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Big Year 2022

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

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2022
3. Trommel Pjotr (171)
10. Parker Robert (24)
13. Kinnock Paul (4)

all species photographed in 2022


* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )
1. Mistle Thrush (2022-01-01)
2. Himalayan Vulture (2022-01-01)
3. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-01-01)
4. Yellowhammer (2022-01-01)
5. Pallas's Gull (2022-01-01)
6. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-01-01)
7. Mute Swan (2022-01-01)
8. Goosander (2022-01-01)
9. Mallard (2022-01-01)
10. Red-crested Pochard (2022-01-01)
11. Common Goldeneye (2022-01-01)
12. Common Pheasant (2022-01-01)
13. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2022-01-01)
14. European Greenfinch (2022-01-01)
15. Common Buzzard (2022-01-01)
16. Rough-legged Buzzard (2022-01-01)
17. Little Owl (2022-01-01)
18. Common Kestrel (2022-01-01)
19. Pine Bunting (2022-01-01)
20. Barbary Falcon (2022-01-01)
21. Brown Dipper (2022-01-02)
22. Goldcrest (2022-01-02)
23. Eversmann's Redstart (2022-01-02)
24. Common Treecreeper (2022-01-02)
25. Coal Tit (2022-01-02)
26. Tree Sparrow (2022-01-02)
27. Grey Heron (2022-01-02)
28. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-01-02)
29. Carrion Crow (2022-01-02)
30. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2022-01-02)
31. Eurasian Magpie (2022-01-02)
32. Great Tit (2022-01-02)
33. Common Coot (2022-01-03)
34. Little Grebe (2022-01-03)
35. Eurasian Dipper (2022-01-03)
36. White-browed Tit-Warbler (2022-01-03)
37. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-01-03)
38. Common Chaffinch (2022-01-03)
39. Greater Flamingo (2022-01-05)
40. Whooper Swan (2022-01-05)
41. Water Pipit (2022-01-05)
42. Gadwall (2022-01-05)
43. Common Teal (2022-01-05)
44. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-01-05)
45. Great White Egret (2022-01-05)
46. Great Grey Shrike (2022-01-05)
47. Lammergeier (2022-01-08)
48. Ibisbill (2022-01-08)
49. Black-breasted Tit (2022-01-08)
50. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-01-08)
51. White-winged Grosbeak (2022-01-08)
52. Golden Eagle (2022-01-09)
53. Western Marsh-Harrier (2022-01-09)
54. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-01-09)
55. Hen Harrier (2022-01-09)
56. Great Cormorant (2022-01-09)
57. Azure Tit (2022-01-09)
58. Spotted Nutcracker (2022-01-11)
59. Red Crossbill (2022-01-11)
60. Wallcreeper (2022-01-11)
61. Short-eared Owl (2022-01-12)
62. Brambling (2022-01-12)
63. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-01-12)
64. House Sparrow (2022-01-12)
65. Caspian Gull (2022-01-12)
66. Black-headed Gull (2022-01-12)
67. Common Mynah (2022-01-12)
68. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-01-12)
69. Laughing Dove (2022-01-12)
70. Green Sandpiper (2022-01-14)
71. Black Kite (2022-01-14)
72. Black-throated Thrush (2022-01-15)
73. Northern Wren (2022-01-15)
74. Peregrine Falcon (2022-01-15)
75. Cinereous Vulture (2022-01-16)
76. Common Redshank (2022-01-16)
77. Chukar Partridge (2022-01-16)
78. Tufted Duck (2022-01-18)
79. Common Pochard (2022-01-18)
80. Hooded Crow (2022-01-18)
81. Eastern Buzzard (2022-01-18)
82. Rook (2022-01-18)
83. Long-eared Owl (2022-01-18)
84. Yellow-breasted Tit (2022-01-19)
85. Common Shelduck (2022-01-20)
86. Horned Lark (2022-01-20)
87. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-01-20)
88. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-22)
89. Red-fronted Serin (2022-01-22)
90. Common Raven (2022-01-25)
91. Brown Accentor (2022-01-25)
92. Red-billed Chough (2022-01-25)
93. Meadow Bunting (2022-01-25)
94. Mew Gull (2022-01-27)
95. Eurasian Siskin (2022-01-28)
96. Smew (2022-01-29)
97. Ferruginous Duck (2022-01-29)
98. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-01-30)
99. Upland Buzzard (2022-01-31)
100. Black-throated Accentor (2022-02-04)
101. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-02-05)
102. Northern Goshawk (2022-02-11)
103. Great Crested Grebe (2022-02-11)
104. Steppe Eagle (2022-02-20)
105. Northern Lapwing (2022-02-25)
106. Masked Wagtail (2022-02-28)
107. Asian Short-toed Lark (2022-02-28)
108. Common Snipe (2022-03-04)
109. Corn Bunting (2022-03-09)
110. European Robin (2022-03-09)
111. Blue-capped Redstart (2022-03-20)
112. Crested Lark (2022-03-25)
113. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-25)
114. Common Starling (2022-03-28)
115. Little Ringed Plover (2022-03-28)
116. Greylag Goose (2022-03-28)
117. Citrine Wagtail (2022-03-28)
118. Pied Avocet (2022-03-28)
119. Northern Pintail (2022-03-28)
120. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-03-28)
121. Garganey (2022-03-28)
122. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-03-29)
123. Grey Wagtail (2022-03-29)
124. Common Chiffchaff (2022-03-29)
125. Yellow-billed Chough (2022-03-30)
126. Pied Wheatear (2022-03-30)
127. Hodgson's Rosefinch (2022-03-30)
128. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-03-31)
129. Eurasian Curlew (2022-03-31)
130. Sky Lark (2022-03-31)
131. Common Stonechat (2022-04-01)
132. Calandra Lark (2022-04-01)
133. Common Moorhen (2022-04-02)
134. Greater Spotted Eagle (2022-04-02)
135. Demoiselle Crane (2022-04-02)
136. Little Bustard (2022-04-02)
137. Rock Sparrow (2022-04-03)
138. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-03)
139. Eurasian Linnet (2022-04-03)
140. Kentish Plover (2022-04-04)
141. Wood Pigeon (2022-04-04)
142. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-04-04)
143. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-07)
144. Rock Bunting (2022-04-08)
145. White-Winged Woodpecker (2022-04-10)
146. White Stork (2022-04-10)
147. Turkestan Shrike (2022-04-11)
148. Eastern Rock Nuthatch (2022-04-12)
149. White-capped Redstart (2022-04-12)
150. Mongolian Finch (2022-04-14)
151. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-04-14)
152. Wood Sandpiper (2022-04-15)
153. Blue Rock Thrush (2022-04-15)
154. Egyptian Vulture (2022-04-15)
155. Finsch's Wheatear (2022-04-15)
156. White-capped Bunting (2022-04-15)
157. Griffon Vulture (2022-04-15)
158. Hume's Warbler (2022-04-16)
159. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2022-04-16)
160. Blyth's Rosefinch (2022-04-16)
161. Blue Whistling Thrush (2022-04-16)
162. Lesser Kestrel (2022-04-16)
163. Eurasian Crag Martin (2022-04-17)
164. Grey-necked Bunting (2022-04-17)
165. Temminck's Stint (2022-04-18)
166. Common Sandpiper (2022-04-19)
167. Common Tern (2022-04-19)
168. Barn Swallow (2022-04-19)
169. Little Forktail (2022-04-19)
170. Sand Martin (2022-04-20)
171. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-22)
172. Hoopoe (2022-04-22)
173. Tree Pipit (2022-04-22)
174. Alpine Swift (2022-04-23)
175. Common Swift (2022-04-23)
176. Long-tailed Shrike (2022-04-26)
177. Black Tern (2022-04-26)
178. Common Greenshank (2022-04-26)
179. White Wagtail (2022-04-29)
180. Little Stint (2022-04-29)
181. Little Gull (2022-04-29)
182. Eurasian Hobby (2022-04-30)
183. Great Reed Warbler (2022-04-30)
184. Clamorous Reed Warbler (2022-04-30)
185. Cetti's Warbler (2022-04-30)
186. Bluethroat (2022-04-30)
187. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-04-30)
188. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2022-05-01)
189. Eurasian Roller (2022-05-01)
190. Shikra (2022-05-01)
191. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-02)
192. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-05-03)
193. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-04)
194. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-06)
