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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


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.

unidentified birds


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 [....]

more unidentified birds...