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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 Russian Federation 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. Sizov Alexey (152)
11. Vasik Olga (69)
12. Sikorsky Igor (68)
34. Petrov Andrei (33)
40. Borisova Olga (29)
61. Dvurekov Igor (19)
63. Janke Jura (19)
67. Davydov Oleg (18)
68. Golik Ludmila (17)
77. Han Ira (14)
78. Ivanov Mihail (14)
81. Voronov Denis (13)
83. Fefelov Igor (12)
91. Jukov Denis (8)
95. Popov Oleg (7)
107. Zgunjv Igor (5)
108. Holin Aleksey (4)
110. Mamaew Andrey (4)
114. Maer Vladimir (3)
115. Panov Andrei (3)
117. ily ily (3)
119. Bukin Alexey (2)
125. Mamaev Sergey (2)
132. Zhbir Denis (2)
133. Agaev Alexey (1)
139. Khamin Victor (1)
140. Kirillov Gleb (1)
143. Logunov Max (1)
144. Maleev Sergei (1)
146. Osipov Dmitry (1)
148. Yuri Iljev (1)

all species photographed in 2024


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

sort by:


1. Common Kestrel (2024-01-01)
2. Common Pheasant (2024-01-01)
3. Pine Grosbeak (2024-01-01)
4. Brown-eared Bulbul (2024-01-01)
5. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-01-01)
6. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-01)
7. Pallas's Rosefinch (2024-01-01)
9. Siberian Accentor (2024-01-01)
10. Oriental Greenfinch (2024-01-01)
11. Asian Rosy-Finch (2024-01-01)
12. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
14. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-01)
15. Rosy-cheeked Bullfinch (2024-01-01)
16. Great White Egret (2024-01-01)
17. Marsh Tit (2024-01-01)
18. Common Redpoll (2024-01-01)
19. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-01)
20. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-01)
21. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-01)
22. Slaty-backed Gull (2024-01-01)
23. Black-Billed Magpie (2024-01-01)
24. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
25. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
26. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-01)
27. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2024-01-01)
28. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-01)
29. Azure-winged Magpie (2024-01-01)
30. Carrion Crow (2024-01-01)
31. Coal Tit (2024-01-01)
32. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-01)
33. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-01)
34. Snow Bunting (2024-01-01)
35. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-01)
36. Great Crested Grebe (2024-01-01)
37. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
38. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-01)
39. Fieldfare (2024-01-01)
40. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-01)
41. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-01)
42. Common Raven (2024-01-01)
43. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-01)
44. Hawfinch (2024-01-01)
45. Black Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
46. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-01)
47. Mallard (2024-01-01)
48. Common Teal (2024-01-01)
49. Goosander (2024-01-01)
50. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
51. Great Tit (2024-01-01)
52. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-01-01)
53. Azure Tit (2024-01-01)
54. Willow Tit (2024-01-01)
55. Horned Lark (2024-01-01)
56. Arctic Redpoll (2024-01-01)
57. Smew (2024-01-01)
58. Rook (2024-01-01)
59. Common Coot (2024-01-01)
60. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
61. Tufted Duck (2024-01-01)
62. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-01)
63. Whooper Swan (2024-01-01)
64. Black Kite (2024-01-01)
65. European Greenfinch (2024-01-01)
66. Hooded Crow (2024-01-01)
67. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-01)
68. House Sparrow (2024-01-01)
69. Blue Tit (2024-01-01)
70. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-01)
71. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-01)
72. Mute Swan (2024-01-01)
73. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
74. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
75. Common Moorhen (2024-01-01)
76. Little Grebe (2024-01-01)
77. Yellowhammer (2024-01-01)
78. Western Marsh-harrier (2024-01-01)
79. European Robin (2024-01-01)
80. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
81. Herring Gull (2024-01-01)
82. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-01)
83. Syrian Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
84. Redwing (2024-01-01)
85. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-01)
86. Black-crowned Night-Heron (2024-01-01)
87. Goldcrest (2024-01-01)
88. Firecrest (2024-01-01)
89. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-01)
90. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-01-01)
91. Grey Partridge (2024-01-01)
93. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-01)
94. Saker Falcon (2024-01-01)
95. Japanese Tit (2024-01-02)
96. Pygmy Woodpecker (2024-01-02)
97. Naumann's Thrush (2024-01-02)
98. Chinese Grey Shrike (2024-01-02)
99. Harlequin Duck (2024-01-02)
100. Northern Grey Shrike (2024-01-02)
101. Hen Harrier (2024-01-02)
102. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-02)
103. Mew Gull (2024-01-02)
104. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-02)
105. Pine Bunting (2024-01-02)
106. Meadow Bunting (2024-01-02)
107. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-02)
108. Greater White-fronted Goose (2024-01-02)
109. Tawny Owl (2024-01-02)
110. Crested Lark (2024-01-02)
111. Northern Black Grouse (2024-01-02)
112. Golden Eagle (2024-01-03)
113. Greater Scaup (2024-01-03)
114. Hill Pigeon (2024-01-03)
115. Cinereous Vulture (2024-01-03)
116. Brambling (2024-01-03)
117. Common Pochard (2024-01-03)
118. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-03)
119. Common Buzzard (2024-01-03)
120. Siberian Tit (2024-01-03)
121. Godlewski's Bunting (2024-01-03)
122. Sky Lark (2024-01-04)
123. Steller's Sea-eagle (2024-01-04)
124. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2024-01-04)
125. Northern Hazelhen (2024-01-04)
126. Merlin (2024-01-04)
127. Griffon Vulture (2024-01-04)
128. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-01-04)
129. Rock Bunting (2024-01-04)
130. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-04)
131. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-04)
132. European Shag (2024-01-04)
133. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-04)
134. Rock Sparrow (2024-01-04)
135. Twite (2024-01-04)
136. Daurian Partridge (2024-01-04)
137. Great Rosefinch (2024-01-04)
138. Pére David's Snowfinch (2024-01-04)
139. Brandt's Rosefinch (2024-01-04)
140. Brown Accentor (2024-01-04)
141. White-winged Crossbill (2024-01-04)
142. Rustic Bunting (2024-01-05)
143. Grey-capped Woodpecker (2024-01-05)
144. Ural Owl (2024-01-05)
145. Brown Dipper (2024-01-05)
146. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-05)
147. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-05)
148. Crested Tit (2024-01-05)
149. White-winged Tern (2024-01-05)
150. Little Owl (2024-01-05)
151. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-01-05)
152. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-05)
153. Yellow-billed Chough (2024-01-05)
154. Lammergeier (2024-01-05)
155. White-winged Snowfinch (2024-01-05)
156. Grey Heron (2024-01-06)
157. Common Starling (2024-01-06)
158. Common Chiffchaff (2024-01-06)
159. Black-Necked Grebe (2024-01-06)
160. Chukar Partridge (2024-01-06)
161. Common Crane (2024-01-06)
162. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-06)
163. Great Bustard (2024-01-06)
164. Common Shelduck (2024-01-06)
165. Great Grey Owl (2024-01-06)
166. Pelagic Cormorant (2024-01-07)
167. Northern Wren (2024-01-07)
168. Dunnock (2024-01-07)
169. Corn Bunting (2024-01-07)
170. Black Redstart (2024-01-07)
171. Meadow Pipit (2024-01-07)
172. Caspian Gull (2024-01-07)
173. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-08)
174. Black-backed Wagtail (2024-01-08)
175. Japanese Waxwing (2024-01-08)
176. Short-eared Owl (2024-01-08)
177. Song Thrush (2024-01-08)
178. Wood Pigeon (2024-01-08)
179. Eurasian Linnet (2024-01-08)
180. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2024-01-08)
181. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-08)
182. Glaucous Gull (2024-01-09)
183. Northern Pintail (2024-01-09)
184. Snowy Owl (2024-01-09)
185. Daurian Jackdaw (2024-01-09)
186. Yellow-legged Gull (2024-01-09)
187. Mediterranean Gull (2024-01-09)
188. Grey Wagtail (2024-01-09)
189. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-10)
190. Bean Goose (2024-01-10)
191. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-10)
192. Spectacled Guillemot (2024-01-11)
193. Vega Gull (2024-01-11)
194. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-11)
195. Barnacle Goose (2024-01-11)
196. Bearded Tit (2024-01-11)
197. Sandwich Tern (2024-01-12)
198. Dusky Thrush (2024-01-13)
199. Eastern White Egret (2024-01-13)
200. White Wagtail (2024-01-13)
201. Wood Lark (2024-01-13)
202. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-13)
203. Yellow-throated Bunting (2024-01-14)
204. Japanese Reed Bunting (2024-01-14)
205. Ferruginous Duck (2024-01-14)
206. Black-winged Stilt (2024-01-14)
207. Stock Pigeon (2024-01-14)
208. Water Rail (2024-01-14)
209. Common Snipe (2024-01-14)
210. Slender-billed Gull (2024-01-14)
211. Common Eider (2024-01-14)
212. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-01-14)
213. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-01-15)
214. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-15)
215. Large-billed Crow (2024-01-16)
216. Mandarin Duck (2024-01-16)
217. Glaucous-winged Gull (2024-01-17)
218. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-01-17)
219. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-01-17)
220. Northern Hawk Owl (2024-01-18)
221. Wallcreeper (2024-01-19)
222. Calandra Lark (2024-01-20)
223. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-20)
224. Little Egret (2024-01-21)
225. Pied Avocet (2024-01-21)
226. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2024-01-22)
227. Laughing Dove (2024-01-23)
228. Slavonian Grebe (2024-01-23)
229. Common Stonechat (2024-01-24)
230. Purple Swamphen (2024-01-24)
231. Water Pipit (2024-01-24)
232. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-24)
233. Cetti’s Warbler (2024-01-24)
234. Gadwall (2024-01-27)
235. Little Gull (2024-01-27)
236. Red-Necked Grebe (2024-01-27)
237. Alpine Accentor (2024-01-28)
238. Bewick's Swan (2024-01-28)
239. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-01-30)
240. Arctic Loon (2024-01-30)
241. Levantine shearwater (2024-01-30)
242. Short-toed Tree-Creeper (2024-01-30)
243. Lapland Longspur (2024-01-31)
244. Mountain Hawk-Eagle (2024-02-02)
245. Boreal Owl (2024-02-02)
246. Common Rosefinch (2024-02-03)
247. Western Capercaillie (2024-02-08)
248. Willow Ptarmigan (2024-02-08)
249. Baikal Teal (2024-02-10)
250. Greylag Goose (2024-02-12)
251. White-winged Scoter (2024-02-13)
252. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-02-16)
253. Black-tailed Gull (2024-02-17)
254. White Stork (2024-02-17)
255. Sanderling (2024-02-17)
256. Grey Plover (2024-02-17)
257. Common Oystercatcher (2024-02-20)
258. Siberian Jay (2024-02-24)
259. Dunlin (2024-02-27)
260. Eurasian Curlew (2024-02-27)
261. Eurasian Bittern (2024-02-27)
262. Garganey (2024-03-01)
263. Willow Warbler (2024-03-01)
264. Ancient Murrelet (2024-03-02)
266. Black Lark (2024-03-03)
267. Falcated Duck (2024-03-08)
268. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-03-08)
269. White-naped Crane (2024-03-09)
270. White-winged Lark (2024-03-09)
271. Lesser White-fronted Goose (2024-03-10)
272. Red-breasted Goose (2024-03-10)
273. Ruff (2024-03-10)
274. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-03-10)
275. Black Stork (2024-03-11)
276. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2024-03-12)
277. Baraba Steppe Gull (2024-03-12)
278. Northern Parrotbill (2024-03-14)
279. Oriental Stork (2024-03-15)
280. White-cheeked Starling (2024-03-15)
281. Northern House Martin (2024-03-15)
282. Northern Wheatear (2024-03-15)
283. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-15)
284. Japanese Cormorant (2024-03-16)
285. Vega (Mongolian) Gull (2024-03-16)

