Big Year in Russia. Balaev Alexandr. Birds of Russia

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Balaev Alexandr

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total species: 214 total photos: 483 total videos: 0 total blogposts: 0

1. Eurasian Siskin (2023-01-01)

2. Coal Tit (2023-01-01)

3. European Greenfinch (2023-01-01)

4. Eurasian Collared Dove (2023-01-01)

5. Northern Bullfinch (2023-01-02)

6. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2023-01-02)

7. Great Tit (2023-01-02)

8. Blue Tit (2023-01-03)

9. Common Goldeneye (2023-01-04)

10. Greater Scaup (2023-01-04)

11. Great Crested Grebe (2023-01-04)

12. House Sparrow (2023-01-04)

13. Tree Sparrow (2023-01-04)

14. Hooded Crow (2023-01-04)

15. Eurasian Jackdaw (2023-01-04)

16. Mallard (2023-01-04)

17. Rock Pigeon (2023-01-04)

18. Goosander (2023-01-04)

19. Eurasian Linnet (2023-01-05)

20. Long-tailed Tit (2023-01-06)

21. Eurasian Jay (2023-01-06)

22. Willow Tit (2023-01-07)

23. Common Teal (2023-01-10)

24. Tufted Duck (2023-01-13)

25. Smew (2023-01-13)

26. Grey Heron (2023-01-13)

27. Ruddy Shelduck (2023-01-15)

28. Eurasian Wigeon (2023-01-15)

29. Greater White-fronted Goose (2023-01-18)

30. Northern Shoveler (2023-01-18)

31. Bohemian Waxwing (2023-01-21)

32. Tawny Owl (2023-01-21)

33. Herring Gull (2023-01-21)

34. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2023-01-24)

35. Mandarin Duck (2023-01-26)

36. Eurasian Nuthatch (2023-02-01)

37. Common Redpoll (2023-02-10)

38. Fieldfare (2023-02-12)

39. Northern Pintail (2023-02-15)

40. Caspian Gull (2023-02-15)

41. Common Sparrowhawk (2023-02-16)

42. Velvet Scoter (2023-03-07)

43. Mew Gull (2023-03-07)

44. Eurasian Magpie (2023-03-11)

45. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2023-03-15)

46. White-Backed Woodpecker (2023-03-18)

47. Common Treecreeper (2023-03-18)

48. Common Buzzard (2023-03-18)

49. Common Starling (2023-03-19)

50. Northern Lapwing (2023-03-21)

51. Common Chaffinch (2023-03-31)

52. Wood Pigeon (2023-03-31)

53. Black Kite (2023-04-04)

54. Black-headed Gull (2023-04-04)

55. Sky Lark (2023-04-05)

56. Eurasian Goldfinch (2023-04-05)

57. Common Snipe (2023-04-08)

58. Bluethroat (2023-04-09)

59. White Wagtail (2023-04-09)

60. Northern Reed Bunting (2023-04-09)

61. White Stork (2023-04-09)

62. Bewick's Swan (2023-04-09)

63. Bean Goose (2023-04-09)

64. Common Chiffchaff (2023-04-09)

65. Azure Tit (2023-04-09)

66. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2023-04-09)

67. Rough-legged Buzzard (2023-04-09)

68. Rook (2023-04-09)

69. Western Marsh-harrier (2023-04-09)

70. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2023-04-09)

