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3 775observations 412species 80%of the Birds.kz list 17 of 20regions 8 187comments 21diary entries

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262 species in 2026

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2009

Big Year 2009
1-th place · 176 species

where they watch birds

17 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region1 162 Atyrau Region990 Turkistan Region362 Almaty358 Mangystau Region278 Zhetysu Region160 Akmola Region139 Kyzylorda Region73 Ulytau Region65 Zhambyl Region61

7 more regions

Aktobe Region25 Kostanay Region18 Astana9 East Kazakhstan Region9 Abai Region6 Shymkent2 Karaganda Region1

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Northern Bullfinch23 Oct
Dusky Warbler17 Oct
Spotted Nutcracker14 Oct

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Most in 2026: 761 observations

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Long-legged Buzzard 72 Black-throated Thrush 58 Steppe Eagle 51 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 50 Western Marsh-Harrier 48 Caspian Gull 44 Common Chiffchaff 41 Northern Reed Bunting 36 Common Shelduck 33 Black Kite 33 Pied Wheatear 32 Dalmatian Pelican 31 Mute Swan 29 Common Kestrel 28 White Wagtail 28 Common Sparrowhawk 27 Grey Heron 26 Paddyfield Warbler 26 Lesser Kestrel 25 Black-winged Stilt 25 Eastern Buzzard 24 Turkestan Shrike 23 Ruddy Shelduck 22 Bearded Tit 22 Glossy Ibis 22 Demoiselle Crane 22 Little Ringed Plover 22 Blue Tit 21 White-headed Duck 21 Black-headed Gull 21 Macqueen's Bustard 21 Pallas's Gull 20 Masked Wagtail 20 Black-headed Penduline Tit 20 Rosy Starling 20 Eurasian Blackbird 19 Peregrine Falcon 19 Calandra Lark 19 Common Chaffinch 19 White-crowned Penduline Tit 19 Great Cormorant 19 Desert Finch 18 Eastern Imperial Eagle 18 Hoopoe 18 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 18 Eurasian Redstart 18 Goldcrest 18 Common Starling 18 Steppe Grey Shrike 18 Azure Tit 18 White-browed Tit-Warbler 18 Common Buzzard 18 Red-headed Bunting 17 Eurasian Penduline Tit 17 Citrine Wagtail 17 Whooper Swan 17 Crested Lark 17 Northern Wheatear 17 Red-crested Pochard 17 Great Tit 16 Yellow Wagtail 16 Little Bustard 16 Black-throated Accentor 16 Common Snipe 16 Water Pipit 16 Isabelline Wheatear 16 Black-headed Wagtail 16 Mallard 16 Pallid Harrier 16 Black Redstart 16 Lesser Whitethroat 16 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 15 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 15 Hooded Crow 15 Common Pheasant 15 Northern Wren 15 Chukar Partridge 15 Tree Sparrow 15 Great White Egret 15 Bluethroat 14 Eurasian Roller 14 Merlin 14 Eurasian Hobby 14 Common Swift 14 White-winged Tern 14 Pied Avocet 14 Little Stint 14 Himalayan Vulture 14 Oriental Turtle Dove 14 Savi's Warbler 13 Red-Necked Grebe 13 Kentish Plover 13 Coal Tit 13 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 13 Common Rosefinch 13 Lesser Short-toed Lark 13 Blyth's Reed Warbler 13 Common Coot 13 Grey-necked Bunting 13 Golden Eagle 13 Common Mynah 13 Eurasian Curlew 13 Tree Pipit 12 Lammergeier 12 European Robin 12 Ruff 12 Corn Bunting 12 Greater Flamingo 12 Eurasian Reed Warbler 12 Sky Lark 12 Guldenstadt's Redstart 12 Water Rail 12 Siberian Stonechat 12 Booted Eagle 12 Pine Bunting 12 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 12 Red-fronted Serin 11 Little Owl 11 Hen Harrier 11 Pygmy Cormorant 11 Black-Necked Grebe 11 Great White Pelican 11 Red-mantled Rosefinch 11 Black Lark 11 Red-throated Thrush 11 Brambling 11 Wood Sandpiper 11 Rock Bunting 10 Greylag Goose 10 Common Redshank 10 Common Crane 10 Eversmann's Redstart 10 Slender-billed Gull 10 Blue-capped Redstart 10 Marsh Sandpiper 10 Red-breasted Flycatcher 10 Pallas's Sandgrouse 10 Isabelline Shrike 10 Great Grey Shrike 10 Grey Wagtail 10 Purple Heron 10 Greater Ringed Plover 10 Brown Accentor 10 Osprey 10 Meadow Bunting 10 Grey-headed Goldfinch 10 Rook 10 Hume's Warbler 9 Desert Wheatear 9 Saxaul Sparrow 9 Northern Pintail 9 Egyptian Vulture 9 Finsch's Wheatear 9 House Sparrow 9 Common Treecreeper 9 Eurasian Siskin 9 Horned Lark 9 Mew Gull 9 Carrion Crow 9 Barn Swallow 9 Himalayan Accentor 9 Great Reed Warbler 9 Cinereous Vulture 9 Long-tailed Rosefinch 9 Shikra 9 Brown Dipper 9 European Greenfinch 9 Common Kingfisher 9 Eurasian Linnet 9 Curlew Sandpiper 9 Collared Pratincole 9 Caspian Plover 8 Slavonian Grebe 8 Asian Desert Warbler 8 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 8 Northern Lapwing 8 Cetti's Warbler 