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2 464observations 323species 63%of the Birds.kz list 7 of 20regions 3comments

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297 species in 2026

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7 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Mangystau Region2 087 Almaty Region225 Almaty95 Astana37 Kyzylorda Region14 Aktobe Region5 Turkistan Region1

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Eurasian Penduline Tit27 Oct
Moustached Warbler26 Oct
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Most in 2026: 836 observations

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all 2026 836 2025 528 2024 643 2023 361 2022 1 2021 16 2019 12 2018 5 2017 5 2016 6 2015 24 2014 8 2013 2 2012 6 2011 3 2009 7 2007 1

BIRD SPECIES

all species Western Marsh-Harrier 41 Common Raven 35 Glossy Ibis 34 Caspian Gull 33 Black-winged Stilt 30 Common Sandpiper 30 Red-crested Pochard 29 Ruff 29 Little Ringed Plover 29 Mute Swan 28 Long-legged Buzzard 27 Wood Sandpiper 26 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 26 Common Kestrel 25 Great Cormorant 25 Crested Lark 24 Common Chiffchaff 24 Mallard 23 Steppe Eagle 23 Green Sandpiper 23 White-headed Duck 23 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 22 Black-headed Gull 22 Grey Heron 21 House Sparrow 21 White Wagtail 21 Eurasian Collared Dove 20 Lesser Short-toed Lark 20 Little Stint 20 Common Coot 19 Pied Wheatear 19 Common Sparrowhawk 18 Common Starling 17 Northern Reed Bunting 17 Hooded Crow 16 Black Kite 16 Spotted Flycatcher 16 Common Chaffinch 16 Sykes's Warbler 16 Rook 16 Black-Necked Grebe 16 Red-headed Bunting 15 Eurasian Magpie 15 Common Pochard 15 Eurasian Roller 15 Garganey 15 Red-necked Phalarope 15 Common Snipe 14 Rock Pigeon 14 Ruddy Shelduck 14 Isabelline Wheatear 14 Eurasian Redstart 14 Hoopoe 14 Bluethroat 14 Cinereous Vulture 14 Common Cuckoo 13 Common Shelduck 13 Red-backed Shrike 13 Chukar Partridge 13 Sand Martin 13 Great White Egret 13 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 13 Tawny Pipit 13 Greater Flamingo 13 Common Teal 12 Rosy Starling 12 Barn Swallow 12 Tree Sparrow 12 Northern Lapwing 12 Dunlin 12 Common Redshank 12 Lesser Whitethroat 12 Fieldfare 12 Greater Short-toed Lark 11 Marsh Sandpiper 11 Blyth's Reed Warbler 11 Oriental Turtle Dove 11 White-winged Tern 11 Common Whitethroat 11 Great Tit 11 Hen Harrier 11 Bimaculated Lark 11 Slender-billed Gull 10 Great Crested Grebe 10 Egyptian Vulture 10 Mistle Thrush 10 Tree Pipit 10 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Northern Pintail 10 Black-headed Wagtail 10 Citrine Wagtail 10 Pallas's Sandgrouse 10 Whiskered Tern 10 Golden Eagle 10 Purple Heron 10 Common Tern 10 Greater Ringed Plover 10 Common Mynah 10 Lesser Grey Shrike 9 Masked Wagtail 9 Tufted Duck 9 Laughing Dove 9 Northern Shoveler 9 Eurasian Jackdaw 9 Little Tern 8 Eurasian Blackbird 8 Macqueen's Bustard 8 Pallid Harrier 8 Eastern Imperial Eagle 8 Yellow Wagtail 8 Dalmatian Pelican 8 Little Egret 8 Kentish Plover 8 Ruddy Turnstone 8 Carrion Crow 8 Little Owl 8 Calandra Lark 8 Brambling 8 Shikra 7 Black Redstart 7 Pygmy Cormorant 7 Finsch's Wheatear 7 Rock Sparrow 7 Desert Finch 7 Common Oystercatcher 7 Curlew Sandpiper 7 Willow Warbler 7 Lammergeier 7 Steppe Grey Shrike 7 Eurasian Wigeon 7 European Bee-eater 7 Desert Wheatear 7 Red-breasted Flycatcher 7 Common Rosefinch 6 Whinchat 6 Common Greenshank 6 Pied Avocet 6 Bohemian Waxwing 6 Paddyfield Warbler 6 Common Goldeneye 6 Griffon Vulture 6 Eurasian Whimbrel 6 European Robin 6 Common Pheasant 6 Greater Sand Plover 6 Common Buzzard 6 Common Swift 6 Gadwall 6 Eurasian Hobby 6 Hume's Warbler 6 Bar-tailed Godwit 5 Wood Pigeon 5 Long-tailed Shrike 5 Turkestan Shrike 5 Northern Wheatear 5 Trumpeter Finch 5 Alpine Swift 5 Horned Lark 5 Baraba Steppe Gull 5 Terek Sandpiper 5 Mew Gull 5 Spotted Crake 5 Bewick's Swan 5 Hawfinch 5 Whooper Swan 5 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 5 Ferruginous Duck 5 Yellowhammer 5 Yellow-billed Chough 5 Cattle Egret 5 Ortolan Bunting 5 Sandwich Tern 5 Eurasian Wryneck 5 Water Rail 5 Red-Necked Grebe 4 Saker Falcon 4 Black-crowned Night Heron 4 Goosander 4 White-winged Lark 4 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 4 Bearded Tit 4 White-tailed Lapwing 4 White-Winged Woodpecker 4 Sanderling 4 Grey Wagtail 4 Coal Tit 4 Great Reed Warbler 4 Blue Whistling Thrush 4 Little Bittern 4 Broad-billed Sandpiper 4 Merlin 4 Eurasian Siskin 4 Temminck's Stint 4 Spotted Redshank 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 Indian Sparrow 4 Gull-billed Tern 4 Sky Lark 4 Turkestan Tit 4 Siberian Black-backed Gull 4 Water Pipit 3 Long-eared Owl 3 Streaked Scrub Warbler 3 Blue-capped Redstart 3 Northern House Martin 3 Ring-billed Gull 3 Eurasian Curlew 3 Brown Dipper 3 Siberian Stonechat 3 Black-tailed Godwit 3 European Golden Oriole 3 Song Thrush 3 Little Grebe 3 Azure Tit 3 Grey-headed Goldfinch 3 Northern Wren 3 Great Grey Shrike 3 Eurasian Spoonbill 3 Corn Bunting 3 Greenish Warbler 3 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 3 Spanish Sparrow 3 Common Kingfisher 3 Osprey 3 Garden Warbler 3 Meadow Pipit 3 Asian Desert Warbler 3 Red Crossbill 3 Songar Tit 3 Common Moorhen 3 Redwing 3 Eversmann's Redstart 3 Lesser Kestrel 3 Great White Pelican 2 Squacco Heron 2 Red-throated Pipit 2 Little Bustard 2 Sedge Warbler 2 Desert Lark 2 European Greenfinch 2 Stock Pigeon 2 Spotted Nutcracker 2 Levant Sparrowhawk 2 White-crowned Penduline Tit 2 Rufous Bush Robin 2 Eurasian Linnet 2 Brown-necked Raven 2 Booted Eagle 2 Booted Warbler 2 Little Crake 2 Eurasian Bittern 2 Yellow-backed Wagtail 2 Caspian Plover 2 Barred Warbler 2 Pine Bunting 2 Rock Bunting 2 Caspian Tern 2 Pallas's Gull 2 Cetti's Warbler 2 Pallid Scops Owl 2 Red-billed Chough 2 Ibisbill 2 Black-throated Thrush 2 Red-fronted Serin 2 Grey-headed Swamphen 2 Baillon's Crake 2 Goldcrest 1 Eurasian Crag Martin 1 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 1 Eurasian Dipper 1 Crested Honey-Buzzard 1 Demoiselle Crane 1 European Nightjar 1 Dunnock 1 Saxaul Sparrow 1 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 1 Meadow Bunting 1 Solitary Snipe 1 Collared Pratincole 1 Greater Scaup 1 Eurasian Scops-Owl 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 Montagu's Harrier 1 Isabelline Shrike 1 Grey Plover 1 Savi's Warbler 1 Blue Rock Thrush 1 Red-rumped Swallow 1 Plain Mountain Finch 1 Mongolian Finch 1 Long-tailed Tit 1 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 1 Indian Golden Oriole 1 White-capped Bunting 1 Guldenstadt's Redstart 1 Pander's Ground-Jay 1 Moustached Warbler 1 Eastern Orphean Warbler 1 Grey-necked Bunting 1 Eurasian Golden Plover 1 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 1 White-browed Tit-Warbler 1 Buff-bellied Pipit 1 Black Tern 1 Smew 1 Black-headed Bunting 1 European Turtle Dove 1 Himalayan Vulture 1 Blue Tit 1 Common Quail 1 Common Crane 1 Grey Partridge 1 Clamorous Reed Warbler 1 Pied Bushchat 1 Western Grasshopper Warbler 1 Thrush Nightingale 1 Wallcreeper 1 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 1 Eurasian Penduline Tit 1 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 1 Himalayan Rubythroat 1 White-winged Grosbeak 1

