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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 XinJiang during this year.

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

participants


* number inside brackets means the number of species photographed in 2024
1. Rick Wang (306)
2. yang feifei (234)
3. AhuiVision (204)
4. dinmin (174)
5. angel (165)
6. hongliangyang (145)
7. Yang (139)
8. Rezaq Hassan (129)
9. Bird Sniper (127)
10. lixiangren (121)
11. Marmot (119)
12. Ligareen (109)
13. Tiddler (83)
14. BAI (59)
15. Black lark (57)
16. 凌云 (19)
17. kudrat·akbar (18)
18. jack (16)
19. zhangxingmin (14)
20. hulk (13)
21. Gou Jun (8)
22. wangjianli (8)
23. Daxian (5)
24. hpx (5)
25. wukefan (5)
26. Liujianming (3)
27. Ivan Feng (2)
28. Lee Tao (1)
30. ZHUBAOHUA (1)
31. datouyu (1)

all species photographed in 2024


* in order of appearance (number inside brackets means the date of first record "month-day" )
1. European Robin (2024-01-01)
2. Peregrine Falcon (2024-01-01)
3. Great Cormorant (2024-01-01)
4. Common Redpoll (2024-01-01)
5. Common Chaffinch (2024-01-01)
6. Upland Buzzard (2024-01-01)
7. White-throated Dipper (2024-01-01)
8. Black-throated Accentor (2024-01-01)
9. Eurasian Siskin (2024-01-01)
10. Eurasian Wren (2024-01-01)
11. Red-fronted Serin (2024-01-01)
12. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (2024-01-01)
13. Common Blackbird (2024-01-01)
14. Great Tit (2024-01-01)
15. Chukar Partridge (2024-01-01)
16. Carrion Crow (2024-01-01)
17. Rock Dove (2024-01-01)
18. Eurasian Magpie (2024-01-01)
19. Eversmann's Redstart (2024-01-01)
20. Black-throated Thrush (2024-01-01)
21. Common Pheasant (2024-01-01)
22. Common Kestrel (2024-01-01)
23. Pine Bunting (2024-01-01)
24. Eurasian Collared Dove (2024-01-01)
25. Long-tailed Rosefinch (2024-01-01)
26. Hill Pigeon (2024-01-01)
27. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-01)
28. Desert Finch (2024-01-02)
29. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-02)
30. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-02)
31. Crested Lark (2024-01-02)
32. Tarim Babbler (2024-01-02)
33. Black Kite (2024-01-02)
34. Grey Heron (2024-01-02)
35. Great Egret (2024-01-02)
36. Azure-winged Magpie (2024-01-03)
37. Azure Tit (2024-01-03)
38. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-03)
39. Ferruginous Pochard (2024-01-03)
40. Whooper Swan (2024-01-03)
41. Common Merganser (2024-01-03)
42. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-03)
43. Eurasian Teal (2024-01-03)
44. Eurasian Coot (2024-01-03)
45. Glaucous Gull (2024-01-03)
46. Mallard (2024-01-03)
47. Yellow-legged Gull (2024-01-03)
48. Heuglin's Gull (2024-01-03)
49. Mongolian Gull (2024-01-03)
50. Naumann's Thrush (2024-01-03)
51. Mew Gull (2024-01-03)
52. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-03)
53. Brambling (2024-01-04)
54. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-04)
55. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-04)
56. Smew (2024-01-05)
57. Black-necked Grebe (2024-01-05)
59. Tundra Bean Goose (2024-01-05)
60. European Greenfinch (2024-01-05)
61. House Sparrow (2024-01-05)
62. Great Gray Shrike (2024-01-05)
63. Taiga Bean Goose (2024-01-05)
64. Fieldfare (2024-01-06)
65. Mute Swan (2024-01-06)
66. Common Myna (2024-01-06)
67. Hooded Crow (2024-01-06)
68. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-01-06)
69. Hen Harrier (2024-01-06)
70. Eurasian Sparrow Hawk (2024-01-06)
71. Pallas's Bunting (2024-01-06)
72. White Wagtail (2024-01-06)
73. Black Stork (2024-01-06)
74. Great Crested Grebe (2024-01-06)
75. Little Grebe (2024-01-06)
76. Tufted Duck (2024-01-06)
77. Common Snipe (2024-01-06)
78. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-06)
79. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-01-06)
80. Northern Pintail (2024-01-06)
81. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-06)
82. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-06)
83. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-06)
84. Common Buzzard (2024-01-06)
85. Gadwall (2024-01-06)
86. Bearded Reedling (2024-01-06)
87. White-tailed Sea Eagle (2024-01-06)
88. Water Pipit (2024-01-06)
89. Reed Bunting (2024-01-06)
90. Goldcrest (2024-01-06)
91. Tundra Swan (2024-01-06)
92. Rook (2024-01-07)
93. Red-throated Thrush (2024-01-07)
94. Asian Short-toed Lark (2024-01-07)
95. Little Owl (2024-01-07)
96. Golden Eagle (2024-01-07)
97. Brandt's Mountain Finch (2024-01-07)
98. Common Crane (2024-01-07)
99. Spanish Sparrow (2024-01-07)
100. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-08)
101. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-08)
102. Turkestan Tit (2024-01-08)
103. Bar-headed Goose (2024-01-08)
104. Graylag Goose (2024-01-08)
105. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-08)
106. Brown Accentor (2024-01-08)
107. Hawfinch (2024-01-08)
108. Godlewski's Bunting (2024-01-09)
109. White-winged Redstart (2024-01-09)
110. Merlin (2024-01-09)
111. Stock Dove (2024-01-09)
112. Ibisbill (2024-01-09)
113. Swan Goose (2024-01-09)
114. Common Starling (2024-01-09)
115. Eurasian Skylark (2024-01-10)
116. Twite (2024-01-10)
117. Horned Lark (2024-01-10)
118. Common Raven (2024-01-10)
119. Himalayan Griffon (2024-01-10)
120. Western Marsh Harrier (2024-01-10)
121. Common Moorhen (2024-01-11)
122. Common Pochard (2024-01-11)
123. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-01-11)
124. Chinese Pond Heron (2024-01-12)
125. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-12)
126. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-13)
127. White-headed Duck (2024-01-13)
128. Brown Dipper (2024-01-15)
129. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-15)
130. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-15)
131. Wallcreeper (2024-01-15)
132. Coal Tit (2024-01-15)
133. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-01-15)
134. European Goldfinch (2024-01-15)
135. Lammergeier (2024-01-17)
136. Common Shelduck (2024-01-17)
137. Arctic Redpoll (2024-01-17)
138. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-18)
139. Eurasian Bullfinch (2024-01-19)
140. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-21)
141. Red Crossbill (2024-01-21)
142. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-01-21)
143. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-21)
144. Rough-legged Hawk (2024-01-21)
145. Oriental Bullfinch (2024-01-21)
146. Grey Wagtail (2024-01-21)
147. Common Hoopoe (2024-01-23)
148. Dusky Thrush (2024-01-24)
149. Short-eared Owl (2024-01-24)
150. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-24)
151. White-winged Woodpecker (2024-01-24)
152. Mongolian Finch (2024-01-24)
153. Xinjiang Ground Jay (2024-01-27)
154. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2024-01-29)
155. Great Bittern (2024-01-30)
156. Yellowhammer (2024-02-03)
157. Daurian Partridge (2024-02-06)
158. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2024-02-13)
159. Laughing Dove (2024-02-13)
160. White-browned Tit Warber (2024-02-15)
161. Willow Tit (2024-02-18)
162. Silver-throated Bushtit (2024-02-20)
163. Lapland Longspur (2024-02-22)
164. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2024-02-28)
165. White-backed Woodpecker (2024-02-29)
166. Spotted Nutcracker (2024-02-29)
167. Saker Falcon (2024-02-29)
168. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (2024-03-01)
169. Pallas's Rosefinch (2024-03-02)
170. Corn Bunting (2024-03-05)
