Big Year 2024 in Russian Far East. Birds of Russian Far East.

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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 Far East during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

participants

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

1. Morozkina62 Svetlana (137)

2. Vasik Olga (115)

3. Belyaev Dmitry (102)

4. Malykina Irina (97)

5. Khodakov Anatolii (95)

6. Fedotov Andrey (93)

7. Vyalkov Andrey (93)

8. Cherkasova Tatiana (84)

9. Matyushin Vladimir (77)

10. Petrushin Pavel (64)

11. Bobkov Alexander (53)

12. Borisova Olga (49)

13. Gorodischenko Konstantin (49)

14. Goroshko Yulya (47)

15. 54 Inna Shchegolkova (43)

16. Kuznetsova Larisa (38)

17. P Pavel (36)

18. Korobov Dmitry (28)

19. Kashcheeva Svetlana (26)

20. Tsygankov Yuriy (24)

21. Golik Ludmila (17)

22. Markiv Arseniy (17)

23. Tsygankova Irina (14)

24. Tuchin Konstantin (14)

25. Kharin Nikolay (8)

26. Rogal' Alexander (8)

27. Irzhevskaya Marina (7)

28. McRushin Mike (7)

29. Dugintsov Vasiliy (5)

30. Iakovlev Arsenii (3)

31. Kalaidina Tatiana (2)

32. Surovtseva Natal'ya (2)

33. Agaev Alexey (1)

34. Kaspirovich Alexandra (1)

35. Kochetkov Denis (1)

36. Krainik Larisa (1)

37. Krinkin Yuri (1)

38. Logunov Max (1)

39. Maleev Sergei (1)

all species photographed in 2024

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

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)

8. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (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)

13. Vinous-throated Parrotbill (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 (South Asian) (2024-01-01)

31. Japanese Tit (2024-01-02)

32. Coal Tit (2024-01-02)

33. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-02)

34. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-02)

35. Pygmy Woodpecker (2024-01-02)

36. Naumann's Thrush (2024-01-02)

37. Chinese Grey Shrike (2024-01-02)

38. Harlequin Duck (2024-01-02)

39. Northern Grey Shrike (2024-01-02)

40. Hen Harrier (2024-01-02)

41. Snow Bunting (2024-01-02)

42. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-02)

43. Mew Gull (2024-01-02)

44. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-02)

45. Pine Bunting (2024-01-02)

46. Meadow Bunting (2024-01-02)

47. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-03)

48. Great Crested Grebe (2024-01-03)

49. Red Crossbill (2024-01-03)

50. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-03)

51. Fieldfare (2024-01-03)

52. Golden Eagle (2024-01-03)

53. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-03)

54. Sky Lark (2024-01-04)

55. Steller's Sea-eagle (2024-01-04)

56. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-04)

57. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2024-01-04)

58. Common Raven (2024-01-04)

59. Northern Hazelhen (2024-01-04)

60. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-04)

61. Hawfinch (2024-01-04)

62. Black Woodpecker (2024-01-05)

63. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-05)

64. Rustic Bunting (2024-01-05)

65. Grey-capped Woodpecker (2024-01-05)

66. Mallard (2024-01-05)

67. Common Teal (2024-01-05)

68. Goosander (2024-01-05)

69. Ural Owl (2024-01-05)

70. Brown Dipper (2024-01-05)

71. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-06)

72. Great Tit (2024-01-06)

73. Cinereous Vulture (2024-01-06)

74. Pelagic Cormorant (2024-01-07)

75. Northern Wren (2024-01-07)

76. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-07)

77. Baikal Bullfinch (2024-01-08)

78. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-08)

79. Azure Tit (2024-01-08)

80. Grey Heron (2024-01-08)

81. Black-backed Wagtail (2024-01-08)

82. Japanese Waxwing (2024-01-08)

83. Short-eared Owl (2024-01-08)

84. Glaucous Gull (2024-01-09)

85. Greater Scaup (2024-01-09)

86. Northern Pintail (2024-01-09)

87. Snowy Owl (2024-01-09)

88. Daurian Jackdaw (2024-01-09)

89. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-10)

