Big Year in Russia. Pokhodzey Nataliya. Birds of Russia

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Pokhodzey Nataliya

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total species: 288 total photos: 903 total videos: 0 total blogposts: 0

1. Eurasian Collared Dove (2022-01-01)

2. Eurasian Jay (2022-01-01)

3. Great Crested Grebe (2022-01-01)

4. Little Grebe (2022-01-01)

5. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2022-01-01)

6. Tree Sparrow (2022-01-05)

7. Hooded Crow (2022-01-05)

8. Wood Pigeon (2022-01-05)

9. Rook (2022-01-05)

10. Eurasian Blackbird (2022-01-05)

11. Eurasian Nuthatch (2022-01-05)

12. Hawfinch (2022-01-05)

13. Great Tit (2022-01-05)

14. Blue Tit (2022-01-05)

15. Rock Pigeon (2022-01-07)

16. Common Moorhen (2022-01-07)

17. Mallard (2022-01-07)

18. Common Coot (2022-01-07)

19. Black-headed Gull (2022-01-07)

20. Yellow-legged Gull (2022-01-07)

21. Eurasian Jackdaw (2022-01-08)

22. Eurasian Linnet (2022-01-08)

23. Eurasian Magpie (2022-01-08)

24. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2022-01-11)

25. Goldcrest (2022-01-11)

26. European Robin (2022-01-11)

27. Pallas's Gull (2022-01-13)

28. Common Chaffinch (2022-01-13)

29. House Sparrow (2022-01-13)

30. Great Cormorant (2022-01-16)

31. Long-tailed Tit (2022-01-16)

32. Long-eared Owl (2022-01-17)

33. Mistle Thrush (2022-01-17)

34. Eurasian Goldfinch (2022-01-17)

35. Black-Necked Grebe (2022-01-20)

36. Common Teal (2022-01-20)

37. Northern Wren (2022-02-02)

38. Eurasian Dipper (2022-02-02)

39. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2022-02-03)

40. Coal Tit (2022-02-03)

41. Brambling (2022-02-03)

42. European Greenfinch (2022-02-03)

43. Black Redstart (2022-02-05)

44. Dunnock (2022-02-05)

45. Short-toed Tree-Creeper (2022-02-05)

46. Common Buzzard (2022-02-05)

47. Common Pochard (2022-02-05)

48. Grey Heron (2022-02-05)

49. Pygmy Cormorant (2022-02-05)

50. Mute Swan (2022-02-05)

51. Tufted Duck (2022-02-05)

52. Garganey (2022-02-05)

53. Common Chiffchaff (2022-02-05)

54. Meadow Pipit (2022-02-06)

55. Green Sandpiper (2022-02-06)

56. White Wagtail (2022-02-06)

57. Grey Wagtail (2022-02-06)

58. Fieldfare (2022-02-10)

59. Red-Necked Grebe (2022-02-10)

60. Mew Gull (2022-02-10)

61. Common Goldeneye (2022-02-10)

62. Goosander (2022-02-10)

63. Smew (2022-02-10)

64. Herring Gull (2022-02-10)

65. Caspian Gull (2022-02-10)

66. Northern Bullfinch (2022-02-11)

67. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2022-02-11)

