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on the site since 17 November 2011 · 1967—2021

21 054observations 428species 83%of the Birds.kz list 18 of 20regions 9 936comments 1 612diary entries

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18 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region8 300 Almaty4 615 West Kazakhstan Region1 514 Turkistan Region1 472 Mangystau Region1 214 Atyrau Region922 East Kazakhstan Region712 Zhetysu Region705 Zhambyl Region689 Kyzylorda Region199

8 more regions

Abai Region198 Shymkent150 Akmola Region128 Karaganda Region102 Aktobe Region71 Pavlodar Region33 Astana26 Kostanay Region4

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Common Kestrel 305 Long-legged Buzzard 299 Turkestan Shrike 284 Common Sparrowhawk 256 Lesser Whitethroat 248 Black-throated Thrush 244 Siberian Stonechat 243 Eurasian Blackbird 229 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 219 Common Chaffinch 211 Steppe Eagle 202 Common Chiffchaff 192 Pied Wheatear 187 Caspian Gull 186 Black Kite 170 Brambling 168 Isabelline Wheatear 166 Mallard 162 Black-headed Gull 155 Eurasian Hobby 154 Eversmann's Redstart 152 Eurasian Roller 148 Common Starling 148 White Wagtail 148 Spotted Flycatcher 142 Common Whitethroat 137 Grey Heron 137 European Greenfinch 135 Great Tit 135 Ruddy Shelduck 135 Mistle Thrush 135 Wood Pigeon 134 Great Cormorant 132 Isabelline Shrike 132 Western Marsh-Harrier 128 Hoopoe 125 Masked Wagtail 125 Red-headed Bunting 124 Common Buzzard 122 Bluethroat 121 Eastern Buzzard 120 Hume's Warbler 119 Azure Tit 117 Great White Egret 116 Grey-headed Goldfinch 112 Lesser Grey Shrike 111 Carrion Crow 111 Eurasian Magpie 111 Dalmatian Pelican 110 Red-crested Pochard 109 Northern Reed Bunting 109 Rook 108 Northern Lapwing 108 Little Ringed Plover 107 Northern Wheatear 107 Yellow Wagtail 107 Mute Swan 106 Calandra Lark 105 Golden Eagle 102 Rosy Starling 101 Blue Whistling Thrush 100 European Bee-eater 97 Demoiselle Crane 95 Red-fronted Serin 95 Crested Lark 95 Grey Wagtail 95 Corn Bunting 94 Citrine Wagtail 93 Black-winged Stilt 92 Common Pheasant 92 Ruff 91 Garganey 91 Greater Short-toed Lark 91 Eurasian Siskin 88 Common Rosefinch 88 Chukar Partridge 88 Common Redshank 87 Black Redstart 87 Barn Swallow 85 Blyth's Reed Warbler 84 Eurasian Dipper 84 Tree Sparrow 84 Little Stint 84 Yellowhammer 82 Eastern Imperial Eagle 82 Horned Lark 82 Goosander 81 Common Shelduck 80 Common Cuckoo 80 Oriental Turtle Dove 80 Common Coot 79 White-winged Grosbeak 79 Peregrine Falcon 79 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 79 Eurasian Linnet 78 Black-throated Accentor 78 Rock Bunting 77 Green Sandpiper 77 Common Mynah 77 Great Crested Grebe 77 Barred Warbler 76 Common Tern 76 Tree Pipit 75 Gadwall 75 Common Sandpiper 74 Coal Tit 72 Red-backed Shrike 72 Hen Harrier 72 Bohemian Waxwing 71 Northern Pintail 71 Fieldfare 71 Common Teal 70 Tawny Pipit 70 Goldcrest 70 Upland Buzzard 70 Tufted Duck 70 European Robin 70 Greenish Warbler 70 Water Pipit 69 Northern Shoveler 69 Brown Dipper 68 House Sparrow 68 Great Grey Shrike 67 Black-Necked Grebe 67 Common Pochard 66 Whooper Swan 66 Eurasian Redstart 66 Sykes's Warbler 66 Pallas's Gull 65 Long-tailed Shrike 64 Cinereous Vulture 64 Little Owl 64 Pine Bunting 64 Desert Wheatear 62 Lammergeier 62 Hooded Crow 62 Great Spotted Woodpecker 61 Sky Lark 60 Wood Sandpiper 59 Montagu's Harrier 59 Common Goldeneye 58 Eurasian Collared Dove 58 Common Snipe 57 Black-tailed Godwit 57 Red-mantled Rosefinch 56 Rough-legged Buzzard 56 Steppe Grey Shrike 55 Common Moorhen 54 Eurasian Curlew 54 Black-headed Wagtail 54 Lesser Kestrel 52 Great White Pelican 52 White-headed Duck 52 Lesser Short-toed Lark 51 Pied Avocet 51 Temminck's Stint 50 Dunlin 50 Blue-capped Redstart 49 Desert Finch 49 Kentish Plover 49 Turkestan Tit 49 Long-tailed Rosefinch 48 Gull-billed Tern 48 Eurasian Jackdaw 46 Booted Eagle 46 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 46 Merlin 45 Mew Gull 45 Rock Pigeon 44 Common Raven 44 Pallid Harrier 44 Ferruginous Duck 44 Common Oystercatcher 43 Laughing Dove 43 Guldenstadt's Redstart 42 Spanish Sparrow 42 White-browed Tit-Warbler 41 Ortolan Bunting 41 Shikra 41 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 41 White-Winged Woodpecker 41 Sand Martin 40 Eurasian Wigeon 40 Common Kingfisher 39 White-crowned Penduline Tit 39 Long-eared Owl 38 Black Tern 38 Eurasian Goldfinch 38 Little Bustard 38 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 38 Black