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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
10. Khamin Victor (168)
12. Popova Nadejda (158)
15. Panov Andrei (138)
20. Yablokov Nikita (128)
22. Markova Natalya (111)
23. Afanasiev Maxim (110)
24. Stashiba Vasily (106)
25. Fefelov Igor (104)
26. Ivanov Mihail (103)
27. Borodkin Andrey (101)
31. Jukov Denis (78)
32. Dolgov Maxim (76)
34. Maer Vladimir (72)
39. Bukin Alexey (58)
40. Ivankova Anna (55)
42. Janke Jura (49)
45. Volkov Maksim (44)
53. Guzenko Yuriy (32)
57. Zhbir Denis (24)
65. Mamaew Andrey (14)
69. Popov Oleg (13)
71. silan serg (12)
72. Voronov Denis (11)
78. Yury Iljev (7)
88. Demina Maria (2)
96. 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. Common Sparrowhawk (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. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-04)
62. Tufted Duck (2025-01-04)
63. Common Kestrel (2025-01-04)
64. Merlin (2025-01-04)
65. Lammergeier (2025-01-04)
66. Daurian Partridge (2025-01-04)
67. Yellow-billed Chough (2025-01-04)
68. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-01-05)
69. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-05)
70. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2025-01-05)
71. Pére David's Snowfinch (2025-01-05)
72. Horned Lark (2025-01-05)
73. Brown Accentor (2025-01-05)
74. Great Rosefinch (2025-01-05)
75. Rock Sparrow (2025-01-05)
76. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-05)
77. Grey Partridge (2025-01-05)
78. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-05)
79. Common Pochard (2025-01-05)
80. Hill Pigeon (2025-01-06)
81. Brandt's Rosefinch (2025-01-06)
82. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-01-06)
83. Twite (2025-01-06)
84. Northern Hazelhen (2025-01-06)
85. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-01-07)
86. Red-billed Chough (2025-01-07)
88. Great Grey Owl (2025-01-08)
89. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-08)
90. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-01-09)
91. Northern Goshawk (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. Long-tailed Duck (2025-01-19)
104. Rook (2025-01-22)
105. Northern Wren (2025-01-22)
106. Brambling (2025-01-22)
107. Redwing (2025-01-25)
108. Willow Ptarmigan (2025-01-25)
109. Boreal Owl (2025-01-25)
110. Lapland Longspur (2025-01-26)
111. Bean Goose (2025-01-27)
112. Bewick's Swan (2025-01-27)
113. Common Sandpiper (2025-02-03)
114. Red-breasted Merganser (2025-02-04)
115. Gyrfalcon (2025-02-07)
116. Pine Grosbeak (2025-02-13)
117. Bearded Tit (2025-02-13)
118. Wood Pigeon (2025-02-17)
119. Short-eared Owl (2025-02-22)
120. Siberian Jay (2025-02-22)
121. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-03-01)
122. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-03-02)
123. Peregrine Falcon (2025-03-08)
124. Vega Gull (2025-03-10)
125. Harlequin Duck (2025-03-12)
126. Grey Heron (2025-03-15)
127. Hen Harrier (2025-03-15)
128. Sky Lark (2025-03-15)
129. Glaucous Gull (2025-03-16)
130. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2025-03-16)
131. Western Capercaillie (2025-03-18)
132. Common Gull (2025-03-18)
133. Common Starling (2025-03-19)
134. Masked Wagtail (2025-03-20)
135. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-03-21)
136. Common Shelduck (2025-03-21)
137. Pallas's Gull (2025-03-21)
138. Northern Lapwing (2025-03-21)
139. Northern Pintail (2025-03-21)
140. Western Marsh-harrier (2025-03-22)
141. Great Cormorant (2025-03-22)
142. Stock Pigeon (2025-03-22)
143. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-03-22)
144. Black-headed Gull (2025-03-22)
145. Black Kite (2025-03-22)
146. Alpine Accentor (2025-03-22)
147. White Wagtail (2025-03-23)
148. Greylag Goose (2025-03-23)
149. Steppe Eagle (2025-03-24)
150. Northern Reed Bunting (2025-03-29)
151. Common Buzzard (2025-04-02)
152. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-04)
153. Common Crane (2025-04-04)
154. Black Stork (2025-04-04)
155. Rustic Bunting (2025-04-05)
156. Mongolian Lark (2025-04-05)
157. European Robin (2025-04-05)
158. Common Redshank (2025-04-06)
159. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-04-06)
160. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-07)
161. Common Teal (2025-04-08)
162. Song Thrush (2025-04-08)
163. Pallas's Reed Bunting (2025-04-09)
164. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-04-10)
165. Common Oystercatcher (2025-04-10)
166. Eurasian Penduline Tit (2025-04-12)
167. Tree Pipit (2025-04-12)
168. Pied Wheatear (2025-04-12)
169. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-04-12)
