The first vagrant record of this species in the northern Siberia.

The 1st record of the species in the Primorsky Kray.

The second record of the Red-flanked Bluetail in the west of Kazakhstan, the first for the Mangistau region. Before that, it was noted by Andrey Kovalenko on October 12, 2017 on the artificial island of Kairan in the northeastern Caspian (see birds.kz gallery).

The first photo-record at the website sibirds.ru.

The 2nd confirmed record in the Irkutsk Region

The 1st record in Yakutia as a vagrant.

Rare entry into East Kazakhstan region from main flyways.

A rare vagrant species for the European part of Russia.

The 1st record in the Chukotka Peninsula.

First record in the Tomsk region

The 1st record for the south of the West Siberia, and for the Novosibirsk Region.

A rare vagrant on the Yamal Peninsula.

A rare vagrant, formerly nesting species of southern Ukraine. The first observation in Odesa region in decades and the first photo from its territory.

The northernmost nesting record in the Caspian region. Prior to this, since 2015, the Shikra has been found nesting in the Mangistau region of Aktau (see the birds.kz gallery), on April 22, 2019, one bird was photographed north of Aktau - in the city of Fort Shevchenko (A. Kydyr, birds.kz ).

The 1st photo-record in Yakutia, the 3rd known vagrant encounter.

The 1st record of the species in the territory of Russia.

The first record of the American (herring) gull in the Russian Federation. Details here: Artukhin, Yu. B. (2022) American herring gull Larus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 is a new species for the avifauna of Russia. Amurian Zoological Journal, 2022, vol. XIV, No 2, p. 335–344.

The 1st confirmed record in the Novosibirsk Region and in the West Siberian plain.

The 2nd confirmed record in the Russian Federation.

The first find in the Kemerovo region

A vagrant in the region. The 1st photo-record at the website fareastru.

The 1st photo-evidence for a successful nesting of the species in the Irkutsk Region.

The 2nd record in Yakutia.

The 2nd photo-record in Altaisky Kray. The species is included in the Red Books of Altaisky Kray and some other regions of Siberia.

A new species for the Katon-Karagai National Park. A flock of 12 birds was recorded on May 20, 2022 in the floodplain of the middle reaches of the Bukhtarma in the Taylakova Yama tract, one bird on May 27, 2022 in the valley of the middle reaches of the Kara-Kaba on Lake Shoptykol, on June 3, 2022 in the Karazher tract, June 6 on the lake Yazevoe. Воробьёв В.М. 2022. Встреча белокрылой крачки Chlidonias leucopterus в среднем течении реки Бухтармы на Южном Алтае // Рус. орнитол. журн. 31 (2191): 2376-2379.

New breeding species of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.

The first record of the Great Snipe in Kazakhstan, after more than 30 years, confirmed by photography. The last record of this species dates back to 1987, when on May 7 a migrating Great Snipe was caught in the Tentek delta (Khrokov et al. 1993).

The first nesting record in the Kostanay region. It is known that the Ural Owl breeds in the South-Western Altai and Kalba, there is also evidence of nesting in the North Kazakhstan region (Zuban, Kalashnikov 2017) and in the East Kazakhstan region in forests north of Semey (Karpov, Levin 2005). In the Kostanay region, this species was occasionally found only during wintering (A.Yu. Timoshenko, G.Yu. Timoshenko 2021, Yu. Malkov, birds.kz).

A species in the eastern margin of its range, its spatial distribution in the region is obscure. The 2nd photo-record in the Irkutsk Region.

A very rare specis in the Irkutsk Region, the 1st photo-record in the region.

A rare vagrant on Lake Baikal.

The 1st confirmed record on Sakhalin.

The 1st registration of the species in the Irkutsk Region and on Lake Baikal.

The first record of the species in the Western Siberia; probably its westernmost record in Russia.