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1. Arctic Redpoll (2024-01-01)
2. Common Redpoll (2024-01-01)
3. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
4. European Greenfinch (2024-01-01)
5. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-01)
6. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-02)
7. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-02)
8. Coal Tit (2024-01-03)
9. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-03)
10. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-03)
11. Blue Tit (2024-01-04)
12. Willow Tit (2024-01-04)
13. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-05)
14. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-06)
15. Great Tit (2024-01-12)
16. Hooded Crow (2024-01-14)
17. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-14)
18. Northern Pintail (2024-01-14)
19. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-14)
20. Mandarin Duck (2024-01-16)
21. Mallard (2024-01-16)
22. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-19)
23. House Sparrow (2024-01-22)
24. Herring Gull (2024-01-22)
25. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-22)
26. Goosander (2024-01-22)
27. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-24)
28. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-25)
29. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-25)
30. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2024-01-30)
31. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-30)
32. Common Shelduck (2024-02-04)
33. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-02-04)
34. Common Pochard (2024-02-04)
35. Mute Swan (2024-02-04)
36. Red-crested Pochard (2024-02-04)
37. Great Grey Owl (2024-02-21)
38. Ural Owl (2024-02-23)
39. Gadwall (2024-02-23)
40. Rook (2024-02-28)
41. Barnacle Goose (2024-02-28)
43. Mew Gull (2024-02-28)
44. Common Kestrel (2024-03-03)
46. Caspian Gull (2024-03-08)
47. Tawny Owl (2024-03-08)
48. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-03-12)
49. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-13)
50. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-13)
51. Common Starling (2024-03-15)
52. Eurasian Siskin (2024-03-17)
53. Northern Lapwing (2024-03-21)
54. Eurasian Magpie (2024-03-22)
55. Goldcrest (2024-03-24)
56. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-26)
57. Fieldfare (2024-03-26)
58. Common Chaffinch (2024-03-26)
59. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-29)
60. Brambling (2024-03-29)
61. Song Thrush (2024-03-30)
62. Eurasian Linnet (2024-03-30)
63. Common Teal (2024-03-31)
64. Whooper Swan (2024-03-31)
65. Bean Goose (2024-03-31)
66. White Stork (2024-03-31)
67. Dunnock (2024-04-01)
68. Common Redshank (2024-04-01)
69. European Robin (2024-04-02)
70. Yellowhammer (2024-04-02)
71. Common Snipe (2024-04-04)
72. White Wagtail (2024-04-05)
73. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-04-06)
74. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2024-04-06)
75. Jack Snipe (2024-04-07)
76. Common Moorhen (2024-04-10)
77. Common Coot (2024-04-10)
78. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-11)
79. Common Buzzard (2024-04-12)
80. Hawfinch (2024-04-12)
81. Black Kite (2024-04-12)
82. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-04-14)
83. Short-eared Owl (2024-04-14)
84. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2024-04-14)
85. Common Cuckoo (2024-04-20)
86. Black Redstart (2024-04-21)
87. Tree Pipit (2024-04-21)
88. Great White Egret (2024-04-21)
89. Crested Tit (2024-04-21)
90. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-21)
91. Northern Black Grouse (2024-04-21)
92. Northern Wren (2024-04-24)
93. Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-26)
94. Citrine Wagtail (2024-04-26)
95. Northern Shoveler (2024-04-28)
96. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-04-28)
97. Ruff (2024-04-28)
98. Tufted Duck (2024-04-28)
99. Smew (2024-04-28)
100. Whinchat (2024-04-28)
101. Garganey (2024-04-28)
102. Willow Warbler (2024-04-29)
103. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-05-03)
104. Thrush Nightingale (2024-05-04)
105. Common Tern (2024-05-04)
106. Pied Avocet (2024-05-05)
107. Crested Lark (2024-05-05)
108. Grey Plover (2024-05-05)
109. Hoopoe (2024-05-05)
110. Eurasian Roller (2024-05-05)
111. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-05)
112. Common Sandpiper (2024-05-06)
113. Rosy Starling (2024-05-06)
114. Purple Heron (2024-05-06)
115. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-05-06)
116. Montagu's Harrier (2024-05-06)
117. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-05-06)
118. Little Egret (2024-05-06)
119. Common Crane (2024-05-06)
120. Sand Martin (2024-05-06)
121. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-06)
122. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-05-06)
123. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-05-06)
124. Black-headed Wagtail (2024-05-06)
125. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-05-06)
126. Little Stint (2024-05-06)
127. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-06)
128. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-06)
129. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-05-06)
130. Great Cormorant (2024-05-06)
