Big Year in Kyrgyzstan. Birds of Kyrgyzstan.

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Pelecaniformes

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Phoenicopteriformes

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Galliformes

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Charadriiformes

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Big Year 2021

The winner will submit the pictures of the largest number of bird species taken on the territory of Kyrgyzstan during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2017 2018 2019 2020

participants

* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2021

1. Abdurakhmanova Aziza (228)

2. Campeau Philippe (225)

3. Trommel Pjotr (188)

4. Romanovskaia Irina (184)

5. Menshikova Tatiana (164)

6. Hall Katherine (119)

7. Gazieva Elvira (84)

8. Alymkanova Nurzhan (46)

9. Ozubekov Myrzabek (21)

10. Jumashev Murat (10)

11. Omorova Gulbara (6)

12. Prudskikh Viacheslav (4)

13. Rogers Neil and Lucy (1)

14. van Els Paul (1)

all species photographed in 2021

* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )

1. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2021-01-01)

2. Pine Bunting (2021-01-01)

3. Chukar Partridge (2021-01-01)

4. Carrion Crow (2021-01-01)

5. Mistle Thrush (2021-01-01)

6. Yellowhammer (2021-01-01)

7. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2021-01-01)

8. Red-fronted Serin (2021-01-01)

9. White-winged Grosbeak (2021-01-01)

10. Coal Tit (2021-01-01)

11. Black-throated Accentor (2021-01-01)

12. Barbary Falcon (2021-01-01)

13. Northern Goshawk (2021-01-01)

14. Mute Swan (2021-01-02)

15. Horned Lark (2021-01-02)

16. Golden Eagle (2021-01-02)

17. Cinereous Vulture (2021-01-02)

18. Black-Necked Grebe (2021-01-02)

19. Red-billed Chough (2021-01-02)

20. Brown Accentor (2021-01-02)

21. Hen Harrier (2021-01-02)

22. Bohemian Waxwing (2021-01-02)

23. Crested Lark (2021-01-03)

24. Common Kestrel (2021-01-03)

25. Upland Buzzard (2021-01-03)

26. Long-legged Buzzard (2021-01-03)

27. Azure Tit (2021-01-03)

28. Great Tit (2021-01-03)

29. Common Sparrowhawk (2021-01-04)

30. Little Grebe (2021-01-04)

31. Red-crested Pochard (2021-01-04)

32. Tufted Duck (2021-01-04)

33. Mallard (2021-01-04)

34. Common Pochard (2021-01-04)

35. Mew Gull (2021-01-04)

36. Black-headed Gull (2021-01-04)

37. Caspian Gull (2021-01-04)

38. Common Coot (2021-01-04)

39. Black-Billed Magpie (2021-01-04)

40. Common Chaffinch (2021-01-04)

41. Eversmann's Redstart (2021-01-04)

42. Great Crested Grebe (2021-01-04)

43. Common Pheasant (2021-01-05)

44. Rock Sparrow (2021-01-05)

45. Wallcreeper (2021-01-05)

46. Laughing Dove (2021-01-05)

47. European Greenfinch (2021-01-05)

48. Eurasian Dipper (2021-01-05)

49. Common Teal (2021-01-05)

50. Goosander (2021-01-05)

51. Hooded Crow (2021-01-05)

52. Smew (2021-01-05)

53. Common Goldeneye (2021-01-05)

54. Whooper Swan (2021-01-05)

55. Brambling (2021-01-06)

56. Bearded Tit (2021-01-06)

57. Black-throated Thrush (2021-01-06)

58. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2021-01-06)

59. Great Grey Shrike (2021-01-06)

60. Yellow-breasted Tit (2021-01-06)

61. Pygmy Cormorant (2021-01-06)

62. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2021-01-06)