71. Whooper Swan (2023-04-09)

72. Common Crane (2023-04-09)

73. Song Thrush (2023-04-10)

74. Goldcrest (2023-04-15)

75. Common Redshank (2023-04-15)

76. Common Coot (2023-04-16)

77. European Robin (2023-04-16)

78. Common Kestrel (2023-04-18)

79. Green Sandpiper (2023-04-18)

80. Hen Harrier (2023-04-20)

81. Hawfinch (2023-04-22)

82. Brambling (2023-04-22)

83. Dunnock (2023-04-22)

84. Eurasian Blackbird (2023-04-25)

85. Lesser Whitethroat (2023-04-29)

86. Yellow Wagtail (2023-04-29)

87. Willow Warbler (2023-05-01)

88. Northern Wren (2023-05-01)

89. Common Kingfisher (2023-05-04)

90. Red-throated Pipit (2023-05-04)

91. Glossy Ibis (2023-05-04)

92. Great White Egret (2023-05-05)

93. Little Egret (2023-05-05)

94. Squacco Heron (2023-05-05)

95. Purple Heron (2023-05-05)

96. Black-crowned Night-Heron (2023-05-05)

97. Ruff (2023-05-05)

98. Great Cormorant (2023-05-05)

99. Mute Swan (2023-05-05)

100. Common Sandpiper (2023-05-05)

101. Common Tern (2023-05-05)

102. Eurasian Roller (2023-05-05)

103. Hoopoe (2023-05-05)

104. Whiskered Tern (2023-05-05)

105. Barn Swallow (2023-05-06)

106. Northern Wheatear (2023-05-06)

107. Common Pheasant (2023-05-06)

108. Common Stonechat (2023-05-06)

109. Lesser Grey Shrike (2023-05-06)

110. Whinchat (2023-05-06)

111. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2023-05-06)

112. Eurasian Hobby (2023-05-06)

113. Wood Warbler (2023-05-08)

114. Pied Flycatcher (2023-05-08)

115. Thrush Nightingale (2023-05-09)

116. Blackcap (2023-05-11)

117. Tree Pipit (2023-05-13)

118. Common Cuckoo (2023-05-13)

119. Common Swift (2023-05-16)

120. Wood Lark (2023-05-20)

121. Common Greenshank (2023-05-20)

122. Boreal Owl (2023-05-20)

123. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2023-05-20)

124. Montagu's Harrier (2023-05-21)

125. Short-eared Owl (2023-05-21)

126. Great Grey Owl (2023-05-21)

127. Ural Owl (2023-05-21)

128. Black Redstart (2023-05-25)

129. Spotted Flycatcher (2023-05-25)

130. Great Reed Warbler (2023-05-25)

131. European Bee-eater (2023-05-26)

132. Northern House Martin (2023-05-26)

133. Black Tern (2023-05-26)

134. Red-backed Shrike (2023-05-27)

135. Yellowhammer (2023-05-28)

136. Ortolan Bunting (2023-05-28)

137. Common Whitethroat (2023-06-01)

138. Booted Warbler (2023-06-02)

139. Sedge Warbler (2023-06-02)

140. Marsh Warbler (2023-06-02)

141. Icterine Warbler (2023-06-04)

142. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2023-06-04)

143. River Warbler (2023-06-04)

144. Common Rosefinch (2023-06-04)

145. Yellow-breasted Bunting (2023-06-07)

146. Sand Martin (2023-06-07)

147. Black-tailed Godwit (2023-06-07)

148. Eurasian Curlew (2023-06-07)

149. Little Tern (2023-06-07)

150. Common Oystercatcher (2023-06-07)

151. Terek Sandpiper (2023-06-07)

152. Long-eared Owl (2023-06-08)

153. Citrine Wagtail (2023-06-10)

154. Common Pochard (2023-06-18)

155. Gadwall (2023-06-18)

156. Black-Necked Grebe (2023-06-18)

157. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2023-06-18)

158. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2023-06-25)

159. Garganey (2023-07-09)

160. Wood Sandpiper (2023-07-16)

161. Little Ringed Plover (2023-07-16)

162. Little Bittern (2023-07-16)

163. Common Raven (2023-07-20)

164. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2023-07-30)

165. Common Moorhen (2023-08-04)

166. Garden Warbler (2023-08-27)

167. Water Rail (2023-09-03)

168. Red Crossbill (2023-09-06)

169. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2023-09-13)

170. Levant Sparrowhawk (2023-09-13)

171. White-winged Tern (2023-09-13)

172. Eurasian Redstart (2023-09-13)

173. Little Owl (2023-09-13)

174. White-headed Duck (2023-09-13)

175. Red-crested Pochard (2023-09-14)

176. Bearded Tit (2023-09-14)

177. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2023-09-14)

178. Curlew Sandpiper (2023-09-14)

179. Corn Bunting (2023-09-14)

180. Moustached Warbler (2023-09-14)

181. Common Shelduck (2023-09-14)

182. Eurasian Spoonbill (2023-09-14)

183. Little Grebe (2023-09-14)

184. Little Stint (2023-09-14)

185. Red-necked Phalarope (2023-09-14)

186. Ruddy Turnstone (2023-09-14)

187. Greater Ringed Plover (2023-09-14)

188. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2023-09-14)