Lark 37 Smew 37 Red-footed Falcon 37 Northern Goshawk 36 Northern Wren 36 European Nightjar 36 Rock Sparrow 36 Red-necked Phalarope 35 Common Greenshank 35 Marsh Sandpiper 35 Greater Sand Plover 35 Northern House Martin 34 Grey-necked Bunting 34 Himalayan Vulture 34 Grey Partridge 33 Black Stork 33 Curlew Sandpiper 33 Redwing 33 Red-billed Chough 32 Common Swift 32 Hawfinch 32 Collared Pratincole 31 Black-crowned Night Heron 31 White-winged Lark 31 Song Thrush 31 Indian Golden Oriole 31 Pygmy Cormorant 31 Saxaul Sparrow 30 Spotted Redshank 30 Wallcreeper 30 Booted Warbler 30 Black-winged Pratincole 30 Terek Sandpiper 29 Little Grebe 29 Common Nightingale 29 Plain Mountain Finch 29 Spotted Nutcracker 29 Little Tern 29 Stock Pigeon 28 Common Redpoll 28 Grey Plover 28 White-winged Tern 28 Willow Warbler 28 Red-rumped Swallow 27 Egyptian Vulture 27 Slender-billed Gull 27 Brown Accentor 27 Yellow-billed Chough 27 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 26 Pallas's Sandgrouse 26 Paddyfield Warbler 26 Eurasian Penduline Tit 26 Baraba Steppe Gull 26 Glossy Ibis 26 Greylag Goose 26 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 25 Greater Ringed Plover 25 Red-breasted Merganser 25 Crested Honey-Buzzard 25 Rufous Bush Robin 24 Eurasian Nuthatch 24 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 24 Eurasian Whimbrel 24 Eurasian Scops-Owl 24 Northern Bullfinch 23 Indian Sparrow 23 European Golden Oriole 23 Alpine Accentor 22 Purple Heron 22 Songar Tit 22 Himalayan Rubythroat 22 Pacific Golden Plover 22 Willow Tit 22 Saker Falcon 22 Himalayan Accentor 22 Brown-necked Raven 21 Greater Flamingo 21 Caspian Tern 21 Blue Tit 21 Mongolian Finch 20 Griffon Vulture 20 Bimaculated Lark 20 White-capped Bunting 19 Meadow Bunting 19 Greater White-fronted Goose 19 Ibisbill 19 Common Treecreeper 19 Red Crossbill 19 Himalayan Snowcock 19 Finsch's Wheatear 18 Bearded Tit 18 Red-throated Thrush 17 Blue Rock Thrush 17 Common Crane 16 Eurasian Spoonbill 16 White-tailed Lapwing 16 White-Backed Woodpecker 16 Red-Necked Grebe 16 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 16 Little Bittern 16 European Turtle Dove 16 Red-breasted Flycatcher 15 Meadow Pipit 15 Barbary Falcon 15 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 15 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 14 Asian Desert Warbler 14 Eurasian Wryneck 14 Great Reed Warbler 14 Cetti's Warbler 14 Ruddy Turnstone 14 Whiskered Tern 13 Sanderling 13 Baikal Bullfinch 13 Eurasian Crag Martin 13 Bean Goose 13 Pale Sand Martin 13 Long-tailed Tit 12 Bewick's Swan 12 Slavonian Grebe 12 Eurasian Stone Curlew 12 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 11 Water Rail 11 Solitary Snipe 11 Little Egret 11 White Stork 11 Osprey 10 Yellow-breasted Tit 10 Siberian Black-backed Gull 10 Greater Spotted Eagle 9 Great Rosefinch 9 Bar-tailed Godwit 8 Eurasian Jay 8 Great Bustard 8 Greater Scaup 8 Little Gull 8 Lesser Sand Plover 8 Buff-bellied Pipit 8 Twite 8 Red-breasted Rosefinch 8 Pied Bushchat 8 Macqueen's Bustard 8 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 8 Brandt's Rosefinch 7 Crimson-winged Finch 7 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 7 Pallas's Sea-Eagle 7 Garden Warbler 7 Alpine Swift 7 Clamorous Reed Warbler 7 Variable Wheatear 7 Grey-Headed Woodpecker 7 Black-breasted Tit 7 Eurasian Golden Plover 7 Menetries Warbler 7 Relict Gull 6 Streaked Scrub Warbler 6 Northern Black Grouse 6 Short-eared Owl 6 Western Grasshopper Warbler 6 Eastern Orphean Warbler 6 Black Woodpecker 6 Hume's Whitethroat 6 Sociable Lapwing 5 Pander's Ground-Jay 5 Caspian Plover 5 Levant Sparrowhawk 5 Herring Gull 4 Common Quail 4 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 4 Red-throated Pipit 4 Harlequin Duck 4 Pallid Scops Owl 4 Eurasian Reed Warbler 4 Eurasian Woodcock 4 Red-flanked Bluetail 4 Red-breasted Goose 4 Savi's Warbler 4 Thrush Nightingale 3 Daurian Partridge 3 Black-headed Penduline Tit 3 Dusky Thrush 3 Upcher's Warbler 3 Taiga Flycatcher 3 Daurian Jackdaw 3 Marsh Warbler 3 Rustic Bunting 3 Sedge Warbler 3 Blyth's Rosefinch 3 Moustached Warbler 3 Whinchat 3 Oriental Lark 3 Jack Snipe 3 Boreal Owl 2 Asian Short-toed Lark 2 White's Thrush 2 Arctic Warbler 2 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler 2 Eurasian Bittern 2 Long-tailed Duck 2 Trumpeter Finch 2 Yellow-backed Wagtail 2 Ural Owl 2 Godlewski's Bunting 2 Broad-billed Sandpiper 2 White-winged Snowfinch 2 Northern Hazelhen 2 Asian Rosy-Finch 2 Richard's Pipit 2 Blackcap 2

