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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 Northern Eurasia during this year.

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

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2024
1. Sizov Alexey (303)
5. Sheremet Oleg (266)
6. Samokhin Igor (259)
7. Loboda Egor (225)
9. Butko Vitaliy (190)
10. Rozhkova Alina (184)
11. Ortik Irina (182)
12. Gedziuk Vlad (180)
15. Davydov Denys (167)
16. Saveika Sergei (166)
17. Mis\'kov Andrey (160)
19. Zhurtov Khasan (156)
20. Sinukhin Vadim (150)
21. Petrov Andrei (144)
23. Katanova Galina (140)
25. Kiselev Andrei (135)
26. Iopek Vladislav (133)
27. Simon Andrew (130)
28. Travelian Sergo (130)
29. Koval Hlib (129)
31. Bazdyrev Andrey (120)
32. Studzinska Maya (118)
34. Shandar Denys (115)
35. Kyselova Inna (108)
36. Martsun Oleg (106)
38. Sikorsky Igor (93)
40. Dvurekov Igor (84)
53. Bodnar Vasil (46)
56. Khamin Victor (41)
59. Inna Kyselova (39)
60. Kuzmina Maria (38)
63. Homenko Elena (31)
66. Kyselov Roman (27)
72. Gr Stanislavs (25)
73. Kosmyna Vlada (24)
77. Skiter Artem (21)
80. Georgi Boris (16)
87. Shvydun Elena (13)
89. Lanin Maxim (10)
90. Koval Elena (9)
101. Mamaev Sergey (5)
102. Osypova Sanya (5)
106. Kirillov Gleb (3)
108. Osipov Dmitry (3)
109. Romanyk Vadim (3)
110. Sapuga Alex (3)
115. FOMINA ALENA (2)
124. Durda Yulia (1)
126. Kondrat Petro (1)
131. Nerush Ruslan (1)
134. Rudenko Vadim (1)
135. Rydik Maksym (1)
136. S Gregory (1)
139. Valova Elena (1)

all species photographed in 2024


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

sort by:

