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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 (184)
2. AhuiVision (118)
3. dinmin (104)
4. yang feifei (104)
5. lixiangren (88)
6. Tiddler (84)
7. Rezaq Hassan (75)
8. Marmot (69)
9. BAI (59)
10. Yang (48)
11. 凌云 (19)
12. zhangxingmin (15)
13. hongliangyang (13)
14. hulk (13)
15. jack (11)
16. angel (10)
17. Gou Jun (8)
18. hpx (5)
19. wukefan (5)
20. Liujianming (3)
21. Daxian (2)
23. ZHUBAOHUA (1)
24. 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. Common 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. Desert Finch (2024-01-02)
28. Eastern Imperial Eagle (2024-01-02)
29. Eastern Buzzard (2024-01-02)
30. Crested Lark (2024-01-02)
31. Tarim Babbler (2024-01-02)
32. Black Kite (2024-01-02)
33. Grey Heron (2024-01-02)
34. Great Egret (2024-01-02)
35. Azure-winged Magpie (2024-01-03)
36. Azure Tit (2024-01-03)
37. Long-legged Buzzard (2024-01-03)
38. Ferruginous Pochard (2024-01-03)
39. Whooper Swan (2024-01-03)
40. Common Merganser (2024-01-03)
41. Common Goldeneye (2024-01-03)
42. Eurasian Teal (2024-01-03)
43. Eurasian Coot (2024-01-03)
44. Glaucous Gull (2024-01-03)
45. Mallard (2024-01-03)
46. Yellow-legged Gull (2024-01-03)
47. Heuglin's Gull (2024-01-03)
48. Mongolian Gull (2024-01-03)
49. Naumann's Thrush (2024-01-03)
50. Mew Gull (2024-01-03)
51. Black-headed Gull (2024-01-03)
52. Brambling (2024-01-04)
53. Bohemian Waxwing (2024-01-04)
54. Pygmy Cormorant (2024-01-04)
55. Smew (2024-01-05)
56. Black-necked Grebe (2024-01-05)
58. Tundra Bean Goose (2024-01-05)
59. Mistle Thrush (2024-01-05)
60. European Greenfinch (2024-01-05)
61. House Sparrow (2024-01-05)
62. Great Gray Shrike (2024-01-05)
63. Olive-backed Pipit (2024-01-05)
64. Taiga Bean Goose (2024-01-05)
65. Fieldfare (2024-01-06)
66. Mute Swan (2024-01-06)
67. Swan Goose (2024-01-06)
68. Common Myna (2024-01-06)
69. Hooded Crow (2024-01-06)
70. Saxaul Sparrow (2024-01-06)
71. Hen Harrier (2024-01-06)
72. Eurasian Sparrow Hawk (2024-01-06)
73. Pallas's Bunting (2024-01-06)
74. White Wagtail (2024-01-06)
75. Black Stork (2024-01-06)
76. Great Crested Grebe (2024-01-06)
77. Little Grebe (2024-01-06)
78. Tufted Duck (2024-01-06)
79. Common Snipe (2024-01-06)
80. Eurasian Wigeon (2024-01-06)
81. Black-crowned Night Heron (2024-01-06)
82. Northern Pintail (2024-01-06)
83. Red-crested Pochard (2024-01-06)
84. Northern Shoveler (2024-01-06)
85. Pallas's Gull (2024-01-06)
86. Common Buzzard (2024-01-06)
87. Gadwall (2024-01-06)
88. Bearded Reedling (2024-01-06)
89. White-tailed Sea Eagle (2024-01-06)
90. Water Pipit (2024-01-06)
91. Reed Bunting (2024-01-06)
92. Goldcrest (2024-01-06)
93. Tundra Swan (2024-01-06)
94. Rook (2024-01-07)
95. Red-throated Thrush (2024-01-07)
96. Asian Short-toed Lark (2024-01-07)
97. Little Owl (2024-01-07)
98. Golden Eagle (2024-01-07)
99. Brandt's Mountain Finch (2024-01-07)
100. Common Crane (2024-01-07)
101. Spanish Sparrow (2024-01-07)
102. Solitary Snipe (2024-01-08)
103. Red-billed Chough (2024-01-08)
104. Turkestan Tit (2024-01-08)
105. Bar-headed Goose (2024-01-08)
106. Graylag Goose (2024-01-08)
107. Ruddy Shelduck (2024-01-08)
108. Brown Accentor (2024-01-08)
109. Hawfinch (2024-01-08)
110. Godlewski's Bunting (2024-01-09)
111. White-winged Redstart (2024-01-09)
112. Merlin (2024-01-09)
113. Stock Dove (2024-01-09)
114. Ibisbill (2024-01-09)
115. Common Starling (2024-01-09)
116. Eurasian Skylark (2024-01-10)
117. Twite (2024-01-10)
