Big Year in Belarus. Birds of Belarus.

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Big Year 2020

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

participants

* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2020

1. Natykanets Viktor (80)

2. Golyantov Aleksandr (35)

3. Levy Semion (20)

4. Telegin Ruslan (14)

5. Shautsou Yury (10)

6. Borodin Andrey (2)

7. Karukina Liudmila (2)

8. Shashenko Yury (2)

9. Shevchik Andrei (2)

10. Sobolev Alexander (1)

all species photographed in 2020

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

1. Azure Tit (2020-01-03)

2. Bearded Reedling (2020-01-03)

3. Marsh Tit (2020-01-05)

4. Willow Tit (2020-01-05)

5. Crested Tit (2020-01-05)

6. Coal Tit (2020-01-05)

7. Blue Tit (2020-01-05)

8. Common Black-headed Gull (2020-01-23)

9. Eurasian Jay (2020-01-26)

10. Eurasian Siskin (2020-01-26)

11. European Greenfinch (2020-01-26)

12. Common Bullfinch (2020-01-26)

13. European Goldfinch (2020-01-26)

14. Rook (2020-01-26)

15. Eurasian Jackdaw (2020-01-27)

16. Mallard (2020-01-27)

17. Great Tit (2020-01-27)

18. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2020-01-27)

19. Fieldfare (2020-01-28)

20. Ural Owl (2020-01-30)

21. Red-crested Pochard (2020-01-30)

22. Hooded Crow (2020-01-30)

23. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2020-01-31)

24. Common Raven (2020-02-01)

25. Long-tailed Tit (2020-02-01)

26. Mute Swan (2020-02-01)

27. Common Gull (2020-02-02)

28. Eurasian Treecreeper (2020-02-16)

29. Eurasian Nuthatch (2020-02-16)

30. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2020-02-23)

31. Linnet (2020-03-01)

32. Reed Bunting (2020-03-08)

33. White Stork (2020-03-13)

34. Snow Bunting (2020-03-16)

35. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2020-03-16)

36. White Wagtail (2020-03-16)

37. White-backed Woodpecker (2020-03-16)

38. Rough-legged Buzzard (2020-03-16)

39. Common Starling (2020-03-18)

40. Northern Lapwing (2020-03-20)

41. Common Blackbird (2020-03-22)

42. Common Wood Pigeon (2020-03-23)

43. Ruff male, Reeve female (2020-03-24)

44. Black Redstart (2020-03-25)

45. Great Grey Shrike (2020-03-25)

46. Chaffinch (2020-03-27)

47. Eurasian Wren (2020-03-27)

48. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2020-04-08)

49. Black-tailed Godwit (2020-04-09)

50. European Robin (2020-04-09)

51. Willow Warbler (2020-04-09)

52. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2020-04-10)

53. Goldcrest (2020-04-11)

54. Crested Lark (2020-04-11)

55. Whooper Swan (2020-04-11)

56. Yellowhammer (2020-04-11)

57. Gadwall (2020-04-13)

58. Eurasian Magpie (2020-04-13)

59. Western Yellow Wagtail (2020-04-13)

60. Northern Wheatear (2020-04-14)

61. Common Tern (2020-04-15)

62. Wood Sandpiper (2020-04-22)

63. Red-breasted Merganser (2020-04-23)

64. Western Marsh Harrier (2020-04-23)

65. Song Thrush (2020-04-25)

66. Common Chiffchaff (2020-04-25)

67. Wood Warbler (2020-04-25)

68. Blackcap (2020-04-26)

69. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2020-04-28)

70. Grey Partridge (2020-04-28)

71. Hawfinch (2020-04-28)

72. Spotted Flycatcher (2020-04-30)

73. Common Redstart (2020-05-01)

74. European Pied Flycatcher (2020-05-01)

75. Thrush Nightingale (2020-05-02)

76. Eurasian Wigeon (2020-05-06)

77. Black Stork (2020-05-06)

78. Common Snipe (2020-05-06)

79. Bewick's Swan (2020-05-06)

80. Temminck’s Stint (2020-05-07)

81. Collared Flycatcher (2020-05-10)

82. Barn Swallow (2020-05-10)

83. Tree Pipit (2020-05-12)

84. Whinchat (2020-05-12)

85. Wood Lark (2020-05-12)

86. Common Cuckoo (2020-05-14)

87. Great Crested Grebe (2020-05-18)

88. Sand Martin (2020-05-18)

89. Garganey (2020-05-18)

90. Arctic Loon (2020-05-21)

91. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2020-05-24)

92. Citrine Wagtail (2020-05-26)

93. Great Reed-warbler (2020-06-02)

94. Greenish Warbler (2020-06-03)

95. Common Hoopoe / Eurasian Hoopoe (2020-06-03)

96. Smew (2020-06-03)

97. Eurasian Woodcock (2020-06-03)

98. Tufted Duck (2020-06-04)

99. Common Goldeneye (2020-06-04)

100. Red-backed Shrike (2020-06-06)

101. Herring Gull (2020-06-09)

102. Goosander (2020-06-10)

103. Common Crane (2020-06-10)

104. Great Egret (2020-06-11)

105. Eurasian Reed-warbler (2020-06-11)

106. Northern House Martin (2020-06-15)

107. Little Ringed Plover (2020-06-16)

108. Greylag Goose (2020-06-18)

109. Osprey (2020-07-06)

110. Black-necked Grebe (2020-07-06)

111. Great Bittern (2020-07-07)

112. Great Cormorant (2020-07-07)

113. Dunlin (2020-07-14)

114. Common Sandpiper (2020-07-14)

115. Little Grebe (2020-07-15)

116. Common Coot (2020-07-15)

117. Common Pochard (2020-07-15)

118. Whiskered Tern (2020-07-16)

119. Caspian Gull (2020-07-22)

120. Common Moorhen (2020-07-28)

121. Sanderling (2020-08-12)

122. Common Kingfisher (2020-08-18)

123. Ruddy Turnstone (2020-08-31)

124. Rock Pigeon (2020-09-16)

125. Common Buzzard (2020-09-18)

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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