1. Fieldfare (2024-01-01)
2. Hooded Crow (2024-01-01)
3. Rook (2024-01-01)
4. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-01)
5. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-01)
6. Herring Gull (2024-01-01)
7. Horned Lark (2024-01-01)
8. Marsh Tit (2024-01-01)
9. Willow Tit (2024-01-01)
10. European Greenfinch (2024-01-01)
11. Mallard (2024-01-01)
12. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
13. Great Tit (2024-01-01)
14. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-01)
15. Common Coot (2024-01-01)
16. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-01)
17. Grey Partridge (2024-01-01)
18. Snow Bunting (2024-01-01)
19. European Robin (2024-01-01)
20. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-01)
21. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-01)
22. Goosander (2024-01-01)
23. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
24. Whooper Swan (2024-01-01)
25. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-01)
26. Common Raven (2024-01-01)
27. Blue Tit (2024-01-01)
28. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-01)
29. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-01)
30. Mute Swan (2024-01-01)
31. Goldcrest (2024-01-01)
32. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-01)
33. Yellowhammer (2024-01-01)
34. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-01)
35. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
36. Northern Wren (2024-01-01)
37. House Sparrow (2024-01-01)
38. Coal Tit (2024-01-01)
39. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-01)
40. Great White Egret (2024-01-01)
41. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-01)
42. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
43. Smew (2024-01-01)
44. Redwing (2024-01-01)
45. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
46. Syrian Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
48. Tufted Duck (2024-01-01)
49. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-01)
50. Common Teal (2024-01-01)
51. Hawfinch (2024-01-01)
52. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-01-01)
53. Firecrest (2024-01-01)
54. Common Moorhen (2024-01-01)
55. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-01)
56. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-01)
57. Black Kite (2024-01-01)
59. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
60. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-01)
61. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-01)
62. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-01)
63. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-01)
64. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-01)
65. Bearded Tit (2024-01-01)
66. Arctic Redpoll (2024-01-01)
67. Common Redpoll (2024-01-01)
68. Black Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
69. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
71. Eurasian Magpie (2024-01-01)
72. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
73. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-01-01)
74. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-01-02)
75. Crested Lark (2024-01-02)
76. Crested Tit (2024-01-02)
78. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-02)
79. Tawny Owl (2024-01-02)
80. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-02)
81. Mew Gull (2024-01-02)
82. Pine Grosbeak (2024-01-02)
83. Common Buzzard (2024-01-03)
84. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
85. Brambling (2024-01-03)
86. Common Pochard (2024-01-03)
87. Greater Scaup (2024-01-03)
89. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-03)
90. Griffon Vulture (2024-01-04)
91. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-01-04)
92. Rock Bunting (2024-01-04)
93. Golden Eagle (2024-01-04)
94. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-04)
95. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-04)
96. European Shag (2024-01-04)
97. Little Owl (2024-01-05)
98. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-01-05)
99. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-05)
100. Common Crane (2024-01-05)
101. White-winged Tern (2024-01-05)
102. Hen Harrier (2024-01-05)
103. Northern Black Grouse (2024-01-05)
104. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-05)
105. Great Rosefinch (2024-01-05)
106. Slender-billed Gull (2024-01-05)
107. Caspian Gull (2024-01-06)
108. Grey Heron (2024-01-06)
109. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-06)
110. Common Starling (2024-01-06)
111. Common Shelduck (2024-01-06)
112. Common Chiffchaff (2024-01-06)
113. Common Kestrel (2024-01-06)
114. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-06)
115. Chukar Partridge (2024-01-06)
116. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-06)
117. Great Bustard (2024-01-06)
118. Water Rail (2024-01-06)
119. Black Redstart (2024-01-07)
120. Meadow Pipit (2024-01-07)
121. Alpine Chough (2024-01-07)
122. Dunnock (2024-01-07)
123. Lammergeier (2024-01-07)
124. Corn Bunting (2024-01-07)
125. Rock Sparrow (2024-01-07)
126. Wood Pigeon (2024-01-08)
127. Gadwall (2024-01-08)
128. Eurasian Linnet (2024-01-08)
129. Song Thrush (2024-01-08)
130. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-08)
131. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2024-01-08)
132. Cinereous Vulture (2024-01-08)
133. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-08)
134. Yellow-legged Gull (2024-01-09)
135. Mediterranean Gull (2024-01-09)
136. Grey Wagtail (2024-01-09)
137. Ural Owl (2024-01-09)
138. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-01-10)
139. Merlin (2024-01-10)
140. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-10)
141. Barnacle Goose (2024-01-11)
142. Sandwich Tern (2024-01-12)
143. Short-toed Tree-Creeper (2024-01-12)
144. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-13)
145. Sky Lark (2024-01-13)
146. Northern Pintail (2024-01-13)
147. White Wagtail (2024-01-13)
148. Wood Lark (2024-01-13)
149. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-13)
150. Common Snipe (2024-01-14)
151. Stock Pigeon (2024-01-14)
152. Ferruginous Duck (2024-01-14)
153. Black-winged Stilt (2024-01-14)
154. Common Eider (2024-01-14)
155. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-01-14)
156. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-14)
157. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-15)
158. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-01-15)
159. Mandarin Duck (2024-01-16)
160. White Stork (2024-01-17)
161. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-01-17)
162. Wallcreeper (2024-01-19)
163. Calandra Lark (2024-01-20)
164. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-20)
165. Little Egret (2024-01-21)
166. Pied Avocet (2024-01-21)
167. Velvet Scoter (2024-01-21)
168. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-23)
169. Laughing Dove (2024-01-23)
171. Common Stonechat (2024-01-24)
172. Grey-headed Swamphen (2024-01-24)
173. Water Pipit (2024-01-24)
174. Cetti's Warbler (2024-01-24)
175. Bean Goose (2024-01-27)
176. Little Gull (2024-01-27)
178. Northern Hawk Owl (2024-01-27)
180. Levantine shearwater (2024-01-30)
181. Boreal Owl (2024-02-02)
182. Pallas's Cormorant (2024-02-04)
183. Twite (2024-02-04)
184. Short-eared Owl (2024-02-05)
185. Common Pheasant (2024-02-12)
186. Western Capercaillie (2024-02-12)
187. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-02-16)
188. Sanderling (2024-02-17)
189. Grey Plover (2024-02-17)
190. Great Grey Owl (2024-02-18)
191. Common Oystercatcher (2024-02-20)
192. Dunlin (2024-02-27)
193. Eurasian Bittern (2024-02-27)
194. Eurasian Curlew (2024-02-27)
195. Garganey (2024-02-29)
196. Egyptian Goose (2024-03-01)
197. Willow Warbler (2024-03-01)
