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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 (226)

2. Loboda Egor (220)

3. Balaev Alexandr (216)

4. Semenov Andrey (210)

5. Butko Vitaliy (167)

6. Ortik Irina (154)

7. Saveika Sergei (144)

8. Barabanshchikova Svetlana (138)

9. Martsun Oleg (137)

10. Mis\'kov Andrey (135)

11. Kiselev Andrei (133)

12. Makhovska Oksana (131)

13. Zhurtov Khasan (125)

14. Sinukhin Vadim (123)

15. Davydov Denys (122)

16. Studzinska Maya (112)

17. Komarovskiy Alex (111)

18. Petrov Andrei (110)

19. Katanova Galina (108)

20. Simon Andrew (107)

21. Dombrovski Valery (103)

22. Merzlikin Volodymyr (100)

23. Iopek Vladislav (97)

24. Dvurekov Igor (94)

25. Travelian Sergo (93)

26. Shevtsov Dmitriy (87)

27. Koval Elena (84)

28. Kuzmina Maria (81)

29. Honcharyk Natalia (80)

30. Solomatin Dmitriy (78)

31. Ivushkin Vadim (76)

32. krjukov mixail (75)

33. Sofronov Evgeniy (74)

34. Gontcharov Aleksandr (73)

35. Petrychenko Dmytro (71)

36. Zmievskiy Nikolai (71)

37. Natykanets Viktor (69)

38. Zlobin Ilya (64)

39. Stramnoy Vladimir (59)

40. Semashko Vladimir (55)

41. Kovalchuk Oleksandr (49)

42. Torgashova Marina (49)

43. Ovsyannikova Liza (47)

44. Samokhin Igor (45)

45. Golyantov Aleksandr (44)

46. Rozhkova Alina (43)

47. Lyubimov Alexandr (42)

48. Dokashenko Natalia (41)

49. Skiter Artem (31)

50. Dyakin Gennadiy (28)

51. Yakovlev Alexey (28)

52. Sikorsky Igor (27)

53. Erokhin Dmitry (25)

54. Nikitin Nikolay (22)

55. Koval Hlib (21)

56. Sevidov Viktor (19)

57. Shcherbakov Igor (19)

58. Drabina Natalia (17)

59. Kyselov Roman (17)

60. Nizovtsev Dmitry (17)

61. Vietokhin Ihor (16)

62. Shursha Sergey (14)

63. Farniev Konstantin (12)

64. Zotova Evgenia (12)

65. Belyaev Dmitry (11)

66. Danilova Valeriya (10)

67. Olenich Vsevolod (10)

68. Komarovskyi Dmytro (9)

69. Medvedeva Svetlana (9)

70. Gr Stanislavs (8)

71. Riznyk Olexandr (8)

72. Lanin Maxim (6)

73. Plekhanov Aleksandr (6)

74. Kalagin Mikhail (5)

75. Karanov Nikolaj (5)

76. Sheremet Oleg (5)

77. Yusupov Vyacheslav (5)

78. Liseenko Alexander (4)

79. Andreev Dmitrij (3)

80. Hrudzynska Natalia (3)

81. Mosienko Vitaliy (3)

82. Blashkin Pavel (2)

83. Kutushev Radik (2)

84. Podverbny Yury (2)

85. Raklo Aleksandr (2)

86. Skubriy Nataliya (2)

87. Zolotov Alexey (2)

88. Abramova Julia (1)

89. Borodin Oleg (1)

90. Bronskov Oleksandr (1)

91. Kazannyk Vitalii (1)

92. Kudriavtsev Andrey (1)

93. Lavrenchuk Olha (1)

94. Lisitsyna Alexandra (1)

95. Prokhorov Andrey (1)

96. Travin Anton (1)

97. Vinogradov Georgy (1)

98. Zamaieva Anna (1)

99. Zhuravlev Andrey (1)

100. 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. Grey Partridge (2025-01-01)

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

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

55. Ferruginous Duck (2025-01-01)

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

57. Common Moorhen (2025-01-01)

58. Goldcrest (2025-01-01)

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

60. Willow Tit (2025-01-01)

61. Great Bustard (2025-01-01)

62. Eurasian Curlew (2025-01-01)

63. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-01-01)

64. Snow Bunting (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)

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. 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. Mandarin Duck (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. 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. Pallid Harrier (2025-01-06)

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

143. Grey Plover (2025-01-06)

144. Golden Eagle (2025-01-07)

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

146. Hoopoe (2025-01-08)

147. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-08)

148. Green Sandpiper (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)

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

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. Pied Avocet (2025-02-13)

183. Dunlin (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. Red-rumped Swallow (2025-03-18)

228. Northern Wheatear (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. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2025-03-28)

237. Common Swift (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. 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. Red-footed Falcon (2025-04-19)

288. Whiskered Tern (2025-04-19)

289. Pied Wheatear (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. Eurasian Roller (2025-04-26)

300. Little Stint (2025-04-26)

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

302. Common Quail (2025-04-28)

303. Icterine Warbler (2025-04-29)

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

305. European Nightjar (2025-04-29)

306. Squacco Heron (2025-04-29)

307. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-04-29)

308. Thrush Nightingale (2025-04-30)

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

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

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

312. Little Bittern (2025-04-30)

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

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

315. Collared Pratincole (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. Levant Sparrowhawk (2025-05-01)

323. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-02)

324. Menetries Warbler (2025-05-02)

325. Lesser Kestrel (2025-05-02)

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

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

328. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-03)

329. Arctic Tern (2025-05-03)

330. Alpine Swift (2025-05-03)

331. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-03)

332. Blue Rock Thrush (2025-05-03)

333. Black-eared Wheatear (2025-05-03)

334. Woodchat Shrike (2025-05-03)

335. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2025-05-03)

336. Little Tern (2025-05-04)

337. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-04)

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

339. Barred Warbler (2025-05-08)

340. Marsh Warbler (2025-05-10)

341. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-11)

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

343. Corncrake (2025-05-13)

344. River Warbler (2025-05-13)

345. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-14)

346. Little Bustard (2025-05-16)

347. White-headed Duck (2025-05-16)

348. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-05-17)

349. Dark-bellied Brent Goose (2025-05-20)

350. Booted Warbler (2025-05-23)

351. Eastern Olivaceous 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. Alpine Accentor (2025-06-07)

356. Rock Ptarmigan (2025-06-09)

357. Little Bunting (2025-06-09)

358. Laughing Dove (2025-06-11)

359. Aquatic Warbler (2025-06-14)

360. Greenish Warbler (2025-06-19)

Big Year 2025

1. Anna Golubeva (240)
2. Nataliya Pokhodzey (226)
3. Egor Loboda (220)
4. Alexandr Balaev (216)
5. Andrey Semenov (210)
6. Vitaliy Butko (167)
7. Irina Ortik (154)
8. Sergei Saveika (144)
9. Svetlana Barabanshchikova (138)
10. Oleg Martsun (137)

more...

rare birds records

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Laughing Dove (Streptopelia senegalensis)

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)

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

2025-06-21

Svetlana Barabanshchikova: Луговой лунь?

2025-06-20

Дмитрий Шевцов: Малый подорлик

2025-06-20

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2025-06-17

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more unidentified birds...