Big Year in Belarus. Birds of Belarus.

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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 Belarus 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. Dombrovski Valery (135)

2. Natykanets Viktor (116)

3. Golyantov Aleksandr (40)

4. Podverbny Yury (32)

5. Borodin Andrey (2)

all species photographed in 2024

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

1. Fieldfare (2024-01-05)

2. Hooded Crow (2024-01-05)

3. Common Bullfinch (2024-01-06)

4. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-07)

5. Little Owl (2024-01-10)

6. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-01-12)

7. Horned Lark / Shore Lark (2024-01-12)

8. Marsh Tit (2024-01-13)

9. Reed Bunting (2024-01-16)

10. European Greenfinch (2024-01-17)

11. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-19)

12. Mallard (2024-01-19)

13. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-19)

14. Great Tit (2024-01-19)

15. Common Black-headed Gull (2024-01-19)

16. Common Coot (2024-01-19)

17. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-19)

18. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-01-20)

19. Grey Partridge (2024-01-20)

20. Snow Bunting (2024-01-21)

21. European Robin (2024-01-21)

22. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-21)

23. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-21)

24. Merlin (2024-01-27)

25. Grey Heron (2024-01-28)

26. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2024-02-08)

27. Crested Lark (2024-02-10)

28. Crested Tit (2024-02-17)

29. Eurasian Treecreeper (2024-02-17)

30. Common Raven (2024-02-19)

31. Blue Tit (2024-02-19)

32. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-24)

33. Greylag Goose (2024-02-25)

34. Common Buzzard (2024-02-27)

35. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-03-01)

36. Egyptian Goose (2024-03-01)

37. Greater White-fronted Goose (2024-03-01)

38. Eurasian Skylark (2024-03-02)

39. Mute Swan (2024-03-02)

40. Goldcrest (2024-03-03)

41. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2024-03-03)

42. Yellowhammer (2024-03-03)

43. Common Goldeneye (2024-03-03)

44. Great Cormorant (2024-03-05)

45. Peregrine Falcon (2024-03-06)

46. Bean Goose (2024-03-06)

47. Northern Lapwing (2024-03-06)

48. Northern Pintail (2024-03-06)

49. White Wagtail (2024-03-07)

50. Eurasian Wren (2024-03-08)

51. Common Starling (2024-03-09)

52. House Sparrow (2024-03-09)

53. Coal Tit (2024-03-09)

54. Willow Tit (2024-03-09)

55. Rook (2024-03-11)

56. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-03-11)

57. Whooper Swan (2024-03-12)

58. Great Egret (2024-03-12)

59. Eurasian Jay (2024-03-14)

60. White-backed Woodpecker (2024-03-14)

61. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-14)

62. Ruff male, Reeve female (2024-03-15)

63. Wood Lark (2024-03-16)

64. Eurasian Sparrowhawk (2024-03-16)

65. Smew (2024-03-18)

66. Azure Tit (2024-03-18)

67. Common Crane (2024-03-21)

68. Redwing (2024-03-29)

69. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2024-03-30)

70. Common Redshank (2024-03-30)

71. Caspian Tern (2024-04-01)

72. Common Shelduck (2024-04-01)

73. Western Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-01)

74. Eurasian Penduline-tit (2024-04-01)

75. Common Wood Pigeon (2024-04-01)

76. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-01)

77. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-01)

78. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-02)

79. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-05)

80. Barn Swallow (2024-04-05)

81. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-06)

82. Chaffinch (2024-04-06)

83. Tree Pipit (2024-04-06)

84. European Serin (2024-04-07)

85. Gadwall (2024-04-07)

86. Osprey (2024-04-08)

87. Bluethroat (2024-04-08)

88. Dunlin (2024-04-08)

89. Common Greenshank (2024-04-08)

90. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-04-09)