198. Black Lark (2024-03-03)
199. Wood Duck (2024-03-05)
200. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-03-08)
201. White-winged Lark (2024-03-09)
202. Ruff (2024-03-10)
203. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-03-10)
204. Lesser White-fronted Goose (2024-03-10)
205. Red-breasted Goose (2024-03-10)
206. Black Stork (2024-03-11)
207. Bewick's Swan (2024-03-13)
208. Pallid Harrier (2024-03-14)
209. White-headed Duck (2024-03-14)
210. Northern Wheatear (2024-03-15)
211. Northern House Martin (2024-03-15)
212. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-15)
213. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2024-03-17)
214. Azure Tit (2024-03-18)
215. Hoopoe (2024-03-21)
216. Eurasian Bullfinch (2024-03-22)
217. Barn Swallow (2024-03-23)
218. Purple Heron (2024-03-23)
219. Kentish Plover (2024-03-23)
220. Jack Snipe (2024-03-23)
221. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-03-23)
222. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-03-25)
223. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2024-03-26)
224. Common Redshank (2024-03-27)
225. Arctic Skua (2024-03-27)
226. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-03-27)
227. Common Greenshank (2024-03-28)
228. Canada Goose (2024-03-28)
229. Ring Ouzel (2024-03-28)
230. Alpine Accentor (2024-03-28)
231. Bluethroat (2024-03-29)
232. Yellow Wagtail (2024-03-30)
233. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-03-30)
234. Little Ringed Plover (2024-03-30)
235. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2024-03-30)
236. Glossy Ibis (2024-03-30)
237. Eurasian Redstart (2024-03-30)
238. Rustic Bunting (2024-03-30)
239. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-30)
240. Great Snipe (2024-03-30)
241. Osprey (2024-03-31)
242. Wood Sandpiper (2024-03-31)
243. Caspian Tern (2024-04-01)
244. European Serin (2024-04-01)
245. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-02)
246. Montagu's Harrier (2024-04-02)
247. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-04-02)
248. Blackcap (2024-04-04)
249. Little Crake (2024-04-04)
250. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-04-04)
251. Red Kite (2024-04-04)
252. Pied Flycatcher (2024-04-05)
253. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-04-05)
254. Common Swift (2024-04-05)
255. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2024-04-05)
256. Common Nightingale (2024-04-05)
257. Pied Wheatear (2024-04-05)
258. Ortolan Bunting (2024-04-05)
259. Tree Pipit (2024-04-06)
260. Savi's Warbler (2024-04-06)
261. Cattle Egret (2024-04-06)
262. Spotted Crake (2024-04-06)
263. Collared Flycatcher (2024-04-07)
264. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-04-08)
265. Sand Martin (2024-04-08)
266. Terek Sandpiper (2024-04-08)
267. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-04-08)
268. Common Tern (2024-04-09)
269. Black Tern (2024-04-09)
270. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-04-09)
271. Yellow-backed Wagtail (2024-04-09)
272. Eurasian Hobby (2024-04-10)
273. Caucasian Grouse (2024-04-10)
274. Eurasian Dotterel (2024-04-12)
275. Sedge Warbler (2024-04-13)
276. Northern Hazelhen (2024-04-13)
277. Spotted Redshank (2024-04-13)
278. Red-throated Pipit (2024-04-13)
279. Greater Flamingo (2024-04-13)
280. Spanish Sparrow (2024-04-13)
281. Tawny Pipit (2024-04-13)
282. Pink-footed Goose (2024-04-13)
283. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2024-04-13)
284. Whinchat (2024-04-14)
285. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-14)
286. Gull-billed Tern (2024-04-14)
287. Common Stonechat (2024-04-14)
288. Whiskered Tern (2024-04-16)
289. European Bee-eater (2024-04-16)
290. Eurasian Whimbrel (2024-04-16)
291. Wood Warbler (2024-04-18)
292. Eurasian Roller (2024-04-18)
293. Common Whitethroat (2024-04-19)
294. Common Cuckoo (2024-04-19)
295. Collared Pratincole (2024-04-20)
296. European Turtle Dove (2024-04-21)
297. Red-backed Shrike (2024-04-23)
298. Egyptian Vulture (2024-04-23)
299. Lapland Longspur (2024-04-24)
300. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-04-25)
301. Thrush Nightingale (2024-04-26)
302. Great White Pelican (2024-04-26)
303. Little Bustard (2024-04-26)
304. European Nightjar (2024-04-26)
305. Black Scoter (2024-04-26)
306. Great Reed Warbler (2024-04-27)
307. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-04-27)
308. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-04-27)
309. Little Stint (2024-04-27)
310. Temminck's Stint (2024-04-27)
311. Red-footed Falcon (2024-04-27)
312. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-04-27)
313. Little Tern (2024-04-28)
314. Garden Warbler (2024-04-28)
315. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-04-28)
316. Levant Sparrowhawk (2024-04-28)
317. Black-winged Pratincole (2024-04-28)
318. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-04-28)
319. Caucasian Chiffchaff (2024-04-29)
320. Moustached Warbler (2024-04-29)
321. Black-headed Bunting (2024-04-29)
322. Lesser Kestrel (2024-04-29)
323. Woodchat Shrike (2024-04-29)
324. Black-eared Wheatear (2024-04-29)
325. Alpine Swift (2024-04-29)
326. Little Bittern (2024-04-30)
327. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-04-30)
328. Menetries Warbler (2024-04-30)
329. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-01)
330. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2024-05-01)
331. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-01)
332. Red-fronted Serin (2024-05-01)
333. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-05-01)
334. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-05-01)
335. Corncrake (2024-05-02)
336. Green Leaf-Warbler (2024-05-02)
337. Krueper's Nuthatch (2024-05-02)
338. Caucasian Snowcock (2024-05-02)
339. Booted Eagle (2024-05-02)
340. European Golden Oriole (2024-05-04)
341. Rosy Starling (2024-05-04)
342. Greater Sand Plover (2024-05-04)
343. Squacco Heron (2024-05-05)
344. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-05-05)
345. Barred Warbler (2024-05-06)
346. River Warbler (2024-05-06)
347. Marsh Warbler (2024-05-06)
348. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-05-06)
349. Western Barn Owl (2024-05-06)
350. Common Quail (2024-05-06)
351. Saker Falcon (2024-05-06)
352. Icterine Warbler (2024-05-09)
353. Rufous Bush Robin (2024-05-11)
354. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-12)
355. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2024-05-13)
356. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-05-15)
357. Arctic Tern (2024-05-17)
358. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-18)
359. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2024-05-18)
360. Red-rumped Swallow (2024-05-19)
361. Red Knot (2024-05-20)
362. Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (2024-05-20)
363. Dark-bellied Brent Goose (2024-05-21)
364. Booted Warbler (2024-05-23)
365. Greenish Warbler (2024-05-25)
366. Aquatic Warbler (2024-05-30)
367. Yellow-breasted Bunting (2024-06-08)
369. Black Guillemot (2024-06-23)
370. Black-legged Kittiwake (2024-06-23)
371. Rock Ptarmigan (2024-06-24)
372. Long-tailed Jaeger (2024-06-24)
373. Common Guillemot (2024-06-25)
374. Razorbill (2024-06-25)
375. Brunnich's Guillemot (2024-06-25)
376. Atlantic Puffin (2024-06-25)
377. Willow Ptarmigan (2024-06-25)
378. Siberian Tit (2024-06-26)
379. Little Bunting (2024-07-02)
380. Arctic Warbler (2024-07-09)
381. Sabine's Gull (2024-09-07)
382. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-10-06)
383. Yellow-browed Warbler (2024-10-07)
384. Desert Wheatear (2024-10-17)
385. White-winged Crossbill (2024-11-15)
386. Northern Grey Shrike (2024-11-16)
387. Black Swan (2024-11-26)
388. Common Mynah (2024-12-12)