195. Indian Golden Oriole (2022-05-06)
196. Common Nightingale (2022-05-07)
197. Himalayan Rubythroat (2022-05-07)
198. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2022-05-07)
199. Northern Black Grouse (2022-05-07)
200. Red-rumped Swallow (2022-05-07)
201. Rosy Starling (2022-05-08)
202. European Bee-eater (2022-05-08)
203. Red-headed Bunting (2022-05-08)
204. Eurasian Redstart (2022-05-08)
205. Spotted Redshank (2022-05-09)
206. White-winged Tern (2022-05-09)
207. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-09)
208. Eurasian Whimbrel (2022-05-11)
209. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-13)
210. Indian Sparrow (2022-05-16)
211. Terek Sandpiper (2022-05-16)
212. Crested Honey-Buzzard (2022-05-16)
213. Common Whitethroat (2022-05-17)
214. Little Bittern (2022-05-17)
215. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-05-18)
216. Black-headed Wagtail (2022-05-18)
217. Sanderling (2022-05-20)
218. Lesser Sand Plover (2022-05-22)
219. White-winged Snowfinch (2022-05-22)
220. Black-crowned Night Heron (2022-05-24)
221. Common Oystercatcher (2022-05-25)
222. Booted Eagle (2022-05-26)
223. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2022-05-31)
224. Slender-billed Gull (2022-06-02)
225. Whiskered Tern (2022-06-02)
226. Bearded Tit (2022-06-02)
227. Hume's Whitethroat (2022-06-02)
228. Spanish Sparrow (2022-06-04)
229. Hill Pigeon (2022-06-05)
230. Yellow Wagtail (2022-06-05)
231. Common Kingfisher (2022-06-06)
232. Slavonian Grebe (2022-06-06)
233. Himalayan Accentor (2022-06-07)
234. Black Redstart (2022-06-07)
235. Twite (2022-06-07)
236. Northern House Martin (2022-06-08)
237. Barred Warbler (2022-06-14)
238. Tawny Pipit (2022-06-14)
239. Crimson-winged Finch (2022-06-15)
240. Montagu's Harrier (2022-06-18)
241. Paddyfield Warbler (2022-06-20)
242. Caspian Tern (2022-06-24)
243. Little Tern (2022-06-24)
244. Glossy Ibis (2022-06-28)
245. Ruff (2022-06-28)
246. Collared Pratincole (2022-06-29)
247. Bar-headed Goose (2022-07-03)
248. Daurian Partridge (2022-07-04)
249. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2022-07-16)
250. Brandt's Rosefinch (2022-07-21)
251. Greenish Warbler (2022-07-23)
252. Eastern Orphean Warbler (2022-07-31)
253. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-08-19)
254. Eurasian Golden Plover (2022-08-20)
255. White-throated Needletail (2022-08-20)
256. Curlew Sandpiper (2022-08-21)
257. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2022-08-23)
258. Alpine Accentor (2022-08-24)
259. Red-necked Phalarope (2022-08-27)
260. Isabelline Shrike (2022-08-29)
261. Dunlin (2022-08-31)
262. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-08-31)
263. European Nightjar (2022-09-06)
264. Desert Wheatear (2022-09-13)
265. Merlin (2022-09-13)
266. Solitary Snipe (2022-09-27)
267. Song Thrush (2022-10-18)
268. Bar-tailed Treecreeper (2022-10-28)
269. White-headed Duck (2022-11-02)
270. Water Rail (2022-11-23)
271. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-11-27)
272. Greater Scaup (2022-11-28)
273. Bean Goose (2022-12-02)
274. Common Crane (2022-12-02)
275. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-12-02)
276. Red-breasted Merganser (2022-12-02)
277. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-12-02)
278. Bewick's Swan (2022-12-06)
279. Red Phalarope (2022-12-09)
280. Songar Tit (2022-12-10)

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
more rarities...

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).

more video...

unidentified birds

2024-11-18

Игорь Фефелов: Большого крохаля. Здесь чешуйчатого и нет, да и "чешуи" у нее нет.
2024-11-01

Андрей Коваленко: Скорее луговой...
2024-01-09

no any comments:
2024-01-09

no any comments:
2023-04-17

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