68. Ruddy Shelduck (2022-02-11)

69. Willow Tit (2022-02-12)

70. Mandarin Duck (2022-02-12)

71. Black-crowned Night-Heron (2022-02-13)

72. Common Kingfisher (2022-02-13)

73. Common Raven (2022-02-13)

74. Common Starling (2022-02-17)

75. Crested Lark (2022-02-19)

76. Sandwich Tern (2022-02-19)

77. Common Sandpiper (2022-02-19)

78. Northern Reed Bunting (2022-02-19)

79. Corn Bunting (2022-02-19)

80. Red-crested Pochard (2022-02-19)

81. Slender-billed Gull (2022-02-19)

82. Common Redshank (2022-03-02)

83. Arctic Loon (2022-03-03)

84. Levantine shearwater (2022-03-03)

85. European Shag (2022-03-03)

86. Black Woodpecker (2022-03-10)

87. Mediterranean Gull (2022-03-14)

88. Dunlin (2022-03-14)

89. Great White Egret (2022-03-14)

90. White-winged Tern (2022-03-14)

91. Little Gull (2022-03-14)

92. Common Kestrel (2022-03-14)

93. Eurasian Siskin (2022-03-19)

94. Northern Goshawk (2022-03-19)

95. Rock Bunting (2022-03-19)

96. Red-fronted Serin (2022-03-19)

97. Common Treecreeper (2022-03-20)

98. Yellow-billed Chough (2022-03-20)

99. Long-legged Buzzard (2022-03-20)

100. Northern Shoveler (2022-03-25)

101. Syrian Woodpecker (2022-03-27)

102. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2022-03-27)

103. Western Marsh-harrier (2022-04-05)

104. Common Stonechat (2022-04-05)

105. Blackcap (2022-04-06)

106. Lammergeier (2022-04-06)

107. Horned Lark (2022-04-06)

108. Semi-collared Flycatcher (2022-04-07)

109. Song Thrush (2022-04-07)

110. Bluethroat (2022-04-07)

111. Eurasian Redstart (2022-04-07)

112. Little Ringed Plover (2022-04-09)

113. Kentish Plover (2022-04-09)

114. Northern Wheatear (2022-04-09)

115. Glossy Ibis (2022-04-09)

116. Marsh Sandpiper (2022-04-09)

117. Ruff (2022-04-09)

118. Common Swift (2022-04-09)

119. Northern House Martin (2022-04-09)

120. Barn Swallow (2022-04-09)

121. Alpine Swift (2022-04-09)

122. Citrine Wagtail (2022-04-09)

123. Yellow Wagtail (2022-04-09)

124. Black-headed Wagtail (2022-04-09)

125. Black-winged Stilt (2022-04-09)

126. Purple Heron (2022-04-09)

127. Cattle Egret (2022-04-09)

128. Little Egret (2022-04-09)

129. Little Owl (2022-04-16)

130. Little Crake (2022-04-16)

131. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2022-04-16)

132. Ferruginous Duck (2022-04-16)

133. Eurasian Wryneck (2022-04-16)

134. Red-breasted Merganser (2022-04-16)

135. Red-throated Pipit (2022-04-16)

136. Common Tern (2022-04-16)

137. Black Tern (2022-04-16)

138. Pied Avocet (2022-04-16)

139. Lesser Whitethroat (2022-04-19)

140. Black Kite (2022-04-24)

141. Common Whitethroat (2022-04-26)

142. Whinchat (2022-04-26)

143. Pied Wheatear (2022-04-26)

144. Greater Short-toed Lark (2022-04-26)

145. Greater Flamingo (2022-04-27)

146. Sedge Warbler (2022-04-27)

147. Little Bittern (2022-04-27)

148. Common Cuckoo (2022-05-06)

149. Common Nightingale (2022-05-06)

150. Squacco Heron (2022-05-06)

151. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2022-05-06)

152. Spotted Flycatcher (2022-05-06)

153. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2022-05-07)

154. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2022-05-07)

155. Sand Martin (2022-05-07)

156. Booted Eagle (2022-05-07)

157. Great Reed Warbler (2022-05-08)

158. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2022-05-12)

159. Whiskered Tern (2022-05-12)

160. European Bee-eater (2022-05-12)

161. Little Stint (2022-05-12)

162. Lesser Grey Shrike (2022-05-12)

163. Red-backed Shrike (2022-05-12)

164. Common Pheasant (2022-05-12)

165. Little Tern (2022-05-13)

166. Common Shelduck (2022-05-13)

167. Common Oystercatcher (2022-05-13)

168. Hoopoe (2022-05-13)

169. Icterine Warbler (2022-05-16)

170. Masked Wagtail (2022-05-18)

171. Yellowhammer (2022-05-18)

172. Common Rosefinch (2022-05-20)

173. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2022-05-20)

174. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2022-05-20)

175. Siberian Stonechat (2022-05-20)

176. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2022-05-20)

177. Tree Pipit (2022-05-20)

178. Red-flanked Bluetail (2022-05-20)

179. Spotted Nutcracker (2022-05-20)

180. Siberian Tit (2022-05-20)

181. Greenish Warbler (2022-05-20)

182. Booted Warbler (2022-05-20)

183. Marsh Tit (2022-05-20)

184. Demoiselle Crane (2022-05-21)

185. Siberian Jay (2022-05-21)

186. Eastern Buzzard (2022-05-21)

187. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2022-05-21)

188. Eurasian Hobby (2022-05-21)

189. Isabelline Wheatear (2022-05-21)

190. Meadow Bunting (2022-05-21)

191. Godlewski's Bunting (2022-05-21)

192. Lesser Kestrel (2022-05-21)

193. Pine Bunting (2022-05-21)

194. Ortolan Bunting (2022-05-21)

195. Slavonian Grebe (2022-05-22)

196. Red-billed Chough (2022-05-22)

197. Siberian Rubythroat (2022-05-22)

198. Oriental Turtle Dove (2022-05-22)

199. Desert Wheatear (2022-05-22)

200. Daurian Jackdaw (2022-05-22)

201. Pin-tailed Snipe (2022-05-22)

202. Common Crane (2022-05-22)

203. Northern Lapwing (2022-05-23)

204. Northern Pintail (2022-05-23)

205. Greater Sand Plover (2022-05-23)

206. Isabelline Shrike (2022-05-23)

207. Barred Warbler (2022-05-23)

208. Temminck's Stint (2022-05-23)

209. Hill Pigeon (2022-05-23)

210. Vega Gull (2022-05-23)

211. Upland Buzzard (2022-05-23)

212. Carrion Crow (2022-05-23)

213. Sky Lark (2022-05-23)

214. Tawny Pipit (2022-05-23)

215. White-winged Scoter (2022-05-24)

216. Steppe Eagle (2022-05-24)

217. White-winged Snowfinch (2022-05-24)

218. Brown Accentor (2022-05-24)

219. Greylag Goose (2022-05-25)

220. Rosy Starling (2022-05-25)

221. Black-tailed Godwit (2022-05-25)

222. Asiatic Dowitcher (2022-05-25)

223. Peregrine Falcon (2022-05-25)

224. Rock Sparrow (2022-05-25)

225. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2022-05-25)

226. Azure Tit (2022-05-25)

227. Twite (2022-05-25)

228. Whooper Swan (2022-05-25)

229. Willow Ptarmigan (2022-05-26)

230. Himalayan Accentor (2022-05-26)

231. Rock Ptarmigan (2022-05-26)

232. Bar-headed Goose (2022-05-26)

233. Saker Falcon (2022-05-27)

234. Black Stork (2022-05-27)

235. Pére David's Snowfinch (2022-05-27)

236. Pale Sand Martin (2022-05-28)

237. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2022-05-28)

238. Olive-backed Pipit (2022-05-28)

239. Pine Grosbeak (2022-05-28)

240. Gadwall (2022-05-30)

241. Pied Flycatcher (2022-05-30)

242. Redwing (2022-05-31)

243. Grey Partridge (2022-06-21)

244. Spanish Sparrow (2022-06-21)

245. White Stork (2022-06-21)

246. Great White Pelican (2022-06-21)

247. Caspian Tern (2022-06-21)

248. Gull-billed Tern (2022-06-21)

249. Collared Pratincole (2022-06-21)

250. Savi's Warbler (2022-06-21)

251. Red-footed Falcon (2022-06-21)

252. Eurasian Roller (2022-06-21)

253. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2022-06-21)