8 Saker Falcon 8 Greater Sand Plover 8 Garganey 8 Brown-necked Raven 8 Greater Short-toed Lark 8 Siberian Black-backed Gull 8 Green Sandpiper 8 Indian Sparrow 8 Montagu's Harrier 8 Bewick's Swan 8 Tawny Pipit 8 Mongolian Finch 8 Common Moorhen 8 Eurasian Jackdaw 8 Sedge Warbler 8 Red-footed Falcon 8 Ibisbill 8 Spanish Sparrow 8 Grey Plover 7 Gadwall 7 Red-necked Phalarope 7 Rough-legged Buzzard 7 Ortolan Bunting 7 White-tailed Lapwing 7 Black-tailed Godwit 7 Grey Partridge 7 Black-crowned Night Heron 7 Yellow-backed Wagtail 7 Willow Warbler 7 Long-eared Owl 7 Upland Buzzard 7 Gull-billed Tern 7 Mistle Thrush 7 Red-backed Shrike 7 Yellowhammer 7 Himalayan Rubythroat 7 Pallid Scops Owl 7 Greater White-fronted Goose 7 Spotted Crake 7 Little Bittern 7 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 7 Booted Warbler 7 White-winged Grosbeak 6 Common Tern 6 Yellow-billed Chough 6 Common Sandpiper 6 Black Tern 6 Common Oystercatcher 6 White-winged Lark 6 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 6 Bohemian Waxwing 6 Plain Mountain Finch 6 Jack Snipe 6 White-Winged Woodpecker 6 Red-billed Chough 6 Sociable Lapwing 6 Barbary Falcon 6 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 6 Little Egret 6 Red-breasted Rosefinch 6 Sand Martin 6 Spotted Redshank 6 Western Grasshopper Warbler 5 Whiskered Tern 5 Common Greenshank 5 Common Teal 5 Pallas's Sea-Eagle 5 Wallcreeper 5 Fieldfare 5 Sanderling 5 Rufous Bush Robin 5 Long-tailed Duck 5 Common Raven 5 Common Whitethroat 5 Wood Pigeon 5 Eurasian Whimbrel 5 Black Stork 5 Dunlin 5 Temminck's Stint 5 Baraba Steppe Gull 5 Eurasian Stone Curlew 5 European Bee-eater 5 Short-eared Owl 5 Common Nightingale 5 Ruddy Turnstone 5 Laughing Dove 5 Pale Sand Martin 5 European Turtle Dove 5 Spotted Flycatcher 5 Song Thrush 5 Common Pochard 5 Richard's Pipit 5 Rock Sparrow 5 Eurasian Magpie 4 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 4 Bean Goose 4 Meadow Pipit 4 Little Gull 4 Turkestan Tit 4 Blue Whistling Thrush 4 Pied Bushchat 4 Common Quail 4 Asian Short-toed Lark 4 Buff-bellied Pipit 4 Menetries Warbler 4 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 4 Little Grebe 4 Brandt's Rosefinch 4 Northern Shoveler 4 Eurasian Jay 4 Common Cuckoo 4 Barred Warbler 4 Redwing 4 Moustached Warbler 4 Eurasian Collared Dove 4 Rustic Bunting 4 Lesser Grey Shrike 4 White-capped Bunting 4 Hawfinch 4 Greater Spotted Eagle 4 Garden Warbler 4 Long-tailed Tit 4 Pacific Golden Plover 4 Whinchat 3 Caspian Tern 3 Great Rosefinch 3 Terek Sandpiper 3 Bimaculated Lark 3 Daurian Partridge 3 Black-winged Pratincole 3 Solitary Snipe 3 Little Tern 3 Hill Pigeon 3 Sykes's Warbler 3 Baikal Bullfinch 3 Pander's Ground-Jay 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 European Nightjar 3 Pallas's Warbler 3 Great Crested Grebe 3 Smew 3 Cattle Egret 3 Songar Tit 3 Eurasian Scops-Owl 3 Northern Bullfinch 3 Arctic Loon 3 Tufted Duck 3 Goosander 2 Pallas's Rosefinch 2 Crimson-winged Finch 2 White Stork 2 Dunnock 2 Great Bustard 2 Baillon's Crake 2 Squacco Heron 2 Olive-backed Pipit 2 Twite 2 Eurasian Spoonbill 2 Red-throated Pipit 2 Eastern Orphean Warbler 2 Ferruginous Duck 2 Little Crake 2 Little Bunting 2 Bar-tailed Godwit 2 Eurasian Bittern 2 Oriental Lark 2 Upcher's Warbler 2 Griffon Vulture 2 Eurasian Dipper 2 Eurasian Wryneck 2 Arctic Skua 2 Greater Scaup 2 Greenish Warbler 2 Eurasian Wigeon 2 Red-rumped Swallow 2 White-winged Snowfinch 2 Alpine Accentor 2 Long-tailed Shrike 2 Northern House Martin 2 Black-breasted Tit 2 European Golden Oriole 2 Clamorous Reed Warbler 2 Blackcap 2 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 2 Common Goldeneye 2 Ring-billed Gull 1 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 Pied Flycatcher 1 Wood Warbler 1 Pin-tailed Snipe 1 Relict Gull 1 Blyth's Rosefinch 1 Crested Honey-Buzzard 1 Black-legged Kittiwake 1 Red-breasted Goose 1 Spotted Nutcracker 1 Red-throated Loon 1 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler 1 Northern Goshawk 1 Common Redpoll 1 Daurian Jackdaw 1 Glaucous Gull 1 Hume's Whitethroat 1 Tawny Owl 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Siberian Jay 1 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 1 Rock Pigeon 1 Alpine Swift 1 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 1 Godlewski's Bunting 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Lesser White-fronted Goose 1 Boreal Owl 1 Eurasian Goldfinch 1 Snowy Owl 1 Blue Rock Thrush 1 Rufous-necked Stint 1 Red Crossbill 1 Thrush Nightingale 1 Indian Pond Heron 1

