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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
4. Loboda Egor (242)
6. Butko Vitaliy (187)
7. Ortik Irina (171)
9. Dvurekov Igor (167)
10. Sinukhin Vadim (166)
12. Mis\'kov Andrey (158)
13. Zhurtov Khasan (151)
14. Kiselev Andrei (150)
15. Travelian Sergo (150)
16. Koval Elena (142)
17. Katanova Galina (141)
18. Martsun Oleg (141)
20. Davydov Denys (135)
24. Iopek Vladislav (125)
28. Petrov Andrei (117)
29. Studzinska Maya (115)
30. Kuzmina Maria (114)
31. Simon Andrew (113)
39. Zlobin Ilya (72)
43. Melnyk Dmytro (64)
47. Samokhin Igor (56)
49. Kyselov Roman (52)
51. Sikorsky Igor (47)
55. Skiter Artem (38)
59. Koval Hlib (26)
61. Lanin Maxim (24)
72. Bodnar Vasil (12)
89. FOMINA ALENA (3)
102. Borodin Oleg (1)
104. Diadiun Vadim (1)
105. Konov Dmitrii (1)
110. Travin Anton (1)
112. Zamaieva Anna (1)

all species photographed in 2025


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

sort by:

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)
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)
48. Hen Harrier (2025-01-01)
49. Brambling (2025-01-01)
51. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-01)
52. Grey Partridge (2025-01-01)
53. Goldcrest (2025-01-01)
54. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-01)
55. Great White Egret (2025-01-01)
56. Common Moorhen (2025-01-01)
57. Eurasian Curlew (2025-01-01)
58. Snow Bunting (2025-01-01)
59. Ferruginous Duck (2025-01-01)
60. Red-crested Pochard (2025-01-01)
61. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-01-01)
62. Willow Tit (2025-01-01)
63. Great Bustard (2025-01-01)
64. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-01-01)
65. Horned Lark (2025-01-01)
66. Merlin (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)
74. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
75. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-01)
76. Arctic Redpoll (2025-01-01)
77. Peregrine Falcon (2025-01-01)
78. Marsh Tit (2025-01-02)
79. Northern Wren (2025-01-02)
80. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-02)
81. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-02)
82. Common Teal (2025-01-02)
83. Common Kestrel (2025-01-02)
84. Hawfinch (2025-01-02)
85. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-02)
86. Little Owl (2025-01-02)
87. Common Kingfisher (2025-01-02)
88. Mandarin Duck (2025-01-02)
90. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-01-02)
91. Greater Scaup (2025-01-02)
92. Meadow Pipit (2025-01-02)
93. Sandwich Tern (2025-01-02)
94. Mediterranean Gull (2025-01-02)
95. Slender-billed Gull (2025-01-02)
97. Griffon Vulture (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. Eurasian Golden Plover (2025-01-03)
106. Lammergeier (2025-01-03)
107. Rock Bunting (2025-01-03)
108. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-01-03)
109. Black Woodpecker (2025-01-03)
110. Alpine Chough (2025-01-03)
111. Stock Pigeon (2025-01-03)
112. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-01-04)
113. Barnacle Goose (2025-01-04)
114. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-01-04)
115. Herring Gull (2025-01-04)
116. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-04)
117. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2025-01-04)
118. Great White Pelican (2025-01-04)
119. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-04)
120. Little Egret (2025-01-04)
121. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-01-04)
122. Spanish Sparrow (2025-01-04)
123. White-winged Tern (2025-01-04)
124. Northern Goshawk (2025-01-04)
125. Velvet Scoter (2025-01-04)
126. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-05)
127. Pallas's Cormorant (2025-01-05)
128. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-01-05)
129. Common Chiffchaff (2025-01-05)
130. Steppe Eagle (2025-01-05)
131. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-05)
132. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-01-05)
133. Common Shelduck (2025-01-05)
134. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-05)
135. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-01-05)
136. Red-billed Chough (2025-01-05)
137. Water Rail (2025-01-06)
138. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-06)
139. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-01-06)
140. Bearded Tit (2025-01-06)
141. Grey Plover (2025-01-06)
142. Pallid Harrier (2025-01-06)
143. Grey-headed Swamphen (2025-01-06)
144. Golden Eagle (2025-01-07)
145. Long-tailed Duck (2025-01-08)
146. Hoopoe (2025-01-08)
147. Green Sandpiper (2025-01-08)
148. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-08)
149. Red Crossbill (2025-01-09)
150. Gadwall (2025-01-10)
151. Black Redstart (2025-01-10)
152. Dunnock (2025-01-11)
153. Twite (2025-01-11)
154. Goosander (2025-01-12)
156. Northern Pintail (2025-01-14)
157. Northern Hawk Owl (2025-01-15)
158. White Stork (2025-01-18)
159. Firecrest (2025-01-22)
160. Glaucous Gull (2025-01-22)
161. Black Kite (2025-01-23)
162. Northern Black Grouse (2025-01-24)
163. Sky Lark (2025-01-24)
164. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-01-24)
165. Common Pheasant (2025-01-24)
166. Northern Lapwing (2025-01-25)
167. Common Snipe (2025-01-25)
168. Corn Bunting (2025-01-25)
169. Eurasian Bittern (2025-01-25)
170. Pallas's Gull (2025-01-25)
171. Levantine shearwater (2025-01-26)
172. Arctic Skua (2025-01-26)
173. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-26)
174. Grey Wagtail (2025-01-27)
175. Krueper's Nuthatch (2025-01-27)
176. Great Rosefinch (2025-01-28)
177. Parrot Crossbill (2025-01-30)
178. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-01-31)
179. Common Crane (2025-02-04)
180. Ural Owl (2025-02-08)
181. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-02-12)
182. Dunlin (2025-02-13)
183. Pied Avocet (2025-02-13)
184. European Shag (2025-02-15)
185. Little Gull (2025-02-16)
186. Greater Flamingo (2025-02-16)
187. Saker Falcon (2025-02-16)
188. Black-winged Stilt (2025-02-16)
189. Song Thrush (2025-02-18)
190. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-02-18)
191. Great Grey Owl (2025-02-19)
192. Short-eared Owl (2025-02-21)
193. Wood Lark (2025-02-25)
194. Western Capercaillie (2025-02-25)
195. Common Redshank (2025-02-26)
196. Calandra Lark (2025-02-26)
197. Great Black-backed Gull (2025-02-26)
198. Jack Snipe (2025-02-27)
199. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-02-27)
200. Short-toed Tree-Creeper (2025-02-27)
201. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-02-27)
202. Common Oystercatcher (2025-02-28)
