1. Qanatbek Kenzhegulov (28)
2. Serg Silan (27)
3. Vladimir Muravskiy (25)
4. Alexandr Belyaev (24)
5. Alexandr Katuncev (15)
6. Viktoriya Zvyaginceva (14)
7. Raouf Bairashev (11)
8. Robert Parker (10)
9. Anna Yasko (7)
10. Nurum Sagaliyev (7)

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The first photo-registration of a Velvet Scoter on the website and, possibly, in Kazakhstan. The Velvet Scoter is a rare breeding migrant, listed in the Red List of Kazakhstan.

The first record of the species in the winter.

A rare record for the Teniz-Korgalzhyn region, recently described and separated as a new subspecies of the Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros murinus (Fedorenko, 2018). Probably, the available rare encounters that do not belong to the European subspecies refer specifically to Ph. o. murinus.

The second record of the Amur (White) Wagtail on the territory of Kazakhstan. Was first record on May 21, 2018 in the village Kanshengel, Almaty region (Sveta Ashby, birds.kz).

For the first time recorded in the Balkhash region and in general in the south-east of Kazakhstan. The Pied Flycatcher occurs on migration mostly in Western Kazakhstan, since 1999, 1-3 birds have been regularly observed in Karazhar and Korgalzhyn (Koshkin 2017), two spring records in the east of Kazakhstan in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Serebryansk are also known (see gallery this website).

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