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1. Willow Tit (2022-01-01)
2. Eurasian Siskin (2022-01-01)
3. Long-tailed Tit (2022-01-01)
4. Coal Tit (2022-01-01)
5. European Greenfinch (2022-01-02)
6. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-01-02)
7. Northern Bullfinch (2022-01-02)
8. Common Chaffinch (2022-01-02)
9. Brambling (2022-01-02)
10. Blue Tit (2022-01-02)
11. Great Tit (2022-01-02)
12. Tree Sparrow (2022-01-02)
13. Eurasian Nuthatch (2022-01-03)
14. Fieldfare (2022-01-03)
15. Eurasian Jay (2022-01-03)
16. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-01-06)
17. Common Treecreeper (2022-01-07)
18. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-01-09)
19. Common Redpoll (2022-01-14)
20. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-01-16)
21. Hooded Crow (2022-01-16)
22. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-16)
23. Common Goldeneye (2022-01-16)
24. Tufted Duck (2022-01-16)
25. Mallard (2022-01-16)
26. Goosander (2022-01-16)
27. Smew (2022-01-16)
28. Velvet Scoter (2022-01-16)
29. Herring Gull (2022-01-16)
30. House Sparrow (2022-02-12)
31. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-02-12)
32. Crested Tit (2022-02-13)
33. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2022-02-13)
34. Mew Gull (2022-02-23)
36. Snow Bunting (2022-02-26)
37. Northern Hawk Owl (2022-02-26)
38. Bohemian Waxwing (2022-03-01)
39. Eurasian Magpie (2022-03-04)
40. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-03-08)
41. Common Raven (2022-03-08)
42. Rook (2022-03-13)
43. Mandarin Duck (2022-03-13)
44. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-03-19)
45. Common Starling (2022-03-26)
46. Eurasian Linnet (2022-03-26)
47. Northern Lapwing (2022-03-27)
48. Wood Pigeon (2022-03-28)
49. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-04-03)
50. Common Snipe (2022-04-08)
51. Common Redshank (2022-04-08)
52. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-04-08)
53. Green Sandpiper (2022-04-09)
54. Garganey (2022-04-09)
55. European Robin (2022-04-10)
56. Black-headed Gull (2022-04-10)
57. White Wagtail (2022-04-15)
58. Hawfinch (2022-04-16)
60. Common Coot (2022-04-17)
61. Common Pochard (2022-04-17)
62. Song Thrush (2022-04-20)
63. Common Chiffchaff (2022-04-23)
64. Citrine Wagtail (2022-04-23)
65. Great Snipe (2022-04-25)
66. Dunnock (2022-04-29)
67. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-30)
68. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-05-02)
69. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-05-02)
70. Bluethroat (2022-05-02)
71. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-02)
72. Common Sandpiper (2022-05-02)
73. Black Redstart (2022-05-02)
74. Yellow Wagtail (2022-05-02)
75. Whinchat (2022-05-02)
76. Pied Flycatcher (2022-05-02)
77. Blackcap (2022-05-02)
78. Yellowhammer (2022-05-02)
79. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-05-02)
80. Mute Swan (2022-05-03)
81. Whooper Swan (2022-05-03)
82. White Stork (2022-05-03)
83. Black Kite (2022-05-03)
85. Common Tern (2022-05-03)
86. Black Tern (2022-05-03)
87. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-05-03)
88. Azure Tit (2022-05-03)
89. Ruff (2022-05-03)
90. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-07)
91. Ortolan Bunting (2022-05-07)
92. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-05-08)
93. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-05-08)
94. Barn Swallow (2022-05-08)
95. White-winged Tern (2022-05-09)
96. Rosy Starling (2022-05-09)
97. Great Cormorant (2022-05-09)
98. Eurasian Hobby (2022-05-09)
99. Common Kestrel (2022-05-09)
100. Pallas's Cormorant (2022-05-09)
101. Little Egret (2022-05-09)
102. Hoopoe (2022-05-09)
103. Grey Heron (2022-05-09)
104. Common Stonechat (2022-05-09)
105. Little Ringed Plover (2022-05-13)
106. Tree Pipit (2022-05-14)
107. Great Grey Owl (2022-05-14)
108. Boreal Owl (2022-05-14)
109. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2022-05-14)
110. Common Crane (2022-05-15)
111. Corncrake (2022-05-15)
112. Ural Owl (2022-05-15)
113. Northern House Martin (2022-05-15)
114. Tawny Owl (2022-05-15)
115. Sedge Warbler (2022-05-18)
116. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-19)
117. Northern Wheatear (2022-05-19)
118. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-19)
119. Thrush Nightingale (2022-05-19)
120. Common Buzzard (2022-05-19)
121. European Bee-eater (2022-05-20)
122. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2022-05-20)
123. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-20)
124. Barred Warbler (2022-05-20)
125. Willow Warbler (2022-05-21)
126. Montagu's Harrier (2022-05-21)
127. Sky Lark (2022-05-21)
128. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-22)
129. Little Bittern (2022-05-29)
130. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-29)
131. Common Swift (2022-05-29)
132. Great Reed Warbler (2022-05-29)
133. Booted Warbler (2022-06-04)
134. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-06-12)
135. Wood Sandpiper (2022-06-19)
136. Marsh Warbler (2022-07-03)
137. Arctic Redpoll (2022-07-09)
138. Osprey (2022-07-31)
139. Temminck's Stint (2022-07-31)
140. Common Greenshank (2022-07-31)
141. Grey Plover (2022-07-31)
142. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-07-31)
143. Eurasian Redstart (2022-08-01)
144. Garden Warbler (2022-08-06)
145. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2022-08-13)
146. Common Moorhen (2022-08-21)
147. Goldcrest (2022-09-09)
148. Spotted Nutcracker (2022-09-10)
149. Great White Egret (2022-09-15)
150. Glossy Ibis (2022-09-15)
151. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-09-15)
152. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-09-15)
153. Eurasian Spoonbill (2022-09-15)
154. Whiskered Tern (2022-09-15)
155. Laughing Dove (2022-09-16)
156. Black-winged Stilt (2022-09-16)
157. Purple Heron (2022-09-16)
158. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2022-09-16)
159. Greater Flamingo (2022-09-16)
160. Common Kingfisher (2022-09-16)
161. Squacco Heron (2022-09-16)
162. Red-crested Pochard (2022-09-16)
164. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2022-09-16)
165. Little Stint (2022-09-16)
166. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-09-16)
167. Dunlin (2022-09-16)
168. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2022-09-17)
169. Crested Lark (2022-09-17)
170. Bearded Tit (2022-09-17)
171. Grey-headed Swamphen (2022-09-17)
172. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-09-17)
173. Corn Bunting (2022-09-17)
174. Eurasian Roller (2022-09-17)
175. Greater Scaup (2022-09-17)
176. Golden Eagle (2022-09-17)
177. Pied Avocet (2022-09-17)
178. Black-eared Wheatear (2022-09-18)
179. Blue Rock Thrush (2022-09-18)
180. Pied Wheatear (2022-09-18)
181. Griffon Vulture (2022-09-18)
182. Lammergeier (2022-09-18)
183. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2022-09-18)
184. Chukar Partridge (2022-09-18)
185. Egyptian Vulture (2022-09-18)
186. Cinereous Vulture (2022-09-18)
187. Lesser Kestrel (2022-09-18)
188. Greater Short-toed Lark (2022-09-18)
189. Common Shelduck (2022-09-18)
190. Caspian Gull (2022-09-18)
191. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-09-30)
192. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2022-09-30)
193. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-09-30)
194. Great Black-backed Gull (2022-09-30)
196. Northern Goshawk (2022-10-16)
197. Long-tailed Duck (2022-10-28)
198. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2022-11-07)
199. White-Backed Woodpecker (2022-12-01)
200. Glaucous Gull (2022-12-20)

