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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 (277)
2. AhuiVision (192)
3. dinmin (142)
4. yang feifei (136)
5. Yang (133)
6. YXSHZ wolf (129)
7. Black lark (86)
9. lixiangren (70)
10. Rezaq Hassan (69)
11. Tiddler (55)
12. wangjianli (28)
13. jack (5)
14. zhang (1)

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)
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. Grey Wagtail (2025-04-09)
215. Spotted Great Rosefinch (2025-04-09)
216. Pallas's Bunting (2025-04-09)
217. White-winged Snowfinch (2025-04-10)
218. Black Redstart (2025-04-10)
219. Siberian Stonechat (2025-04-11)
220. Bar-headed Goose (2025-04-11)
221. Lesser Kestrel (2025-04-12)
222. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2025-04-12)
223. Common Linnet (2025-04-13)
224. Black-bellied Sandgrouse (2025-04-14)
225. Greater Short-toed Lark (2025-04-14)
226. Eurasian Scops Owl (2025-04-14)
227. Corn Bunting (2025-04-14)
228. Tawny Pipit (2025-04-14)
229. Western Osprey (2025-04-14)
230. Bimaculated Lark (2025-04-16)
231. Northern House Martin (2025-04-16)
232. Glossy Ibis (2025-04-17)
233. Mountain Chiff-chaff (2025-04-17)
234. Dalmatian Pelican (2025-04-18)
235. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2025-04-19)
236. Caspian Tern (2025-04-20)
237. Great Reed Warbler (2025-04-21)
238. Common Sandpiper (2025-04-21)
239. Red-throated Pipit (2025-04-21)
240. Tree Pipit (2025-04-21)
241. Lesser Whitethroat (2025-04-21)
242. Savi's Warbler (2025-04-25)
243. Olive-backed Pipit (2025-04-25)
244. Yellow-browed Warbler (2025-04-25)
245. European Roller (2025-04-25)
246. Greater Sand Plover (2025-04-26)
248. Little Tern (2025-04-26)
249. Lesser Sand Plover (2025-04-26)
250. Sand Martin (2025-04-26)
251. Common Greenshank (2025-04-27)
252. Dusky Warbler (2025-04-28)
253. Ortolan Bunting (2025-04-28)
254. Little Bittern (2025-04-30)
255. Barred Warbler (2025-04-30)
256. Sykes' Warbler (2025-05-01)
257. Common Kingfisher (2025-05-01)
258. Mute Swan (2025-05-01)
259. Common Nightingale (2025-05-01)
260. Shikra (2025-05-01)
261. Common Quail (2025-05-02)
262. Brown-headed Bunting (2025-05-02)
263. Lesser Grey Shrike (2025-05-02)
264. Blue Rock Thrush (2025-05-02)
265. European Bee-eater (2025-05-02)
266. Richard' s Pipit (2025-05-02)
267. Short-toed Snake Eagle (2025-05-02)
268. Red-footed Falcon (2025-05-02)
269. Eurasian Wryneck (2025-05-03)
270. Black Tern (2025-05-04)
271. Black Grouse (2025-05-04)
272. Great Bustard (2025-05-05)
273. Calandra Lark (2025-05-05)
274. Montagu's Harrier (2025-05-05)
275. Common Redstart (2025-05-06)
276. Common Rosefinch (2025-05-06)
278. Dunlin (2025-05-06)
279. Collared Pratincole (2025-05-07)
280. Eurasian Spoonbill (2025-05-10)
281. Ruddy Turnstone (2025-05-10)
282. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2025-05-11)
283. Temminck's Stint (2025-05-12)
284. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2025-05-12)
285. European Nightjar (2025-05-13)
286. Griffon Vulture (2025-05-15)
287. Asian Desert Warbler (2025-05-16)
288. Pacific Golden Plover (2025-05-16)
289. Spotted Redshank (2025-05-16)
290. Terek Sandpiper (2025-05-16)
291. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2025-05-16)
292. Spotted Flycatcher (2025-05-17)
293. Grey-necked Bunting (2025-05-17)
294. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2025-05-17)
295. Booted Warbler (2025-05-17)
296. Red-backed Shrike (2025-05-17)
297. Common Snipe (2025-05-17)
298. Long-toed Stint (2025-05-17)
299. Greater Whitethroat (2025-05-18)
300. Eurasian Golden Oriole (2025-05-18)
301. Whimbrel (2025-05-18)
302. Gull-billed Tern (2025-05-18)
303. Corncrake (2025-05-18)
304. Wood Sandpiper (2025-05-19)
305. Horned Grebe (2025-05-19)
306. Grey Plover (2025-05-19)
307. Whiskered Tern (2025-05-23)
308. Rosy Starling (2025-05-23)
309. Little Stint (2025-05-25)
310. Eurasian Hobby (2025-05-26)
311. Songar Tit (2025-05-26)
312. Greenish Warbler (2025-05-26)
313. White-winged Tern (2025-06-01)
314. Crested Honey-buzzard (2025-06-02)

Big Year 2025

1. Rick Wang (276)
2. AhuiVision (192)
3. dinmin (142)
4. yang feifei (135)
5. Yang (133)
6. YXSHZ wolf (128)
7. Black lark (86)
8. hongliangyang (85)
9. lixiangren (70)
10. Rezaq Hassan (69)
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rare birds records


Pygmy Cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus)

© daobazi
2018-11-20
Xinjiang Changji Manas County National Wetland Park

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

Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata)

© gebi huyang
2018-09-16
wusu

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

Sinai Rosefinch (Carpodacus synoicus)

© Marmot
2018-05-31
Hetian County


Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

© Allan Linn
2018-05-27
Kuntibes, Muji, Akto

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

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unidentified birds

2025-04-22

no any comments:
2025-04-16

Дмитрий Коробов: Aythya marila (Linnaeus, 1761)Greater Scaup
2025-04-16

Дмитрий Коробов: Anas formosa (Georgi, 1775)Baikal Teal
2025-04-04

Ольга Васик: Anas formosa (Georgi, 1775)Baikal Teal
2025-03-31

no any comments:
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