118. Horned Lark (2024-01-10)
119. Common Raven (2024-01-10)
120. Himalayan Griffon (2024-01-10)
121. Western Marsh Harrier (2024-01-10)
122. Common Moorhen (2024-01-11)
123. Common Pochard (2024-01-11)
124. White-winged Grosbeak (2024-01-11)
125. Chinese Pond Heron (2024-01-12)
126. Green Sandpiper (2024-01-12)
127. Long-tailed Duck (2024-01-13)
128. White-headed Duck (2024-01-13)
129. Brown Dipper (2024-01-15)
130. Steppe Eagle (2024-01-15)
131. Northern Goshawk (2024-01-15)
132. Wallcreeper (2024-01-15)
133. Coal Tit (2024-01-15)
134. Red-mantled Rosefinch (2024-01-15)
135. European Goldfinch (2024-01-15)
136. Lammergeier (2024-01-17)
137. Common Shelduck (2024-01-17)
138. Long-eared Owl (2024-01-18)
139. Eurasian Bullfinch (2024-01-19)
140. Arctic Redpoll (2024-01-20)
141. Eurasian Jackdaw (2024-01-21)
142. Red Crossbill (2024-01-21)
143. Plain Mountain Finch (2024-01-21)
144. Eurasian Nuthatch (2024-01-21)
145. Rough-legged Hawk (2024-01-21)
146. Oriental Bullfinch (2024-01-21)
147. Grey Wagtail (2024-01-21)
148. Common Hoopoe (2024-01-23)
149. Dusky Thrush (2024-01-24)
150. Short-eared Owl (2024-01-24)
151. Northern Lapwing (2024-01-24)
152. White-winged Woodpecker (2024-01-24)
153. Mongolian Finch (2024-01-24)
154. Xinjiang Ground Jay (2024-01-27)
155. Eastern Yellow Wagtail (2024-01-29)
156. Great Bittern (2024-01-30)
157. Yellowhammer (2024-02-03)
158. Daurian Partridge (2024-02-06)
159. Grey-headed Woodpecker (2024-02-13)
160. Laughing Dove (2024-02-13)
161. White-browned Tit Warber (2024-02-15)
162. Willow Tit (2024-02-18)
163. Silver-throated Bushtit (2024-02-20)
164. Lapland Longspur (2024-02-22)
165. Chinese Spot-billed Duck (2024-02-28)
166. White-backed Woodpecker (2024-02-29)
167. Spotted Nutcracker (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. Meadow Bunting (2024-03-10)
177. Common Linnet (2024-03-13)
178. Rock Sparrow (2024-03-13)
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. Greater Short-toed Lark (2024-03-26)
190. Desert Wheatear (2024-03-26)
191. Tawny Pipit (2024-03-26)
192. Steppe Grey Shrike (2024-03-26)
193. Rock Bunting (2024-03-26)
194. Bimaculated Lark (2024-03-27)
195. Rufous-tailed Shrike (2024-03-27)
196. Swinhoe's Snipe (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. Common Ringed Plover (2024-03-30)
202. Lesser Sand Plover (2024-03-30)
203. Eurasian Curlew (2024-03-30)
204. Garganey (2024-04-02)
205. Northern House Martin (2024-04-02)
206. Barn Swallow (2024-04-02)
207. Common Swift (2024-04-04)
208. Western Osprey (2024-04-04)
209. Pied Avocet (2024-04-04)
210. Desert Whitethroat (2024-04-04)
211. Pallid Scops Owl (2024-04-06)
212. Eurasian Oystercatcher (2024-04-08)
213. Booted Eagle (2024-04-10)
214. Pallas's Sandgrouse (2024-04-11)
215. Eastern Marsh Harrier (2024-04-11)
216. Large-billed Crow (2024-04-11)
217. Great Reed Warbler (2024-04-12)
218. Common Greenshank (2024-04-12)
219. Hume's Leaf Warbler (2024-04-12)
220. Demoiselle Crane (2024-04-13)
221. Sand Martin (2024-04-13)
222. Siberian Stonechat (2024-04-13)
223. Northern Wheatear (2024-04-13)
224. Paddyfield Warbler (2024-04-14)
225. Savi's Warbler (2024-04-14)
226. Slender-billed Gull (2024-04-14)
227. Black-tailed Godwit (2024-04-15)
228. Caspian Tern (2024-04-15)
229. Eurasian Crag Martin (2024-04-16)

Big Year 2024

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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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