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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 Northern Eurasia during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2024
1. Sizov Alexey (151)
6. Gedziuk Vlad (72)
9. Ortik Irina (62)
12. Kyselova Inna (56)
13. Martsun Oleg (55)
18. Shandar Denys (37)
21. Petrov Andrei (33)
23. Samokhin Igor (31)
31. Bodnar Vasil (25)
34. Dvurekov Igor (19)
38. Skiter Artem (15)
42. Simon Andrew (10)
74. Rydik Maksym (1)
75. Sapuga Alex (1)

all species photographed in 2024


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

sort by:


1. Fieldfare (2024-01-01)
2. Hooded Crow (2024-01-01)
3. Northern Bullfinch (2024-01-01)
4. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-01)
5. Horned Lark (2024-01-01)
6. Marsh Tit (2024-01-01)
7. European Greenfinch (2024-01-01)
8. Mallard (2024-01-01)
9. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-01)
10. Great Tit (2024-01-01)
11. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-01)
12. Common Coot (2024-01-01)
13. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-01)
14. Grey Partridge (2024-01-01)
15. Snow Bunting (2024-01-01)
16. European Robin (2024-01-01)
17. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-01)
18. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-01)
19. Common Raven (2024-01-01)
20. Blue Tit (2024-01-01)
21. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
22. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-01)
23. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-01)
24. Mute Swan (2024-01-01)
25. Goldcrest (2024-01-01)
26. Tree Sparrow (2024-01-01)
27. Yellowhammer (2024-01-01)
28. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
29. Northern Wren (2024-01-01)
30. House Sparrow (2024-01-01)
31. Coal Tit (2024-01-01)
32. Willow Tit (2024-01-01)
33. Common Treecreeper (2024-01-01)
34. Rook (2024-01-01)
35. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-01)
36. Whooper Swan (2024-01-01)
37. Great White Egret (2024-01-01)
38. Eurasian Jay (2024-01-01)
39. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
40. Smew (2024-01-01)
41. Arctic Redpoll (2024-01-01)
42. Common Redpoll (2024-01-01)
43. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-01)
44. Black Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
45. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-01)
46. Black Kite (2024-01-01)
47. Eurasian Green Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
48. Common Moorhen (2024-01-01)
50. Tufted Duck (2024-01-01)
51. Hawfinch (2024-01-01)
52. Western Marsh-Harrier (2024-01-01)
53. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
54. Goosander (2024-01-01)
55. Herring Gull (2024-01-01)
56. Common Teal (2024-01-01)
57. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-01)
58. Grey-Headed Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
59. Black-Billed Magpie (2024-01-01)
60. Red Crossbill (2024-01-01)
61. Syrian Woodpecker (2024-01-01)
62. Redwing (2024-01-01)
63. Eurasian Blackbird (2024-01-01)
64. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-01-01)
66. Firecrest (2024-01-01)
67. Eurasian Dipper (2024-01-01)
68. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-01)
69. Eurasian Goldfinch (2024-01-01)
70. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-01)
72. Bearded Tit (2024-01-01)
73. Common Kingfisher (2024-01-01)
74. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-01-02)
75. Crested Lark (2024-01-02)
76. Crested Tit (2024-01-02)
78. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-02)
79. Tawny Owl (2024-01-02)
80. Pine Grosbeak (2024-01-02)
81. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-01-02)
82. Mew Gull (2024-01-02)
83. Common Buzzard (2024-01-03)
84. White-Backed Woodpecker (2024-01-03)
86. Brambling (2024-01-03)
87. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-03)
88. Common Pochard (2024-01-03)
89. Greater Scaup (2024-01-03)
90. Griffon Vulture (2024-01-04)
91. Guldenstadt's Redstart (2024-01-04)
92. Rock Bunting (2024-01-04)
93. Golden Eagle (2024-01-04)
94. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-04)
95. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-04)
96. European Shag (2024-01-04)
97. Little Owl (2024-01-05)
98. Northern Reed Bunting (2024-01-05)
99. Common Sparrowhawk (2024-01-05)
100. White-winged Tern (2024-01-05)
101. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-01-05)
102. Northern Black Grouse (2024-01-05)
103. Hen Harrier (2024-01-05)
104. Common Crane (2024-01-05)
105. Slender-billed Gull (2024-01-05)
106. Grey Heron (2024-01-06)
107. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-06)
108. Common Starling (2024-01-06)
109. Common Chiffchaff (2024-01-06)
110. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-06)
111. Chukar Partridge (2024-01-06)
112. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-06)
113. Common Kestrel (2024-01-06)
114. Great Bustard (2024-01-06)
115. Common Shelduck (2024-01-06)
116. Caspian Gull (2024-01-06)
117. Water Rail (2024-01-06)
118. Alpine Chough (2024-01-07)
119. Dunnock (2024-01-07)
120. Lammergeier (2024-01-07)
121. Corn Bunting (2024-01-07)
122. Black Redstart (2024-01-07)
123. Meadow Pipit (2024-01-07)
124. Rock Sparrow (2024-01-07)
125. Song Thrush (2024-01-08)
126. Wood Pigeon (2024-01-08)
127. Eurasian Linnet (2024-01-08)
128. Eurasian Pygmy-Owl (2024-01-08)
129. Cinereous Vulture (2024-01-08)
130. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-08)
131. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-08)
132. Gadwall (2024-01-08)
133. Yellow-legged Gull (2024-01-09)
134. Mediterranean Gull (2024-01-09)
135. Grey Wagtail (2024-01-09)
136. Ural Owl (2024-01-09)
137. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-01-10)
138. Merlin (2024-01-10)
139. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-10)
140. Barnacle Goose (2024-01-11)
141. Sandwich Tern (2024-01-12)
142. Short-toed Tree-Creeper (2024-01-12)
143. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-13)
144. Sky Lark (2024-01-13)
145. White Wagtail (2024-01-13)
146. Wood Lark (2024-01-13)
147. Northern Pintail (2024-01-13)
148. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-13)
149. Ferruginous Duck (2024-01-14)
150. Black-winged Stilt (2024-01-14)
151. Stock Pigeon (2024-01-14)
152. Common Snipe (2024-01-14)
153. Common Eider (2024-01-14)
154. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-01-14)
155. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-01-14)
156. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-15)
157. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-01-15)
158. Mandarin Duck (2024-01-16)
159. Lesser Short-toed Lark (2024-01-17)
160. White Stork (2024-01-17)
161. Wallcreeper (2024-01-19)
162. Calandra Lark (2024-01-20)
163. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-20)
164. Little Egret (2024-01-21)
165. Pied Avocet (2024-01-21)
166. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-23)
167. Laughing Dove (2024-01-23)
169. Common Stonechat (2024-01-24)
170. Grey-headed Swamphen (2024-01-24)
171. Water Pipit (2024-01-24)
172. Cetti's Warbler (2024-01-24)
173. Bean Goose (2024-01-27)
174. Little Gull (2024-01-27)
176. Northern Hawk Owl (2024-01-27)
178. Levantine shearwater (2024-01-30)
179. Boreal Owl (2024-02-02)
180. Pallas's Cormorant (2024-02-04)
181. Twite (2024-02-04)
182. Common Pheasant (2024-02-12)
183. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-02-16)
184. Sanderling (2024-02-17)
185. Grey Plover (2024-02-17)
186. Great Grey Owl (2024-02-18)
187. Common Oystercatcher (2024-02-20)
188. Dunlin (2024-02-27)
189. Eurasian Curlew (2024-02-27)
190. Eurasian Bittern (2024-02-27)
191. Garganey (2024-02-29)
192. Egyptian Goose (2024-03-01)
193. Willow Warbler (2024-03-01)
194. Black Lark (2024-03-03)
195. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-03-08)
196. White-winged Lark (2024-03-09)
197. Ruff (2024-03-10)
198. Lesser White-fronted Goose (2024-03-10)
199. Red-breasted Goose (2024-03-10)
200. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-03-10)
201. Black Stork (2024-03-11)
202. Northern House Martin (2024-03-15)
203. Northern Wheatear (2024-03-15)
204. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-15)
205. Siberian Black-backed Gull (2024-03-17)