254. Common Greenshank (2022-06-21)

255. Great Bustard (2022-06-21)

256. Calandra Lark (2022-06-21)

257. Black-headed Bunting (2022-06-22)

258. Eurasian Wigeon (2022-07-12)

259. Black-legged Kittiwake (2022-07-12)

260. Arctic Tern (2022-07-12)

261. Willow Warbler (2022-07-12)

262. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2022-07-12)

263. Common Redpoll (2022-07-13)

264. Common Eider (2022-07-13)

265. Arctic Skua (2022-07-15)

266. Black Guillemot (2022-07-15)

267. Great Black-backed Gull (2022-07-16)

268. Wood Sandpiper (2022-08-02)

269. Ruddy Turnstone (2022-08-02)

270. Greater Ringed Plover (2022-08-03)

271. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2022-08-12)

272. Griffon Vulture (2022-08-20)

273. Golden Eagle (2022-08-21)

274. Cinereous Vulture (2022-08-22)

275. White-Backed Woodpecker (2022-09-29)

276. Firecrest (2022-09-29)

277. Common Snipe (2022-10-13)

278. Dalmatian Pelican (2022-10-13)

279. Spotted Redshank (2022-10-13)

280. Water Rail (2022-10-19)

281. Bearded Tit (2022-10-19)

282. Krueper's Nuthatch (2022-11-06)

283. Harlequin Duck (2022-11-16)

284. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2022-11-17)

285. Common Sparrowhawk (2022-11-17)

286. Long-tailed Duck (2022-11-17)

287. Greater Scaup (2022-11-17)

288. Greater White-fronted Goose (2022-11-19)

recent uploads

2025-04-13. Hoopoe, Eurasian Hobby, Eurasian Redstart, Blackcap.

2025-04-10. Barn Swallow, Northern House Martin.

2025-04-08. Black-Necked Grebe, Semi-collared Flycatcher, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Black-Necked Grebe.

2025-04-03. Wood Pigeon, Ferruginous Duck, Black-Necked Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Glossy Ibis, Northern Shoveler, Ruff, Garganey, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Yellow-legged Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Black-winged Stilt, Common Greenshank, Ruff, Bluethroat, Black-winged Stilt, Common Swift, Crested Lark, Common Starling.

2025-04-01. Bluethroat.

2025-03-27. White Stork, Common Kestrel, Black Kite, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Eurasian Siskin, Syrian Woodpecker, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Grey-Headed Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Tawny Owl, Tawny Owl, Herring Gull, Herring Gull, Long-tailed Tit, Goosander, Mandarin Duck, Long-eared Owl, Barnacle Goose, Eurasian Jackdaw, Barnacle Goose, Fieldfare.

2025-03-14. Brambling, Dunnock, Little Egret, Common Chiffchaff, Water Rail, Firecrest, Short-toed Tree-Creeper, Red-breasted Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose, Sky Lark.

2025-03-08. Blue Tit, Stock Pigeon, Long-tailed Tit.

2025-02-23. Great White Egret, Great White Pelican, Common Treecreeper.

2025-02-21. Common Kestrel.

2025-02-18. Eurasian Collared Dove, Dalmatian Pelican, Pallas's Gull, Pied Avocet, Grey Heron, Western Marsh-Harrier, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Wigeon, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Northern Shoveler, Grey Wagtail, Northern Wren, Green Sandpiper, Arctic Loon, Slender-billed Gull, European Shag, Ferruginous Duck, Little Gull, Greater Flamingo, Eurasian Curlew, Eurasian Curlew, Grey Plover, Mew Gull, Saker Falcon, Fieldfare, Long-legged Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, Hen Harrier, Common Pheasant, Smew, Stock Pigeon, Black-winged Stilt, Common Shelduck, Pygmy Cormorant, White Wagtail.

