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total photos: 525
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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)
269. Velvet Scoter (2024-11-24)
270. Common Mynah (2024-12-12)

recent uploads

2026-01-15. Blue Tit, Tree Sparrow, Tufted Duck.

2026-01-14. Northern Bullfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Tit.

2026-01-10. Common Shelduck, Red-crested Pochard.

2026-01-09. Common Pochard, Greater White-fronted Goose, Rock Pigeon.

2026-01-08. Hawfinch.

2026-01-07. Pine Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak.

2026-01-06. Blue Tit, Willow Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.

2026-01-03. Common Chaffinch, European Greenfinch, Brambling, Common Redpoll, Eurasian Collared Dove.

2025-12-30. Eurasian Siskin, European Greenfinch.

2025-12-22. Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup.

2025-12-10. Long-tailed Duck, Long-tailed Duck.

2025-12-08. Eurasian Blackbird, European Robin, Ural Owl.

2025-12-05. Long-eared Owl.

2025-12-03. Mute Swan.

rare birds records


Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

© Khasan Zhurtov
2026-01-09
Maiskiy,KBR


European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)

© Natalia Savranska
2026-01-06
Pantaivka

First winter record of the European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)

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.
more rarities...

recent video

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).

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).

more video...

unidentified birds

2026-01-13

Сергей Л. Волков: Серебристая чайка, к лету 3 года, скорее всего, будет, в крыльях еще детские перья есть.
2025-12-25

Наталія Драбина: Чернь морська чи чубата?
2025-12-24

no any comments:
2025-12-07

Владимир Семашко: хотя, конечно, вернее средиземноморская
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 [....]
more unidentified birds...