REGION

all Mangystau Region 2087Almaty Region 225Almaty 95Astana 37Kyzylorda Region 14 Aktobe Region 5Turkistan Region 1

Only “needs identification” 3

Tree Pipit 25 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

Spotted Crake 25 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 1

2 Laughing Dove 19 Apr · Ustyurt Nature Reserve office, Zhanaozen... 😍 4

2 Common Swift 19 Apr · Ustyurt Nature Reserve office, Zhanaozen... 🐤 1

Mute Swan 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

6 Common Chiffchaff 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 4

Bluethroat 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 2

Black-headed Gull 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

Black-Necked Grebe 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 2

Common Coot 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

5 White-headed Duck 18 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 5

Eurasian Redstart 17 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

Green Sandpiper 13 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 2

Bluethroat 13 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

Common Sandpiper 13 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

2 Marsh Sandpiper 13 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 2

Black-winged Stilt 13 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi... 😍 2

Great Cormorant 13 Apr · Settling pond, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Regi...

2 Common Snipe 12 Apr · Samal, Aktau, Mangystau Region

Ruddy Shelduck 12 Apr · Samal, Aktau, Mangystau Region

Red-crested Pochard 12 Apr · Aktau, Mangystau Region

2 Citrine Wagtail 12 Apr · Aktau, Mangystau Region

Black-headed Gull 12 Apr · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Bar-tailed Godwit 12 Apr · Baskuduk, Mangystau Region

Awards of Zhaskairat

5 awards · several levels in each

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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

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3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 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

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1 New species for the site

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