Big Year in Northern Eurasia. Shandar Denys. Birds of Northern Eurasia

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Gaviiformes

Podicipediformes

Procellariiformes

Pelecaniformes

Phalacrocoracidae

Ciconiiformes

Threskiornithidae

Phoenicopteriformes

Phoenicopteridae

Anseriformes

Falconiformes

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Gruiformes

Charadriiformes

Recurvirostridae

Pterocletiformes

Columbiformes

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Strigiformes

Caprimulgiformes

Apodiformes

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Shandar Denys

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total species: 115 total photos: 194 total videos: 0 total blogposts: 0

1. Black-Necked Grebe | Grèbe à cou noir | Schwarzhalstaucher (2024-01-01)

2. Bearded Tit (2024-01-01)

3. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-01)

4. Redwing (2024-01-05)

5. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-08)

6. Gadwall (2024-01-08)

7. Herring Gull (2024-01-08)

8. Caspian Gull (2024-01-08)

9. Mew Gull (2024-01-10)

10. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-01-11)

11. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-11)

12. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-11)

13. Great White Egret (2024-01-12)

14. Water Rail (2024-01-12)

15. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-12)

16. Grey Wagtail (2024-01-12)

17. Rook (2024-01-12)

18. Northern Wren (2024-01-13)

19. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-13)

20. Northern Pintail (2024-01-13)

21. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-13)

22. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-14)

23. Whooper Swan (2024-01-14)

24. Tufted Duck (2024-01-14)

25. Little Grebe | Grèbe castagneux | Zwergtaucher (2024-01-19)

26. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-26)

27. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-30)

28. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-30)

29. Great Tit (2024-01-30)

30. Coal Tit (2024-01-30)

31. Common Teal (2024-02-02)

32. Common Treecreeper (2024-02-04)

33. Wood Pigeon (2024-03-01)

34. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-03-01)

35. Eurasian Siskin (2024-03-01)

36. Greater White-fronted Goose (2024-03-09)

37. Sky Lark (2024-03-09)

38. Hooded Crow (2024-03-16)

39. Common Crane (2024-03-17)

40. Willow Tit (2024-03-21)

41. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2024-03-26)

42. European Robin (2024-03-27)

43. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-03-30)

44. Osprey (2024-03-31)

45. Hoopoe (2024-03-31)

46. Marsh Tit (2024-03-31)

47. Goosander (2024-04-03)

48. Common Starling (2024-04-05)

49. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-04-06)

50. Eurasian Linnet (2024-04-06)

51. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2024-04-06)

52. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-04-07)

53. European Serin (2024-04-11)

54. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-14)

55. Bluethroat (2024-04-14)

56. White Wagtail (2024-04-14)

57. Ruff (2024-04-14)

58. Black Kite (2024-04-14)

59. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-04-25)

60. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-27)

61. Great Snipe (2024-04-28)

62. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-28)

63. Thrush Nightingale (2024-04-28)

64. Northern Goshawk (2024-04-28)

65. White Stork (2024-04-28)

66. Tree Pipit (2024-04-28)

67. Little Gull (2024-04-28)

68. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-30)

69. Corncrake (2024-05-02)

70. Little Crake (2024-05-04)

71. Garden Warbler (2024-05-04)

72. Sedge Warbler (2024-05-05)

73. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-05)

74. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-05)

75. River Warbler (2024-05-06)

76. Crested Lark (2024-05-11)

77. Booted Eagle (2024-05-18)

78. Little Owl (2024-05-18)

79. Citrine Wagtail (2024-05-25)

80. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2024-06-02)

81. Common Rosefinch (2024-06-02)

82. Common Kestrel (2024-06-02)

83. Eurasian Hobby (2024-06-08)

84. Icterine Warbler (2024-06-09)

85. Crested Tit (2024-06-09)

86. Griffon Vulture (2024-06-18)

87. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-06-29)

88. Sand Martin (2024-06-29)

89. Grey Partridge (2024-07-06)

90. Black-winged Stilt (2024-07-24)

91. Montagu's Harrier (2024-07-28)

92. Temminck's Stint (2024-08-01)

93. Common Snipe (2024-08-09)

94. Common Cuckoo (2024-08-11)

95. Wood Warbler (2024-08-11)

96. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-08-24)

97. Common Buzzard (2024-09-11)

98. Red-footed Falcon (2024-09-15)

99. Purple Heron (2024-09-17)

100. Grey Heron (2024-09-23)

101. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-09-25)

102. Dunlin (2024-09-25)

103. Long-tailed Tit (2024-10-01)

104. Red-throated Loon | Plongeon catmarin | Sterntaucher (2024-10-08)

105. Slavonian Grebe | Grèbe esclavon | Ohrentaucher (2024-10-09)

106. Arctic Loon | Plongeon arctique | Prachttaucher (2024-10-09)

107. Dunnock (2024-10-19)

108. Black-legged Kittiwake (2024-10-20)

109. Firecrest (2024-10-20)

110. Wood Lark (2024-10-26)

111. Meadow Pipit (2024-10-27)

112. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-11-02)

113. Bean Goose (2024-11-05)

114. Merlin (2024-11-16)

115. Goldcrest (2024-11-17)

recent uploads

2024-11-20. Goldcrest.

2024-11-16. Slavonian Grebe, Merlin.

2024-11-09. Peregrine Falcon, Peregrine Falcon, Common Crane, Sedge Warbler, Wood Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole, Crested Lark, Dunnock.

2024-11-05. Bean Goose.

2024-11-02. Red-breasted Merganser.

2024-11-01. Thrush Nightingale, Northern Goshawk, White Stork, Tree Pipit, Little Gull.

2024-10-27. Common Buzzard, Wood Lark, Meadow Pipit.

2024-10-21. Black-legged Kittiwake, Firecrest.

2024-10-09. Slavonian Grebe, Arctic Loon.

2024-10-08. Red-throated Loon.

2024-10-05. Long-tailed Tit, Water Rail, Black-Necked Grebe.

2024-09-26. Grey Heron, Greater Ringed Plover, Dunlin.

2024-09-24. Lesser Spotted Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Purple Heron.

2024-09-17. Eurasian Hobby.

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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