ihsan Eroglu | 8

House Sparrow | Ihsan Eroglu | 8

Blue Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 8

Wood Pigeon | Andrey Shatalov | 8

Blue Tit | Andrey Shatalov | 8

Eurasian Jay | Andrey Shatalov | 8

Northern Reed Bunting | Qanatbek Kenzhegulov | 8

Common Redpoll | Natali Kim | 8

Great Rosefinch | Vladimir Vorobyov | 8

European Robin | Alexandr Belyaev | 8

Common Sparrowhawk | Ihsan Eroglu | 8

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).

unidentified birds


2024-03-28

Канатбек Кенжегулов: Ссылка - ttps://media.ebird.org/catalog?taxonCode=lbbgul5&mediaType=photo&view=list

2024-03-28

Канатбек Кенжегулов: Подсказывают, что возможно Халей с нарушенной линькой, что это значит насчет нарушенной линьки - не знаю. Клюв не длинноват для Халея?

more unidentified birds...