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Big Year 2025

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 2021 2022 2023 2024

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* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2025

all species photographed in 2025


* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )
1. Hen Harrier (2025-01-15)
2. Common Moorhen (2025-01-15)
3. Common Snipe (2025-01-15)
4. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-15)
5. Northern Lapwing (2025-01-15)
6. Western Marsh-Harrier (2025-01-15)
7. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-21)
8. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-21)
9. Red-throated Thrush (2025-01-21)
10. Naumann's Thrush (2025-01-21)
11. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-21)
12. Sky Lark (2025-01-22)
13. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-01-24)
14. Common Treecreeper (2025-04-18)
15. Yellow-eyed Pigeon (2025-04-19)
16. Common Pheasant (2025-04-19)
17. White Wagtail (2025-04-19)
18. Brown Dipper (2025-04-23)
19. Corn Bunting (2025-05-01)
20. Common Mynah (2025-05-03)
21. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-03)
22. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-13)
23. European Greenfinch (2025-05-13)
24. Laughing Dove (2025-05-15)
25. Indian Golden Oriole (2025-05-15)
26. Rock Pigeon (2025-05-18)
27. Black Stork (2025-05-29)
28. Blue Rock Thrush (2025-05-29)
29. Cinereous Vulture (2025-05-29)
30. Common Cuckoo (2025-06-01)
31. Turkestan Shrike (2025-06-01)
32. European Nightjar (2025-06-01)
33. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-06-03)
34. Northern Wheatear (2025-06-03)
35. Black-headed Wagtail (2025-06-03)
36. White-capped Bunting (2025-06-03)
37. Eurasian Dipper (2025-06-03)
38. Little Owl (2025-06-03)
39. Himalayan Rubythroat (2025-06-03)
40. Himalayan Vulture (2025-06-03)
41. Spanish Sparrow (2025-06-04)
42. Common Kestrel (2025-06-04)
43. Little Bustard (2025-06-05)

rare birds records


Taiga Flycatcher (Ficedula albicilla)

© Neil and Lucy Rogers
2023-05-25
Chong Kemin

The first confirmed record of the Taiga Flycatcher in Kyrgyzstan.


Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

© Jérémie Berlioux
2023-05-21
Ozornoe

First record in Kyrgyzstan.


White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)

© Pjotr Trommel
2022-08-20
Ozyornoye, Bishkek

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


Buff-bellied Pipit (Anthus rubescens)

© Tatiana Menshikova
2021-10-10
Mikhaylovka, Issyk-kul region

The first confirmed record in the Kyrgyz Republic

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recent video

2023-07-15. Indian Golden Oriole (Gennadii Zakirov), Eurasian 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).

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unidentified birds


2025-06-16

Анатолий Таран: Желтогрудый князёк

2025-01-25

xxxx: плохо видно, но мне кажется это кулики либо песочники.

2025-01-25

хххх: да. это крохаль, но скорее всего средний. длинноносый который. из за красной шеи. много лет не мог определить вид этой птицы. гугл мугл не помогад. [....]

2025-01-06

Анатолий Таран: Курганник или Восточный канюк?

2024-11-01

Андрей Коваленко: Скорее луговой...

more unidentified birds...