Big Year in Xinjiang. Birds of Xinjiang, China.

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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 XinJiang during this year.

You can see previous years competitions results here: 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

participants

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

1. Rick Wang (206)

2. AhuiVision (136)

3. YXSHZ wolf (120)

4. yang feifei (120)

5. Yang (102)

6. Black lark (79)

7. dinmin (78)

8. hongliangyang (72)

9. Tiddler (55)

10. Rezaq Hassan (54)

11. lixiangren (43)

12. wangjianli (28)

13. jack (5)

all species photographed in 2025

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

1. Upland Buzzard (2025-01-01)

2. Twite (2025-01-01)

3. House Sparrow (2025-01-01)

4. Himalayan Griffon (2025-01-01)

5. Black-throated Accentor (2025-01-01)

6. Lammergeier (2025-01-01)

7. Godlewski's Bunting (2025-01-01)

8. Golden Eagle (2025-01-01)

9. European Greenfinch (2025-01-01)

10. Eurasian Magpie (2025-01-01)

11. Brambling (2025-01-01)

12. Siberian Accentor (2025-01-01)

13. Common Chaffinch (2025-01-02)

14. Azure-winged Magpie (2025-01-02)

15. Great Tit (2025-01-02)

16. European Robin (2025-01-02)

17. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2025-01-02)

18. Blue-capped Redstart (2025-01-02)

19. Solitary Snipe (2025-01-02)

20. Cinereous Vulture (2025-01-02)

21. Asian Short-toed Lark (2025-01-02)

22. Rock Dove (2025-01-02)

23. Saker Falcon (2025-01-02)

24. Red-billed Chough (2025-01-03)

25. White-winged Redstart (2025-01-03)

26. Common Buzzard (2025-01-03)

27. Fieldfare (2025-01-03)

28. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2025-01-03)

29. Azure Tit (2025-01-03)

30. Common Starling (2025-01-03)

31. Eversmann's Redstart (2025-01-03)

32. Silver-throated Bushtit (2025-01-03)

33. Great Gray Shrike (2025-01-04)

34. Horned Lark (2025-01-04)

35. Rock Bunting (2025-01-04)

36. Brown Accentor (2025-01-04)

37. Plain Mountain Finch (2025-01-04)

38. Chukar Partridge (2025-01-04)

39. Common Blackbird (2025-01-04)

40. Eurasian Treecreeper (2025-01-04)

41. Turkestan Tit (2025-01-04)

42. Reed Bunting (2025-01-05)

43. Naumann's Thrush (2025-01-05)

44. Mistle Thrush (2025-01-05)

45. Redwing (2025-01-05)

46. Black-throated Thrush (2025-01-05)

47. Mallard (2025-01-05)

48. Great Cormorant (2025-01-05)

49. Common Merganser (2025-01-05)

50. Pallas's Gull (2025-01-05)

51. White-browned Tit Warber (2025-01-05)

52. Eurasian Wren (2025-01-05)

53. Hill Pigeon (2025-01-05)

54. Hooded Crow (2025-01-06)

55. Grey Heron (2025-01-07)

56. Common Raven (2025-01-07)

57. Greater White-fronted Goose (2025-01-07)

58. Eurasian Coot (2025-01-07)

59. Western Marsh Harrier (2025-01-07)

60. Hen Harrier (2025-01-07)

61. European Goldfinch (2025-01-08)

62. Eurasian Sparrow Hawk (2025-01-08)

63. Bearded Reedling (2025-01-08)

64. Black Kite (2025-01-08)

65. Whooper Swan (2025-01-08)

66. Taiga Bean Goose (2025-01-08)

67. Common Goldeneye (2025-01-08)

68. Ferruginous Pochard (2025-01-08)

69. Eurasian Wigeon (2025-01-08)

70. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2025-01-08)