189. Laughing Dove (2023-09-15)

190. Little Gull (2023-09-15)

191. Dunlin (2023-09-15)

192. Black-winged Stilt (2023-09-15)

193. Marsh Sandpiper (2023-09-15)

194. Pied Avocet (2023-09-15)

195. Spotted Redshank (2023-09-15)

196. Crested Lark (2023-09-16)

197. Cattle Egret (2023-09-16)

198. Rosy Starling (2023-09-16)

199. Golden Eagle (2023-09-16)

200. Greater Flamingo (2023-09-16)

201. Purple Swamphen (2023-09-16)

202. Lesser Kestrel (2023-09-17)

203. Steppe Eagle (2023-09-17)

204. Blue Rock Thrush (2023-09-17)

205. Pied Wheatear (2023-09-17)

206. Cinereous Vulture (2023-09-17)

207. Griffon Vulture (2023-09-17)

208. Lammergeier (2023-09-17)

209. Spotted Nutcracker (2023-09-23)

210. Crested Tit (2023-09-30)

211. Great Grey Shrike (2023-10-21)

212. Arctic Loon (2023-11-22)

213. Red-breasted Merganser (2023-12-02)

214. Northern Goshawk (2023-12-15)

recent uploads

2024-09-26. Goldcrest, Firecrest.

2024-09-25. Common Sandpiper, Whiskered Tern, Pygmy Cormorant, Crested Tit.

2024-09-24. Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Bearded Tit, Tawny Pipit.

2024-09-23. Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Squacco Heron, Marsh Sandpiper, Little Grebe.

2024-09-22. Common Kingfisher, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Grey-headed Swamphen.

2024-09-21. Crested Lark, Northern Wheatear, Black-tailed Godwit, Pied Avocet, Slender-billed Gull.

2024-09-20. Black-winged Stilt, Ferruginous Duck, Moustached Warbler, Greater Flamingo, Pallid Harrier, Little Ringed Plover.

2024-09-19. Glossy Ibis, Black-Necked Grebe, Red-necked Phalarope, White-tailed Lapwing, Eurasian Redstart, Sanderling.

2024-09-18. Little Owl, Ruff, Greater Ringed Plover, Common Snipe, Black-winged Pratincole, Little Stint, Eurasian Penduline Tit, Common Stonechat.

2024-09-12. Willow Tit, Coal Tit, Common Chiffchaff, Common Moorhen, Hawfinch.

2024-09-08. Northern Reed Bunting, Red-Necked Grebe, Sedge Warbler, Osprey, Great Cormorant.

2024-09-07. Mute Swan, Spotted Flycatcher, Bluethroat, Black Kite, Lesser Spotted Eagle.

2024-09-06. Red-backed Shrike, Whinchat, Osprey.

2024-09-02. Hawfinch.

Big Year 2024

1. Andrey Semenov (320)
2. Andrey Chernykh (313)
3. Nina Shteinbrenner (277)
4. Alexandr Balaev (264)
5. Nataliya Pokhodzey (263)
6. Dmitry Belyaev (247)
7. Olga Fattakhova (246)
8. Svetlana Morozkina62 (236)
9. Andrey Bazdyrev (226)
10. Andrey Vyalkov (211)

rare birds records

Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)

© Arsenii Iakovlev
2024-09-04
Sea of Okhotskh

A rare vagrant in the region.

Great White Egret (Casmerodius albus)

© Vasiliy Dugintsov
2024-06-11

The 1st find of the Great White Egret's net in the Amur Region.

Amur Falcon (Falco amurensis)

© Igor Fefelov
2024-09-01
Ekhirit-Bulagatsky District, Irkutsk Region

The 3rd record in the Irkutsk Region, the first record of two individuals together.

Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)

© Aleksey Bolshakov
2024-08-25

The photoconfirmation of the Moorhen's breeding in the Irkutsk Region.

more rarities...

recent video

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).

2024-04-28. European Robin (Vadim Sinukhin), European Robin (Vadim Sinukhin).

unidentified birds

2024-09-28

Наталья Воробьева: Фото только одно. По моему мнению пестрота- это шумы: время вечернее, пасмурно, фотоаппарат слабенький, настройки тоже не подобраны...

2024-09-25

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2024-09-24

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2024-09-22

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2024-09-19

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