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Big Year 2020

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

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2020
4. Trommel Pjotr (122)

all species photographed in 2020


* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )
1. Eastern Buzzard (2020-01-01)
2. Great White Egret (2020-01-01)
3. Great Grey Shrike (2020-01-01)
4. Eurasian Blackbird (2020-01-01)
5. Carrion Crow (2020-01-01)
6. Northern Reed Bunting (2020-01-01)
7. Common Coot (2020-01-01)
8. Mallard (2020-01-01)
9. Goosander (2020-01-01)
10. Northern Wren (2020-01-01)
11. Common Redshank (2020-01-01)
12. Bewick's Swan (2020-01-01)
13. Common Goldeneye (2020-01-01)
14. Mute Swan (2020-01-01)
15. Eurasian Wigeon (2020-01-01)
16. Whooper Swan (2020-01-01)
17. Rook (2020-01-01)
18. Common Shelduck (2020-01-01)
19. Horned Lark (2020-01-01)
20. Tree Sparrow (2020-01-01)
21. Azure Tit (2020-01-01)
22. Common Teal (2020-01-01)
23. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-01-02)
24. Grey Heron (2020-01-02)
25. Bohemian Waxwing (2020-01-02)
26. Water Rail (2020-01-02)
27. Red-breasted Merganser (2020-01-02)
28. Tufted Duck (2020-01-02)
29. Red-crested Pochard (2020-01-02)
30. Smew (2020-01-02)
31. Mistle Thrush (2020-01-02)
32. European Greenfinch (2020-01-02)
33. Brambling (2020-01-02)
34. Pygmy Cormorant (2020-01-04)
35. Black-throated Thrush (2020-01-04)
36. Eversmann's Redstart (2020-01-04)
37. Eurasian Jackdaw (2020-01-04)
38. Great Cormorant (2020-01-04)
39. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2020-01-04)
40. Black-Necked Grebe (2020-01-04)
41. Common Pheasant (2020-01-04)
42. Hen Harrier (2020-01-04)
43. Common Raven (2020-01-04)
44. White Wagtail (2020-01-04)
45. Northern Lapwing (2020-01-04)
46. Northern Pintail (2020-01-04)
47. Pallas's Gull (2020-01-04)
48. Water Pipit (2020-01-04)
49. Great Tit (2020-01-04)
50. Great Crested Grebe (2020-01-04)
51. House Sparrow (2020-01-04)
52. Yellowhammer (2020-01-05)
53. Corn Bunting (2020-01-05)
54. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2020-01-05)
55. Western Marsh-Harrier (2020-01-05)
56. Common Kestrel (2020-01-05)
57. Red-billed Chough (2020-01-05)
58. Eurasian Magpie (2020-01-05)
59. Eurasian Goldfinch (2020-01-06)
60. Ruddy Shelduck (2020-01-06)
61. Crested Lark (2020-01-06)
62. Merlin (2020-01-06)
63. Common Buzzard (2020-01-06)
64. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2020-01-06)
65. Ibisbill (2020-01-06)
66. Black-breasted Tit (2020-01-06)
67. Common Chaffinch (2020-01-07)
68. Common Pochard (2020-01-07)
69. Mew Gull (2020-01-07)
70. Little Grebe (2020-01-07)
71. Red-Necked Grebe (2020-01-07)
72. European Robin (2020-01-10)
73. Spanish Sparrow (2020-01-11)
74. Caspian Gull (2020-01-11)
75. White-winged Grosbeak (2020-01-12)
76. Blue Whistling Thrush (2020-01-12)
77. Long-legged Buzzard (2020-01-12)
78. Common Sparrowhawk (2020-01-12)
79. Hooded Crow (2020-01-14)
80. Rock Pigeon (2020-01-14)
81. White-Winged Woodpecker (2020-01-14)
82. Long-eared Owl (2020-01-15)
83. Pine Bunting (2020-01-17)
84. Common Mynah (2020-01-17)
85. Laughing Dove (2020-01-17)
86. Wallcreeper (2020-01-24)
87. Upland Buzzard (2020-01-27)
88. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2020-01-27)
89. Eurasian Siskin (2020-01-27)
90. Black-throated Accentor (2020-01-28)
91. Golden Eagle (2020-02-02)
92. Yellow-billed Chough (2020-02-02)
93. Eurasian Dipper (2020-02-02)
94. Red-fronted Serin (2020-02-02)
95. Greater Scaup (2020-02-07)
96. Brown Dipper (2020-02-08)
97. Brown Accentor (2020-02-08)
98. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2020-02-08)
99. Fieldfare (2020-02-09)
100. Black Kite (2020-02-09)
101. Common Kingfisher (2020-02-12)
102. Common Starling (2020-02-14)
103. Common Snipe (2020-02-15)
104. Lammergeier (2020-02-16)
105. Rough-legged Buzzard (2020-02-19)
106. Black-headed Gull (2020-02-22)
107. Green Sandpiper (2020-02-26)
108. Bearded Tit (2020-03-01)
109. Red-throated Thrush (2020-03-01)
110. Masked Wagtail (2020-03-02)
111. Isabelline Shrike (2020-03-04)
112. Rock Bunting (2020-03-04)
113. Redwing (2020-03-08)
114. Northern House Martin (2020-03-08)
115. Northern Shoveler (2020-03-10)
116. Gadwall (2020-03-10)
117. Alpine Swift (2020-03-10)
118. Eurasian Collared Dove (2020-03-14)
119. Citrine Wagtail (2020-03-14)
120. Little Ringed Plover (2020-03-14)
121. Sky Lark (2020-03-17)
122. Ruff (2020-03-17)
123. Wood Pigeon (2020-03-20)
124. Pied Wheatear (2020-03-20)
