Birds.kz · Birding Day
A platform of bird watchers of Eurasia
For more than 20 years amateurs and professionals have been collecting photographs and observations of birds here: from Kazakhstan to Siberia and the Far East.
More than 1 million photographs · 8 large community sites · free for everyone
About the project
Birding Day is a platform of bird watcher communities of Eurasia. It was created by Kazakhstani Askar Isabekov, a bird photographer and the founder of Birds.kz.
Birds.kz became the oldest and the largest site of the platform. The communities of Siberia, the Far East, European Russia and other regions work on the same system.
- More than 20 years of work
- 8 large sites in different regions
- More than 1 million bird photographs
- About 50 thousand visitors a day (estimate)
Visits: server logs, November 2026, estimate.
Bird watching: a mass and growing hobby
In the USA 96 million people watch birds, that is 37% of residents over 16. The average age of a bird watcher is 49. On trips to see birds alone they spend about 14 billion dollars a year.
This is an adult and keen audience: people travel, take photographs, learn to tell species apart and spend weekends in nature.
The community in Kazakhstan is growing year by year too. 2026 is a record year: it is not over yet, and already more new observations have been uploaded to Birds.kz than in any previous year.
Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, national survey of 2022.
One platform for the communities of all Eurasia
Birds.kz is the flagship of the Birding Day platform. The sites of bird watchers of other regions work on the same system: each has its own community, authors and moderators.
- More than 9 million page requests a month
- About 50 thousand visitors a day (our estimate)
- More than 1 million bird photographs
| Community | Photographs |
|---|---|
| Kazakhstan (Birds.kz) | 342 thousand |
| Siberia | 284 thousand |
| European Russia | 167 thousand |
| Ukraine | 106 thousand |
| Far East | 87 thousand |
| Xinjiang (China) | 52 thousand |
| Tyumen and Belarus | 22 thousand |
| Total | 1.06 million |
There are also archives of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and India.
Photos: platform databases as of November 3, 2026. Visits: server logs of November 1–2, 2026, estimate.
Birds.kz: the largest photo archive of the birds of Kazakhstan
Since 2005 observers have uploaded to the site 342 thousand photographs of 511 bird species. About a hundred authors publish new observations every year.
The site is opened by more than 15 thousand people a day. Most come from Google and Yandex when they look for the name of a bird.
Birds.kz database and server logs, November 2026.
Why the platform needs partners
All Birding Day sites work on one system. They are free for readers and authors, the project is kept alive by volunteers.
Now we are moving the platform to a new architecture. Birds.kz goes first: a completely new site on the birds.kz domain and servers in Kazakhstan. The other communities will follow to the same infrastructure.
So support of a partner works not for one site but for bird watchers of all Eurasia. We look for money for the infrastructure through partnerships and grants.
Partnership offer
Audience of the platform: about 50,000 visitors a day by our estimate, of them more than 15,000 on Birds.kz.
we are looking for
A partner who will provide a cloud server for the platform
We will agree on the configuration and a test period with your team.
you get
- Logo and the caption “Hosting partner” on the Birds.kz home page, later on the other sites of the platform
- A story about the partner on the “About the site” page
- A news post for the community and posts in social networks
- A joint case study “How Birds.kz moved to a Kazakh host”
we are looking for
Companies that care about nature, travel and photography
You support servers, photo storage and development of the site, and we tell our readers about you. We will discuss the amount, format and dates together.
you get
- Logo and the caption “Partner” on the Birds.kz home page
- A story about the partner on the “About the site” page
- A news post for the community and posts in social networks
- An audience that looks for birds, travels and photographs nature
- A report on what the money was spent on
we are looking for
Foundations and programmes that support science and nature
Nature, science and education programmes. We will prepare the application together with your team.
you get
- Reporting under the charter of the public association
- Observation data for research
- A mention of the foundation on the “About the site” page and in the news
- A joint case study about the results of the programme
Visits: Birds.kz by server logs, the platform by estimate, November 2026. We discuss the terms with each partner separately.
Let us discuss
We will be glad to tell you more about the project, show the new site and answer the questions of your team.
Or write to support@birding.day