REGION

all Almaty Region 1162Atyrau Region 990Turkistan Region 362Almaty 358Mangystau Region 278 Zhetysu Region 160Akmola Region 139Kyzylorda Region 73Ulytau Region 65Zhambyl Region 61Aktobe Region 25Kostanay Region 18Astana 9East Kazakhstan Region 9Abai Region 6Shymkent 2Karaganda Region 1

Only “needs identification” 1

Grey Heron 21 Apr · Lake Tengiz, Atyrau Region 😍 3

5 Kentish Plover 21 Apr · Lake Tengiz, Atyrau Region 😍 5

3 Steppe Buzzard 20 Apr · Lake Tengiz, Atyrau Region 😍 6

3 Crested Lark 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 4

2 Western Marsh-Harrier 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 4

Water Pipit 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region ✍️ 1🐤 1

7 Marsh Sandpiper 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 6

Mute Swan 18 Apr · Tengiz south evaporation ponds, Atyrau R... 😍 2

2 Black-winged Stilt 18 Apr · Tengiz south evaporation ponds, Atyrau R... 😍 2

Great Crested Grebe 18 Apr · Tengiz south evaporation ponds, Atyrau R... 😍 3

Western Marsh-Harrier 18 Apr · Tengiz south evaporation ponds, Atyrau R... 😍 6

7 Pallas's Sandgrouse 18 Apr · Tengiz south evaporation ponds, Atyrau R... 😍 5

5 Pallas's Sandgrouse 18 Apr · Tengiz south evaporation ponds, Atyrau R... 😍 10

4 Red-crested Pochard 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 5

Glossy Ibis 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 6

2 Spotted Crake 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 8

3 Steppe Buzzard 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 7

Western Marsh-Harrier 18 Apr · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 6

2 Common Oystercatcher 11 Apr · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 11

3 Little Ringed Plover 11 Apr · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 2

4 Eastern Imperial Eagle 11 Apr · Karaoy, Almaty Region 😍 4

2 Black Kite 11 Apr · Karaoy, Almaty Region 😍 4

Black Kite 11 Apr · Karaoy, Almaty Region 😍 1🐤 1

3 Siberian Stonechat 11 Apr · Zhamankum, Almaty Region 😍 1

Awards of Андрей

11 awards · several levels in each

awardgroup.species

10 10 species

25 25 species

50 50 species

100 100 species

150 150 species

200 200 species

250 250 species

300 300 species

350 350 species

400 400 species

awardgroup.observations

1 1 observation

10 10 observations

50 50 observations

100 100 observations

250 250 observations

500 500 observations

1K 1 000 observations

2.5K 2 500 observations

awardgroup.regions

3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

10/20 10 regions

15/20 15 regions

awardgroup.years

1 1 year on the site

3 3 years on the site

5 5 years on the site

10 10 years on the site

awardgroup.pioneer

1 New species for the site

5 5 new species for the site

10 10 new species for the site

25 25 new species for the site

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

10 10 diary entries

awardgroup.bigyear

2009 Big Year 2009

2008 Big Year 2008

2007 Big Year 2007

2006 Big Year 2006

2005 Big Year 2005

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