Big Year in Belarus. Birds of Belarus.

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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 Belarus during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

participants

* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2025

1. Dombrovski Valery (112)

2. Natykanets Viktor (98)

3. Golyantov Aleksandr (45)

4. Podverbny Yury (7)

all species photographed in 2025

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

1. Common Black-headed Gull (2025-01-08)

2. Mallard (2025-01-08)

3. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-01-08)

4. Coal Tit (2025-01-12)

5. Long-tailed Tit (2025-01-12)

6. Crested Tit (2025-01-12)

7. Fieldfare (2025-01-13)

8. White-throated Dipper (2025-01-13)

9. Little Grebe (2025-01-13)

10. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-17)

11. Common Gull (2025-01-17)

12. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-01-19)

13. Hooded Crow (2025-01-19)

14. Blue Tit (2025-01-19)

15. Common Bullfinch (2025-01-19)

16. Whooper Swan (2025-01-19)

17. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-19)

18. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2025-01-21)

19. Great Tit (2025-01-21)

20. Eurasian Jay (2025-01-21)

21. Marsh Tit (2025-01-22)

22. European Greenfinch (2025-01-27)

23. European Goldfinch (2025-01-30)

24. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-30)

25. Mute Swan (2025-01-31)

26. Yellowhammer (2025-01-31)

27. Great Grey Shrike (2025-01-31)

28. Eurasian Wren (2025-01-31)

29. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2025-02-02)

30. Grey Wagtail (2025-02-08)

31. Greylag Goose (2025-02-08)

32. Eurasian Treecreeper (2025-02-09)

33. Golden Eagle (2025-02-09)

34. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2025-02-12)

35. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2025-02-15)

36. Eurasian Sparrowhawk (2025-02-16)

37. Common Raven (2025-02-16)

38. Grey Heron (2025-02-16)

39. Rock Pigeon (2025-02-16)

40. Common Buzzard (2025-02-17)

41. Black Grouse (2025-02-18)

42. Eurasian Siskin (2025-02-18)

43. Tawny Owl (2025-02-20)

44. Short-eared Owl (2025-02-21)

45. House Sparrow (2025-02-23)

46. Goosander (2025-02-23)

47. Water Rail (2025-02-24)

48. Common Goldeneye (2025-02-25)

49. Common Coot (2025-02-25)

50. Tufted Duck (2025-02-25)

51. Long-tailed Duck (2025-02-25)

52. Smew (2025-02-25)

53. Rough-legged Buzzard (2025-03-05)

54. Common Teal (2025-03-05)

55. Common Crane (2025-03-06)

56. Bean Goose (2025-03-07)

57. Linnet (2025-03-07)

58. Great Cormorant (2025-03-08)

59. Common Starling (2025-03-09)

60. Common Wood Pigeon (2025-03-09)

61. Crested Lark (2025-03-09)

62. Northern Lapwing (2025-03-09)

63. Azure Tit (2025-03-09)

64. Chaffinch (2025-03-11)

65. Syrian Woodpecker (2025-03-12)

66. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2025-03-12)

67. Ruff male, Reeve female (2025-03-12)

68. Gadwall (2025-03-16)

69. Common Kestrel (2025-03-16)

70. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-03-18)

71. Reed Bunting (2025-03-20)

72. Wood Lark (2025-03-21)

73. Garganey (2025-03-21)

74. Western Marsh Harrier (2025-03-21)

75. White Stork (2025-03-26)

76. Common Sandpiper (2025-03-26)

77. Redwing (2025-03-26)

78. Common Redshank (2025-03-26)

79. Eurasian Penduline-tit (2025-03-26)

80. Rook (2025-03-28)

81. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-03-30)

82. Song Thrush (2025-03-30)

83. Hen Harrier (2025-03-30)

84. European Robin (2025-04-05)

85. Common Chiffchaff (2025-04-05)

86. White Wagtail (2025-04-15)

87. Black Kite (2025-04-16)

88. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2025-04-18)

89. Eurasian Skylark (2025-04-18)

90. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-04-19)