90. Greater White-fronted Goose (2024-01-10)

91. Bean Goose (2024-01-10)

92. Spectacled Guillemot (2024-01-11)

93. Vega Gull (2024-01-11)

94. Willow Tit (2024-01-12)

95. Dusky Thrush (2024-01-13)

96. Eastern White Egret (2024-01-13)

97. Hill Pigeon (2024-01-13)

98. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-14)

99. Yellow-throated Bunting (2024-01-14)

100. Japanese Reed Bunting (2024-01-14)

101. Horned Lark (2024-01-15)

102. Large-billed Crow (2024-01-16)

103. Glaucous-winged Gull (2024-01-17)

104. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-01-20)

105. Hoary Redpoll (2024-01-22)

106. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-27)

107. Alpine Accentor (2024-01-28)

108. Blue Rock Thrush (2024-01-30)

109. Mountain Hawk-Eagle (2024-02-02)

110. Common Rosefinch (2024-02-03)

111. Long-eared Owl (2024-02-10)

112. Baikal Teal (2024-02-10)

113. White-winged Scoter (2024-02-13)

114. Brambling (2024-02-14)

115. Northern Shoveler (2024-02-17)

116. Black-tailed Gull (2024-02-17)

117. Smew (2024-02-24)

118. Rook (2024-02-24)

119. Merlin (2024-03-02)

120. Ancient Murrelet (2024-03-02)

121. Red-crowned Crane / Japanese Crane (2024-03-03)

122. Arctic Loon (2024-03-07)

123. Falcated Duck (2024-03-08)

124. Common Coot (2024-03-09)

125. White-naped Crane (2024-03-09)

126. Oriental Stork (2024-03-11)

127. White Wagtail (2024-03-12)

128. Great Cormorant (2024-03-13)

129. Tufted Duck (2024-03-13)

130. Gadwall (2024-03-14)

131. Black-headed Gull (2024-03-14)

132. Northern Lapwing (2024-03-14)

133. Northern Parrotbill (2024-03-14)

134. White-cheeked Starling (2024-03-15)

135. Bewick's Swan (2024-03-16)

136. Japanese Cormorant (2024-03-16)

137. Whooper Swan (2024-03-16)

138. Mandarin Duck (2024-03-16)

139. Vega Gull (Mongolian) (2024-03-16)

140. Black Kite (2024-03-17)

141. Garganey (2024-03-18)

142. Common Pochard (2024-03-18)

143. Long-billed Plover (2024-03-19)

144. Spotted Redshank (2024-03-19)

145. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-03-20)

146. Snow Goose (2024-03-20)

147. Common Redshank (2024-03-21)

148. Scaly-sided Merganser (2024-03-22)

149. Osprey (2024-03-22)

150. Common Sandpiper (2024-03-24)

151. Little Ringed Plover (2024-03-25)

152. Daurian Redstart (2024-03-25)

153. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-03-25)

154. Hoopoe (2024-03-27)

155. Grey-backed Thrush (2024-03-27)

156. Common Starling (2024-03-29)

157. Common Oystercatcher (2024-03-30)

158. Far Eastern Curlew (2024-03-30)

159. Common Moorhen (2024-03-30)

160. Buff-bellied Pipit (2024-03-30)

161. Black Stork (2024-03-31)

162. Grey Plover (2024-04-02)

163. Barn Swallow (2024-04-02)

164. Red-flanked Bluetail (2024-04-03)

165. (2024-04-03)