63. Northern Reed Bunting (2021-01-06)

64. Merlin (2021-01-06)

65. Common Shelduck (2021-01-06)

66. Eurasian Wigeon (2021-01-06)

67. Northern Lapwing (2021-01-06)

68. Grey Heron (2021-01-06)

69. Water Pipit (2021-01-06)

70. Bewick's Swan (2021-01-06)

71. Tree Sparrow (2021-01-06)

72. Eastern Buzzard (2021-01-06)

73. Short-eared Owl (2021-01-09)

74. Common Buzzard (2021-01-09)

75. Common Starling (2021-01-09)

76. Great White Egret (2021-01-09)

77. European Robin (2021-01-09)

78. Northern Wren (2021-01-09)

79. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2021-01-09)

80. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2021-01-13)

81. Water Rail (2021-01-13)

82. House Sparrow (2021-01-15)

83. Common Mynah (2021-01-15)

84. Rook (2021-01-16)

85. Eurasian Siskin (2021-01-16)

86. Corn Bunting (2021-01-16)

87. Black Kite (2021-01-17)

88. Western Marsh-Harrier (2021-01-17)

89. Rough-legged Buzzard (2021-01-17)

90. Daurian Partridge (2021-01-23)

91. Long-eared Owl (2021-01-23)

92. Blue Whistling Thrush (2021-01-29)

93. Ruddy Shelduck (2021-01-30)

94. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2021-01-30)

95. Brown Dipper (2021-01-31)

96. Ibisbill (2021-02-02)

97. Montagu's Harrier (2021-02-02)

98. Goldcrest (2021-02-02)

99. Black-breasted Tit (2021-02-02)

100. Godlewski's Bunting (2021-02-08)

101. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2021-02-12)

102. Common Raven (2021-02-15)

103. Greylag Goose (2021-02-15)

104. Meadow Pipit (2021-02-15)

105. Gadwall (2021-02-15)

106. Meadow Bunting (2021-02-16)

107. Common Snipe (2021-02-17)

108. Eurasian Jackdaw (2021-02-17)

109. Green Sandpiper (2021-02-17)

110. Pallas's Gull (2021-02-17)

111. Rock Pigeon (2021-02-17)

112. Eurasian Blackbird (2021-02-25)

113. Himalayan Snowcock (2021-02-26)

114. Brandt's Rosefinch (2021-02-27)

115. Spotted Nutcracker (2021-02-27)

116. Little Owl (2021-02-28)

117. Hoopoe (2021-02-28)

118. Steppe Eagle (2021-03-03)

119. White-Winged Woodpecker (2021-03-06)

120. Lammergeier (2021-03-06)

121. White Stork (2021-03-07)

122. Masked Wagtail (2021-03-08)

123. Ferruginous Duck (2021-03-09)

124. Citrine Wagtail (2021-03-19)

125. Northern Pintail (2021-03-19)

126. Common Redshank (2021-03-19)

127. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2021-03-19)