170. Gadwall (2025-04-12)
171. Eastern Buzzard (2025-04-12)
172. Garganey (2025-04-12)
173. Northern Shoveler (2025-04-12)
174. White-naped Crane (2025-04-13)
175. Common Snipe (2025-04-13)
176. Citrine Wagtail (2025-04-13)
177. Bluethroat (2025-04-13)
178. Black Redstart (2025-04-13)
179. Alpine Accentor (2025-04-13)
180. Siberian Accentor (2025-04-13)
181. Hodgson's Rosefinch (2025-04-13)
182. Green Sandpiper (2025-04-13)
183. Pallid Harrier (2025-04-13)
184. Common Coot (2025-04-13)
185. Great Crested Grebe (2025-04-13)
186. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-13)
187. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-14)
188. Hoopoe (2025-04-14)
189. Booted Eagle (2025-04-15)
190. Osprey (2025-04-16)
191. Red-flanked Bluetail (2025-04-17)
192. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-17)
193. Pied Avocet (2025-04-17)
194. Bar-headed Goose (2025-04-17)
195. Tawny Owl (2025-04-17)
196. Water Pipit (2025-04-18)
197. Swan Goose (2025-04-18)
198. Eurasian Curlew (2025-04-18)
199. Asian Short-toed Lark (2025-04-18)
200. Eastern Marsh-harrier (2025-04-18)
201. Eurasian Redstart (2025-04-18)
202. Northern House Martin (2025-04-19)
203. Black-throated Accentor (2025-04-19)
204. Red-crested Pochard (2025-04-20)
205. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-04-20)
206. Barn Swallow (2025-04-20)
207. Marsh Sandpiper (2025-04-21)
208. Swinhoe's Snipe (2025-04-22)
209. Slavonian Grebe (2025-04-22)
210. Black-Necked Grebe (2025-04-22)
211. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-23)
212. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-04-24)
213. Red-Necked Grebe (2025-04-24)
214. Daurian Redstart (2025-04-24)
215. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-04-24)
216. Naumann's Thrush (2025-04-24)
217. Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-25)
218. Mandarin Duck (2025-04-26)
219. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-26)
220. Common Stonechat (2025-04-26)
221. Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-26)
222. Willow Warbler (2025-04-26)
223. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-27)
224. Falcated Duck (2025-04-27)
225. Common Moorhen (2025-04-27)
226. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2025-04-27)
227. Whinchat (2025-04-27)
228. Common Greenshank (2025-04-27)
229. Common Kingfisher (2025-04-28)
230. Spotted Crake (2025-04-29)
231. Meadow Pipit (2025-04-29)
232. Greater Ringed Plover (2025-04-29)
233. Sand Martin (2025-04-29)
234. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-04-30)
235. Isabelline Shrike (2025-04-30)
236. Montagu's Harrier (2025-04-30)
237. Lesser Kestrel (2025-04-30)
238. Common Cuckoo (2025-05-01)
239. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-01)
240. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-05-02)
241. Water Rail (2025-05-02)
242. Arctic Loon (2025-05-02)
243. Black-winged Stilt (2025-05-02)
244. Cetti’s Warbler (2025-05-03)
245. White-headed Duck (2025-05-03)
246. Caspian Tern (2025-05-03)
247. Ruff (2025-05-03)
248. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-04)
249. Savi's Warbler (2025-05-04)
250. Black Tern (2025-05-04)
251. Pale Sand Martin (2025-05-04)
252. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-05)
253. Dusky Thrush (2025-05-05)
254. Olive-backed Pipit (2025-05-05)
255. Taiga Flycatcher (2025-05-06)
256. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-05-07)
257. Green-headed Wagtail (2025-05-07)
258. Little Bunting (2025-05-07)
259. Baikal Teal (2025-05-08)
260. Oriental Greenfinch (2025-05-08)
261. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-08)
262. Ortolan Bunting (2025-05-08)
263. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-08)
264. Hume's Warbler (2025-05-08)
265. Yellow-browed Warbler (2025-05-09)
266. Black-faced Bunting (2025-05-09)
267. Western Grasshopper Warbler (2025-05-09)
268. White-cheeked Starling (2025-05-09)
269. Common Tern (2025-05-09)
270. Eurasian Bittern (2025-05-09)
271. Kentish Plover (2025-05-09)
272. Tawny Pipit (2025-05-09)
273. Common Whitethroat (2025-05-09)
274. European Bee-eater (2025-05-09)
275. Little Stint (2025-05-09)
276. Dunlin (2025-05-09)
277. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-09)
278. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-09)
279. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-05-09)
280. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2025-05-09)
281. Thrush Nightingale (2025-05-09)
282. Little Gull (2025-05-09)
283. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-10)
