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2024 Big Year 2024

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on the site since 28 March 2016

2 863observations 351species 68%of the Birds.kz list 11 of 20regions 204comments 1diary entry

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Big Year 2024
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where they watch birds

11 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Turkistan Region1 247 Shymkent539 Zhambyl Region254 Almaty212 Mangystau Region177 Almaty Region150 Kyzylorda Region105 Zhetysu Region101 Pavlodar Region40 Akmola Region25

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Most in 2022: 787 observations

Observations 2 863 Species 351 Diaries 1 Map 617 Comments 204

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all 2026 3 2025 177 2024 551 2023 717 2022 787 2021 398 2020 142 2019 71 2017 8 2016 6 2015 1 2014 1 2011 1

BIRD SPECIES

all species Long-legged Buzzard 53 Steppe Eagle 48 Common Sparrowhawk 35 Grey Heron 32 Caspian Gull 31 Western Marsh-Harrier 31 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 30 Great White Egret 29 Crested Lark 27 Turkestan Tit 27 Common Kestrel 26 Carrion Crow 25 Spotted Flycatcher 25 Eastern Imperial Eagle 24 Ruddy Shelduck 24 Cinereous Vulture 23 Chukar Partridge 21 Common Starling 20 Black-headed Gull 19 Pied Wheatear 19 Common Mynah 19 Sykes's Warbler 19 Eurasian Hobby 19 Great Cormorant 18 Common Coot 18 Eurasian Magpie 18 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 18 Common Chaffinch 18 Demoiselle Crane 18 Booted Eagle 17 Little Owl 17 Black-throated Thrush 17 Rock Pigeon 17 Mallard 17 Pygmy Cormorant 16 Masked Wagtail 16 Eurasian Roller 16 Calandra Lark 16 Golden Eagle 16 Eversmann's Redstart 16 Lesser Whitethroat 16 Common Chiffchaff 16 Black Kite 15 Green Sandpiper 15 Northern Lapwing 15 Dalmatian Pelican 14 Common Raven 14 Egyptian Vulture 14 Wood Pigeon 14 Mistle Thrush 14 European Bee-eater 14 Northern Reed Bunting 14 Eurasian Blackbird 13 Hen Harrier 13 Common Snipe 13 Greater Short-toed Lark 13 Pallid Harrier 13 Steppe Grey Shrike 13 Common Teal 13 Little Bustard 13 Great Crested Grebe 13 Common Swift 13 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 13 Yellow-breasted Tit 13 Siberian Stonechat 13 Tawny Pipit 13 Black-winged Stilt 13 Rook 13 Desert Wheatear 12 Yellow Wagtail 12 Black-crowned Night Heron 12 White Wagtail 12 Red-rumped Swallow 12 Turkestan Shrike 12 Tree Pipit 11 Isabelline Shrike 11 Lesser Short-toed Lark 11 Black Lark 11 Common Tern 11 Isabelline Wheatear 11 White-tailed Lapwing 11 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 11 Red-headed Bunting 11 Grey-headed Goldfinch 11 Water Pipit 11 Yellowhammer 11 Common Sandpiper 11 Barn Swallow 11 Oriental Turtle Dove 11 Great White Pelican 11 Brambling 11 Pander's Ground-Jay 10 Finsch's Wheatear 10 White Stork 10 Greenish Warbler 10 Rosy Starling 10 Blue Whistling Thrush 10 Rufous Bush Robin 10 White-winged Grosbeak 10 Common Buzzard 10 Little Ringed Plover 10 Northern Shoveler 10 Red-necked Phalarope 10 Eastern Buzzard 10 Northern Wren 10 Northern Goshawk 10 Black-throated Accentor 10 Common Cuckoo 10 Lammergeier 10 Bluethroat 10 Temminck's Stint 10 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 10 Montagu's Harrier 10 Northern House Martin 9 Pallas's Gull 9 Red-mantled Rosefinch 9 Common Kingfisher 9 Sand Martin 9 Pallas's Sandgrouse 9 Collared Pratincole 9 Griffon Vulture 9 Purple Heron 9 Blyth's Reed Warbler 9 Tree Sparrow 9 Little Stint 9 Lesser Kestrel 8 Corn Bunting 8 Tufted Duck 8 Common Crane 8 Common Moorhen 8 Wood Sandpiper 8 Horned Lark 8 Hooded Crow 8 Indian Sparrow 8 Pied Avocet 8 Wallcreeper 8 Streaked Scrub Warbler 8 Yellow-billed Chough 8 Black Redstart 8 Great Tit 8 Common Oystercatcher 8 Eurasian Collared Dove 8 White-winged Lark 8 Azure Tit 8 Common Pochard 8 Common Shelduck 8 Ruff 8 Common Pheasant 8 Glossy Ibis 8 Water Rail 8 Spanish Sparrow 7 Lesser Grey Shrike 7 Northern Wheatear 