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Best photos of the month, December 2025
Golden Eagle | Gennadiy Dyakin | 5Eastern Buzzard | Gennadiy Dyakin | 4
Cinereous Vulture | Gennadiy Dyakin | 3
Lammergeier | Gennadiy Dyakin | 3
Eastern Buzzard | Gennadiy Dyakin | 3
Common Raven | Gennadiy Dyakin | 2
Himalayan Vulture | Gennadiy Dyakin | 2
Eastern Buzzard | Gennadiy Dyakin | 2
Common Kestrel | Gennadiy Dyakin | 2
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rare birds records
Long-toed Stint (Calidris subminuta)
© Gennadiy Dyakin
2025-05-10
Sorbulak lake, Almaty region
A rare migratory species for Kazakhstan.
Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
© Gennadiy Dyakin
2024-12-07
Sorbulak lake, Almaty region
Second winter record, first for the southeast of Kazakhstan. Previously, it was only observed in Aktau in January 2016 (Yas'ko, 2017).
White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala)
© Gennadiy Dyakin
2024-12-07
Sorbulak lake, Almaty region
The second winter record in the south-east of Kazakhstan. Before this, 4 and 5 white-headed ducks were observed on Sorbulak on December 12 and 19, 2004 (Belyalov, Karpov, 2004). Winter finds are also known on Lake Karakol (Mangistau region): probably a delayed individual on December 8, 2011 (Kovshar, Karpov 2019) and several birds on December 12, 2019 (Nurlykhanov, see site gallery).
Caucasian Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus lorenzii)
© Gennadiy Dyakin
2018-05-08
Fakel, Mangistau region
A new species for Kazakhstan. The habitat of Phylloscopus lorenzii covers Turkey, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia and northern Iran.