Big Year in Uzbekistan. Birds of Uzbekistan.

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Big Year 2024

The winner will submit the pictures of the largest number of bird species taken on the territory of Uzbekistan during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

participants

* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2024

1. Mitropolskiy Maksim (107)

2. Bazdyrev Andrey (73)

3. Mardonov Bakhtiyor (57)

4. Yusupov Vyacheslav (7)

5. Santaniello Antonio (6)

all species photographed in 2024

* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )

1. Common Raven (2024-01-18)

2. Little Bustard (2024-01-18)

3. Black Kite (2024-01-18)

4. Hen Harrier (2024-01-19)

5. Streaked Scrub Warbler (2024-01-19)

6. Desert Finch (2024-01-19)

7. Reed Bunting (2024-01-19)

8. Common Myna (2024-01-19)

9. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-19)

10. Mute Swan (2024-01-19)

11. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-19)

12. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-19)

13. Common Kestrel (2024-01-19)

14. Merlin (2024-01-19)

15. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-01-19)

16. Little Gull (2024-01-19)

17. Black-throated Accentor (2024-01-20)

18. Eurasian Magpie (2024-01-20)

19. Black-bellied Sandgrouse (2024-01-20)

20. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-20)

21. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-20)

22. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-20)

23. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-20)

24. Mallard (2024-01-20)

25. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-20)

26. Smew (2024-01-20)

27. Tufted Duck (2024-01-20)

28. Common Gull (2024-01-20)

29. Common Shelduck (2024-01-20)

30. Greater Scaup (2024-01-20)

31. Caspian Gull (2024-01-20)

32. Great Cormorant (2024-01-20)

33. Common Black-headed Gull (2024-01-20)

34. Common Pochard (2024-01-20)

35. Brambling (2024-01-20)

36. Hooded Crow (2024-01-20)

37. Bar-tailed Treecreeper (2024-01-20)

38. Yellowhammer (2024-01-20)

39. Common Wood Pigeon (2024-01-20)

40. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-20)

41. Grey Heron (2024-01-21)

42. White Stork (2024-01-21)

43. Crested Lark (2024-01-21)

44. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-21)

45. Great Egret (2024-01-21)

46. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-21)

47. Common Moorhen (2024-01-21)

48. Little Grebe (2024-01-21)

49. Water Pipit (2024-01-21)

50. White Wagtail (2024-01-21)

51. Chaffinch (2024-01-28)

52. Rook (2024-01-28)

53. Yellow-breasted Tit (2024-01-30)

54. Eversmann’s Redstart (2024-01-30)

55. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-30)

56. Turkestan Tit (2024-01-30)

57. European Greenfinch (2024-01-30)

58. Eurasian Sparrowhawk (2024-01-30)

59. Common Starling (2024-02-01)

60. Common Coot (2024-02-01)

61. Western Marsh Harrier (2024-02-01)

62. Common Teal (2024-02-01)

63. Wallcreeper (2024-02-01)

64. Greylag Goose (2024-02-02)

65. Great Crested Grebe (2024-02-02)

66. Rock Pigeon (2024-02-02)

67. Common Redstart (2024-02-02)

68. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-02-04)

69. Cinereous Vulture (2024-02-04)

70. Mistle Thrush (2024-02-05)

71. Common Blackbird (2024-02-05)

72. Oriental Carrion Crow (2024-02-06)

73. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-02-06)

74. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2024-02-06)

75. Common Chiffchaff (2024-02-06)

76. Fieldfare (2024-02-06)

77. Black-throated Thrush (2024-02-10)

78. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-02-10)

79. Pine Bunting (2024-02-10)

80. White-winged Woodpecker (2024-02-11)

81. Goldcrest (2024-02-11)

82. Common Snipe (2024-02-11)

83. Common Buzzard (2024-02-11)

84. Green Sandpiper (2024-02-11)

85. Laughing Dove (2024-02-11)

86. Chukar Partridge (2024-02-14)

87. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-02-14)

88. Little Owl (2024-02-14)

89. Grey Wagtail (2024-02-14)

90. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-02-14)

91. Masked Wagtail (2024-02-18)

92. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-02-18)

93. Rufous-naped Tit (2024-02-18)

94. Blyth’s Rosefinch (2024-02-18)

95. Northern Red-flanked Bluetail (2024-02-21)

96. Common Pheasant (2024-02-21)

97. European Robin (2024-02-21)

98. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-02-24)