7 Eurasian Stone Curlew 7 House Sparrow 7 Black Stork 7 Greater Flamingo 7 Mute Swan 7 Black-Necked Grebe 7 Laughing Dove 7 Hume's Warbler 7 White-Winged Woodpecker 7 Greater Spotted Eagle 7 Greater Sand Plover 7 White-crowned Penduline Tit 7 European Robin 7 Grey Wagtail 7 Little Tern 7 Cetti's Warbler 7 Eurasian Spoonbill 7 Common Whitethroat 7 European Nightjar 7 Common Redshank 7 Pale Sand Martin 7 Shikra 7 Eurasian Jackdaw 7 Greylag Goose 7 Gull-billed Tern 6 Eurasian Redstart 6 Sky Lark 6 Indian Golden Oriole 6 Red-crested Pochard 6 Ruddy Turnstone 6 Northern Pintail 6 Kentish Plover 6 Garganey 6 Common Rosefinch 6 Common Greenshank 6 Goldcrest 6 Great Grey Shrike 6 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 6 Bimaculated Lark 6 Pine Bunting 6 Ferruginous Duck 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker 6 European Greenfinch 6 Hoopoe 6 Red-breasted Flycatcher 6 Little Grebe 6 Gadwall 6 Rock Bunting 6 Paddyfield Warbler 6 Black-tailed Godwit 6 Pied Bushchat 6 Great Reed Warbler 6 Macqueen's Bustard 6 Asian Desert Warbler 6 Coal Tit 6 Red-fronted Serin 6 Citrine Wagtail 6 Red-backed Shrike 6 Saker Falcon 5 Rough-legged Buzzard 5 Eurasian Curlew 5 Baraba Steppe Gull 5 Himalayan Accentor 5 Great Bustard 5 Mongolian Finch 5 Caspian Tern 5 Alpine Swift 5 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 5 Brown Dipper 5 Brown-necked Raven 5 Eurasian Linnet 5 Blue-capped Redstart 5 Black-headed Wagtail 5 Marsh Sandpiper 5 Long-eared Owl 5 Willow Warbler 5 Dunlin 5 Clamorous Reed Warbler 5 Greater Ringed Plover 5 Desert Finch 5 Short-eared Owl 4 Spotted Nutcracker 4 White-capped Bunting 4 Little Egret 4 Brown Accentor 4 Common Nightingale 4 Spotted Crake 4 Ibisbill 4 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 4 Menetries Warbler 4 Upcher's Warbler 4 Pallid Scops Owl 4 White-winged Tern 4 Himalayan Rubythroat 4 Garden Warbler 4 Common Treecreeper 4 Yellow-breasted Bunting 4 Egyptian Nightjar 4 Upland Buzzard 4 White-browed Tit-Warbler 4 Solitary Snipe 4 Eurasian Scops-Owl 4 Grey-necked Bunting 4 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 4 Sandwich Tern 4 Ortolan Bunting 4 Greater White-fronted Goose 4 Eurasian Wigeon 4 Curlew Sandpiper 4 Eurasian Dipper 3 Crested Honey-Buzzard 3 White-headed Duck 3 Meadow Bunting 3 Eurasian Wryneck 3 Merlin 3 Grey Plover 3 Savi's Warbler 3 Caspian Plover 3 Plain Mountain Finch 3 Black Tern 3 Hume's Whitethroat 3 Fieldfare 3 Alpine Accentor 3 Guldenstadt's Redstart 3 Black-winged Pratincole 3 Smew 3 Grey Partridge 3 Eurasian Siskin 3 Goosander 3 Common Goldeneye 3 Slender-billed Gull 3 Long-tailed Shrike 2 Sanderling 2 Willow Tit 2 Slavonian Grebe 2 Saxaul Sparrow 2 Black-breasted Tit 2 Long-tailed Tit 2 Rustic Bunting 2 Red-billed Chough 2 Relict Gull 2 Eurasian Nuthatch 2 Little Gull 2 Bearded Tit 2 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 2 Rock Sparrow 2 Spotted Redshank 2 Jack Snipe 2 European Golden Oriole 2 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 2 Common Quail 2 Great Rosefinch 2 Osprey 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Eurasian Penduline Tit 2 Corncrake 2 Mew Gull 2 Red Crossbill 1 Sociable Lapwing 1 Barbary Falcon 1 Red-footed Falcon 1 Meadow Pipit 1 Whinchat 1 Bewick's Swan 1 Common Redpoll 1 Richard's Pipit 1 Himalayan Vulture 1 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 1 Terek Sandpiper 1 Northern Black Grouse 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Cattle Egret 1 Yellow-backed Wagtail 1 Siberian Black-backed Gull 1 Marsh Warbler 1 Whooper Swan 1 Songar Tit 1 Northern Bullfinch 1 Long-tailed Rosefinch 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Eurasian Crag Martin 1 Twite 1 Lesser Sand Plover 1 Arctic Loon 1 Hawfinch 1 Eurasian Bittern 1 Oriental Lark 1 Eurasian Goldfinch 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 Bohemian Waxwing 1 Red-Necked Grebe 1 Booted Warbler 1 Thrush Nightingale 1 Baillon's Crake 1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 1