131. Menetries Warbler (2024-05-06)
132. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-07)
133. White-winged Tern (2024-05-07)
134. Common Nightingale (2024-05-07)
135. Great Reed Warbler (2024-05-07)
136. Merlin (2024-05-07)
137. Little Owl (2024-05-07)
138. Ortolan Bunting (2024-05-07)
139. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-07)
140. Corn Bunting (2024-05-07)
141. Grey Heron (2024-05-07)
142. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-05-07)
143. Northern Wheatear (2024-05-07)
144. European Bee-eater (2024-05-07)
145. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-08)
146. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-05-08)
147. Woodchat Shrike (2024-05-08)
148. Cattle Egret (2024-05-08)
149. Kentish Plover (2024-05-08)
150. Ferruginous Duck (2024-05-08)
151. Dunlin (2024-05-08)
152. Spotted Redshank (2024-05-08)
153. Grey-headed Swamphen (2024-05-08)
154. Squacco Heron (2024-05-08)
155. Moustached Warbler (2024-05-08)
156. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-08)
157. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-05-08)
158. Red-footed Falcon (2024-05-08)
159. Rock Bunting (2024-05-08)
160. Eurasian Redstart (2024-05-09)
161. Mistle Thrush (2024-05-09)
162. Red-fronted Serin (2024-05-09)
163. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-05-09)
164. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-05-09)
165. Lammergeier (2024-05-09)
166. Black-headed Bunting (2024-05-10)
167. Griffon Vulture (2024-05-10)
168. Red-billed Chough (2024-05-10)
169. Rock Sparrow (2024-05-10)
170. Alpine Swift (2024-05-10)
171. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2024-05-10)
172. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-05-10)
173. European Golden Oriole (2024-05-10)
174. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-10)
175. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-10)
176. Pied Wheatear (2024-05-10)
177. Cinereous Vulture (2024-05-10)
178. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2024-05-10)
179. Lesser Kestrel (2024-05-11)
180. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-05-11)
181. Levant Sparrowhawk (2024-05-11)
182. Chukar Partridge (2024-05-11)
183. Black-eared Wheatear (2024-05-11)
184. Black Stork (2024-05-11)
185. Egyptian Vulture (2024-05-11)
186. Redwing (2024-05-16)
187. Wood Warbler (2024-05-18)
188. Blackcap (2024-05-18)
189. Black Tern (2024-05-19)
190. Marsh Warbler (2024-05-23)
191. Barred Warbler (2024-05-23)
192. Pied Flycatcher (2024-05-23)
193. Sky Lark (2024-05-23)
194. Barn Swallow (2024-05-24)
195. Booted Eagle (2024-05-24)
196. Booted Warbler (2024-05-24)
197. Bluethroat (2024-05-24)
198. Sedge Warbler (2024-05-25)
199. Northern House Martin (2024-05-26)
200. Common Rosefinch (2024-06-01)
201. Common Swift (2024-06-02)
202. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-06-08)
203. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-06-08)
204. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-06-08)
206. Common Oystercatcher (2024-06-15)
207. Little Tern (2024-06-15)
208. Green Sandpiper (2024-06-15)
210. Pine Grosbeak (2024-06-22)
211. European Shag (2024-06-23)
212. Black Guillemot (2024-06-23)
213. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-06-23)
214. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-06-23)
215. Common Eider (2024-06-23)
216. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-06-23)
217. Arctic Tern (2024-06-24)
218. Little Gull (2024-06-24)
219. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-06-24)
220. Rock Ptarmigan (2024-06-24)
221. Lapland Longspur (2024-06-24)
222. Long-tailed Jaeger (2024-06-24)
223. Black Scoter (2024-06-24)
224. Meadow Pipit (2024-06-24)
226. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2024-06-24)
227. Black-legged Kittiwake (2024-06-25)
228. Red-throated Pipit (2024-06-25)
229. Atlantic Puffin (2024-06-25)
230. Willow Ptarmigan (2024-06-25)
231. Razorbill (2024-06-25)
232. Arctic Skua (2024-06-25)
233. Common Guillemot (2024-06-25)
234. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-06-26)
235. Temminck's Stint (2024-06-26)
236. Common Greenshank (2024-06-26)
237. Siberian Tit (2024-06-26)
238. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-06-26)
239. Greenish Warbler (2024-06-28)
240. Icterine Warbler (2024-07-16)
241. European Serin (2024-07-20)
242. Garden Warbler (2024-07-25)
243. Osprey (2024-07-26)
244. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-07-28)
245. Black Woodpecker (2024-07-28)
246. Hen Harrier (2024-08-04)
248. Stock Pigeon (2024-08-17)
249. Grey Partridge (2024-08-17)
250. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2024-09-02)
252. Black-winged Pratincole (2024-09-13)
253. Common Stonechat (2024-09-14)
254. Pallid Harrier (2024-09-14)
255. Marsh Sandpiper (2024-09-14)
256. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-09-15)
257. Sanderling (2024-09-15)
258. Greater Flamingo (2024-09-15)
259. Slender-billed Gull (2024-09-15)
260. Common Kingfisher (2024-09-16)
261. Bearded Tit (2024-09-16)
262. Tawny Pipit (2024-09-16)
263. Firecrest (2024-09-19)
265. Greater Scaup (2024-10-12)
266. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-10-13)
267. Great Grey Shrike (2024-10-16)
268. Snow Bunting (2024-10-26)