128. Lesser Kestrel (2021-03-19)

129. Great Cormorant (2021-03-20)

130. Rock Bunting (2021-03-20)

131. Eurasian Goldfinch (2021-03-22)

132. Bluethroat (2021-03-22)

133. Alpine Swift (2021-03-22)

134. Griffon Vulture (2021-03-22)

135. Himalayan Vulture (2021-03-22)

136. Isabelline Shrike (2021-03-22)

137. Calandra Lark (2021-03-22)

138. Black Redstart (2021-03-22)

139. Desert Wheatear (2021-03-22)

140. Eurasian Linnet (2021-03-22)

141. Blue-capped Redstart (2021-03-23)

142. Grey Wagtail (2021-03-23)

143. Isabelline Wheatear (2021-03-24)

144. White Wagtail (2021-03-24)

145. Common Chiffchaff (2021-03-24)

146. Alpine Accentor (2021-03-24)

147. Tawny Owl (2021-03-25)

148. Bar-tailed Treecreeper (2021-03-25)

149. Himalayan Accentor (2021-03-25)

150. Mongolian Finch (2021-03-25)

151. Peregrine Falcon (2021-03-26)

152. Egyptian Vulture (2021-03-27)

153. Common Oystercatcher (2021-03-27)

154. Osprey (2021-03-27)

155. Little Ringed Plover (2021-03-27)

156. Garganey (2021-03-27)

157. Northern Shoveler (2021-03-27)

158. Common Stonechat (2021-03-27)

159. Lesser Whitethroat (2021-03-27)

160. Eurasian Collared Dove (2021-03-31)

161. Turkestan Tit (2021-04-02)

162. Turkestan Shrike (2021-04-02)

163. Eurasian Redstart (2021-04-02)

164. Pied Wheatear (2021-04-02)

165. Black-tailed Godwit (2021-04-03)

166. Black-winged Stilt (2021-04-03)

167. Greater Spotted Eagle (2021-04-03)

168. Barn Swallow (2021-04-03)

169. Common Swift (2021-04-03)

170. Pied Avocet (2021-04-03)

171. Heuglin's Gull (2021-04-03)

172. Common Moorhen (2021-04-03)

173. Sky Lark (2021-04-09)

174. Kentish Plover (2021-04-11)

175. Demoiselle Crane (2021-04-12)

176. Eurasian Curlew (2021-04-16)

177. Black-headed Wagtail (2021-04-17)

178. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2021-04-17)

179. Northern Wheatear (2021-04-17)

180. Glossy Ibis (2021-04-17)

181. Red-rumped Swallow (2021-04-17)

182. Tree Pipit (2021-04-17)

183. Wood Pigeon (2021-04-17)

184. Common Greenshank (2021-04-17)

185. Common Sandpiper (2021-04-18)

186. Hawfinch (2021-04-19)

187. Hume's Warbler (2021-04-24)

188. Common Cuckoo (2021-04-24)

189. Common Tern (2021-04-24)

190. Hodgson's Rosefinch (2021-04-24)

191. Solitary Snipe (2021-04-24)

192. Oriental Turtle Dove (2021-04-25)

193. Booted Eagle (2021-04-25)

194. Common Crane (2021-04-25)

195. Black Stork (2021-04-25)

196. Hume's Whitethroat (2021-04-25)

197. Sand Martin (2021-04-26)

198. Pale Sand Martin (2021-04-26)

199. Lesser Sand Plover (2021-04-28)

200. Eurasian Roller (2021-04-30)

201. Black Tern (2021-04-30)

202. Long-tailed Shrike (2021-04-30)

203. Little Bustard (2021-05-01)

204. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2021-05-01)

205. Shikra (2021-05-01)

206. Eurasian Hobby (2021-05-01)

207. Rosy Starling (2021-05-01)

208. Paddyfield Warbler (2021-05-01)

209. Spanish Sparrow (2021-05-02)

210. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2021-05-02)

211. European Bee-eater (2021-05-02)

212. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2021-05-02)

213. Common Nightingale (2021-05-02)

214. Red-headed Bunting (2021-05-02)

215. Red-necked Phalarope (2021-05-02)

216. Black-crowned Night Heron (2021-05-05)

217. Barred Warbler (2021-05-05)

218. Grey-necked Bunting (2021-05-05)

219. White-winged Tern (2021-05-07)

220. Little Tern (2021-05-07)

221. Wood Sandpiper (2021-05-07)

222. Ruff (2021-05-07)

223. Temminck's Stint (2021-05-07)

224. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2021-05-07)

225. Common Kingfisher (2021-05-08)

226. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2021-05-08)

227. Indian Golden Oriole (2021-05-08)

228. Cetti's Warbler (2021-05-08)

229. Lesser Grey Shrike (2021-05-09)

230. Red-backed Shrike (2021-05-09)

231. Collared Pratincole (2021-05-11)

232. Spotted Redshank (2021-05-11)

233. Curlew Sandpiper (2021-05-11)

234. Grey Plover (2021-05-11)

235. Little Stint (2021-05-11)

236. Northern House Martin (2021-05-12)

237. Booted Warbler (2021-05-13)

238. Greenish Warbler (2021-05-14)

239. Eurasian Spoonbill (2021-05-14)

240. Common Rosefinch (2021-05-16)

241. Yellow Wagtail (2021-05-16)

242. Syke's Warbler (2021-05-18)

243. Common Whitethroat (2021-05-21)

244. Eurasian Crag Martin (2021-05-21)

245. Spotted Flycatcher (2021-05-22)

246. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2021-05-23)