rare birds records


Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

© Valery Dombrovski
2024-03-06
Gomel region, Zhitkovichi district



Merlin (Falco columbarius)

© Yury Podverbny
2024-01-27



Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

© Igor Sikorsky
2024-01-14
Ogonki, Crimea



Hume's Warbler (Phylloscopus humei)

© Yury Podverbny
2023-11-26
Minsk, "Silver Log" Park


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recent video

2024-02-27. Great Grey Owl (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-02-19. Eurasian Penduline Tit (Stanislavs Gr), Eurasian Penduline Tit (Stanislavs Gr).

2024-01-16. Mandarin Duck (Alexandr Balaev).

2024-01-06. Coal Tit (Stanislavs Gr).

2024-01-05. European Bee-eater (Aleksandr Plekhanov).

2024-01-03. Blue Tit (Stanislavs Gr).

2023-12-31. Long-tailed Tit (Alexandr Balaev).

2023-12-26. Common Redpoll (Alexandr Balaev).

2023-12-05. Red Crossbill (Sergei Saveika).

2023-12-04. Red Crossbill (Vadim Sinukhin), Northern Bullfinch (Vadim Sinukhin).

2023-11-27. Arctic Loon (Alexandr Balaev).

2023-11-24. Ural Owl (Galina Katanova).

2023-11-10. European Robin (Alexandr Balaev).

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unidentified birds


2024-03-18

Сергей Л. Волков: Птицы, скорее всего, находились очень длительное время вместе. При этом они с наименьшей вероятностью являются родственниками, поскольку [....]

2024-03-13

Сергей Л. Волков: Ясно, спасибо, Дмитрий.

2024-03-03

Сергей Л. Волков: Игорь, благодарю. Сценарии линьки придуманы не мной, а специалистами по чайкам, к коим я и обращаюсь, ведя здесь рассуждения, поскольку сам [....]

2024-02-18

Єгор Лобода: Переношу на визначення. На 'western palearctic gulls' припускають що це гібрид або скельний.

2024-01-22

Сергей Л. Волков: Мне тоже скорее северную бормотушку напоминает. Клюв и подхвостье сравнительно короткими выглядят.

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