REGION

all Almaty Region 8300Almaty 4615West Kazakhstan Region 1514Turkistan Region 1472Mangystau Region 1214 Atyrau Region 922East Kazakhstan Region 712Zhetysu Region 705Zhambyl Region 689Kyzylorda Region 199Abai Region 198Shymkent 150Akmola Region 128Karaganda Region 102Aktobe Region 71Pavlodar Region 33Astana 26Kostanay Region 4

Black-headed Gull 18 Feb 2021 · system lakes Sorbulak, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 7

Whooper Swan 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 6

Red-crested Pochard 18 Feb 2021 · Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 3

Common Shelduck 18 Feb 2021 · Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 7

Ruddy Shelduck 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 😍 4

Tufted Duck 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 6

Common Pochard 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 2

Common Goldeneye 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 6

Smew 18 Feb 2021 · system lakes Sorbulak, Almaty Region 4 photos (short) 😍 11

Goosander 18 Feb 2021 · system lakes Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 9

Goosander 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak lakes, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8

Long-legged Buzzard 18 Feb 2021 · Komsomol, Almaty Region 😍 1

Rough-legged Buzzard 18 Feb 2021 · Komsomol, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 6

Eastern Imperial Eagle 18 Feb 2021 · system lakes Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 18 Feb 2021 · Maly Sorbulak lakes, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 6

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 18 Feb 2021 · system lakes Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 12

Eurasian Magpie 18 Feb 2021 · Karaoy (sovkhoz Iliysky), Almaty Region 7 photos (short) 😍 1

Common Teal 18 Feb 2021 · Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8

Northern Pintail 18 Feb 2021 · Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 3

Pallas's Gull 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 5

Northern Lapwing 18 Feb 2021 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 13

Eastern Buzzard 15 Feb 2021 · Almaty 5 photos (short) 😍 2🐤 1

Yellowhammer 13 Feb 2021 · Avat, Almaty Region 😍 6

Awards of Аскар

22 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

5K 5 000 observations

10K 10 000 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

50 50 diary entries

100 100 diary entries

awardgroup.bigyear

2020 Big Year 2020

2019 Big Year 2019

2018 Big Year 2018

2017 Big Year 2017

2016 Big Year 2016

2015 Big Year 2015

2014 Big Year 2014

2013 Big Year 2013

2012 Big Year 2012

2011 Big Year 2011

2010 Big Year 2010

2009 Big Year 2009

2008 Big Year 2008

2007 Big Year 2007

2006 Big Year 2006

2005 Big Year 2005

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