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on the site since 31 January 2019

2 467observations 257species 50%of the Birds.kz list 6 of 20regions 251comments

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99 species in 2026

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6 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty1 061 Almaty Region758 Shymkent353 Turkistan Region231 Zhetysu Region49 Zhambyl Region15

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Griffon Vulture28 Mar
Greater Spotted Eagle28 Mar
Water Rail31 Jan

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all 2026 289 2025 203 2024 205 2023 392 2022 542 2021 542 2020 224 2019 47 2018 19 2017 4

BIRD SPECIES

all species Mallard 56 Siberian Stonechat 54 Great Tit 46 Great Crested Grebe 45 Common Kestrel 40 Common Chaffinch 40 Masked Wagtail 40 Wood Pigeon 37 Eurasian Blackbird 36 Common Mynah 36 Grey Wagtail 35 Spotted Flycatcher 34 Common Pheasant 33 Black-headed Gull 32 Mistle Thrush 30 Tree Sparrow 29 Eurasian Roller 29 Coal Tit 26 Green Sandpiper 26 Great White Egret 26 Grey-headed Goldfinch 25 Eurasian Collared Dove 25 Rook 24 Common Chiffchaff 24 Eurasian Magpie 22 Eversmann's Redstart 22 Barn Swallow 22 Azure Tit 22 Eurasian Jackdaw 22 Turkestan Shrike 22 Brambling 21 Brown Dipper 21 Little Ringed Plover 21 Long-legged Buzzard 21 Black Kite 21 Blue Whistling Thrush 20 Red-fronted Serin 20 Rock Pigeon 20 Eurasian Hobby 19 Great Cormorant 19 Laughing Dove 19 Common Sandpiper 18 Common Rosefinch 18 Common Whitethroat 18 Common Sparrowhawk 17 Blue-capped Redstart 17 Common Coot 17 House Sparrow 17 Common Kingfisher 16 Pied Wheatear 16 Eastern Buzzard 16 Carrion Crow 16 European Bee-eater 15 Common Moorhen 15 Water Pipit 15 Isabelline Shrike 15 Greenish Warbler 15 Isabelline Wheatear 15 Black-winged Stilt 15 Tree Pipit 15 Long-tailed Shrike 14 European Greenfinch 14 Spotted Nutcracker 14 Turkestan Tit 13 Black-throated Thrush 13 Common Starling 13 Lesser Whitethroat 13 Great Spotted Woodpecker 13 Hume's Warbler 13 Common Tern 12 Eurasian Siskin 12 Ruddy Shelduck 12 Western Marsh-Harrier 12 Citrine Wagtail 12 Black-Necked Grebe 12 Common Cuckoo 12 Booted Eagle 11 Caspian Gull 11 Common Buzzard 11 Corn Bunting 11 Black-throated Accentor 11 Black Tern 11 White-winged Grosbeak 10 Red-mantled Rosefinch 10 Red-crested Pochard 10 Oriental Turtle Dove 10 Rosy Starling 10 Grey Heron 10 Crested Lark 10 Common Treecreeper 10 Bluethroat 9 Yellow-billed Chough 9 Demoiselle Crane 9 Northern Wheatear 9 Hooded Crow 9 Wallcreeper 8 Hoopoe 8 Lammergeier 8 Long-eared Owl 8 Common Raven 8 White-browed Tit-Warbler 8 Common Nightingale 8 Goldcrest 8 Steppe Eagle 8 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 7 Chukar Partridge 7 Golden Eagle 7 Little Grebe 7 Eurasian Dipper 7 Clamorous Reed Warbler 7 Cinereous Vulture 7 Long-tailed Tit 7 Northern House Martin 7 White-Winged Woodpecker 7 Paddyfield Warbler 7 Shikra 7 Northern Wren 7 Black Redstart 7 Red-billed Chough 7 Wood Sandpiper 7 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 7 Eurasian Linnet 6 Little Bittern 6 Common Swift 6 Dalmatian Pelican 6 Songar Tit 6 Mute Swan 6 Temminck's Stint 6 Tawny Pipit 6 Eurasian Curlew 6 Grey-necked Bunting 6 Garganey 6 Gadwall 6 Lesser Grey Shrike 6 Pine Bunting 6 Red-necked Phalarope 6 Northern Reed Bunting 6 White Wagtail 6 Pygmy Cormorant 6 Black-crowned Night Heron 6 Ruff 6 White-headed Duck 5 Common Snipe 5 Northern Lapwing 5 Red Crossbill 5 Blyth's Reed Warbler 5 Montagu's Harrier 5 Calandra Lark 5 Ferruginous Duck 5 White-crowned Penduline Tit 5 Bohemian Waxwing 5 Whooper Swan 5 Common Oystercatcher 4 Guldenstadt's Redstart 4 Pied Avocet 4 Black Stork 4 Plain Mountain Finch 4 Common Redshank 4 Northern Pintail 4 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 4 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 4 Little Stint 4 Great Reed Warbler 4 Sky Lark 4 Long-tailed Rosefinch 4 Yellowhammer 4 Northern Shoveler 4 Pacific Golden Plover 3 Red-headed Bunting 3 Brown Accentor 3 Sand Martin 3 Ortolan Bunting 3 Eastern Imperial Eagle 3 Rock Bunting 3 Sykes's Warbler 3 Desert Wheatear 3 Kentish Plover 3 Pallas's Gull 3 Indian Sparrow 3 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 3 Tufted Duck 3 Pallas's Sandgrouse 3 Great Grey Shrike 3 European Robin 3 Greater Short-toed Lark 3 Common Shelduck 3 Yellow Wagtail 3 Himalayan Accentor 2 Dunlin 2 Collared Pratincole 2 Upland Buzzard 2 Black-tailed Godwit 2 European Golden Oriole 2 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 2 Spotted Redshank 2 Western Grasshopper Warbler 2 Great White Pelican 2 Desert Finch 2 Marsh Sandpiper 2 Himalayan Rubythroat 2 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 2 Lesser Short-toed Lark 2 Brandt's Rosefinch 2 Mongolian Finch 2 Black-headed Wagtail 2 Common Pochard 2 Eurasian Scops-Owl 2 Steppe Grey Shrike 2 Greater Spotted Eagle 2 Red-rumped Swallow 2 Red-backed Shrike 2 Alpine Accentor 2 Relict Gull 1 Greylag Goose 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Brown-necked Raven 1 Fieldfare 1 Siberian Black-backed Gull 1 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 1 Savi's Warbler 1 Grey Plover 1 Alpine Swift 1 Lesser Kestrel 1 Osprey 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Griffon Vulture 1 Spanish Sparrow 1 Horned Lark 1 Slender-billed Gull 1 Bearded Tit 1 Crested Honey-Buzzard 1 European Nightjar 1 Little Tern 1 Meadow Bunting 1 Finsch's Wheatear 1 Asian Desert Warbler 1 Great Bustard 1 Water Rail 1 Barred Warbler 1 Common Teal 1 White Stork 1 Eurasian Wigeon 1 White's Thrush 1 Ibisbill 1 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Common Greenshank 1 Terek Sandpiper 1 Eurasian Redstart 1 Yellow-breasted Tit 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 Egyptian Vulture 1 Greater Sand Plover 1 Greater Ringed Plover 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 1 Indian Golden Oriole 1 Himalayan Vulture 1