91. Blackcap (2025-04-19)

92. Whinchat (2025-04-19)

93. Western Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-19)

94. Firecrest (2025-04-19)

95. European Serin (2025-04-19)

96. Brambling (2025-04-19)

97. European Pied Flycatcher (2025-04-19)

98. Common Hoopoe / Eurasian Hoopoe (2025-04-20)

99. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2025-04-21)

100. Barn Swallow (2025-04-22)

101. Common Snipe (2025-04-22)

102. Tree Pipit (2025-04-22)

103. Savi’s Warbler (2025-04-22)

104. Montagu's Harrier (2025-04-22)

105. Wood Warbler (2025-04-23)

106. Hawfinch (2025-04-23)

107. Collared Flycatcher (2025-04-23)

108. Slavonian Grebe (2025-04-24)

109. Wood Sandpiper (2025-04-27)

110. Common Greenshank (2025-04-27)

111. Bluethroat (2025-04-27)

112. Common Tern (2025-04-27)

113. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-27)

114. Great Snipe (2025-04-28)

115. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-28)

116. Common Whitethroat (2025-04-28)

117. Little Ringed Plover (2025-04-28)

118. Black Redstart (2025-04-28)

119. Common Redstart (2025-04-28)

120. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-04-29)

121. Thrush Nightingale (2025-05-01)

122. Willow Warbler (2025-05-01)

123. Common Blackbird (2025-05-06)

124. Barred Warbler (2025-05-10)

125. Sedge Warbler (2025-05-11)

126. Marsh Warbler (2025-05-17)

127. Great Reed-warbler (2025-05-18)

128. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-19)

129. Bearded Reedling (2025-05-23)

130. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2025-05-23)

131. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-24)

132. Icterine Warbler (2025-05-31)

133. Sand Martin (2025-05-31)

134. Blyth's Reed-warbler (2025-06-01)

135. Common Ringed Plover (2025-06-11)

136. Little Tern (2025-06-11)

137. Common Swift (2025-06-11)

138. Grey Partridge (2025-06-13)

139. Goldcrest (2025-06-13)

140. Black Stork (2025-06-14)

141. Eurasian Golden Oriole (2025-06-14)

142. European Turtle Dove (2025-06-15)

143. Booted Eagle (2025-06-16)

144. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-06-16)

145. Corn Bunting (2025-06-17)

146. Eurasian Nightjar (2025-06-18)

147. Tawny Pipit (2025-06-18)

148. White-backed Woodpecker (2025-06-18)

149. European Honey Buzzard (2025-06-21)

150. Northern Wheatear (2025-06-23)

151. Great Bittern (2025-07-02)

152. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-07-07)

153. Great Egret (2025-07-09)

154. Little Owl (2025-07-10)

155. Green Sandpiper (2025-07-12)

156. Northern House Martin (2025-07-14)

157. Common Cuckoo (2025-07-14)

158. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-07-15)

159. Common Moorhen (2025-07-18)

160. Red Knot (2025-07-27)

161. Spotted Crake (2025-08-01)

Big Year 2025

1. Valery Dombrovski (112)
2. Viktor Natykanets (98)
3. Aleksandr Golyantov (45)
4. Yury Podverbny (7)

more...

rare birds records

Red Knot (Calidris canutus)

Редкий залётный транзитно-мигрирующий вид

Booted Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)

Очень редкий (возможно гнездящийся) на территории Беларуси вид

Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor)

Редкий гнездящийся на юге Беларуси вид

Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)

The oldest (of those ringed) black-tailed godwit in Belarus. Details: https://belarus.birding.day/v2blogentry.php?l=ru&a=20250331000301&si=bel

more rarities...

recent video

2021-01-30. Common Starling (Yuri Kurlenyov).

2020-06-20. Wood Warbler (Viktor Natykanets).

2020-04-18. Great Grey Shrike (Viktor Natykanets).

2019-04-26. Eurasian Wryneck (Viktor Natykanets).

2019-03-27. Syrian Woodpecker (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-26. Eurasian Wren (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-23. Common Greenshank (Viktor Natykanets), Ruddy Turnstone (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-22. Black-winged Stilt (Viktor Natykanets), Northern Lapwing (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-20. Dunlin (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-18. Little Grebe (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-14. Red Phalarope (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-13. Azure Tit (Viktor Natykanets).

2018-09-04. Ruff male, Reeve female (Viktor Natykanets).

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