247. Terek Sandpiper (2021-05-23)

248. Himalayan Rubythroat (2021-05-24)

249. Yellow-billed Chough (2021-05-24)

250. Common Treecreeper (2021-05-24)

251. Little Bittern (2021-05-25)

252. Tawny Pipit (2021-05-26)

253. Indian Sparrow (2021-05-28)

254. European Turtle Dove (2021-05-29)

255. Songar Tit (2021-06-04)

256. Blue Rock Thrush (2021-06-05)

257. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2021-06-05)

258. White-capped Bunting (2021-06-12)

259. Upcher's Warbler (2021-06-12)

260. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2021-06-14)

261. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2021-06-24)

262. Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (2021-06-28)

263. White-winged Snowfinch (2021-07-04)

264. Hill Pigeon (2021-07-06)

265. Gull-billed Tern (2021-07-08)

266. Marsh Sandpiper (2021-07-08)

267. Great Rosefinch (2021-07-16)

268. Twite (2021-07-16)

269. Asian Paradise Flycatcher (2021-08-11)

270. Pacific Golden Plover (2021-08-26)

271. Eurasian Wryneck (2021-08-31)

272. Dunlin (2021-09-04)

273. Sanderling (2021-09-04)

274. Greater Short-toed Lark (2021-09-06)

275. Common Quail (2021-09-15)

276. White-headed Duck (2021-09-29)

277. Pallid Harrier (2021-10-01)

278. Baillon's Crake (2021-10-02)

279. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2021-10-03)

280. Buff-bellied Pipit (2021-10-10)

281. Steppe Grey Shrike (2021-10-24)

282. Slavonian Grebe (2021-11-01)

283. Greater Flamingo (2021-11-16)

284. Greater Ringed Plover (2021-11-16)

285. Red Phalarope (2021-11-21)

286. Red-Necked Grebe (2021-11-27)

287. Red Crossbill (2021-12-14)

288. Dalmatian Pelican (2021-12-22)

Big Year 2024

1. Irina Romanovskaia (116)
2. Jérémie Berlioux (56)
3. Elvira Gazieva (11)
4. Adinai Akhmatova (5)
5. Iuliia Liakh (2)
6. Nurzhan Alymkanova (2)

more...

rare birds records

Taiga Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla)

The first confirmed record of the Taiga Flycatcher in Kyrgyzstan.

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

First record in Kyrgyzstan.

White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)

Very likely to be the first encounter in Kyrgyzstan, with vagrants recorded in neighbouring Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

Buff-bellied Pipit (Anthus rubescens)

The first confirmed record in the Kyrgyz Republic

more rarities...

recent video

2023-07-15. Indian Golden Oriole (Gennadii Zakirov), Black-Billed Magpie (Gennadii Zakirov).

2021-10-26. Little Owl (Katherine Hall).

2021-03-15. Common Buzzard (Viacheslav Prudskikh).

2021-03-13. Grey-headed Goldfinch (Viacheslav Prudskikh).

2018-04-11. Grey-headed Goldfinch (Ivan Turkovskiy).

2017-11-16. Black-breasted Tit (Ivan Turkovskiy).

2017-09-05. Little Owl (Ivan Turkovskiy), Common Kingfisher (Ivan Turkovskiy).

2017-09-03. Ibisbill (Ivan Turkovskiy).

unidentified birds

2024-01-09

no any comments:

2024-01-09

no any comments:

2023-10-28

Igor Fefelov: Circus macrourus|pygargus|cyaneus

2023-04-17

Анна Ясько: На 2 и 3 фото, действительно, завирушку больше напоминает по контрастности головы и спины.

2023-01-14

И. Фефелов: If it's some wheatear it should be Oe.pleschanka or Oe.deserti.

more unidentified birds...