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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

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* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2024

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. Rook (2024-01-05)
4. Common Bullfinch (2024-01-06)
5. Rough-legged Buzzard (2024-01-07)
6. Little Owl (2024-01-10)
7. Great Black-backed Gull (2024-01-11)
8. Herring Gull (2024-01-11)
9. Caspian Gull (2024-01-11)
10. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-01-12)
11. Horned Lark / Shore Lark (2024-01-12)
12. Marsh Tit (2024-01-13)
13. Willow Tit (2024-01-13)
14. Reed Bunting (2024-01-16)
15. European Greenfinch (2024-01-17)
16. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-19)
17. Mallard (2024-01-19)
18. Rock Pigeon (2024-01-19)
19. Great Tit (2024-01-19)
20. Common Black-headed Gull (2024-01-19)
21. Common Coot (2024-01-19)
22. White-tailed Sea-Eagle (2024-01-19)
23. Grey Partridge (2024-01-20)
24. Snow Bunting (2024-01-21)
25. European Robin (2024-01-21)
26. Great Grey Shrike (2024-01-21)
27. Long-tailed Tit (2024-01-21)
28. Merlin (2024-01-27)
29. Grey Heron (2024-01-28)
30. Goosander (2024-01-28)
31. Middle Spotted Woodpecker (2024-02-08)
32. Crested Lark (2024-02-10)
33. Whooper Swan (2024-02-14)
34. Crested Tit (2024-02-17)
35. Eurasian Treecreeper (2024-02-17)
36. Common Raven (2024-02-19)
37. Blue Tit (2024-02-19)
38. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-02-24)
39. Greylag Goose (2024-02-25)
40. Common Buzzard (2024-02-27)
41. White-backed Woodpecker (2024-02-29)
42. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-03-01)
43. Egyptian Goose (2024-03-01)
45. Eurasian Skylark (2024-03-02)
46. Mute Swan (2024-03-02)
47. Goldcrest (2024-03-03)
48. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2024-03-03)
49. Yellowhammer (2024-03-03)
50. Common Goldeneye (2024-03-03)
51. Great Cormorant (2024-03-05)
52. Peregrine Falcon (2024-03-06)
53. Bean Goose (2024-03-06)
54. Northern Lapwing (2024-03-06)
55. Northern Pintail (2024-03-06)
56. White Wagtail (2024-03-07)
57. Eurasian Wren (2024-03-08)
58. Common Starling (2024-03-09)
59. House Sparrow (2024-03-09)
60. Coal Tit (2024-03-09)
61. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-03-11)
62. Great Egret (2024-03-12)
63. Eurasian Jay (2024-03-14)
64. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-14)
65. Ruff male, Reeve female (2024-03-15)
66. Wood Lark (2024-03-16)
67. Eurasian Sparrowhawk (2024-03-16)
68. Smew (2024-03-18)
69. Azure Tit (2024-03-18)
70. Common Crane (2024-03-21)
71. Redwing (2024-03-29)
72. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2024-03-30)
73. Common Redshank (2024-03-30)
74. Caspian Tern (2024-04-01)
75. Common Shelduck (2024-04-01)
76. Western Yellow Wagtail (2024-04-01)
77. Eurasian Penduline-tit (2024-04-01)
78. Common Wood Pigeon (2024-04-01)
79. Green Sandpiper (2024-04-01)
80. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-01)
81. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-02)
82. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-05)
83. Barn Swallow (2024-04-05)
84. Common Chiffchaff (2024-04-06)
85. Chaffinch (2024-04-06)
86. Tree Pipit (2024-04-06)
87. European Serin (2024-04-07)
88. Gadwall (2024-04-07)
89. Osprey (2024-04-08)
90. Bluethroat (2024-04-08)
91. Dunlin (2024-04-08)
92. Common Greenshank (2024-04-08)
93. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-04-09)
94. Syrian Woodpecker (2024-04-09)
95. Common Tern (2024-04-09)
96. Black Tern (2024-04-09)
97. Black-necked Grebe (2024-04-09)
98. Black Redstart (2024-04-10)
99. Linnet (2024-04-10)
100. Tufted Duck (2024-04-10)
101. Common Blackbird (2024-04-11)
102. Song Thrush (2024-04-11)
103. Blackcap (2024-04-12)
104. Common Teal (2024-04-12)
105. Garganey (2024-04-12)