rare birds records


Asian Rosy-Finch (Leucosticte arctoa)

© Vladimir Maer
2024-02-08

The first photographic recording of the species in the Altai Territory and the lowland part of Western Siberia. The first record of the East Siberian-Far Eastern subspecies L. ar. brunneonucha in the Altai region and the Russian part of Western Siberia.<br><br>The birds were met on 02/07/2024 by Denis Kochetkov, and in subsequent days by a number of other observers.


Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)

© Mihail Ivanov
2024-02-02

The 1st regord of the wintering in the Irkutsk Region.


Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis)

© Olga Fattakhova
2024-02-01

The first winter record in the Kemerovo region.


Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

© Igor Sikorsky
2024-01-14
Ogonki, Crimea


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recent video

2024-03-17. Red-breasted Merganser (Vladimir Matyushin).

2024-03-02. Northern Hawk Owl (Oleg Popov), Red Crossbill (Oleg Popov), Red Crossbill (Oleg Popov), Red Crossbill (Oleg Popov).

2024-02-28. Eurasian Dipper (Aleksey Bolshakov), Common Treecreeper (Aleksey Bolshakov), Hawfinch (Aleksey Bolshakov).

2024-02-27. Great Grey Owl (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-02-18. Long-eared Owl (Oleg Brusenko).

2024-02-08. Common Sparrowhawk (Oleg Brusenko).

2024-01-16. Mandarin Duck (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-01-06. Hooded Crane (Alexey Denisov).

2024-01-05. European Bee-eater (Aleksandr Plekhanov).

2023-12-31. Long-tailed Tit (Alexandr Balaev).

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unidentified birds


2024-03-18

Сергей Л. Волков: Птицы, скорее всего, находились очень длительное время вместе. При этом они с наименьшей вероятностью являются родственниками, поскольку [....]

2024-03-13

Сергей Л. Волков: Положу пока в неопределенные.

2024-03-11

no any comments:

2024-03-09

Андрей Федотов: Восточно-сибирская чайка?

2024-03-02

no any comments:

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