Big Year in Northern Eurasia. Makhovska Oksana. Birds of Northern Eurasia

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Procellariiformes

Pelecaniformes

Phalacrocoracidae

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Phoenicopteriformes

Phoenicopteridae

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Charadriiformes

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Pterocletiformes

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Makhovska Oksana

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total species: 135 total photos: 354 total videos: 0 total blogposts: 0

1. Goldcrest (2022-01-07)

2. Common Kingfisher (2022-01-12)

3. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-01-12)

4. Goosander (2022-01-12)

5. Coal Tit (2022-01-13)

6. Common Coot (2022-01-16)

7. Eurasian Siskin (2022-01-19)

8. Mute Swan (2022-01-20)

9. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-20)

10. Black Scoter (2022-01-22)

11. Caspian Gull (2022-01-23)

12. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-01-25)

13. Bearded Tit (2022-01-25)

14. Great Cormorant (2022-01-25)

15. Great White Egret (2022-01-25)

16. Common Kestrel (2022-01-29)

17. Grey Heron (2022-01-29)

18. Northern Pintail (2022-02-01)

19. Northern Goshawk (2022-02-02)

20. Yellowhammer (2022-02-02)

21. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-02-02)

22. Common Pheasant (2022-02-06)

23. Mandarin Duck (2022-02-08)

24. Great Grey Shrike (2022-02-10)

25. Common Buzzard (2022-02-12)

26. Northern Bullfinch (2022-02-12)

27. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-02-15)

28. European Robin (2022-02-15)

29. Common Goldeneye (2022-02-15)

30. Long-tailed Tit (2022-02-15)

31. Northern Wren (2022-02-15)

32. Little Grebe | Grèbe castagneux | Zwergtaucher (2022-02-20)

33. Grey Wagtail (2022-02-20)

34. Eurasian Nuthatch (2022-02-20)

35. Common Treecreeper (2022-02-20)

36. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2022-03-12)

37. Crested Tit (2022-03-18)

38. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-24)

39. Great Tit (2022-03-29)

40. Common Starling (2022-04-06)

41. Blue Tit (2022-04-07)

42. Common Chaffinch (2022-04-07)

43. Fieldfare (2022-04-07)

44. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-04-07)

45. Hawfinch (2022-04-09)

46. Brambling (2022-04-09)

47. Eurasian Jay (2022-04-10)

48. Wood Pigeon (2022-04-10)

49. European Greenfinch (2022-04-11)

50. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-04-11)

51. Tree Sparrow (2022-04-11)

52. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-04-11)

53. Wood Warbler (2022-04-14)

54. Common Chiffchaff (2022-04-15)

55. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-04-15)

56. Redwing (2022-04-15)

57. White Wagtail (2022-04-16)

58. European Serin (2022-04-21)

59. Eurasian Redstart (2022-04-22)

60. Pied Flycatcher (2022-04-23)

61. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2022-04-23)

62. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-24)

63. Bluethroat (2022-04-24)

64. Great Crested Grebe | Grèbe huppé | Haubentaucher (2022-04-25)

65. Black-headed Gull (2022-04-25)

66. Black Redstart (2022-04-25)

67. Blackcap (2022-04-25)

68. Tawny Owl (2022-04-27)

69. Black Woodpecker (2022-04-27)

70. Collared Flycatcher (2022-04-27)

71. Northern Lapwing (2022-04-27)

72. Black-Necked Grebe | Grèbe à cou noir | Schwarzhalstaucher (2022-04-28)

73. Mallard (2022-04-29)

74. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-04-29)

75. Hooded Crow (2022-04-29)

76. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-04-30)

77. Savi's Warbler (2022-05-01)

78. Great Reed Warbler (2022-05-02)

79. Little Bittern (2022-05-05)

80. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-06)

81. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-05-06)

82. Common Moorhen (2022-05-06)

83. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-10)

84. Common Tern (2022-05-10)

85. Thrush Nightingale (2022-05-11)

86. European Golden Oriole (2022-05-12)

87. Rook (2022-05-13)

88. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-14)

89. Whinchat (2022-05-14)

90. Barn Swallow (2022-05-17)

91. Black Tern (2022-05-20)

92. Icterine Warbler (2022-05-21)

93. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-23)

94. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2022-05-25)

95. European Bee-eater (2022-05-28)

96. Eurasian Magpie (2022-05-31)

97. White Stork (2022-06-04)

98. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-06-04)

99. Common Raven (2022-06-04)

100. Yellow Wagtail (2022-06-04)

101. Sand Martin (2022-06-06)

102. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-06-14)

103. Common Stonechat (2022-06-14)

104. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2022-06-14)

105. Sedge Warbler (2022-06-16)

106. Northern Wheatear (2022-06-18)

107. Eurasian Linnet (2022-06-19)

108. Marsh Warbler (2022-06-20)

109. Eurasian Hobby (2022-07-09)

110. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-07-31)

111. Hoopoe (2022-07-31)

112. Tree Pipit (2022-08-17)

113. Whiskered Tern (2022-08-19)

114. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-08-20)

115. Grey Partridge (2022-08-31)

116. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-09-11)

117. Little Stint (2022-09-11)

118. Dunlin (2022-09-11)

119. Common Snipe (2022-09-16)

120. Black Kite (2022-09-16)

121. Eurasian Dipper (2022-09-24)

122. Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker (2022-09-25)

123. Red Crossbill (2022-09-29)

124. Northern Hazelhen (2022-09-30)

125. Willow Tit (2022-09-30)

126. House Sparrow (2022-10-11)

127. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-10-28)

128. Crested Lark (2022-11-02)

129. Syrian Woodpecker (2022-11-08)

130. Arctic Loon | Plongeon arctique | Prachttaucher (2022-11-18)

131. Rough-legged Buzzard (2022-11-27)

132. Gadwall (2022-12-04)

133. Mew Gull (2022-12-04)

134. Common Pochard (2022-12-06)

135. Bohemian Waxwing (2022-12-28)

recent uploads

2026-01-16. White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Northern Reed Bunting, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Common Raven.

2026-01-12. Common Sparrowhawk.

2026-01-10. Great Cormorant, Common Pochard, Eurasian Siskin, Coal Tit, Goldcrest.

2026-01-08. Red-breasted Merganser, Common Goldeneye, Tufted Duck.

2026-01-05. Mute Swan, Common Buzzard, Red-breasted Merganser, Goosander, Smew, Long-tailed Tit, Black-headed Gull, Bohemian Waxwing.

2026-01-03. Great White Egret, Red-breasted Merganser, Tawny Owl, Common Chaffinch.

2026-01-02. Little Grebe, Gadwall.

2025-12-23. Velvet Scoter.

2025-12-16. Common Teal, Long-tailed Duck.

2025-12-14. Hooded Crow, House Sparrow.

2025-12-09. Smew.

2025-12-07. Black-Necked Grebe.

2025-12-03. Greater Scaup, Northern Pintail, Red-breasted Merganser.

2025-11-03. Greater White-fronted Goose.

Big Year 2026

1. Anna Golubeva (240)
2. Khasan Zhurtov (122)
3. Igor Shcherbakov (114)
4. Aleksandr Gontcharov (111)
5. Dmitriy Shevtsov (99)
6. Andrei Kiselev (67)
7. Vyacheslav Yusupov (60)
8. Oleg Martsun (45)
9. Khasan Zhurtov (41)
10. Anton Vinogradov (39)

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.

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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).

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 [....]

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