171. Eurasian Treecreeper (2024-03-06)
172. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (2024-03-06)
173. Black Lark (2024-03-07)
174. Black Woodpecker (2024-03-08)
176. Common Linnet (2024-03-13)
177. Rock Sparrow (2024-03-13)
178. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-17)
179. Black Redstart (2024-03-18)
180. Pied Wheatear (2024-03-19)
181. Citrine Wagtail (2024-03-19)
182. Isabelline Wheatear (2024-03-19)
183. Little Ringed Plover (2024-03-20)
184. Isabelline Shrike (2024-03-20)
185. Common Redshank (2024-03-20)
186. Black-winged Stilt (2024-03-20)
187. Western Yellow Wagtail (2024-03-21)
188. Kentish Plover (2024-03-25)
189. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-26)
190. Tawny Pipit (2024-03-26)
191. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-26)
192. Rock Bunting (2024-03-26)
193. Bimaculated Lark (2024-03-27)
194. Rufous-tailed Shrike (2024-03-27)
195. Swinhoe's Snipe (2024-03-28)
196. Spotted Great Rosefinch (2024-03-28)
197. Bluethroat (2024-03-29)
198. Common Chiff-chaff (2024-03-29)
199. Cetti's Warbler (2024-03-29)
200. Brown-headed Gull (2024-03-30)
201. Eurasian Curlew (2024-03-30)
202. Garganey (2024-04-02)
203. Northern House Martin (2024-04-02)
204. Barn Swallow (2024-04-02)
205. Common Swift (2024-04-04)
206. Western Osprey (2024-04-04)
207. Pied Avocet (2024-04-04)
208. Desert Whitethroat (2024-04-04)
209. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-05)
210. Pallid Scops Owl (2024-04-06)
211. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2024-04-08)
212. Common Wood Pigeon (2024-04-08)
213. Booted Eagle (2024-04-10)
214. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-04-11)
215. Common Tern (2024-04-11)
216. Great Reed Warbler (2024-04-12)
217. Common Greenshank (2024-04-12)
218. Hume's Leaf Warbler (2024-04-12)
219. Pale Sand Swallow (2024-04-13)
220. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-13)
221. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-13)
222. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-04-14)
223. Savi's Warbler (2024-04-14)
224. Slender-billed Gull (2024-04-14)
225. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-15)
226. Caspian Tern (2024-04-15)
227. Mountain Chiff-chaff (2024-04-15)
228. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-04-16)
229. Black Grouse (2024-04-18)
230. Alpine Chough (2024-04-19)
231. Tree Pipit (2024-04-19)
232. Songar Tit (2024-04-19)
233. Horned Grebe (2024-04-19)
234. Himalayan Snowcock (2024-04-20)
235. Altai Accentor (2024-04-20)
236. Great Bustard (2024-04-20)
237. Lesser Kestrel (2024-04-20)
238. White-winged Snowfinch (2024-04-21)
239. Eurasian Scops Owl (2024-04-25)
240. White-crowned Penduline Tit (2024-04-25)
241. Eurasian Stone Curlew (2024-04-26)
242. Asian Desert Warbler (2024-04-26)
243. Black Tern (2024-04-27)
244. Common Cuckoo (2024-04-27)
245. Whimbrel (2024-04-27)
246. Cinereous Vulture (2024-04-28)
247. Common Sandpiper (2024-04-29)
248. Common Nightingale (2024-04-29)
249. Little Tern (2024-04-30)
250. Little Bittern (2024-04-30)
251. Oriental Turtle Dove (2024-04-30)
252. Barred Warbler (2024-04-30)
253. Red-footed Falcon (2024-04-30)
254. Lesser Sand Plover (2024-05-01)
255. European Roller (2024-05-05)
256. Eurasian Hobby (2024-05-06)
257. Indian Golden Oriole (2024-05-08)
258. European Bee-eater (2024-05-08)
259. Dunlin (2024-05-10)
260. Temminck's Stint (2024-05-10)
261. Terek Sandpiper (2024-05-10)
262. Little Stint (2024-05-10)
263. Spotted Redshank (2024-05-10)
264. Wood Sandpiper (2024-05-10)
265. Collared Pratincole (2024-05-10)
266. Common Rosefinch (2024-05-10)
267. Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (2024-05-11)