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all Almaty 1061Almaty Region 758Shymkent 353Turkistan Region 231Zhetysu Region 49 Zhambyl Region 15

Only “needs identification” 3

Yellow-billed Chough 16 Jun 2024 · Almaty, Almaty Region

Himalayan Rubythroat 16 Jun 2024 · Chimbulak, Levy Talgar pass, Almaty 🐤 1

Water Pipit 16 Jun 2024 · Shymbulak, Almaty 😍 6

2 Northern House Martin 16 Jun 2024 · Chimbulak, Trans-Ili Alatau, Almaty 😍 2

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 1

White-tailed Sea-Eagle 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 2

Wood Sandpiper 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 3

Dunlin 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 4

White-headed Duck 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 1

Red-necked Phalarope 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region

Little Stint 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 3

Common Kingfisher 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region

Whooper Swan 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 2

Mute Swan 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 2

Desert Wheatear 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region

Spotted Redshank 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 6

Tufted Duck 21 Sep 2024 · system lakes Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 4

Wood Sandpiper 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 1

Steppe Eagle 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 5

Siberian Stonechat 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 5

Ruff 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 7

2 Common Sparrowhawk 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 11

Black-tailed Godwit 21 Sep 2024 · Sorbulak, Almaty Region

Booted Eagle 21 Sep 2024 · Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 1

Awards of Ольга

4 awards · several levels in each

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250 250 observations

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1K 1 000 observations

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3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

awardgroup.years

1 1 year on the site

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