125. Common Chiffchaff (2020-03-20)
126. Common Swift (2020-03-21)
127. Meadow Bunting (2020-03-21)
128. Desert Wheatear (2020-03-22)
129. Isabelline Wheatear (2020-03-22)
130. Black Redstart (2020-03-22)
131. Yellow-breasted Tit (2020-03-22)
132. Turkestan Shrike (2020-04-05)
133. Red-rumped Swallow (2020-04-07)
134. Blue-capped Redstart (2020-04-10)
135. Barn Swallow (2020-04-18)
136. Peregrine Falcon (2020-04-20)
137. Hume's Warbler (2020-04-22)
138. Eurasian Roller (2020-05-01)
139. Garganey (2020-05-03)
140. Black-winged Stilt (2020-05-03)
141. Common Sandpiper (2020-05-03)
142. Black-tailed Godwit (2020-05-03)
143. Little Stint (2020-05-03)
144. Collared Pratincole (2020-05-03)
145. Black Tern (2020-05-03)
146. Common Tern (2020-05-03)
147. Little Tern (2020-05-03)
148. Black-headed Wagtail (2020-05-03)
149. Red-headed Bunting (2020-05-04)
150. Common Stonechat (2020-05-04)
151. Lesser Grey Shrike (2020-05-04)
152. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2020-05-04)
153. Indian Sparrow (2020-05-05)
154. Chukar Partridge (2020-05-06)
155. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2020-05-06)
156. Hume's Whitethroat (2020-05-06)
157. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2020-05-08)
158. Lesser Whitethroat (2020-05-09)
159. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2020-05-09)
160. Common Rosefinch (2020-05-10)
161. Eurasian Hobby (2020-05-10)
162. Hoopoe (2020-05-10)
163. Common Cuckoo (2020-05-10)
164. Long-tailed Shrike (2020-05-10)
165. Calandra Lark (2020-05-11)
166. Common Nightingale (2020-05-12)
167. Greenish Warbler (2020-05-12)
168. European Bee-eater (2020-05-12)
169. Spotted Redshank (2020-05-12)
170. Pied Avocet (2020-05-12)
171. White-winged Tern (2020-05-12)
172. Common Moorhen (2020-05-12)
173. Northern Wheatear (2020-05-12)
174. Common Whitethroat (2020-05-12)
175. Temminck's Stint (2020-05-13)
176. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2020-05-14)
177. Red-backed Shrike (2020-05-15)
178. Little Bittern (2020-05-17)
179. Tree Pipit (2020-05-18)
180. Black-crowned Night Heron (2020-05-20)
181. European Golden Oriole (2020-05-21)
182. Terek Sandpiper (2020-05-23)
183. Lesser Sand Plover (2020-05-23)
184. Little Owl (2020-05-23)
185. Eurasian Linnet (2020-05-23)
186. Cinereous Vulture (2020-05-24)
187. Black-Bellied Sandgrouse (2020-05-24)
188. Indian Golden Oriole (2020-05-25)
189. Rock Sparrow (2020-05-25)
190. Egyptian Vulture (2020-05-26)
191. Rosy Starling (2020-05-27)
192. Shikra (2020-05-29)
193. Ferruginous Duck (2020-05-29)
194. Grey Wagtail (2020-05-29)
195. Whiskered Tern (2020-06-02)
196. Tawny Pipit (2020-06-06)
197. Grey-necked Bunting (2020-06-07)
198. Mongolian Finch (2020-06-07)
199. Barred Warbler (2020-06-09)
200. Oriental Turtle Dove (2020-06-12)
201. Black Stork (2020-06-16)
202. Glossy Ibis (2020-06-16)
203. Common Greenshank (2020-06-20)
204. Himalayan Vulture (2020-06-25)
205. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2020-07-09)
206. Spotted Nutcracker (2020-07-25)
207. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2020-08-05)
208. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-08-08)
209. Eurasian Crag Martin (2020-08-11)
210. Coal Tit (2020-08-15)
211. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2020-08-16)
212. Paddyfield Warbler (2020-08-23)
213. Slavonian Grebe (2020-08-23)
214. Bluethroat (2020-08-23)
215. Wood Sandpiper (2020-08-31)
216. Ortolan Bunting (2020-09-10)
217. Hill Pigeon (2020-09-12)
218. Marsh Sandpiper (2020-09-21)
219. Yellow-browed Warbler (2020-09-23)
220. Dunlin (2020-09-29)
221. Pacific Golden Plover (2020-09-29)
222. Osprey (2020-10-04)
223. Greater Spotted Eagle (2020-10-04)
224. Steppe Eagle (2020-10-17)
225. Bean Goose (2020-10-20)
226. Greylag Goose (2020-10-20)
227. Northern Goshawk (2020-10-20)
228. Asian Short-toed Lark (2020-10-21)
229. Common Treecreeper (2020-11-01)
230. Goldcrest (2020-11-01)
231. Great White Pelican (2020-11-21)
232. Solitary Snipe (2020-12-06)
233. Daurian Partridge (2020-12-20)
234. White-winged Scoter (2020-12-21)
235. Long-tailed Duck (2020-12-21)
236. Twite (2020-12-22)
237. Brandt's Rosefinch (2020-12-22)
238. Great Rosefinch (2020-12-23)
239. Godlewski's Bunting (2020-12-24)
240. Alpine Accentor (2020-12-24)
241. Songar Tit (2020-12-27)
242. Yellow-browed Bunting (2020-12-27)
243. Eurasian Golden Plover (2020-12-28)
244. Red Crossbill (2020-12-30)

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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