71. Ruddy Shelduck (2025-01-09)

72. Common Shelduck (2025-01-09)

73. Northern Pintail (2025-01-09)

74. Tufted Duck (2025-01-09)

75. Gadwall (2025-01-09)

76. Eurasian Collared Dove (2025-01-09)

77. Smew (2025-01-09)

78. Common Crane (2025-01-09)

79. White-tailed Sea Eagle (2025-01-09)

80. Black-headed Gull (2025-01-09)

81. Eurasian Teal (2025-01-09)

82. Red-crested Pochard (2025-01-09)

83. Northern Shoveler (2025-01-09)

84. Great Crested Grebe (2025-01-09)

85. Common Pochard (2025-01-09)

86. Common Moorhen (2025-01-09)

87. Northern Goshawk (2025-01-10)

88. Common Kestrel (2025-01-10)

89. Pygmy Cormorant (2025-01-10)

90. Common Pheasant (2025-01-10)

91. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2025-01-10)

92. Graylag Goose (2025-01-10)

93. Green Sandpiper (2025-01-10)

94. Great Egret (2025-01-10)

95. Little Grebe (2025-01-10)

96. Mongolian Gull (2025-01-10)

97. Eurasian Woodcock (2025-01-10)

98. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2025-01-10)

99. Water Pipit (2025-01-10)

100. Yellow-legged Gull (2025-01-10)

101. Tundra Bean Goose (2025-01-11)

102. Swan Goose (2025-01-11)

103. Great Bittern (2025-01-11)

104. Eastern Buzzard (2025-01-11)

105. Long-legged Buzzard (2025-01-11)

106. Northern Lapwing (2025-01-11)

107. White Wagtail (2025-01-11)

108. Hume's Leaf Warbler (2025-01-11)

109. Black Stork (2025-01-11)

110. Spanish Sparrow (2025-01-11)

111. Black-crowned Night Heron (2025-01-11)

112. Red-throated Thrush (2025-01-11)

113. Crested Lark (2025-01-12)

114. Eurasian Skylark (2025-01-12)

115. Tarim Babbler (2025-01-13)

116. Steppe Eagle (2025-01-13)

117. Carrion Crow (2025-01-13)

118. Goldcrest (2025-01-13)

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

120. Ibisbill (2025-01-13)

121. Stock Dove (2025-01-13)

122. Pine Bunting (2025-01-13)

123. Greater Scaup (2025-01-14)

124. Tundra Swan (2025-01-14)

125. Hawfinch (2025-01-15)

126. Long-eared Owl (2025-01-15)

127. Mongolian Ground Jay (2025-01-15)

128. Desert Finch (2025-01-15)

129. Red-fronted Serin (2025-01-16)

130. Grey Partridge (2025-01-17)

131. Bohemian Waxwing (2025-01-18)

132. Mew Gull (2025-01-18)

133. Red Crossbill (2025-01-19)

134. Coal Tit (2025-01-19)

135. Eurasian Bullfinch (2025-01-20)

136. White-winged Grosbeak (2025-01-22)

137. Water Rail (2025-01-22)

138. Yellowhammer (2025-01-22)

139. Ural Owl (2025-01-25)

140. Boreal Owl (2025-01-26)

141. White-winged Lark (2025-01-28)

142. Black Lark (2025-01-28)

143. White-backed Woodpecker (2025-01-29)

144. Lapland Longspur (2025-01-29)

145. Eurasian Siskin (2025-01-30)

146. White-winged Woodpecker (2025-01-30)

147. Saxaul Sparrow (2025-01-30)

148. Peregrine Falcon (2025-01-31)

149. Little Owl (2025-02-01)

150. Eurasian Jackdaw (2025-02-01)

151. Rough-legged Hawk (2025-02-01)

152. Rock Sparrow (2025-02-03)

153. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2025-02-04)

154. Black Woodpecker (2025-02-04)

155. Eurasian Nuthatch (2025-02-05)

156. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2025-02-05)

157. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2025-02-05)

