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Big Year 2025

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

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2025
15. Khamin Victor (78)
20. Panov Andrei (73)
25. Fefelov Igor (48)
26. Janke Jura (47)
27. Jukov Denis (46)
30. Ivanov Mihail (43)
32. Dolgov Maxim (37)
35. Ivankova Anna (33)
38. Maer Vladimir (28)
53. Bukin Alexey (10)
59. Popov Oleg (7)
71. Han Ira (1)

all species photographed in 2025


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

sort by:

1. Northern Bullfinch (2025-01-01)
2. Coal Tit (2025-01-01)
3. Willow Tit (2025-01-01)
4. Great Tit (2025-01-01)
5. Tree Sparrow (2025-01-01)
6. Common Raven (2025-01-01)
7. Yellowhammer (2025-01-01)
8. Eurasian Linnet (2025-01-01)
9. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2025-01-01)
10. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
11. Meadow Bunting (2025-01-01)
12. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-01)
13. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-01)
14. Azure-winged Magpie (2025-01-01)
15. Eurasian Dipper (2025-01-01)
16. Black Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
17. Common Treecreeper (2025-01-01)
18. Marsh Tit (2025-01-01)
19. Eurasian Jay (2025-01-01)
20. Eurasian Goldfinch (2025-01-01)
21. House Sparrow (2025-01-01)
22. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-01-01)
23. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-01)
24. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2025-01-01)
25. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-01)
26. Carrion Crow (2025-01-01)
27. Fieldfare (2025-01-01)
28. Eurasian Blackbird (2025-01-01)
29. Whooper Swan (2025-01-01)
30. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-01)
31. Goosander (2025-01-01)
32. Azure Tit (2025-01-01)
33. Goldcrest (2025-01-01)
34. Mute Swan (2025-01-01)
35. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-01-01)
36. Ural Owl (2025-01-01)
37. Rock Pigeon (2025-01-02)
38. Hooded Crow (2025-01-02)
39. Common Redpoll (2025-01-02)
40. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-02)
41. Hawfinch (2025-01-02)
42. White-Backed Woodpecker (2025-01-02)
43. Mallard (2025-01-02)
44. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-02)
45. Red-throated Thrush (2025-01-02)
46. Northern Hawk Owl (2025-01-02)
47. Upland Buzzard (2025-01-02)
48. Northern Grey Shrike (2025-01-02)
49. Red Crossbill (2025-01-02)
50. Northern Goshawk (2025-01-02)
51. Blue Tit (2025-01-02)
52. Baikal Bullfinch (2025-01-03)
53. Long-tailed Tit (2025-01-03)
54. Golden Eagle (2025-01-03)
55. Pallas's Rosefinch (2025-01-03)
56. Godlewski's Bunting (2025-01-03)
57. Siberian Tit (2025-01-03)
58. European Greenfinch (2025-01-04)
59. Grey-headed Goldfinch (2025-01-04)
60. Northern Black Grouse (2025-01-04)
61. Common Sparrowhawk (2025-01-04)
62. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-04)
63. Tufted Duck (2025-01-04)
64. Common Kestrel (2025-01-04)
65. Merlin (2025-01-04)
66. Lammergeier (2025-01-04)
67. Daurian Partridge (2025-01-04)
68. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-01-04)
69. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-01-05)
70. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-05)
71. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-01-05)
72. Pére David's Snowfinch (2025-01-05)
73. Horned Lark (2025-01-05)
74. Brown Accentor (2025-01-05)
75. Great Rosefinch (2025-01-05)
76. Rock Sparrow (2025-01-05)
77. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-05)
78. Grey Partridge (2025-01-05)
79. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-05)
80. Common Pochard (2025-01-05)
81. Hill Pigeon (2025-01-06)
82. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-01-06)
83. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-01-06)
84. Twite (2025-01-06)
85. Northern Hazelhen (2025-01-06)
86. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-01-07)
87. Red-billed Chough (2025-01-07)
89. Great Grey Owl (2025-01-08)
90. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-08)
91. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-09)
92. Smew (2025-01-10)
93. White-winged Crossbill (2025-01-11)
94. Saker Falcon (2025-01-11)
95. Daurian Jackdaw (2025-01-11)
96. Pine Bunting (2025-01-11)
97. Snow Bunting (2025-01-12)
98. Snowy Owl (2025-01-12)
99. Great White Egret (2025-01-15)
100. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-15)
101. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-18)
102. Asian Rosy-Finch (2025-01-19)
103. Rook (2025-01-22)
104. Northern Wren (2025-01-22)
105. Brambling (2025-01-22)
106. Redwing (2025-01-25)
107. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-01-25)
108. Boreal Owl (2025-01-25)
109. Lapland Longspur (2025-01-26)
110. Bean Goose (2025-01-27)
111. Bewick's Swan (2025-01-27)
112. Common Sandpiper (2025-02-03)
113. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-02-04)
114. Long-tailed Duck (2025-02-04)
115. Gyrfalcon (2025-02-07)
116. Pine Grosbeak (2025-02-13)
117. Wood Pigeon (2025-02-17)
118. Short-eared Owl (2025-02-22)
119. Siberian Jay (2025-02-22)
120. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-03-01)
121. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-02)
122. Peregrine Falcon (2025-03-08)
123. Vega Gull (2025-03-10)
124. Harlequin Duck (2025-03-12)
125. Grey Heron (2025-03-15)
126. Hen Harrier (2025-03-15)
127. Sky Lark (2025-03-15)
128. Glaucous Gull (2025-03-16)
129. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2025-03-16)
130. Western Capercaillie (2025-03-18)
131. Common Gull (2025-03-18)
132. Common Starling (2025-03-19)
133. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-20)
134. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-03-21)
135. Common Shelduck (2025-03-21)
136. Pallas's Gull (2025-03-21)
137. Northern Lapwing (2025-03-21)
138. Northern Pintail (2025-03-21)
139. Western Marsh-harrier (2025-03-22)
140. Great Cormorant (2025-03-22)
141. Stock Pigeon (2025-03-22)
142. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-03-22)
143. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-22)
144. Black Kite (2025-03-22)
145. Alpine Accentor (2025-03-22)
146. White Wagtail (2025-03-23)
147. Greylag Goose (2025-03-23)
148. Steppe Eagle (2025-03-24)
149. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-03-29)