REGION

all Turkistan Region 1247Shymkent 539Zhambyl Region 254Almaty 212Mangystau Region 177 Almaty Region 150Kyzylorda Region 105Zhetysu Region 101Pavlodar Region 40Akmola Region 25Abai Region 13

Mongolian Finch 7 Feb 2025 · Altyn Emel 😍 1🐤 5

Hen Harrier 7 Feb 2025 · Altyn Emel 😍 1

Black Lark 19 Jan 2025 · Chu-Iliyskie mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 2🐤 4

Eurasian Dipper 13 Jan 2025 · Zhabagly, Turkistan Region 😍 7

Little Owl 12 Jan 2025 · Murynkarak, Kyzylkum desert, Turkistan R... 😍 10🐤 1

White-winged Lark 12 Jan 2025 · Murynkarak, Kyzylkum desert, Turkistan R... 😍 1🐤 4

Finsch's Wheatear 12 Jan 2025 · Muryn-Karak, Kyzylkum desert, Turkistan... 3 photos (short) 😍 7✍️ 2🐤 2

Pallas's Gull 10 Jan 2025 · Below Shardara reservoir dam, Shardara,... 😍 2

Dalmatian Pelican 10 Jan 2025 · Shardara, Turkistan Region 😍 8

Bewick's Swan 10 Jan 2025 · Shardarinskoye reservoir, Turkistan Regi... 😍 1✍️ 1

Greylag Goose 10 Jan 2025 · Shardarinskoye reservoir, Turkistan Regi... 🐤 1

Lesser Whitethroat 9 Jan 2025 · Shymkent 😍 8🐤 1

Eurasian Linnet 22 Dec 2024 · Shu-Ile Mountains

Saker Falcon 22 Dec 2024 · Zhambyl Region 2 photos (short) 😍 3

Black Lark 21 Dec 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region

White-winged Lark 21 Dec 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 1

Common Quail 20 Dec 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region 🐤 4

Rough-legged Buzzard 20 Dec 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 1

Steppe Eagle 20 Dec 2024 · Chu-Iliyskie mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 1

Pallas's Sandgrouse 19 Nov 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 1🐤 1

White-winged Lark 18 Nov 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 18 Nov 2024 · Shu-Ile mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 5

Fieldfare 18 Nov 2024 · Chu-Iliyskie mountains, Zhambyl Region 😍 1

Eastern Imperial Eagle 17 Nov 2024 · Koyzharylgan, Zhambyl Region 😍 5

Awards of Кудайберген

8 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

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

2024 Big Year 2024

2023 Big Year 2023

2022 Big Year 2022

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