284. Ferruginous Duck (2025-05-10)
285. Eurasian Roller (2025-05-10)
286. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-10)
287. Pacific Swift (2025-05-11)
288. Yellow-browed Bunting (2025-05-11)
289. Blyth's Pipit (2025-05-11)
290. Curlew Sandpiper (2025-05-11)
291. Barred Warbler (2025-05-11)
292. Greater Scaup (2025-05-11)
293. European Golden Oriole (2025-05-12)
294. Amur Falcon (2025-05-12)
295. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-12)
296. Eurasian Honey-Buzzard (2025-05-13)
297. Pallas's Warbler (2025-05-14)
298. European Nightjar (2025-05-14)
299. Eyebrowed Thrush (2025-05-15)
300. Corncrake (2025-05-15)
301. Little Tern (2025-05-15)
302. Booted Warbler (2025-05-15)
303. Common Swift (2025-05-16)
304. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-16)
305. Eurasian Scops-Owl (2025-05-16)
306. Richard's Pipit (2025-05-16)
307. Oriental Cuckoo (2025-05-17)
308. Red-footed Falcon (2025-05-17)
309. Crested Honey-buzzard (2025-05-17)
310. Pin-tailed Snipe (2025-05-17)
311. Red-throated Pipit (2025-05-17)
312. Eurasian Whimbrel (2025-05-18)
313. Siberian Rubythroat (2025-05-18)
314. Icterine Warbler (2025-05-18)
315. Garden Warbler (2025-05-18)
316. Mongolian Reed Bunting (2025-05-19)
317. Far Eastern Curlew (2025-05-19)
318. Japanese Sparrowhawk (2025-05-21)
319. Asiatic Dowitcher (2025-05-21)
320. Pacific Golden Plover (2025-05-21)
321. Chestnut Bunting (2025-05-21)
322. Yellow-breasted Bunting (2025-05-21)
323. White-winged Tern (2025-05-21)
324. Brown Shrike (2025-05-22)
325. Dusky Warbler (2025-05-22)
326. Long-toed Stint (2025-05-22)
327. Grey Plover (2025-05-22)
328. Rufous-necked Stint (2025-05-23)
329. Arctic Warbler (2025-05-24)
330. White-winged Scoter (2025-05-24)
331. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-24)
332. White's Thrush (2025-05-24)
333. Common Quail (2025-05-25)
334. Eurasian Golden Plover (2025-05-25)
335. Mugimaki Flycatcher (2025-05-25)
336. Sedge Warbler (2025-05-25)
337. Gull-billed Tern (2025-05-26)
338. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-05-26)
339. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2025-05-26)
340. Little Egret (2025-05-26)
341. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher (2025-05-27)
342. Siberian Flycatcher (2025-05-27)
343. Pied Harrier (2025-05-27)
344. Asian Brown Flycatcher (2025-05-27)
345. Grey-tailed Tattler (2025-05-27)
346. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-28)
347. Red-headed Bunting (2025-05-28)
348. White-winged Lark (2025-05-29)
349. Grey Nightjar (2025-05-29)
350. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-05-30)
351. Desert Wheatear (2025-05-30)
352. Mongolian Finch (2025-05-30)
353. Great Reed Warbler (2025-05-30)
354. Sanderling (2025-05-31)
355. Siberian Blue Robin (2025-05-31)
356. Eurasian Dotterel (2025-05-31)
357. Altai Snowcock (2025-05-31)
358. Arctic Tern (2025-06-01)
359. Long-tailed Skua (2025-06-01)
360. Bar-tailed Godwit (2025-06-01)
361. Siberian Crane (2025-06-03)
362. Swinhoe's Robin (2025-06-04)
363. Brown-cheeked Rail (2025-06-04)
365. Radde's Warbler (2025-06-05)
366. Corn Bunting (2025-06-06)
367. Red-necked Phalarope (2025-06-07)
368. Oriental Reed-warbler (2025-06-08)
369. Jack Snipe (2025-06-08)
370. Black-winged Pratincole (2025-06-08)
371. Greater Sand Plover (2025-06-09)
372. Blue-fronted Redstart (2025-06-09)
373. Himalayan Accentor (2025-06-11)
374. Rock Ptarmigan (2025-06-11)
375. Relict Gull (2025-06-12)
376. Hooded Crane (2025-06-12)
377. Eastern House Martin (2025-06-12)
378. Black Scoter (2025-06-12)
379. Lanceolated Warbler (2025-06-19)
380. Little Curlew (2025-06-20)
381. Great Bustard (2025-06-21)
382. Thick-billed Warbler (2025-06-29)
383. Pallas's Sea-Eagle (2025-07-01)
384. Chinese Bush-warbler (2025-07-02)
385. Gray's Warbler (2025-07-04)
386. Himalayan Vulture (2025-07-05)
387. White-throated Rock-thrush (2025-07-19)
388. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (2025-07-20)
389. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-07-26)
390. Blackcap (2025-07-31)
391. Little Owl (2025-08-06)
392. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-08-16)
393. Baillon's Crake (2025-08-17)
394. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2025-08-24)
395. Red Knot (2025-09-06)
396. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-09-07)
397. Slender-billed Gull (2025-09-27)
398. Lesser White-fronted Goose (2025-09-27)
399. Chestnut-eared Bunting (2025-09-28)
400. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-10-04)
401. European Turtle Dove (2025-10-28)
402. Wallcreeper (2025-11-04)