150. Common Buzzard (2025-04-02)
151. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-04)
152. Common Crane (2025-04-04)
153. Black Stork (2025-04-04)
154. Rustic Bunting (2025-04-05)
155. Mongolian Lark (2025-04-05)
156. European Robin (2025-04-05)
157. Common Redshank (2025-04-06)
158. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-04-06)
159. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-07)
160. Common Teal (2025-04-08)
161. Song Thrush (2025-04-08)
162. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2025-04-09)
163. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-04-10)
164. Common Oystercatcher (2025-04-10)
165. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-04-12)
166. Tree Pipit (2025-04-12)
167. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-12)
168. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-12)
169. Gadwall (2025-04-12)
170. Eastern Buzzard (2025-04-12)
171. Garganey (2025-04-12)
172. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-12)
173. White-naped Crane (2025-04-13)
174. Common Snipe (2025-04-13)
175. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-13)
176. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
177. Black Redstart (2025-04-13)
178. Alpine Accentor (2025-04-13)
179. Siberian Accentor (2025-04-13)
180. Hodgson's Rosefinch (2025-04-13)
181. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-13)
182. Pallid Harrier (2025-04-13)
183. Common Coot (2025-04-13)
184. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-13)
185. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-13)
186. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-14)
187. Hoopoe (2025-04-14)
188. Booted Eagle (2025-04-15)
189. Osprey (2025-04-16)
190. Red-flanked Bluetail (2025-04-17)
191. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-17)
192. Pied Avocet (2025-04-17)
193. Bar-headed Goose (2025-04-17)
194. Tawny Owl (2025-04-17)
195. Water Pipit (2025-04-18)
196. Swan Goose (2025-04-18)
197. Eurasian Curlew (2025-04-18)
198. Asian Short-toed Lark (2025-04-18)
199. Eastern Marsh-harrier (2025-04-18)
200. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-18)
201. Northern House Martin (2025-04-19)
202. Black-throated Accentor (2025-04-19)
203. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-20)
204. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-04-20)
205. Barn Swallow (2025-04-20)
206. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-21)
207. Swinhoe's Snipe (2025-04-22)
208. Slavonian Grebe (2025-04-22)
209. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-22)
210. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-23)
211. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-04-24)
212. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-24)
213. Daurian Redstart (2025-04-24)
214. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-04-24)
215. Naumann's Thrush (2025-04-24)
216. Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-25)
217. Mandarin Duck (2025-04-26)
218. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-26)
219. Common Stonechat (2025-04-26)
220. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-26)
221. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-27)
222. Falcated Duck (2025-04-27)
223. Common Moorhen (2025-04-27)
224. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2025-04-27)
225. Whinchat (2025-04-27)
226. Common Greenshank (2025-04-27)
227. Common Kingfisher (2025-04-28)
228. Spotted Crake (2025-04-29)
229. Willow Warbler (2025-04-29)
230. Meadow Pipit (2025-04-29)
231. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-29)
232. Sand Martin (2025-04-29)
233. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-04-30)
234. Isabelline Shrike (2025-04-30)
235. Montagu's Harrier (2025-04-30)
236. Lesser Kestrel (2025-04-30)
237. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-01)
238. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
239. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-02)
240. Water Rail (2025-05-02)
241. Arctic Loon (2025-05-02)
242. Cetti’s Warbler (2025-05-03)
243. White-headed Duck (2025-05-03)
244. Caspian Tern (2025-05-03)
245. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-03)
246. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-04)
247. Savi's Warbler (2025-05-04)
248. Black Tern (2025-05-04)
249. Pale Sand Martin (2025-05-04)
250. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-05)
251. Dusky Thrush (2025-05-05)
252. Olive-backed Pipit (2025-05-05)
253. Taiga Flycatcher (2025-05-06)
254. Ruff (2025-05-06)
255. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-05-07)
256. Green-headed Wagtail (2025-05-07)
257. Little Bunting (2025-05-07)
258. Baikal Teal (2025-05-08)
259. Oriental Greenfinch (2025-05-08)
260. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-08)
261. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-08)
262. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-08)
263. Yellow-browed Warbler (2025-05-09)
264. Black-faced Bunting (2025-05-09)
265. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2025-05-09)
266. White-cheeked Starling (2025-05-09)
267. Common Tern (2025-05-09)
268. Eurasian Bittern (2025-05-09)
269. Kentish Plover (2025-05-09)
270. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-09)
271. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-09)
272. European Bee-eater (2025-05-09)
273. Dunlin (2025-05-09)
274. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-09)
275. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-09)
276. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-09)
277. Thrush Nightingale (2025-05-09)
278. Little Gull (2025-05-09)
279. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-10)
280. Ferruginous Duck (2025-05-10)
281. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-10)
282. Pacific Swift (2025-05-11)
283. Yellow-browed Bunting (2025-05-11)
284. Blyth's Pipit (2025-05-11)
285. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-11)
286. Little Stint (2025-05-11)
287. Barred Warbler (2025-05-11)
288. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-12)
289. Amur Falcon (2025-05-12)
290. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-12)
291. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-13)
292. Pallas's Warbler (2025-05-14)
293. European Nightjar (2025-05-14)

