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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 (96) 2. Natykanets Viktor (69) | 3. Golyantov Aleksandr (42) 4. Podverbny Yury (2) |
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) |
Big Year 2025
rare birds records
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
© Valery Dombrovski
2025-04-28
Gomel region, Zhitkovichi district, Turov
The oldest (of those ringed) black-tailed godwit in Belarus. Details: https://belarus.birding.day/v2blogentry.php?l=ru&a=20250331000301&si=bel
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
© Valery Dombrovski
2025-02-08
Minsk, Svisloch river
White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
© Yury Podverbny
2024-11-15
Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus)
© Valery Dombrovski
2024-08-14
Gantsevichi district, Brest region
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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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