158. Common Wood Pigeon (2025-02-06)

159. Rook (2025-02-07)

160. Merlin (2025-02-08)

161. Laughing Dove (2025-02-15)

162. Pallas's Fish Eagle (2025-02-16)

163. Wallcreeper (2025-02-26)

164. Blue Whistling Thrush (2025-02-26)

165. White-capped Water Redstart (2025-02-26)

166. Spotted Nutcracker (2025-02-27)

167. Buff-bellied Pipit (2025-02-28)

168. Common Myna (2025-03-03)

169. Daurian Partridge (2025-03-06)

170. Common Chiff-chaff (2025-03-13)

171. Xinjiang Ground Jay (2025-03-14)

172. Greater Spotted Eagle (2025-03-15)

173. Isabelline Shrike (2025-03-15)

174. Common Hoopoe (2025-03-16)

175. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2025-03-17)

176. Garganey (2025-03-17)

177. Black-necked Grebe (2025-03-18)

178. Citrine Wagtail (2025-03-18)

179. Pied Wheatear (2025-03-18)

180. Common Redshank (2025-03-18)

181. Meadow Pipit (2025-03-18)

182. Eurasian Crag Martin (2025-03-19)

183. Cetti's Warbler (2025-03-20)

184. Black-winged Stilt (2025-03-20)

185. Little Ringed Plover (2025-03-20)

186. Rufous-tailed Shrike (2025-03-23)

187. Kentish Plover (2025-03-23)

188. Booted Eagle (2025-03-24)

189. Pale Sand Swallow (2025-03-24)

190. Isabelline Wheatear (2025-03-25)

191. Desert Wheatear (2025-03-26)

192. Mongolian Finch (2025-03-26)

193. Alpine Chough (2025-03-26)

194. Rufous-naped Tit (2025-03-26)

195. Himalayan Snowcock (2025-03-26)

196. Common Swift (2025-03-29)

197. Eurasian Curlew (2025-03-29)

198. Pied Avocet (2025-03-29)

199. Steppe Grey Shrike (2025-03-30)

200. Desert Whitethroat (2025-03-30)

201. Bluethroat (2025-04-01)

202. Brown-headed Gull (2025-04-03)

203. Western Yellow Wagtail (2025-04-05)

204. Black-tailed Godwit (2025-04-05)

205. Paddyfield Warbler (2025-04-05)

206. Barn Swallow (2025-04-06)

207. Northern Wheatear (2025-04-06)

208. Oriental Turtle Dove (2025-04-07)

209. Common Tern (2025-04-07)

210. Demoiselle Crane (2025-04-07)

211. White-headed Duck (2025-04-08)

212. Common Cuckoo (2025-04-09)

213. Pallid Scops Owl (2025-04-09)

214. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-04-10)

215. Black Redstart (2025-04-10)

216. Spotted Great Rosefinch (2025-04-10)

217. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-11)

218. Lesser Kestrel (2025-04-12)

219. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2025-04-12)

220. Common Linnet (2025-04-13)

221. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-13)

222. Black-bellied Sandgrouse (2025-04-14)

223. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-14)

224. Eurasian Scops Owl (2025-04-14)

225. Corn Bunting (2025-04-14)

226. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-14)

227. Bimaculated Lark (2025-04-16)

228. Northern House Martin (2025-04-16)

229. Dusky Warbler (2025-04-17)

230. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-17)

231. Mountain Chiff-chaff (2025-04-17)

232. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-18)

233. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-04-19)

234. Western Osprey (2025-04-20)

235. Caspian Tern (2025-04-20)

236. Great Reed Warbler (2025-04-21)

237. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-21)

238. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-21)

239. Tree Pipit (2025-04-21)

240. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-21)

Big Year 2025

1. Rick Wang (205)
2. AhuiVision (136)
3. YXSHZ wolf (120)
4. yang feifei (120)
5. Yang (102)
6. Black lark (79)
7. dinmin (78)
8. hongliangyang (72)
9. Tiddler (55)
10. Rezaq Hassan (54)

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rare birds records

Pygmy Cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus)

Dec. 28, 2018, LIU Zhongde found this species in Manas River wetland.

Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata)

15 Sept 2018, shot from Dafdar,Tashkurghan has been confirmed a new record in Xinjiang.

Sinai Rosefinch (Carpodacus synoicus)

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

27 May 2018, photo by Allan from Kuntibes,Akto has been confirmed a new record in Xinjiang.

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