Big Year 2025

1. Anna Golubeva (240)
2. Nataliya Pokhodzey (134)
3. Khasan Zhurtov (122)
4. Andrey Semenov (114)
5. Egor Loboda (114)
6. Igor Shcherbakov (114)
7. Aleksandr Gontcharov (111)
8. Dmitriy Shevtsov (99)
9. Oleg Martsun (94)
10. Vitaliy Butko (94)
more...

rare birds records


Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

© Khasan Zhurtov
2025-03-25
Nalchik,KBR


Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)

© Alexandr Balaev
2025-01-31
Moskov Region, Luhovickij rajon

Second record to the Moscow region.

Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)

© Valery Dombrovski
2025-02-08
Minsk, Svisloch river


Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis)

© Alexandr Balaev
2025-01-05
Moskov Region, Izmalkovo

Second record to the Moscow region.
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).

more video...

unidentified birds

2025-04-04

Дмитрий Шевцов: Верно
2025-03-30

Елена Коваль: спасибо!
2025-03-28

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2025-03-02

Олег Марцун: жовтоногий?
2025-02-13

Анна Ясько: Для чистой хохотуньи у нее слишком пестрая голова. Для чистой серебристой, пусть даже желтоногой, рисунок черного на вершине крыла не подходящий. [....]
more unidentified birds...