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total species: 109
total photos: 487
total videos: 0
total blogposts: 0

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1. Common Moorhen (2023-02-06)
2. Common Coot (2023-02-06)
3. Common Starling (2023-03-21)
4. Fieldfare (2023-03-21)
5. Grey Partridge (2023-03-21)
6. Eurasian Magpie (2023-03-21)
7. Caspian Gull (2023-03-21)
8. Common Raven (2023-03-21)
9. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-03-21)
10. Northern Lapwing (2023-03-21)
11. Black-headed Gull (2023-03-29)
12. Eurasian Nuthatch (2023-03-29)
13. Blue Tit (2023-03-29)
14. Goldcrest (2023-03-29)
15. Common Chaffinch (2023-03-29)
16. Long-tailed Tit (2023-03-29)
17. House Sparrow (2023-03-30)
18. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-03-30)
19. Great Grey Shrike (2023-03-30)
20. Northern Bullfinch (2023-03-30)
21. Hooded Crow (2023-03-30)
22. Jack Snipe (2023-03-30)
23. Grey Heron (2023-04-01)
24. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-04-01)
25. Common Kestrel (2023-04-01)
26. Mute Swan (2023-04-06)
27. Green Sandpiper (2023-04-06)
28. Common Buzzard (2023-04-06)
29. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-04-06)
30. Common Pochard (2023-04-06)
31. Tufted Duck (2023-04-06)
32. Gadwall (2023-04-06)
33. Common Snipe (2023-04-09)
34. Whinchat (2023-04-23)
35. European Robin (2023-04-25)
36. Black Kite (2023-04-25)
37. Bluethroat (2023-04-27)
38. Common Sandpiper (2023-04-27)
39. Common Tern (2023-04-27)
40. Garganey (2023-04-27)
41. Citrine Wagtail (2023-04-30)
42. Little Ringed Plover (2023-05-04)
43. Common Whitethroat (2023-05-09)
44. Meadow Pipit (2023-05-10)
45. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-05-10)
46. Mallard (2023-05-15)
47. Yellow Wagtail (2023-05-15)
48. Common Swift (2023-05-15)
49. Red-backed Shrike (2023-05-17)
50. Tree Sparrow (2023-05-19)
51. Common Rosefinch (2023-05-19)
52. Herring Gull (2023-05-20)
53. Booted Warbler (2023-05-20)
54. Black Stork (2023-06-05)
55. Marsh Warbler (2023-06-05)
56. Sand Martin (2023-06-05)
57. Wood Pigeon (2023-06-05)
58. Common Goldeneye (2023-06-05)
59. Common Oystercatcher (2023-06-05)
60. Little Tern (2023-06-06)
61. Marsh Sandpiper (2023-06-06)
62. Common Greenshank (2023-06-06)
63. Black-tailed Godwit (2023-06-06)
64. Tree Pipit (2023-06-06)
65. White Wagtail (2023-06-06)
66. Black Tern (2023-06-06)
67. Eurasian Linnet (2023-06-06)
68. Great Tit (2023-06-06)
69. Terek Sandpiper (2023-06-06)
70. Mew Gull (2023-06-06)
71. Great Snipe (2023-06-07)
72. Corncrake (2023-06-08)
73. Montagu's Harrier (2023-06-08)
74. Eurasian Wigeon (2023-06-08)
75. Northern Pintail (2023-06-09)
76. Common Cuckoo (2023-06-09)
77. Eurasian Hobby (2023-06-09)
78. Willow Warbler (2023-07-02)
81. Eurasian Siskin (2023-07-19)
82. Red-breasted Merganser (2023-07-19)
83. Little Bunting (2023-07-19)
84. Common Redpoll (2023-07-19)
85. Hen Harrier (2023-07-19)
86. Pine Grosbeak (2023-07-19)
87. Wood Sandpiper (2023-07-19)
88. Arctic Tern (2023-07-19)
89. Common Teal (2023-07-19)
90. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-07-19)
91. Long-tailed Jaeger (2023-07-19)
92. Brambling (2023-07-19)
93. Redwing (2023-07-19)
94. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2023-07-19)
95. Merlin (2023-07-19)
96. Willow Ptarmigan (2023-07-19)
97. Eurasian Golden Plover (2023-07-19)
98. Arctic Warbler (2023-07-20)
99. Goosander (2023-07-20)
101. Rough-legged Buzzard (2023-07-21)
102. Eurasian Whimbrel (2023-07-21)
103. Red-throated Pipit (2023-07-22)
104. Lapland Longspur (2023-07-22)
105. Golden Eagle (2023-07-22)
106. Pallid Harrier (2023-07-22)
107. Arctic Redpoll (2023-07-22)
108. Northern Wheatear (2023-07-22)
109. Black Scoter (2023-07-23)

recent uploads


2025-10-18. Greater Ringed Plover, Yellow-legged Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Great Cormorant, Greater Scaup, Yellow-legged Gull, Sandwich Tern, Slavonian Grebe, Eurasian Collared Dove, Eurasian Jay, Great Cormorant, Tufted Duck, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull.

2025-10-14. Grey Plover, Greater Ringed Plover, Whiskered Tern, Little Gull, Dunlin.

2025-10-13. Ruddy Turnstone.

2025-09-30. Common Cuckoo, Great Grey Shrike, Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Linnet, Ruff, Great White Egret, Great Crested Grebe, Common Coot, Eurasian Hobby.

2025-06-12. Eurasian Wryneck, Whiskered Tern, Black Tern, Marsh Sandpiper.

2025-06-03. Common Coot, Red-throated Pipit.

2025-05-19. Barn Swallow, Common Cuckoo, Wood Pigeon, Common Buzzard, Black Kite, Common Buzzard, Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Eurasian Honey-Buzzard, Common Swift, Common Whitethroat.

2025-05-12. Canada Goose.

2025-05-11. Gadwall, Common Coot, Black-Necked Grebe, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Northern Shoveler, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Wigeon, Garganey, Common Teal, Common Pochard, Black Kite, Gadwall, Green Sandpiper, Willow Warbler, Common Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Great Crested Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Black-headed Gull.

2025-05-10. Thrush Nightingale, Bluethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Gadwall, Dunnock.

2025-04-20. Great White Egret.

2025-04-14. Siberian Black-backed Gull, Common Coot, White Wagtail.

2025-04-12. White Wagtail, Mew Gull, Grey Heron.

2025-04-11. Wood Pigeon.

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3. Alexandr Balaev (251)
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5. Anna Golubeva (240)
6. Sergei Saveika (189)
7. Vitaliy Butko (187)
8. Irina Ortik (171)
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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


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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).

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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...