recent uploads

2024-11-21. White Wagtail, Black Scoter, Rough-legged Buzzard, Common Buzzard, Great Grey Shrike.

2024-11-10. European Greenfinch, Willow Tit, Northern Bullfinch.

2024-11-05. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Mute Swan.

2024-11-02. Rough-legged Buzzard, Hen Harrier.

2024-11-01. Goldcrest, Common Buzzard.

2024-10-28. Hen Harrier, Long-tailed Tit.

2024-10-27. Tufted Duck, Sky Lark, Snow Bunting.

2024-10-24. Meadow Pipit, Eurasian Linnet, Hen Harrier.

2024-10-22. Black-headed Gull, Black-legged Kittiwake.

2024-10-20. Goldcrest, Common Treecreeper.

2024-10-19. Great Grey Shrike, Common Kestrel.

2024-10-17. European Greenfinch, Northern Reed Bunting, Arctic Tern.

2024-10-15. Eurasian Goldfinch, Common Kestrel, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Collared Dove.

2024-10-13. Common Kestrel.

Big Year 2024

1. Andrey Semenov (279)
2. Nataliya Pokhodzey (279)
3. Alexandr Balaev (269)
4. Anna Golubeva (240)
5. Igor Samokhin (237)
6. Egor Loboda (221)
7. Alexey Sizov (211)
8. Vitaliy Butko (186)
9. Irina Ortik (182)
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rare birds records


White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

© Yury Podverbny
2024-11-15


Yellow-browed Warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus)

© Mikhail Kalagin
2024-11-10


Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Alexandr Balaev
2024-10-16
Moskov, rajon Voronovo


Booted Warbler (Hippolais caligata)

© Oleksandr Nastachenko
2023-05-23
Dnipro city

Flight type. This observation is the 5th reliable registration of the species in Ukraine. Birds were noted in 1943, 1992 (twice) and 2011.
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recent video

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).

2024-05-22. Thrush Nightingale (Alexandr Balaev), Snow Bunting (Andrew Simon).

more video...

unidentified birds

2024-11-20

Дмитрий Шевцов: Да и щека выглядит однотонной, тоже за хохлатую чернеть.
2024-11-20

Дмитрий Шевцов: Малый погоныш или крошка?
2024-11-20

Анна Ясько: перенесла на определение.
2024-11-15

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2024-11-13

Анна Ясько: Я ориентируюсь на окрас махового Р5. У хохотуньи на этом ПМ черная полоска широкая на обоих опахалах пера, у серебристой она полностью или [....]
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