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2 982observations 312species 61%of the Birds.kz list 12 of 20regions 186comments 10diary entries

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19-thplace of 93

159 species in 2026

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12 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Turkistan Region2 317 Mangystau Region341 Zhetysu Region120 Kyzylorda Region102 Zhambyl Region64 Almaty Region18 Ulytau Region6 Abai Region4 Shymkent3 Aktobe Region3

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Karaganda Region3 Almaty1

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Whooper Swan9 May
Eurasian Scops-Owl25 Apr
Black-breasted Tit19 Apr

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Most in 2025: 1 062 observations

Observations 2 982 Species 312 Diaries 10 Map 623 Comments 186

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Long-legged Buzzard 84 Steppe Eagle 51 Cinereous Vulture 48 Desert Wheatear 46 Isabelline Wheatear 40 Eastern Buzzard 38 Common Chiffchaff 38 Spotted Flycatcher 35 Pied Wheatear 34 Golden Eagle 34 Western Marsh-Harrier 32 Siberian Stonechat 32 Eastern Imperial Eagle 29 Yellowhammer 29 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 27 Common Kestrel 26 Yellow Wagtail 25 Lammergeier 24 White Wagtail 24 Chukar Partridge 24 Northern Wheatear 24 Common Sparrowhawk 23 Black Redstart 23 Greater Short-toed Lark 23 Lesser Whitethroat 22 Grey Heron 22 Tawny Pipit 21 Steppe Grey Shrike 21 Lesser Short-toed Lark 21 Wood Sandpiper 21 Ruddy Shelduck 21 Sykes's Warbler 20 Horned Lark 20 Little Ringed Plover 20 Mallard 19 Turkestan Shrike 19 Corn Bunting 19 Caspian Gull 19 Little Stint 18 Common Chaffinch 18 Rock Bunting 18 Eversmann's Redstart 17 Common Sandpiper 17 White-Winged Woodpecker 17 Common Buzzard 17 Common Tern 17 Red-mantled Rosefinch 17 Lesser Grey Shrike 17 Griffon Vulture 17 Pallid Harrier 17 Greater Sand Plover 16 Macqueen's Bustard 16 Indian Sparrow 16 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 16 Common Redshank 16 Little Owl 16 Demoiselle Crane 15 Yellow-breasted Tit 15 Hen Harrier 15 Grey Wagtail 15 Brambling 15 Crested Lark 15 Citrine Wagtail 15 Ruff 15 Eurasian Stone Curlew 14 House Sparrow 14 Mistle Thrush 14 Kentish Plover 14 Dalmatian Pelican 14 Black-headed Gull 14 Pallas's Sandgrouse 14 Blue-capped Redstart 14 Red-headed Bunting 14 Black-winged Stilt 13 Common Cuckoo 13 Mute Swan 13 Great Tit 13 Black-throated Thrush 13 Bohemian Waxwing 13 Bluethroat 12 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 12 Black-headed Wagtail 12 Turkestan Tit 12 Masked Wagtail 12 Greenish Warbler 12 Common Shelduck 12 Green Sandpiper 12 Grey-headed Goldfinch 12 Red-backed Shrike 12 White-winged Grosbeak 12 Blyth's Reed Warbler 11 Collared Pratincole 11 Carrion Crow 11 Northern Shoveler 11 Eurasian Hobby 11 Finsch's Wheatear 11 Little Bustard 11 Asian Desert Warbler 11 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 11 Pine Bunting 11 Temminck's Stint 11 Great Cormorant 11 Great Grey Shrike 11 Wallcreeper 11 Egyptian Vulture 11 Common Teal 10 Northern Lapwing 10 Tree Sparrow 10 Common Pheasant 10 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 10 Slender-billed Gull 10 Eurasian Jackdaw 10 Hoopoe 10 Barn Swallow 10 Red-crested Pochard 10 Montagu's Harrier 10 Curlew Sandpiper 10 Rufous Bush Robin 10 Red-necked Phalarope 9 Hooded Crow 9 Booted Eagle 9 Water Pipit 9 Eurasian Roller 9 Eurasian Dipper 9 Garganey 9 Black Kite 9 Willow Warbler 9 Eurasian Collared Dove 9 Northern Goshawk 9 Oriental Turtle Dove 9 Sky Lark 9 Calandra Lark 9 Booted Warbler 8 Glossy Ibis 8 Eurasian Redstart 8 Common Starling 8 Black Stork 8 Great White Egret 8 Pallas's Gull 8 Purple Heron 8 Northern Wren 8 White-winged Tern 8 Laughing Dove 8 Greater Ringed Plover 8 Black-throated Accentor 7 Gull-billed Tern 7 Great Crested Grebe 7 Eurasian Siskin 7 Common Snipe 7 Rosy Starling 7 Osprey 7 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 7 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 7 Great White Pelican 7 Black-crowned Night Heron 7 Ruddy Turnstone 7 Common Raven 7 Pander's Ground-Jay 7 Lesser Kestrel 7 White-tailed Lapwing 7 Eurasian Blackbird 7 Spanish Sparrow 7 Gadwall 7 Common Coot 7 Desert Finch 7 Common Mynah 7 Indian Golden Oriole 6 Northern Reed Bunting 6 Little Tern 6 Wood Pigeon 6 Ferruginous Duck 6 Common Moorhen 6 Common Nightingale 6 Bimaculated Lark 6 Common Rosefinch 6 European Nightjar 6 Yellow-billed Chough 6 Blue Whistling Thrush 6 Isabelline Shrike 6 Black-Necked Grebe 6 Streaked Scrub Warbler 5 Blue Rock Thrush 5 Common Greenshank 5 Common Whitethroat 5 Eurasian Curlew 5 Caspian Plover 5 Red-billed Chough 5 European Bee-eater 5 Meadow Bunting 5 Tree Pipit 5 Garden Warbler 5 Northern Pintail 5 Sandwich Tern 5 Common Crane 5 Black Lark 5 Sand Martin 5 Pygmy Cormorant 5 Common Oystercatcher 5 Shikra 5 White-headed Duck 5 Common Swift 4 White-crowned Penduline Tit 4 Greater Flamingo 4 Great Reed Warbler 4 Greylag Goose 4 Eurasian Crag Martin 4 Eurasian Spoonbill 4 Eurasian Magpie 4 Rock Pigeon 4 Eurasian Reed Warbler 4 Guldenstadt's Redstart 4 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 4 Little Egret 4 Pied Avocet 4 Terek Sandpiper 4 White-capped Bunting 4 Hume's Warbler 4 Brandt's Rosefinch 4 Long-tailed Shrike 4 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 4 Northern House Martin 4 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Greater White-fronted Goose 4 Clamorous Reed Warbler 4 European Robin 4 Baraba Steppe Gull 4 Egyptian Nightjar 4 Common Kingfisher 4 Ortolan Bunting 4 Spotted Redshank 3 Red-rumped Swallow 3 Himalayan Vulture 3 Plain Mountain Finch 3 Brown Dipper 3 Red-breasted Flycatcher 3 Caspian Tern 3 Rook 3 Mongolian Finch 3 Dunlin 3 Red-Necked Grebe 3 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 3 Upland Buzzard 3 Paddyfield Warbler 3 Solitary Snipe 3 Slavonian Grebe 3 Common Pochard 3 Siberian Black-backed Gull 3 Marsh Sandpiper 3 European Greenfinch 3 Long-eared Owl 3 Brown Accentor 2 Grey Partridge 2 Song Thrush 2 Upcher's Warbler 2 Merlin 2 Tufted Duck 2 Relict Gull 2 Great Bustard 2 Greater Spotted Eagle 2 Eurasian Linnet 2 Eurasian Wigeon 2 Trumpeter Finch 2 Oriental Lark 2 Pallid Scops Owl 2 Himalayan Snowcock 2 Red-fronted Serin 2 White Stork 2 Rock Sparrow 2 Marsh Warbler 2 Black Tern 2 Hume's Whitethroat 2 Fieldfare 2 Jack Snipe 2 Alpine Accentor 2 Spotted Crake 2 Goldcrest 2 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 2 Azure Tit 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Rough-legged Buzzard 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Saker Falcon 1 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 1 Whiskered Tern 1 Whooper Swan 1 European Golden Oriole 1 Pale Rock-Finch 1 Eurasian Scops-Owl 1 Grey Plover 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Coal Tit 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 Menetries Warbler 1 Levant Sparrowhawk 1 Sanderling 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Pied Flycatcher 1 White-winged Lark 1 Black-breasted Tit 1 Common Goldeneye 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 Great Rosefinch 1 Himalayan Rubythroat 1 White-browed Tit-Warbler 1 Common Quail 1 Semi-collared Flycatcher 1 Himalayan Accentor 1 Pied Bushchat 1 Alpine Swift 1 Crested Honey-Buzzard 1 Ibisbill 1 Grey-necked Bunting 1