268. Whiskered Tern (2024-05-12)
269. White's Thrush (2024-05-14)
270. Black-necked Crane (2024-05-14)
271. Ground Tit (2024-05-14)
272. Sand Martin (2024-05-14)
273. Shikra (2024-05-15)
274. Blanford's Snowfinch (2024-05-15)
275. Oriental Skylark (2024-05-15)
276. White-rumped Snowfinch (2024-05-15)
277. Rufous-necked Snowfinch (2024-05-15)
278. Ortolan Bunting (2024-05-15)
279. Richard' s Pipit (2024-05-15)
280. Greater Whitethroat (2024-05-15)
281. Calandra Lark (2024-05-15)
282. Tibetan Sandgrouse (2024-05-15)
283. Tibetan Lark (2024-05-15)
284. Hume's Short-toed Lark (2024-05-16)
285. European Nightjar (2024-05-18)
286. Sykes' Warbler (2024-05-22)
287. Lesser Grey Shrike (2024-05-27)
288. Booted Warbler (2024-05-27)
289. Grey-necked Bunting (2024-05-28)
290. Glossy Ibis (2024-05-28)
291. Eurasian Wryneck (2024-05-29)
292. Red-backed Shrike (2024-05-29)
293. Spotted Flycatcher (2024-05-29)
294. Short-toed Snake Eagle (2024-05-29)
295. Brown-headed Bunting (2024-05-29)
296. Eurasian Golden Oriole (2024-05-29)
297. Blyth's Reed Warbler (2024-05-29)
298. Eurasian Reed Warbler (2024-05-30)
299. White-winged Tern (2024-05-30)
300. Grey Plover (2024-05-30)
301. Ruddy Turnstone (2024-05-31)
302. Greater Sand Plover (2024-05-31)
303. European Turtle Dove (2024-05-31)
304. Black-winged Pratincole (2024-05-31)
305. Barbary Falcon (2024-06-01)
306. Blue-capped Redstart (2024-06-02)
307. Greenish Warbler (2024-06-02)
308. Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (2024-06-02)
309. Rosy Starling (2024-06-05)
310. Pallas's Fish Eagle (2024-06-12)
311. Common Redstart (2024-06-12)
312. Common Kingfisher (2024-06-14)
313. Rosy Pipit (2024-06-22)
314. Sulphur-bellied Warbler (2024-06-22)
316. Great Spotted Woodpecker (2024-06-25)
317. Corncrake (2024-06-26)
318. Altai Snowcock (2024-06-26)
319. Eurasian Dotterel (2024-06-27)
320. Yellow-breasted Bunting (2024-07-07)
321. Lesser Whitethroat (2024-07-07)
322. Curlew Sandpiper (2024-07-13)
323. Rock Ptarmigan (2024-07-20)
324. Black Drongo (2024-07-22)
325. Mongolian Ground Jay (2024-08-08)
326. Rufous-naped Tit (2024-08-08)
327. Long-tailed Shrike (2024-08-11)
328. Tibetan Snowcock (2024-08-11)
329. Pacific Golden Plover (2024-08-16)
330. Blue Whistling Thrush (2024-08-26)
331. White-tail Rubythroat (2024-08-31)
332. Red-necked Phalarope (2024-09-05)
333. Pallid Harrier (2024-09-10)
334. Dalmatian Pelican (2024-09-14)
335. Little Gull (2024-09-20)
336. Little Bustard (2024-09-21)
337. Black-bellied Sandgrouse (2024-09-21)
338. Greater Spotted Eagle (2024-09-23)
339. Grey Partridge (2024-09-24)
340. Montagu's Harrier (2024-09-25)
341. Red-breasted Flycatcher (2024-10-02)
342. Little Bunting (2024-10-02)
343. Crested Honey-buzzard (2024-10-04)
344. Meadow Bunting (2024-10-10)
345. Ruff (2024-10-11)
346. Great White Pelican (2024-10-30)
347. Red-breasted Goose (2024-11-09)
348. Redwing (2024-11-11)
349. Rustic Bunting (2024-11-15)
351. Meadow Pipit (2024-12-06)
352. Eurasian Woodcock (2024-12-07)
353. Red-breasted Merganser (2024-12-20)
354. Siberian Accentor (2024-12-24)
355. Jack Snipe (2024-12-27)
356. Water Rail (2024-12-27)
357. Greater Scaup (2024-12-27)

Big Year 2025

1. Rick Wang (175)
2. yang feifei (106)
3. AhuiVision (88)
4. YXSHZ wolf (87)
5. dinmin (73)
6. Yang (50)
7. lixiangren (37)
8. Rezaq Hassan (35)
9. Tiddler (33)
10. wangjianli (28)
more...

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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unidentified birds

2025-03-31

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2025-03-17

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2025-03-16

杨建军: 红尾鸫
2025-03-16

杨建军: 花脸鸭
2025-03-14

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