203. Black-legged Kittiwake (2025-03-01)
204. Iceland Gull (2025-03-01)
205. Siberian Tit (2025-03-01)
206. Pine Grosbeak (2025-03-01)
207. Ruff (2025-03-02)
208. King Eider (2025-03-02)
209. Purple Sandpiper (2025-03-02)
210. Common Eider (2025-03-02)
211. Steller's Eider (2025-03-02)
212. Black Scoter (2025-03-02)
213. Black Guillemot (2025-03-02)
214. Red-breasted Goose (2025-03-04)
215. Bean Goose (2025-03-05)
216. Common Stonechat (2025-03-08)
217. Azure Tit (2025-03-09)
218. Garganey (2025-03-10)
219. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2025-03-10)
220. Western Barn Owl (2025-03-13)
221. Common Sandpiper (2025-03-15)
222. Blackcap (2025-03-15)
223. Northern House Martin (2025-03-16)
224. Sardinian Warbler (2025-03-16)
225. Barn Swallow (2025-03-17)
226. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-17)
227. Northern Wheatear (2025-03-18)
228. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-03-18)
229. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-03-18)
230. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2025-03-20)
231. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-03-22)
232. Black Stork (2025-03-22)
233. Osprey (2025-03-22)
234. Common Greenshank (2025-03-23)
235. Rock Sparrow (2025-03-26)
236. Common Swift (2025-03-28)
237. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2025-03-28)
238. Bluethroat (2025-03-29)
239. Baraba Steppe Gull (2025-03-29)
240. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2025-03-29)
241. Common Stonechat (2025-03-29)
242. Tree Pipit (2025-03-30)
243. Water Pipit (2025-03-30)
244. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-02)
245. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-02)
246. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-02)
247. Cattle Egret (2025-04-02)
248. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-03)
249. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-03)
250. Savi's Warbler (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. Sand Martin (2025-04-06)
258. Purple Heron (2025-04-06)
259. Lapland Longspur (2025-04-08)
260. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-10)
261. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-10)
262. Common Nightingale (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. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-13)
268. Booted Eagle (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. Common Cuckoo (2025-04-17)
274. Gull-billed Tern (2025-04-17)
275. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-17)
276. Eurasian Stone Curlew (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. Red-footed Falcon (2025-04-20)
289. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-20)
290. Common Whitethroat (2025-04-21)
291. Marsh Warbler (2025-04-21)
292. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-04-21)
293. Black Tern (2025-04-21)
294. Great Snipe (2025-04-22)
295. Egyptian Vulture (2025-04-22)
296. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-04-23)
297. Sedge Warbler (2025-04-24)
298. Garden Warbler (2025-04-25)
299. Little Stint (2025-04-26)
300. European Bee-eater (2025-04-26)
301. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-26)
302. Terek Sandpiper (2025-04-26)
303. Red-backed Shrike (2025-04-27)
304. Common Quail (2025-04-28)
305. Icterine Warbler (2025-04-29)
306. European Turtle Dove (2025-04-29)
307. European Nightjar (2025-04-29)
308. Squacco Heron (2025-04-29)
309. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-04-29)
310. Thrush Nightingale (2025-04-30)
311. European Golden Oriole (2025-04-30)
312. Black-headed Bunting (2025-04-30)
313. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2025-04-30)
314. Little Bittern (2025-04-30)
315. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-01)
316. Cetti's Warbler (2025-05-01)
317. Collared Pratincole (2025-05-01)
318. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-01)
319. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-01)
320. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
321. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2025-05-01)
322. White-tailed Lapwing (2025-05-01)
323. Rosy Starling (2025-05-01)
324. Levant Sparrowhawk (2025-05-01)
325. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-02)
326. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-02)
327. Menetries Warbler (2025-05-02)
328. Lesser Kestrel (2025-05-02)
329. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2025-05-02)
330. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-03)
331. Arctic Tern (2025-05-03)
332. Alpine Swift (2025-05-03)
333. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-03)
334. Blue Rock Thrush (2025-05-03)
335. Black-eared Wheatear (2025-05-03)
336. Woodchat Shrike (2025-05-03)
337. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-05-03)
338. Little Tern (2025-05-04)
339. Dark-bellied Brent Goose (2025-05-04)
340. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-07)
341. Barred Warbler (2025-05-08)
342. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-11)
344. Corncrake (2025-05-13)
345. River Warbler (2025-05-13)
346. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-14)
347. Little Bustard (2025-05-16)
348. White-headed Duck (2025-05-16)
349. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-05-17)
350. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2025-05-17)
351. Booted Warbler (2025-05-23)
352. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-05-24)
353. Green Leaf-Warbler (2025-05-25)
354. Caucasian Grouse (2025-05-25)
355. Laughing Dove (2025-05-27)
356. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-31)
357. Rustic Bunting (2025-06-05)
358. Alpine Accentor (2025-06-07)
359. Rock Ptarmigan (2025-06-09)
360. Little Bunting (2025-06-09)
361. Aquatic Warbler (2025-06-14)
362. Red Knot (2025-06-27)
363. Caucasian Snowcock (2025-07-03)
364. Arctic Warbler (2025-07-05)
365. Wallcreeper (2025-07-06)
366. Razorbill (2025-07-08)
367. Northern Fulmar (2025-07-08)
368. Brunnich's Guillemot (2025-07-08)
369. Common Guillemot (2025-07-08)
370. Atlantic Puffin (2025-07-08)
371. Great Skua (2025-07-08)
372. Long-tailed Jaeger (2025-07-09)
373. Siberian Jay (2025-07-10)
374. Sanderling (2025-07-18)
375. Spotted Crake (2025-07-20)
376. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-08-03)
377. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2025-08-22)
378. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-08-23)
379. Eurasian Rock Pipit (2025-09-18)
380. Ring-billed Gull (2025-10-24)
381. Common Mynah (2025-11-05)