91. Syrian Woodpecker (2024-04-09)

92. Common Tern (2024-04-09)

93. Black Tern (2024-04-09)

94. Black-necked Grebe (2024-04-09)

95. Black Redstart (2024-04-10)

96. Linnet (2024-04-10)

97. Tufted Duck (2024-04-10)

98. Common Blackbird (2024-04-11)

99. Song Thrush (2024-04-11)

100. Blackcap (2024-04-12)

101. Common Teal (2024-04-12)

102. Garganey (2024-04-12)

103. Hawfinch (2024-04-12)

104. Northern Shoveler (2024-04-12)

105. Brambling (2024-04-12)

106. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-04-13)

107. White Stork (2024-04-13)

108. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-04-14)

109. Willow Warbler (2024-04-14)

110. European Goldfinch (2024-04-14)

111. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-04-14)

112. Common Snipe (2024-04-15)

113. Black Stork (2024-04-16)

114. Common Pochard (2024-04-17)

115. Collared Flycatcher (2024-04-20)

116. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-21)

117. Common Hoopoe / Eurasian Hoopoe (2024-04-23)

118. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2024-04-25)

119. Sedge Warbler (2024-04-25)

120. European Pied Flycatcher (2024-04-25)

121. Wood Warbler (2024-04-27)

122. Thrush Nightingale (2024-04-28)

123. Whinchat (2024-04-28)

124. Firecrest (2024-04-28)

125. Glossy Ibis (2024-04-30)

126. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-01)

127. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-01)

128. White-winged Tern (2024-05-01)

129. Common Redstart (2024-05-01)

130. Common Moorhen (2024-05-02)

131. Montagu's Harrier (2024-05-02)

132. European Stonechat (2024-05-03)

133. Little Gull (2024-05-04)

134. Western Marsh Harrier (2024-05-05)

135. Little Tern (2024-05-08)

136. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-05-09)

137. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-09)

138. Mistle Thrush (2024-05-09)

139. Black Kite (2024-05-10)

140. Corncrake (2024-05-11)

141. Barred Warbler (2024-05-12)

142. Great Reed-warbler (2024-05-12)

143. Garden Warbler (2024-05-13)

144. Great Crested Grebe (2024-05-13)

145. Eurasian Golden Oriole (2024-05-13)

146. Common Swift (2024-05-14)

147. Little Crake (2024-05-15)

148. Tawny Owl (2024-05-16)

149. River Warbler (2024-05-19)

150. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-19)

151. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-20)

152. Marsh Warbler (2024-05-25)

153. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2024-05-25)

154. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-25)

155. Icterine Warbler (2024-05-26)

156. Northern House Martin (2024-05-26)

157. European Honey Buzzard (2024-05-26)

158. European Bee-eater (2024-05-26)

159. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-06-06)

160. Short-eared Owl (2024-06-08)

161. Hazel Grouse (2024-06-14)

162. Sand Martin (2024-06-17)

163. Savi’s Warbler (2024-06-19)

164. Northern Goshawk (2024-06-20)

165. Spotted Redshank (2024-06-21)

166. European Turtle Dove (2024-06-22)

167. Terek Sandpiper (2024-06-25)

168. Great Bittern (2024-06-26)

169. Eurasian Hobby (2024-06-29)

170. Arctic Loon (2024-07-14)

171. Great Grey Owl (2024-07-16)

172. Common Ringed Plover (2024-07-17)

173. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-07-19)

174. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-07-19)

175. Meadow Pipit (2024-07-21)

176. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-07-31)

177. Common Kingfisher (2024-08-03)

178. Pallid Harrier (2024-08-14)

179. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2024-08-16)

180. Little Stint (2024-08-16)

181. Temminck’s Stint (2024-08-16)

182. Stock Pigeon (2024-08-18)

183. Common Kestrel (2024-08-19)

Big Year 2024

1. Valery Dombrovski (135)
2. Viktor Natykanets (116)
3. Aleksandr Golyantov (40)
4. Yury Podverbny (32)
5. Andrey Borodin (2)

more...

rare birds records

Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus)

Редко регистрируемый вид

Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus)

Случайно залётный вид в Беларуси

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

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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