106. Hawfinch (2024-04-12)
107. Northern Shoveler (2024-04-12)
108. Brambling (2024-04-12)
109. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-04-13)
110. White Stork (2024-04-13)
111. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-04-14)
112. Willow Warbler (2024-04-14)
113. European Goldfinch (2024-04-14)
114. Short-toed Snake-Eagle (2024-04-14)
115. Common Snipe (2024-04-15)
116. Black Stork (2024-04-16)
117. Common Pochard (2024-04-17)
118. Collared Flycatcher (2024-04-20)
119. Little Ringed Plover (2024-04-21)
121. Lesser Spotted Eagle (2024-04-25)
122. Sedge Warbler (2024-04-25)
123. European Pied Flycatcher (2024-04-25)
124. Wood Warbler (2024-04-27)
125. Thrush Nightingale (2024-04-28)
126. Whinchat (2024-04-28)
127. Firecrest (2024-04-28)
128. Glossy Ibis (2024-04-30)
129. Common Whitethroat (2024-05-01)
130. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-01)
131. White-winged Tern (2024-05-01)
132. Common Redstart (2024-05-01)
133. Common Moorhen (2024-05-02)
134. Montagu's Harrier (2024-05-02)
135. European Stonechat (2024-05-03)
136. Little Gull (2024-05-04)
137. Western Marsh Harrier (2024-05-05)
138. Little Tern (2024-05-08)
139. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-05-09)
140. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-09)
141. Mistle Thrush (2024-05-09)
142. Black Kite (2024-05-10)
143. Corncrake (2024-05-11)
144. Barred Warbler (2024-05-12)
145. Great Reed-warbler (2024-05-12)
146. Garden Warbler (2024-05-13)
147. Great Crested Grebe (2024-05-13)
148. Eurasian Golden Oriole (2024-05-13)
149. Common Swift (2024-05-14)
150. Little Crake (2024-05-15)
151. Tawny Owl (2024-05-16)
152. River Warbler (2024-05-19)
153. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-19)
154. Common Cuckoo (2024-05-20)
155. Marsh Warbler (2024-05-25)
156. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2024-05-25)
157. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-25)
158. Icterine Warbler (2024-05-26)
159. Northern House Martin (2024-05-26)
160. European Honey Buzzard (2024-05-26)
161. European Bee-eater (2024-05-26)
162. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-06-06)
163. Short-eared Owl (2024-06-08)
164. Hazel Grouse (2024-06-14)
165. Sand Martin (2024-06-17)
166. Savi’s Warbler (2024-06-19)
167. Northern Goshawk (2024-06-20)
168. Spotted Redshank (2024-06-21)
169. European Turtle Dove (2024-06-22)
170. Terek Sandpiper (2024-06-25)
171. Great Bittern (2024-06-26)
172. Eurasian Hobby (2024-06-29)
173. Arctic Loon (2024-07-14)
174. Great Grey Owl (2024-07-16)
175. Common Ringed Plover (2024-07-17)
176. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-07-19)
177. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-07-19)
178. Meadow Pipit (2024-07-21)
179. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-07-31)
180. Common Kingfisher (2024-08-03)
181. Pallid Harrier (2024-08-14)
182. Broad-billed Sandpiper (2024-08-16)
183. Little Stint (2024-08-16)
184. Temminck’s Stint (2024-08-16)
185. Stock Pigeon (2024-08-18)
186. Common Kestrel (2024-08-19)
187. Eurasian Golden Plover (2024-08-25)
188. Red-footed Falcon (2024-09-14)
189. Red Knot (2024-09-29)
190. Common Gull (2024-10-04)
191. Hen Harrier (2024-10-12)
192. Red-throated Pipit (2024-10-13)
193. Black Grouse (2024-10-17)
194. Red-necked Grebe (2024-11-02)
195. Greater Scaup (2024-11-02)
196. White-throated Dipper (2024-11-15)
197. Bearded Reedling (2024-12-19)

rare birds records


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

Редко регистрируемый вид

Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus)

© Valery Dombrovski
2024-07-31
Kirov district, Mogilev region

Случайно залётный вид в Беларуси
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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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