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3 465observations 343species 67%of the Birds.kz list 10 of 20regions 957comments 4diary entries

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6-thplace of 93

261 species in 2026

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2019

Big Year 2019
3-th place · 223 species

where they watch birds

10 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region1 454 Atyrau Region881 Almaty789 Zhambyl Region121 Zhetysu Region86 Turkistan Region42 Abai Region36 East Kazakhstan Region34 Karaganda Region14 Pavlodar Region8

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new species in 2026

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Yellow-browed Warbler22 Sep
Siberian Black-backed Gull8 Sep
Arctic Loon31 Aug

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201020182026

Most in 2026: 669 observations

Observations 3 465 Species 343 Diaries 4 Map 798 Comments 957

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all 2026 669 2025 561 2024 357 2023 230 2022 265 2021 281 2020 218 2019 305 2018 194 2017 104 2016 83 2015 14 2014 87 2013 94 2010 3

BIRD SPECIES

all species Long-legged Buzzard 46 Steppe Eagle 31 Azure Tit 30 Common Kestrel 29 Common Sparrowhawk 28 Eastern Buzzard 28 Grey-headed Goldfinch 28 Black-throated Thrush 28 Common Chiffchaff 28 Pied Wheatear 28 Blyth's Reed Warbler 27 Calandra Lark 27 White Wagtail 26 Northern Reed Bunting 26 Great Tit 25 Turkestan Shrike 25 Lesser Whitethroat 24 Crested Lark 24 Common Chaffinch 24 Red-headed Bunting 24 Black-headed Gull 24 Western Marsh-Harrier 24 Brambling 24 Lesser Short-toed Lark 24 Yellow Wagtail 23 Common Buzzard 22 Hume's Warbler 22 Masked Wagtail 22 Steppe Grey Shrike 22 Rosy Starling 21 Eurasian Blackbird 21 Eversmann's Redstart 21 Spotted Flycatcher 21 Sykes's Warbler 21 Paddyfield Warbler 21 Caspian Gull 21 House Sparrow 21 Common Starling 20 Siberian Stonechat 20 Kentish Plover 20 Golden Eagle 20 Desert Wheatear 20 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 19 Hooded Crow 19 Desert Finch 19 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 19 Bluethroat 19 Isabelline Wheatear 19 Carrion Crow 19 Wood Pigeon 19 Black Kite 19 Common Cuckoo 18 Northern Wheatear 18 Hoopoe 18 Common Rosefinch 18 Common Mynah 18 Barn Swallow 18 Ruddy Shelduck 18 Common Pheasant 18 Red-backed Shrike 17 Common Sandpiper 17 Red-fronted Serin 17 Common Whitethroat 17 Eurasian Roller 17 Grey Wagtail 17 Common Tern 16 European Greenfinch 16 Ruff 16 Red-crested Pochard 16 Eurasian Redstart 16 Lesser Kestrel 16 Green Sandpiper 16 Demoiselle Crane 15 European Bee-eater 15 Mute Swan 15 Citrine Wagtail 15 Chukar Partridge 15 Great Crested Grebe 15 Eurasian Siskin 15 Mistle Thrush 15 Grey Heron 15 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 15 White-winged Grosbeak 15 Common Shelduck 15 Northern Shoveler 15 Tawny Pipit 15 Oriental Turtle Dove 15 Great White Egret 15 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 15 Black-winged Stilt 15 Northern Lapwing 15 Great Cormorant 14 Rook 14 Dalmatian Pelican 14 Eurasian Jackdaw 14 White-headed Duck 14 Garganey 14 Wood Sandpiper 14 Tree Sparrow 14 Tree Pipit 14 Eurasian Collared Dove 14 Little Ringed Plover 14 Black-headed Wagtail 14 Red-breasted Flycatcher 14 Lammergeier 14 Red-mantled Rosefinch 13 Eurasian Magpie 13 Common Kingfisher 13 Coal Tit 13 Great Reed Warbler 13 Little Stint 13 Asian Desert Warbler 13 Rock Pigeon 13 Common Coot 13 Lesser Grey Shrike 13 Corn Bunting 13 Greenish Warbler 12 Plain Mountain Finch 12 Isabelline Shrike 12 Greater Short-toed Lark 12 Common Redshank 12 Blue-capped Redstart 12 Little Owl 12 Eurasian Hobby 12 Shikra 12 Eurasian Penduline Tit 12 Horned Lark 11 Common Greenshank 11 Montagu's Harrier 11 Northern Wren 11 Northern Pintail 11 Common Teal 11 Common Moorhen 11 Sand Martin 11 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 11 Glossy Ibis 11 Rock Bunting 11 Mallard 11 Eurasian Linnet 11 Long-tailed Tit 10 White-crowned Penduline Tit 10 Common Oystercatcher 10 