166. Stejneger's Stonechat (2024-04-04)

167. Pin-tailed Snipe (2024-04-04)

168. Common Snipe (2024-04-04)

169. Black-crowned Night-Heron (2024-04-06)

170. Pallas's Warbler (2024-04-06)

171. Grey Wagtail (2024-04-06)

172. Eastern Marsh-harrier (2024-04-06)

173. Median Egret (2024-04-06)

174. Little Egret (2024-04-07)

175. Black-faced Bunting (2024-04-08)

176. Common Kingfisher (2024-04-12)

177. White's Thrush (2024-04-12)

178. Pale Thrush (2024-04-12)

179. Little Grebe (2024-04-12)

180. Grey Bunting (2024-04-13)

181. Asian Stubtail (2024-04-13)

182. Grey-faced Buzzard (2024-04-13)

183. Kentish Plover (2024-04-13)

184. Bar-tailed Godwit (2024-04-13)

185. Black-winged Stilt (2024-04-13)

186. Great Knot (2024-04-13)

187. Chinese Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-13)

188. Dunlin (2024-04-13)

189. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-14)

190. Blue-and-white Flycatcher (2024-04-14)

191. Goldcrest (2024-04-14)

192. Pied Avocet (2024-04-15)

193. Bull-headed Shrike (2024-04-16)

194. Yellow-browed Warbler (2024-04-17)

195. Olive-backed Pipit (2024-04-17)

196. Red-billed Starling (2024-04-17)

197. Tristram's Bunting (2024-04-18)

198. Wood Sandpiper (2024-04-18)

199. Common Shelduck (2024-04-18)

200. Greater Ringed Plover (2024-04-18)

201. Eurasian Curlew (2024-04-18)

202. Ashy Minivet (2024-04-18)

203. Oriental Scops Owl (2024-04-19)

Big Year 2024

1. Svetlana Morozkina62 (137)
2. Olga Vasik (115)
3. Dmitry Belyaev (102)
4. Irina Malykina (97)
5. Anatolii Khodakov (95)
6. Andrey Fedotov (93)
7. Andrey Vyalkov (93)
8. Tatiana Cherkasova (84)
9. Vladimir Matyushin (77)
10. Pavel Petrushin (64)

rare birds records

(Turdus ruficollis)

© Andrey Vyalkov
2024-04-03
Vladivostok, Russkiy island

Accidentally vagrant species.

Snow Goose (Anser caerulescens)

© Konstantin Tuchin
2024-03-20

A very rare migratory species of the Primorsky Krai.

Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

© Olga Vasik
2024-01-07
Putsilovka

A very rare migratory and wintering species of the Primorsky Krai.<br>

Hair-crested Drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus)

© Oleg Burkovskiy
2023-10-31

A rare stray species of Primorsky Krai.

more rarities...

recent video

2024-03-31. Steller's Sea-eagle (Konstantin Pupkin), Steller's Sea-eagle (Konstantin Pupkin).

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

2023-06-28. Daurian Redstart (Yulya Goroshko).

2023-05-10. Whooper Swan (Inna Shchegolkova 54), Black-browed Reed-warbler (Inna Shchegolkova 54).

2023-05-07. Common Coot (Inna Shchegolkova 54).

2023-05-03. Common Snipe (Olga Vasik).

2023-04-26. Little Egret (Evgeniia Loskutova).

2023-04-09. Mandarin Duck (Yulia Khmyrova).

2023-04-05. Northern Shoveler (Yulya Goroshko).

2023-03-07. Whooper Swan (Olga Vasik).

2023-02-22. Azure-winged Magpie (Yulia Khmyrova).

2023-02-21. Oriental Greenfinch (Yulia Khmyrova).

2022-10-03. Eurasian Spoonbill (Olga Vasik).

unidentified birds

2024-04-15

Константин Городищенко: Будет совсем весело если этот дрозд окажется самкой чернозобого. Жаль других ракурсов нет, цвет подкрыльев бы видеть.

2024-03-26

Игорь Фефелов: Да, по всем чертам П. Кроме окраски клюва (если это в итоге окажется П, то это явное свидетельство, кто окраску клюва считать достаточным признаком [....]

2024-02-03

Сергей Л. Волков: Она вполне может быть переходной (гибридной) даже по внешности, а уж про генетику и говорить нечего.

2024-01-26

Анатолий Ходаков: Все таки- она.

2023-12-29

Игорь Фефелов: Не исключено. Те перья, что видны с нижней стороны, необычно светлые, но вроде прослеживается темное на конечных половинах остальных и белое [....]

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