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Big Year 2025

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

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

participants

* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2025

1. Pokhodzey Nataliya (207)

2. Loboda Egor (182)

3. Semenov Andrey (176)

4. Balaev Alexandr (175)

5. Butko Vitaliy (161)

6. Ortik Irina (141)

7. Martsun Oleg (127)

8. Saveika Sergei (122)

9. Zhurtov Khasan (113)

10. Makhovska Oksana (111)

11. Davydov Denys (109)

12. Sinukhin Vadim (109)

13. Kiselev Andrei (107)

14. Komarovskiy Alex (107)

15. Mis\'kov Andrey (95)

16. Studzinska Maya (93)

17. Simon Andrew (92)

18. Dombrovski Valery (86)

19. Merzlikin Volodymyr (82)

20. Petrov Andrei (81)

21. Honcharyk Natalia (79)

22. Ivushkin Vadim (76)

23. Kuzmina Maria (74)

24. Sofronov Evgeniy (74)

25. Shevtsov Dmitriy (72)

26. Petrychenko Dmytro (71)

27. Katanova Galina (70)

28. Solomatin Dmitriy (70)

29. Natykanets Viktor (69)

30. Iopek Vladislav (67)

31. Dvurekov Igor (64)

32. Gontcharov Aleksandr (64)

33. Koval Elena (64)

34. Zmievskiy Nikolai (64)

35. Travelian Sergo (59)

36. krjukov mixail (57)

37. Stramnoy Vladimir (56)

38. Semashko Vladimir (54)

39. Torgashova Marina (45)

40. Golyantov Aleksandr (38)

41. Kovalchuk Oleksandr (38)

42. Rozhkova Alina (35)

43. Skiter Artem (31)

44. Dyakin Gennadiy (28)

45. Lyubimov Alexandr (28)

46. Sikorsky Igor (27)

47. Erokhin Dmitry (25)

48. Samokhin Igor (24)

49. Nikitin Nikolay (22)

50. Shcherbakov Igor (19)

51. Yakovlev Alexey (19)

52. Zlobin Ilya (18)

53. Drabina Natalia (17)

54. Koval Hlib (17)

55. Ovsyannikova Liza (17)

56. Shursha Sergey (14)

57. Sevidov Viktor (13)

58. Vietokhin Ihor (12)

59. Belyaev Dmitry (11)

60. Danilova Valeriya (10)

61. Farniev Konstantin (10)

62. Kyselov Roman (9)

63. Riznyk Olexandr (8)

64. Komarovskyi Dmytro (7)

65. Medvedeva Svetlana (6)

66. Plekhanov Aleksandr (6)

67. Sheremet Oleg (5)

68. Yusupov Vyacheslav (5)

69. Gr Stanislavs (4)

70. Kalagin Mikhail (4)

71. Karanov Nikolaj (4)

72. Liseenko Alexander (4)

73. Andreev Dmitrij (3)

74. Hrudzynska Natalia (3)

75. Mosienko Vitaliy (3)

76. Blashkin Pavel (2)

77. Kutushev Radik (2)

78. Lanin Maxim (2)

79. Skubriy Nataliya (2)

80. Zolotov Alexey (2)

81. Abramova Julia (1)

82. Barabanshchikova Svetlana (1)

83. Borodin Oleg (1)

84. Bronskov Oleksandr (1)

85. Kazannyk Vitalii (1)

86. Kudriavtsev Andrey (1)

87. Lisitsyna Alexandra (1)

88. Podverbny Yury (1)

89. Prokhorov Andrey (1)

90. Zhuravlev Andrey (1)

91. Zubkovych Ivan (1)

all species photographed in 2025

* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )

1. Black-headed Gull (2025-01-01)

2. Mallard (2025-01-01)

3. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-01)

4. Coal Tit (2025-01-01)

5. Long-tailed Tit (2025-01-01)

6. Crested Tit (2025-01-01)

7. Fieldfare (2025-01-01)

8. Little Grebe | Grèbe castagneux | Zwergtaucher (2025-01-01)

9. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-01)

10. Mew Gull (2025-01-01)

11. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-01-01)

12. Hooded Crow (2025-01-01)

13. Blue Tit (2025-01-01)

14. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-01)

15. Whooper Swan (2025-01-01)

16. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-01)

17. Great Tit (2025-01-01)

18. Eurasian Jay (2025-01-01)

19. European Greenfinch (2025-01-01)

20. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-01)

21. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-01)

22. Mute Swan (2025-01-01)

23. Yellowhammer (2025-01-01)

24. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-01)

25. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-01)

26. Common Treecreeper (2025-01-01)

27. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-01)

28. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-01-01)