rare birds records


White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)

© Stepan Boldyrev
2023-06-10

The 1st record in the Yamalo-Nenetsky region.

Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

© Andrey Bazdyrev
2025-02-03
Novokuznetsk district, Kemerovo region

First winter record in Siberia.

Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)

© Dmitry Nizovtsev
2023-08-01
the village of Chazhemto, Kolpashevsky district, Tomsk region

The first record in the Tomsk Region.

Northern Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

© Alexander Popov
2025-01-28

The first record in the Tomsk region.
more rarities...

recent video

2024-06-24. Goosander (Andrey Borodkin), Goosander (Andrey Borodkin).

2024-06-19. Corncrake (Nadia Goncharova), Corncrake (Nadia Goncharova).

2024-06-09. Goosander (Andrey Borodkin), Goosander (Andrey Borodkin).

2024-05-06. Goosander (Andrey Borodkin), Goosander (Andrey Borodkin).

2024-04-13. Carrion Crow (Andrey Borodkin), Carrion Crow (Andrey Borodkin).

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

more video...

unidentified birds

2025-05-15

no any comments:
2025-05-14

Игорь Фефелов: Физиономия странно светлая, но вроде бы плешанка
2025-05-14

Игорь Фефелов: Вроде не чернушка, а лысушка. Но западносибирцам виднее.
2025-05-13

no any comments:
2025-05-13

no any comments:
more unidentified birds...