Grey-necked Bunting 10 Ortolan Bunting 10 Black-Necked Grebe 10 Mongolian Finch 10 Sky Lark 10 Blue Whistling Thrush 10 Black-throated Accentor 10 Cinereous Vulture 10 Water Pipit 10 Rock Sparrow 10 Common Raven 10 Gull-billed Tern 10 Booted Warbler 10 Common Swift 9 Bearded Tit 9 Ferruginous Duck 9 White-winged Tern 9 Gadwall 9 Hen Harrier 9 Whooper Swan 9 Dunlin 9 Black-tailed Godwit 9 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 9 Blue Tit 9 Black Tern 8 Curlew Sandpiper 8 Indian Sparrow 8 Black Redstart 8 Pied Avocet 8 Black Stork 8 Pallid Harrier 8 Laughing Dove 8 Grey Partridge 8 Eurasian Goldfinch 8 Pine Bunting 8 White-Winged Woodpecker 8 Bohemian Waxwing 8 Red-Necked Grebe 8 Tufted Duck 8 Eastern Imperial Eagle 8 Spotted Nutcracker 8 Temminck's Stint 8 European Robin 8 Saxaul Sparrow 8 Pallas's Sandgrouse 8 Ibisbill 8 Himalayan Vulture 8 Goldcrest 8 Guldenstadt's Redstart 7 Terek Sandpiper 7 Pallas's Gull 7 Collared Pratincole 7 Brown Dipper 7 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 7 Red-billed Chough 7 Long-tailed Rosefinch 7 Eurasian Curlew 7 Little Tern 7 White-tailed Lapwing 7 Booted Eagle 7 Willow Warbler 7 Common Pochard 7 Eurasian Scops-Owl 7 Spanish Sparrow 7 Great White Pelican 7 Greater Sand Plover 7 Bimaculated Lark 6 Upland Buzzard 6 Northern House Martin 6 Rufous Bush Robin 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker 6 Red-necked Phalarope 6 Cetti's Warbler 6 Black-crowned Night Heron 6 Caspian Tern 6 Pygmy Cormorant 6 Eurasian Whimbrel 6 Little Bustard 6 Brown-necked Raven 6 Turkestan Tit 6 Blue Rock Thrush 6 Saker Falcon 5 Garden Warbler 5 Long-tailed Shrike 5 Himalayan Rubythroat 5 Eurasian Wigeon 5 Red-rumped Swallow 5 Sanderling 5 Red Crossbill 5 Whinchat 5 Common Nightingale 5 Brown Accentor 5 Greater Ringed Plover 5 Eastern Orphean Warbler 5 Eurasian Wryneck 5 Slender-billed Gull 5 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 5 Sedge Warbler 5 White-capped Bunting 5 Pied Flycatcher 5 White-browed Tit-Warbler 5 Spotted Redshank 5 Common Crane 5 Marsh Sandpiper 5 Purple Heron 5 Northern Goshawk 5 Goosander 4 Himalayan Accentor 4 Common Snipe 4 Twite 4 Yellow-billed Chough 4 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 4 Ruddy Turnstone 4 Great Grey Shrike 4 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 4 Bar-tailed Godwit 4 Pale Sand Martin 4 Eurasian Stone Curlew 4 Greater Flamingo 4 Little Gull 4 Eurasian Dipper 4 Mew Gull 4 Long-eared Owl 4 Whiskered Tern 4 Smew 4 Peregrine Falcon 4 Indian Golden Oriole 4 Eurasian Crag Martin 4 Eurasian Reed Warbler 3 Yellowhammer 3 Alpine Swift 3 European Nightjar 3 Little Grebe 3 Grey Plover 3 Himalayan Snowcock 3 Black-headed Penduline Tit 3 Barred Warbler 3 Common Goldeneye 3 Meadow Bunting 3 Black Lark 3 Pallid Scops Owl 3 Merlin 3 Lesser Sand Plover 2 Greater Scaup 2 Water Rail 2 Rough-legged Buzzard 2 Crested Honey-Buzzard 2 Griffon Vulture 2 Oriental Lark 2 Song Thrush 2 Long-tailed Duck 2 Common Redpoll 2 Stock Pigeon 2 Pander's Ground-Jay 2 White-winged Lark 2 Hume's Whitethroat 2 Hawfinch 2 Greylag Goose 2 Eurasian Spoonbill 2 Slavonian Grebe 2 Fieldfare 2 Songar Tit 2 Corncrake 2 Common Treecreeper 2 Western Grasshopper Warbler 2 Macqueen's Bustard 2 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 2 Little Bittern 2 Lapland Longspur 2 Yellow-breasted Tit 2 Eurasian Nuthatch 2 Baraba Steppe Gull 2 Egyptian Vulture 2 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 2 Variable Wheatear 2 Short-eared Owl 2 Black-winged Pratincole 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Bewick's Swan 1 Savi's Warbler 1 Caspian Plover 1 Eurasian Golden Plover 1 Great Bustard 1 White Stork 1 Arctic Loon 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Yellow-backed Wagtail 1 Black-breasted Tit 1 Northern Black Grouse 1 Wood Warbler 1 Redwing 1 Siberian Black-backed Gull 1 Greater Spotted Eagle 1 European Golden Oriole 1 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 1 Bean Goose 1 Wallcreeper 1 Willow Tit 1 Richard's Pipit 1 Upcher's Warbler 1

