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Best photos of the month, May 2017.

Bearded Tit | Alexei Ebel | 6

Carrion Crow | Igor Latysh | 6

Common Kestrel | Alexei Ebel | 5

Red-throated Thrush | Alexei Ebel | 5

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 5

Red-footed Falcon | Igor Latysh | 5

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 5

Eastern Imperial Eagle | Alexei Ebel | 5

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 5

Eastern Imperial Eagle | Alexei Ebel | 4

Dalmatian Pelican | Alexei Ebel | 4

Eurasian Wryneck | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Common Treecreeper | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Northern House Martin | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Pacific Golden Plover | Mishail Belousow | 4

Swinhoe's Snipe | Andrey Chernykh | 4

Northern Hazelhen | Ruslan Kirillin | 4

Booted Eagle | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Yellow Wagtail | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Coal Tit | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 4

Greylag Goose | Alexei Ebel | 3

Eurasian Redstart | Sergey Chumakov | 3

Eurasian Whimbrel | Mishail Belousow | 3

Broad-billed Sandpiper | Ruslan Kirillin | 3

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 3

Hodgson's Rosefinch | Sergey Chumakov | 3

Wood Sandpiper | Igor Latysh | 3

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 3

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Maer | 3

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Maer | 3

White-winged Tern | Alexei Ebel | 2

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Maer | 2

Eastern Buzzard | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Common Rosefinch | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 2

Black-throated Thrush | Igor Latysh | 2

Bean Goose | Igor Latysh | 2

Common Coot | Igor Latysh | 2

Wood Sandpiper | Igor Latysh | 2

Common Shelduck | Igor Latysh | 2

Long-toed Stint | Mishail Belousow | 2

Blyth's Reed Warbler | Konstantin Samodurow | 2

Spotted Flycatcher | Andrey Chernykh | 2

Western Grasshopper Warbler | Andrey Chernykh | 2

Common Greenshank | Natalia Vorobyova | 2

Terek Sandpiper | Ruslan Kirillin | 2

Wood Sandpiper | Ruslan Kirillin | 2

Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Alexey Denisov | 2

Masked Wagtail | Nadezhda Orlova | 2

Common Oystercatcher | Nadezhda Orlova | 2

Common Kestrel | Alexei Ebel | 2

Eurasian Redstart | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Red-footed Falcon | Igor Latysh | 2

Common Oystercatcher | Mishail Belousow | 2

Common Snipe | Andrey Chernykh | 2

Booted Eagle | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Eurasian Wryneck | Sergey Chumakov | 2

rare birds records


Black Lark (Melanocorypha yeltoniensis)

© Mishail Belousow
2026-03-29

The first photo-record in the Tomsk Region, the norhhernmost record in the Western Siberia.


Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni)

© Katya Tsekhmister
2025-06-08

The northernmost breeding location of this species (confirmed with photos).


Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)

© Katya Tsekhmister
2025-05-22

The 1st record in the Tyumen' Region.


Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

© Igor Fefelov
2026-02-08
Irkutsk

Extremely rare cases of wintering in the Irkutsk Region happen. The 1st photo-record in this region in winter months.

unidentified birds


2026-04-14

Ярослав Бурматов: Добавил фото

2026-04-11

Игорь Фефелов: Не клоктун. В сравнении с крякашом крупновата птичка для клоктуна, и у клоктунов обоего пола есть чирочий темный передний край крыла снизу. [....]

more unidentified birds...