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Best photos of the month, May 2017.

Bearded Tit | Alexei Ebel | 6

Carrion Crow | Igor Latysh | 6

Common Kestrel | Alexei Ebel | 5

Red-throated Thrush | Alexei Ebel | 5

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 5

Red-footed Falcon | Igor Latysh | 5

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 5

Eastern Imperial Eagle | Alexei Ebel | 5

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 5

Eastern Imperial Eagle | Alexei Ebel | 4

Dalmatian Pelican | Alexei Ebel | 4

Eurasian Wryneck | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Common Treecreeper | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Northern House Martin | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Pacific Golden Plover | Mishail Belousow | 4

Swinhoe's Snipe | Andrey Chernykh | 4

Northern Hazelhen | Ruslan Kirillin | 4

Booted Eagle | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Yellow Wagtail | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Coal Tit | Sergey Chumakov | 4

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 4

Greylag Goose | Alexei Ebel | 3

Eurasian Redstart | Sergey Chumakov | 3

Eurasian Whimbrel | Mishail Belousow | 3

Broad-billed Sandpiper | Ruslan Kirillin | 3

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 3

Hodgson's Rosefinch | Sergey Chumakov | 3

Wood Sandpiper | Igor Latysh | 3

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 3

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Maer | 3

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Maer | 3

White-winged Tern | Alexei Ebel | 2

Godlewski's Bunting | Vladimir Maer | 2

Eastern Buzzard | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Common Rosefinch | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 2

Black-throated Thrush | Igor Latysh | 2

Bean Goose | Igor Latysh | 2

Common Coot | Igor Latysh | 2

Wood Sandpiper | Igor Latysh | 2

Common Shelduck | Igor Latysh | 2

Long-toed Stint | Mishail Belousow | 2

Blyth's Reed Warbler | Konstantin Samodurow | 2

Spotted Flycatcher | Andrey Chernykh | 2

Western Grasshopper Warbler | Andrey Chernykh | 2

Common Greenshank | Natalia Vorobyova | 2

Terek Sandpiper | Ruslan Kirillin | 2

Wood Sandpiper | Ruslan Kirillin | 2

Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Alexey Denisov | 2

Masked Wagtail | Nadezhda Orlova | 2

Common Oystercatcher | Nadezhda Orlova | 2

Common Kestrel | Alexei Ebel | 2

Eurasian Redstart | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Red-footed Falcon | Igor Latysh | 2

Common Oystercatcher | Mishail Belousow | 2

Common Snipe | Andrey Chernykh | 2

Booted Eagle | Sergey Chumakov | 2

Spotted Crake | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Common Sparrowhawk | Yulia Kashinskaya | 2

Eurasian Wryneck | Sergey Chumakov | 2

rare birds records


Slender-billed Gull (Larus genei)

© Pavel Karplyuk
2026-05-15
Kosh-Agach



European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

© Alexander Popov
2026-06-06

A photo from the 1st breeding location in the Tomsk Region (firstly discoveed in 2025.


Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)

© Nadejda Popova
2026-05-30
Irkutsk Region

A recently rare species with uncertain status in the Irkutsk Region (in mid-XX century it was breeding).


Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus)

© Maxim Afanasiev
2026-05-29

The 1st record of a bird belonging to a Tibetan group atrifrons in Yakutia.

unidentified birds


2026-06-17

Родион Вахрушев: Белопясничный

2026-06-17

Родион Вахрушев: Теньковка.

more unidentified birds...