29. Common Raven (2025-01-01)

30. Grey Heron (2025-01-01)

31. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-01)

32. Common Buzzard (2025-01-01)

33. House Sparrow (2025-01-01)

34. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-01)

35. Common Coot (2025-01-01)

36. Tufted Duck (2025-01-01)

37. Smew (2025-01-01)

38. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-01-01)

39. Eurasian Linnet (2025-01-01)

40. Great Cormorant (2025-01-01)

41. Crested Lark (2025-01-01)

42. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-01)

43. Syrian Woodpecker (2025-01-01)

44. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-01)

45. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-01-01)

46. Rook (2025-01-01)

47. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-01-01)

48. Hen Harrier (2025-01-01)

49. Brambling (2025-01-01)

50. Slavonian Grebe | Grèbe esclavon | Ohrentaucher (2025-01-01)

51. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-01)

52. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-01)

53. Great White Egret (2025-01-01)

54. Ferruginous Duck (2025-01-01)

55. Red-crested Pochard (2025-01-01)

56. Common Moorhen (2025-01-01)

57. Goldcrest (2025-01-01)

58. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-01-01)

59. Willow Tit (2025-01-01)

60. Great Bustard (2025-01-01)

61. Eurasian Curlew (2025-01-01)

62. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-01-01)

63. Snow Bunting (2025-01-01)

64. Horned Lark (2025-01-01)

65. Merlin (2025-01-01)

66. Grey Partridge (2025-01-01)

67. Common Redpoll (2025-01-01)

68. Bewick's Swan (2025-01-01)

69. Common Pochard (2025-01-01)

70. Yellow-legged Gull (2025-01-01)

71. Caspian Gull (2025-01-01)

72. Black-Necked Grebe | Grèbe à cou noir | Schwarzhalstaucher (2025-01-01)

73. Great Crested Grebe | Grèbe huppé | Haubentaucher (2025-01-01)

74. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2025-01-01)

75. Arctic Redpoll (2025-01-01)

76. Peregrine Falcon (2025-01-01)

77. Marsh Tit (2025-01-02)

78. Northern Wren (2025-01-02)

79. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-02)

80. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-02)

81. Common Teal (2025-01-02)

82. Common Kestrel (2025-01-02)

83. Hawfinch (2025-01-02)

84. Mandarin Duck (2025-01-02)

85. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-02)

86. Arctic Loon | Plongeon arctique | Prachttaucher (2025-01-02)

87. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-01-02)

88. Greater Scaup (2025-01-02)

89. Meadow Pipit (2025-01-02)

90. Sandwich Tern (2025-01-02)

91. Slender-billed Gull (2025-01-02)

92. Red-Necked Grebe | Grèbe jougris | Rothalstaucher (2025-01-02)

93. Mediterranean Gull (2025-01-02)

94. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-02)

95. Griffon Vulture (2025-01-02)

96. Common Kingfisher (2025-01-02)

97. Little Owl (2025-01-02)

98. Eurasian Dipper (2025-01-03)

99. Tawny Owl (2025-01-03)

100. Common Starling (2025-01-03)

101. Wood Pigeon (2025-01-03)

102. Redwing (2025-01-03)

103. European Robin (2025-01-03)

104. White Wagtail (2025-01-03)

105. Lammergeier (2025-01-03)

106. Rock Bunting (2025-01-03)

107. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-01-03)

108. Black Woodpecker (2025-01-03)

109. Eurasian Golden Plover (2025-01-03)

110. Alpine Chough (2025-01-03)

111. Stock Pigeon (2025-01-03)

112. Barnacle Goose (2025-01-04)

113. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-01-04)

114. Herring Gull (2025-01-04)

115. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-04)

116. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2025-01-04)

117. Great White Pelican (2025-01-04)

118. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-04)

119. Little Egret (2025-01-04)

120. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-01-04)

121. Spanish Sparrow (2025-01-04)

122. White-winged Tern (2025-01-04)

123. Northern Goshawk (2025-01-04)

124. Velvet Scoter (2025-01-04)

125. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-05)

126. Pallas's Cormorant (2025-01-05)

127. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-01-05)

128. Common Chiffchaff (2025-01-05)

129. Steppe Eagle (2025-01-05)

130. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-05)

131. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-01-05)

132. Common Shelduck (2025-01-05)

133. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-05)

134. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-01-05)

135. Water Rail (2025-01-06)

136. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-06)

137. Pallid Harrier (2025-01-06)

138. Grey-headed Swamphen (2025-01-06)

139. Bearded Tit (2025-01-06)

140. Golden Eagle (2025-01-07)

141. Red-billed Chough (2025-01-07)

142. Long-tailed Duck (2025-01-08)

143. Hoopoe (2025-01-08)

144. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-08)