REGION

all Almaty Region 1454Atyrau Region 881Almaty 789Zhambyl Region 121Zhetysu Region 86 Turkistan Region 42Abai Region 36East Kazakhstan Region 34Karaganda Region 14Pavlodar Region 8

Only “needs identification” 3

Kentish Plover 18 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 1🐤 3

Eurasian Redstart 18 May · Lake Tengiz, Atyrau Region

Kentish Plover 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 8

Eurasian Whimbrel 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 4 photos (short) 😍 2

White-tailed Lapwing 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 8

Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 1

Paddyfield Warbler 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 2 photos (short) 😍 3

White-tailed Lapwing 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 2 photos (short) 😍 7

Lesser Kestrel 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 2

Whiskered Tern 17 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 4

House Sparrow 15 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 8🐤 1

Barn Swallow 15 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 8

Isabelline Wheatear 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 2

Greater Sand Plover 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 3 photos (short) 😍 4🐤 1

Little Stint 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 3

Collared Pratincole 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 2 photos (short) 😍 6🐤 1

White-tailed Lapwing 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8🐤 1

Wood Sandpiper 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 7

Whiskered Tern 16 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 2 photos (short) 😍 1

Blyth's Reed Warbler 15 May · Kosshaghyl, Atyrau Region 😍 4

Common Swift 14 May · Atyrau, Atyrau Region

Hooded Crow 14 May · Atyrau, Atyrau Region 😍 2

Blyth's Reed Warbler 14 May · Atyrau, Atyrau Region 😍 6

Common Whitethroat 13 May · Shybynsay, Butakovka, Almaty 😍 3

Awards of Владимир

6 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

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

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.diary

1 1 diary entry

awardgroup.bigyear

2019 Big Year 2019

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