recent uploads

2026-05-23. Terek Sandpiper, Northern Lapwing, Common Swift, Blackcap.

2026-05-22. Marsh Warbler, Northern Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Common Whitethroat.

2026-05-20. Greenish Warbler, Black Kite, Common Stonechat.

2026-05-18. Red-breasted Flycatcher, Booted Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher.

2026-05-17. Pied Flycatcher, Blyth's Reed Warbler.

2026-05-16. Willow Warbler, Eurasian Hobby, Wood Lark.

2026-05-15. Common Cuckoo, Hawfinch, Common Oystercatcher.

2026-05-13. Wood Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Great White Egret, Common Greenshank.

2026-05-12. Bean Goose, Sand Martin, Northern House Martin, Common Crane.

2026-05-11. Osprey, Black Tern, Black Tern, Little Gull, Little Gull.

2026-05-10. Wood Sandpiper, White Stork, Black Stork, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Yellow Wagtail.

2026-05-09. European Serin, Little Ringed Plover, Barn Swallow, Whinchat, Citrine Wagtail.

2026-05-04. Eurasian Golden Plover, Short-eared Owl, Gadwall.

2026-05-03. Long-tailed Tit.

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rare birds records


Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)

© Yury Podverbny
2026-05-16

Редкий залётный вид

Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus)

© Dmitriy Shevtsov
2026-05-10
North Osetia, Brut


Dunnock / Hedge Sparrow (Prunella modularis)

© Yury Podverbny
2026-02-19


Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)

© Yury Podverbny
2026-01-23

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2026-05-08. Eurasian Linnet (Stanislavs Gr).

2026-05-03. Eurasian Collared Dove (Stanislavs Gr).

2026-02-07. Great Grey Shrike (Volodymyr Nevmerzhytskyi).

2026-02-06. Black Stork (Andrew Simon), Northern Black Grouse (Andrew Simon), Red Phalarope (Andrew Simon), European Turtle Dove (Andrew Simon), Tree Pipit (Andrew Simon), Snow Bunting (Andrew Simon).

2025-12-07. Tree Sparrow (Stanislavs Gr).

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).

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2026-05-24

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2026-05-18

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