99. Golden Eagle (2024-02-25)

100. Heuglin's Gull (2024-02-27)

101. Bewick's Swan (2024-02-27)

102. Common Goldeneye (2024-02-27)

103. Northern Pintail (2024-02-27)

104. Great Grey Shrike (2024-02-28)

105. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-02-29)

106. Finsch’s Wheatear (2024-03-01)

107. Saker Falcon (2024-03-01)

108. Spanish Sparrow (2024-03-04)

109. Hawfinch (2024-03-05)

110. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-03-05)

111. Redwing (2024-03-05)

112. Brown Dipper (2024-03-08)

113. Lammergeier (2024-03-15)

114. See-see Partridge (2024-03-16)

115. Eurasian Wren (2024-03-19)

116. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-04-10)

117. Booted Eagle (2024-04-10)

118. Variable Wheater (2024-04-25)

119. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (2024-04-25)

120. Clamorous Reed-warbler (2024-04-25)

121. Shikra (2024-04-25)

122. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-04-25)

123. Pied Bushchat (2024-04-26)

124. Little Tern (2024-05-15)

125. Common Sandpiper (2024-05-15)

126. White-tailed Lapwing (2024-05-15)

127. Sykes's Warbler (2024-05-15)

128. Olivaceous Warbler (2024-05-15)

129. Common Tern (2024-05-15)

130. Ménétries’s Warbler (2024-05-15)

131. Kentish Plover (2024-05-15)

132. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-15)

133. Little Stint (2024-05-15)

134. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-15)

135. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-15)

136. Indian Sparrow (2024-05-15)

137. Barn Swallow (2024-05-15)

138. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-15)

139. Gull-billed Tern (2024-05-15)

140. Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin (2024-05-15)

141. European Bee-eater (2024-05-15)

142. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-15)

143. Black-winged Stilt (2024-05-15)

144. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-05-15)

145. Marbled Duck (2024-05-15)

146. Pander’s Ground-jay (2024-05-16)

147. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-16)

148. Little Ringed Plover (2024-05-17)

149. Purple Heron (2024-05-17)

150. Ferruginous Duck (2024-05-17)

151. Eurasian Spoonbill (2024-05-17)

152. Red-crested Pochard (2024-05-17)

153. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-17)

154. European Roller (2024-05-17)

155. Red-headed Bunting (2024-06-01)

156. Tawny Pipit (2024-06-01)

157. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-06-01)

158. Hume’s Short-toed Lark (2024-06-01)

159. Corn Bunting (2024-06-01)

160. Orphean Warbler (2024-06-01)

161. Turkestan Shrike (2024-06-01)

162. Eurasian Griffon (2024-06-01)

163. White-capped Bunting (2024-06-01)

164. Eyebrowed Thrush (2024-06-01)

165. Egyptian Vulture (2024-06-01)

166. Pied Wheatear (2024-06-01)

167. Alpine Swift (2024-06-02)

168. Blyth's Reed-warbler (2024-06-02)

169. Common Swift (2024-06-03)

Big Year 2024

1. Maksim Mitropolskiy (107)
2. Andrey Bazdyrev (73)
3. Bakhtiyor Mardonov (57)
4. Vyacheslav Yusupov (7)

rare birds records

Northern Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus)

© Bakhtiyor Mardonov
2024-02-21
Zarafshan National park.

First phto ficsation of species in Uzbekistan. Fifth record in the country and first in winter!

Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)

© Maksim Mitropolskiy
2023-10-11
Bukhara region, Alat district, Dengizkul lake

First photo record of this species in Uzbekistan

Western Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)

© Vyacheslav Yusupov
2021-12-01
Namangan

The first photo-registration in the winter period in Uzbekistan and Northern Eurasia.

Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus)

© Timur Abduraupov
2019-06-01
Surkhandarya region, Aktepa hunting farm

First observation of this species in Uzbekistan

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recent video

2019-02-09. Grey Wagtail (Vyacheslav Yusupov), Sykes's Warbler (Vyacheslav Yusupov).

unidentified birds

2023-12-26

Анна Ясько: Бормотушка. Похожа на северную из-за явной светлой брови и темной вершины клюва.

2023-04-16

John Pilgrim: Looks like a Terek Sandpiper to me...

2022-03-14

Игорь Фефелов: Во всяком случае, одно из двух морские голубки или озерные чайки. Больше похоже на озерную, но непонятно, не "зашкурена" ли голова шумами вместо [....]

2021-05-11

Анна Ясько: Кто-то из пеночек. Возможно, теньковка. Ноги вроде черноватые.

2020-11-27

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