Big Year 2025

1. Nataliya Pokhodzey (289)
2. Andrey Semenov (281)
3. Alexandr Balaev (251)
4. Egor Loboda (242)
5. Anna Golubeva (240)
6. Sergei Saveika (189)
7. Vitaliy Butko (187)
8. Irina Ortik (171)
9. Igor Dvurekov (167)
10. Svetlana Barabanshchikova (167)
more...

rare birds records


Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)

© Alexandr Balaev
2025-10-24
Москва, Царицынские пруды

According to available data, this is the third observation of the species in Russia and the first photo on the website. The gull was discovered by E. Shmeleva on 23 October 2025, in Moscow at the Tsaritsyno Ponds. For the first time, the Ring-billed Gull, which inhabits North America and regularly visits Europe, was tracked by a tracker to Nizhny Novgorod in 2022, where its nesting with a Common Gull was recorded. The following year, it was also found there.

Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)

© Yury Podverbny
2025-09-18

Очень редкий гнездящийся и транзитно-мигрирующий в Беларуси вид. Кроме транзитной миграции, возможны залёты на территорию страны вне сезона гнездования.

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

© Valery Dombrovski
2025-09-07
Gomel region, Zhitkovichi district, Turov

Редкий залётный вид в Беларуси

Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus)

© Dmitriy Shevtsov
2025-08-22
North Osetia, Brut

more rarities...

recent video

2025-07-18. Common Chiffchaff (Andrei Orekhov).

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).

more video...

unidentified birds

2025-11-09

Артем: Того же мнения, но всё равно не уверенБелая бровь, полосок на крыле видно тут и рыжий цвет налицо подхвостье явно белое.Предположу что уже [....]
2025-09-30

no any comments:
2025-08-06

Роман Кисельов: Дякую, так, міг помилитися. Додав ще два фото (неякісні, але інший ракурс).
2025-08-04

Сергей Шурша: Эту птицу обсуждали в 2023 по дополнительным фото, пока кто-то из модераторов не удалил "лишние копии" вместе с обсуждением. И вот опять, коршун [....]
2025-07-14

Дмитрий Шевцов: Весничка
more unidentified birds...