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all Turkistan Region 2317Mangystau Region 341Zhetysu Region 120Kyzylorda Region 102Zhambyl Region 64 Almaty Region 18Ulytau Region 6Abai Region 4Shymkent 3Aktobe Region 3Karaganda Region 3Almaty 1

Only “needs identification” 2

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 7 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Cinereous Vulture 7 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 3

Steppe Horned Lark 5 Jan · Dzhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 1

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 5 Jan · Dzhabagly, Turkistan Region

Eurasian Jackdaw 5 Jan · Dzhabagly, Turkistan Region

Tree Sparrow 4 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 2

Common Kestrel 4 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

European Greenfinch 4 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Eurasian Blackbird 4 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Red-mantled Rosefinch 4 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Rock Pigeon 3 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Common Mynah 3 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Eastern Buzzard 3 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 2 photos (short) 😍 2

Yellow-billed Chough 3 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Chukar Partridge 3 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 2

Cinereous Vulture 2 Jan · Taskara ascent, Zhabagly, Turkistan Regi...

Black-throated Thrush 2 Jan · Taskara ascent, Zhabagly, Turkistan Regi...

Golden Eagle 2 Jan · Turkistan Region

Eastern Buzzard 1 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Cinereous Vulture 1 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Mistle Thrush 1 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 1

European Greenfinch 1 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 2

Mallard 1 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Turkestan Tit 1 Jan · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region

Awards of Федор

7 awards · several levels in each

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25 25 species

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100 100 species

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200 200 species

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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

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3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

10/20 10 regions

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1 1 year on the site

3 3 years on the site

5 5 years on the site

10 10 years on the site

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1 1 diary entry

10 10 diary entries

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2025 Big Year 2025

2024 Big Year 2024

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