2025-02-11. Syrian Woodpecker, European Greenfinch, Common Kingfisher, Northern Wren, Grey Wagtail.

2025-02-10. Eurasian Green Woodpecker, Eurasian Jackdaw, Eurasian Jay, Eurasian Jackdaw, Wood Pigeon, Rook, Eurasian Blackbird, Eurasian Green Woodpecker, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Common Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Common Starling, Common Coot, Little Grebe, White Wagtail.

2025-02-06. Common Treecreeper.

2023-07-12. Oriental Cuckoo, Marsh Tit, Japanese Grosbeak, Yellow-throated Bunting, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Japanese Tit, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Pale-legged Leaf-warbler, Pygmy Woodpecker, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Pygmy Woodpecker, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Pallas's Warbler, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Chinese Nuthatch, Chinese Nuthatch, Brown Shrike, Far Eastern Curlew, Oriental Stork, Marsh Tit, Daurian Jackdaw, Red-crowned Crane / Japanese Crane, Oriental Reed-warbler, Black-browed Reed-warbler, Common Tern, Chinese Spot-billed Duck, Oriental Cuckoo, Lesser Striated Swallow, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Japanese Reed Bunting, Red-Necked Grebe, Azure Tit, Purple-backed Starling, Azure Tit, White-cheeked Starling, Common Coot, Common Pochard, Eurasian Hobby, Eastern Marsh-harrier, Eastern Marsh-harrier, Great White Egret, Stejneger's Stonechat, Stejneger's Stonechat, Blue Rock Thrush, Rhinoceros Auklet, Manchurian Bush-Warbler, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Black-tailed Gull, Forest Wagtail, Forest Wagtail, Marsh Tit, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, White-cheeked Starling, Northern Reed Bunting.

Big Year 2025

1. Svetlana Morozkina62 (142)
2. Nataliya Pokhodzey (141)
3. Vadim Ivushkin (133)
4. Andrey Semenov (130)
5. Nina Shteinbrenner (129)
6. Anatolii Khodakov (120)
7. Vitaliy Butko (115)
8. Olga Vasik (106)
9. Alexandr Balaev (105)
10. Dmitry Belyaev (100)

rare birds records

Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

© Khasan Zhurtov
2025-03-25
Nalchik,KBR

Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca)

© Andrey Vyalkov
2025-03-15

The 1st record in Primorsky Kray, the 2nd photo-record in the Russian Far East.

Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)

© Dmitry Korobov
2025-03-11
Primorsky Krai, Ussuriyskiy rayon

The 2rd record in Primorsky Kray.

White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)

© Stepan Boldyrev
2023-06-10

The 1st record in the Yamalo-Nenetsky region.

more rarities...

recent video

2024-11-28. Mandarin Duck (Galina Katanova).

2024-10-15. Northern Hawk Owl (Galina Katanova).

2024-09-11. Dunlin (Vadim Sinukhin).

2024-09-10. Ural Owl (Galina Katanova).

2024-07-31. Lesser Grey Shrike (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-07-13. Northern Bullfinch (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-06-24. Goosander (Andrey Borodkin).

2024-06-19. Corncrake (Nadia Goncharova).

2024-06-17. Icterine Warbler (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-06-09. Goosander (Andrey Borodkin).

2024-06-05. Northern Wren (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-06-04. Red-billed Chough (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-05-22. Thrush Nightingale (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-05-16. Red-breasted Flycatcher (Sergei Saveika).

2024-05-06. Goosander (Andrey Borodkin).

unidentified birds

2025-04-16

Николай Змиевский: Согласен, по таким фото сложно сказать наверняка, иначе бы я сам определил...В тот день много видел Теньковок, но у этой уж сильно отчетливая [....]

2025-04-14

Людмила Голик: Я определила по крику, и это были гуси.

2025-04-13

Kostya Filimonov: Спасибо

2025-04-11

no any comments:

2025-04-04

no any comments:

more unidentified birds...