rare birds records


Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)

© Marina Borovskaya
2025-05-17
Irkutskaya obl. pos. Hugir

A very rare vagrant for Irkutsk Region, 2nd photo-record.

Hume's Warbler (Phylloscopus humei)

© Katya Tsekhmister
2025-10-01

The 1st record in the Tyumen' Reguin.

Himalayan Vulture (Gyps himalayensis)

© Marina Alekseenko
2025-07-05

The 2nd record of this vagrant species in the Irkutsk Region.

Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus)

© Lopson Bazarov
2025-08-06

The 1st photo-record in Buryatia.
more rarities...

recent video

2025-10-04. Common Moorhen (Denis Zhbir), Common Moorhen (Denis Zhbir).

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).

more video...

unidentified birds

2026-01-08

Андрей Бородкин: Были сомнения.
2026-01-02

Игорь Фефелов: Да, тут, боюсь, бесперспективно понять, обыкновенная это кукушка или глухая.
2025-12-29

Сергей Л. Волков: Похожа на седоголовую овсянку; думаю, она и есть. Но окраска верха головы смущает, хотя у некоторых молодых особей бывает довольно хорошо [....]
2025-12-28

Анна Ясько: По рисунку головы я в первую очередь подумала бы на корольковую. Помимо окраса брови, уж очень темная и толстая полоса через глаз, особенно [....]
2025-12-25

Сергей Л. Волков: Мне кажется, за восточносибирскую чайку вполне сойдет. Но на 100% по таким фотографиям говорить не могу.
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