145. Green Sandpiper (2025-01-08)

146. Red Crossbill (2025-01-09)

147. Gadwall (2025-01-10)

148. Black Redstart (2025-01-10)

149. Dunnock (2025-01-11)

150. Twite (2025-01-11)

151. Goosander (2025-01-12)

152. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-01-12)

153. Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker (2025-01-13)

154. Northern Pintail (2025-01-14)

155. Northern Hawk Owl (2025-01-15)

156. White Stork (2025-01-18)

157. Firecrest (2025-01-22)

158. Glaucous Gull (2025-01-22)

159. Black Kite (2025-01-23)

160. Northern Black Grouse (2025-01-24)

161. Sky Lark (2025-01-24)

162. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-01-24)

163. Common Pheasant (2025-01-24)

164. Northern Lapwing (2025-01-25)

165. Common Snipe (2025-01-25)

166. Eurasian Bittern (2025-01-25)

167. Corn Bunting (2025-01-25)

168. Pallas's Gull (2025-01-25)

169. Levantine shearwater (2025-01-26)

170. Arctic Skua (2025-01-26)

171. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-26)

172. Grey Wagtail (2025-01-27)

173. Krueper's Nuthatch (2025-01-27)

174. Great Rosefinch (2025-01-28)

175. Parrot Crossbill (2025-01-30)

176. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-01-31)

177. Common Crane (2025-02-04)

178. Ural Owl (2025-02-08)

179. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-02-12)

180. Pied Avocet (2025-02-13)

181. Dunlin (2025-02-13)

182. European Shag (2025-02-15)

183. Little Gull (2025-02-16)

184. Greater Flamingo (2025-02-16)

185. Grey Plover (2025-02-16)

186. Saker Falcon (2025-02-16)

187. Black-winged Stilt (2025-02-16)

188. Song Thrush (2025-02-18)

189. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-02-18)

190. Great Grey Owl (2025-02-19)

191. Short-eared Owl (2025-02-21)

192. Wood Lark (2025-02-25)

193. Western Capercaillie (2025-02-25)

194. Common Redshank (2025-02-26)

195. Calandra Lark (2025-02-26)

196. Great Black-backed Gull (2025-02-26)

197. Jack Snipe (2025-02-27)

198. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-02-27)

199. Short-toed Tree-Creeper (2025-02-27)

200. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-02-27)

201. Common Oystercatcher (2025-02-28)

202. Black-legged Kittiwake (2025-03-01)

203. Iceland Gull (2025-03-01)

204. Siberian Tit (2025-03-01)

205. Pine Grosbeak (2025-03-01)

206. Ruff (2025-03-02)

207. King Eider (2025-03-02)

208. Purple Sandpiper (2025-03-02)

209. Common Eider (2025-03-02)

210. Steller's Eider (2025-03-02)

211. Black Scoter (2025-03-02)

212. Black Guillemot (2025-03-02)

213. Red-breasted Goose (2025-03-04)

214. Bean Goose (2025-03-05)

215. Azure Tit (2025-03-09)

216. Garganey (2025-03-10)

217. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2025-03-10)

218. Western Barn Owl (2025-03-13)

219. Common Stonechat (2025-03-14)

220. Common Sandpiper (2025-03-15)

221. Blackcap (2025-03-15)

222. Northern House Martin (2025-03-16)

223. Sardinian Warbler (2025-03-16)

224. Barn Swallow (2025-03-17)

225. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-17)

226. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-03-18)

227. Northern Wheatear (2025-03-18)

228. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-03-18)

229. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2025-03-20)

230. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-03-22)

231. Black Stork (2025-03-22)

232. Osprey (2025-03-22)

233. Common Greenshank (2025-03-23)

234. Rock Sparrow (2025-03-26)

235. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2025-03-28)

236. Common Swift (2025-03-28)

237. Bluethroat (2025-03-29)

238. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-29)

239. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2025-03-29)

240. Common Stonechat (2025-03-29)

241. Tree Pipit (2025-03-30)

242. Water Pipit (2025-03-30)

243. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-02)

244. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-02)

245. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-02)

246. Cattle Egret (2025-04-02)

247. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-03)

248. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-03)

249. Savi's Warbler (2025-04-04)

250. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-04)

251. Willow Warbler (2025-04-04)

252. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-04)

253. Ring Ouzel (2025-04-04)

254. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-05)

255. Kentish Plover (2025-04-05)

256. Wood Sandpiper (2025-04-06)

257. Purple Heron (2025-04-06)

258. Sand Martin (2025-04-06)

259. Lapland Longspur (2025-04-08)

260. Common Nightingale (2025-04-10)

261. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-10)

262. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-10)

263. Little Crake (2025-04-10)

264. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-11)

265. Eurasian Hobby (2025-04-11)

266. European Serin (2025-04-13)

267. Booted Eagle (2025-04-13)

268. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-13)

269. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-04-14)

270. Whinchat (2025-04-16)

271. Great Reed Warbler (2025-04-16)

272. Spotted Redshank (2025-04-16)

273. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-17)

274. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-17)

275. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-04-17)

276. Common Cuckoo (2025-04-17)

277. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-04-17)

278. Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-18)

279. Collared Flycatcher (2025-04-18)

280. Common Tern (2025-04-18)

281. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-18)

282. Northern Hazelhen (2025-04-18)

283. Caspian Tern (2025-04-18)

284. Canada Goose (2025-04-18)

285. Montagu's Harrier (2025-04-19)

286. Wood Warbler (2025-04-19)

287. Whiskered Tern (2025-04-19)

288. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-20)

289. Red-footed Falcon (2025-04-20)

290. Common Whitethroat (2025-04-21)

291. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-04-21)

292. Black Tern (2025-04-21)

293. Great Snipe (2025-04-22)

294. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-22)

295. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-04-23)

296. Sedge Warbler (2025-04-24)

297. Garden Warbler (2025-04-25)

298. European Bee-eater (2025-04-26)

299. Little Stint (2025-04-26)

300. Red-backed Shrike (2025-04-27)

301. Common Quail (2025-04-28)

302. European Nightjar (2025-04-29)

303. Icterine Warbler (2025-04-29)

304. European Turtle Dove (2025-04-29)

305. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-29)

306. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-04-29)

307. Thrush Nightingale (2025-04-30)

308. Black-headed Bunting (2025-04-30)

309. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2025-04-30)

310. European Golden Oriole (2025-04-30)

311. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-01)

312. Cetti's Warbler (2025-05-01)

313. Squacco Heron (2025-05-01)

314. Collared Pratincole (2025-05-01)

315. Little Bittern (2025-05-01)

316. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-01)

317. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-01)

318. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-05-01)

319. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-01)

320. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-05-01)

321. Rosy Starling (2025-05-01)

322. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-02)

323. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-02)

324. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-05-02)

325. Arctic Tern (2025-05-03)

326. Alpine Swift (2025-05-03)

327. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-03)

328. Little Tern (2025-05-04)

329. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-04)

330. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-07)

331. Barred Warbler (2025-05-08)

332. Marsh Warbler (2025-05-10)

333. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-11)

334. Red-throated Loon | Plongeon catmarin | Sterntaucher (2025-05-12)

335. Corncrake (2025-05-13)

336. River Warbler (2025-05-13)

337. Woodchat Shrike (2025-05-14)

338. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-17)

Big Year 2025

1. Anna Golubeva (240)
2. Nataliya Pokhodzey (207)
3. Egor Loboda (182)
4. Andrey Semenov (176)
5. Alexandr Balaev (175)
6. Vitaliy Butko (161)
7. Irina Ortik (141)
8. Oleg Martsun (127)
9. Khasan Zhurtov (122)
10. Sergei Saveika (122)

more...

rare birds records

Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)

The oldest (of those ringed) black-tailed godwit in Belarus. Details: https://belarus.birding.day/v2blogentry.php?l=ru&a=20250331000301&si=bel

Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)

Second record to the Moscow region.

Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

more rarities...

recent video

2025-02-26. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (Vitalii Kazannyk).

2024-11-28. Mandarin Duck (Galina Katanova).

2024-10-15. Northern Hawk Owl (Galina Katanova).

2024-10-11. Ruff (Hlib Koval).

2024-09-11. Dunlin (Vadim Sinukhin).

2024-09-10. Ural Owl (Galina Katanova).

2024-07-31. Lesser Grey Shrike (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-07-13. Northern Bullfinch (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-07-10. Great Cormorant (Stanislavs Gr).

2024-06-17. Icterine Warbler (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-06-05. Northern Wren (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-06-04. Red-billed Chough (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-05-31. Common Whitethroat (Stanislavs Gr).

2024-05-26. European Bee-eater (Stanislavs Gr).

2024-05-25. Thrush Nightingale (Stanislavs Gr).

unidentified birds

2025-05-15

Владимир Семашко: ну, вроде, хохотунья

2025-05-12

no any comments:

2025-05-08

Дмитрий Шевцов: Лысуху забыли подписать

2025-04-30

Дмитрий Шевцов: Может быть самкой как домового, так и черногрудого воробья.

2025-04-29

no any comments:

more unidentified birds...