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1 914observations 290species 57%of the Birds.kz list 6 of 20regions 211comments 2diary entries

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245 species in 2026

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6 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region1 116 Almaty665 Mangystau Region54 Zhetysu Region47 East Kazakhstan Region31 Astana1

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Eurasian Honey-Buzzard6 Sep
Common Snipe1 Aug
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Most in 2025: 827 observations

Observations 1 914 Species 290 Diaries 2 Map 492 Comments 211

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Common Kestrel 33 Long-legged Buzzard 31 Pied Wheatear 29 Eastern Buzzard 24 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 24 Black Kite 21 Siberian Stonechat 20 Calandra Lark 19 Northern Reed Bunting 18 Common Sparrowhawk 18 Corn Bunting 17 Black-throated Thrush 17 Eversmann's Redstart 17 Chukar Partridge 16 Great White Egret 16 Pygmy Cormorant 16 Steppe Eagle 15 Common Moorhen 15 Golden Eagle 15 Western Marsh-Harrier 15 Carrion Crow 15 Grey-headed Goldfinch 15 Pine Bunting 15 Red-fronted Serin 14 Rock Bunting 14 Great Cormorant 14 Green Sandpiper 14 Lammergeier 14 Crested Lark 14 Water Pipit 14 Azure Tit 14 Little Ringed Plover 13 Mallard 13 Tawny Pipit 13 Greater Short-toed Lark 13 Common Chaffinch 13 Common Chiffchaff 13 Mistle Thrush 12 Grey Heron 12 Great Grey Shrike 12 Caspian Gull 12 Common Sandpiper 11 Blue-capped Redstart 11 Northern Wheatear 11 Common Teal 11 Eurasian Crag Martin 11 Tree Pipit 11 Red-headed Bunting 10 Hoopoe 10 Common Raven 10 Turkestan Shrike 10 Whooper Swan 10 Northern Lapwing 10 Sky Lark 10 Horned Lark 10 Rook 10 Isabelline Shrike 10 White-winged Grosbeak 10 Yellow Wagtail 9 Lesser Short-toed Lark 9 Eurasian Roller 9 Spotted Flycatcher 9 Lesser Grey Shrike 9 Common Whitethroat 9 Common Buzzard 9 Grey Wagtail 9 Isabelline Wheatear 9 Yellow-billed Chough 9 Long-tailed Rosefinch 9 Black-headed Gull 9 Barn Swallow 9 Yellowhammer 9 Common Redshank 9 Eurasian Hobby 9 Great Crested Grebe 9 Black-winged Stilt 9 Eurasian Linnet 9 Citrine Wagtail 8 Common Kingfisher 8 Common Shelduck 8 Gadwall 8 Smew 8 Dalmatian Pelican 8 Hooded Crow 8 Northern Shoveler 8 Booted Eagle 8 Common Pochard 8 Eurasian Dipper 8 Common Tern 8 Brambling 8 Mute Swan 8 Hume's Warbler 8 Goldcrest 8 Black Redstart 8 Red-crested Pochard 8 Black-Necked Grebe 8 Cinereous Vulture 8 Great Tit 8 Red-rumped Swallow 7 Red-billed Chough 7 Tufted Duck 7 Bohemian Waxwing 7 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 7 Guldenstadt's Redstart 7 Eurasian Magpie 7 Himalayan Vulture 7 Brown Accentor 7 Ferruginous Duck 7 Red-mantled Rosefinch 7 Common Pheasant 7 White-Winged Woodpecker 7 Himalayan Rubythroat 7 Eurasian Blackbird 7 Spotted Nutcracker 7 Ruff 7 European Greenfinch 7 Wood Sandpiper 7 Common Starling 7 Common Coot 7 Goosander 7 Lesser Whitethroat 6 Northern Pintail 6 Eurasian Siskin 6 Common Greenshank 6 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 6 Hen Harrier 6 Lesser Kestrel 6 European Bee-eater 6 House Sparrow 6 White Wagtail 6 Ruddy Shelduck 6 Temminck's Stint 6 Little Bittern 6 Pallas's Gull 6 Demoiselle Crane 6 Rosy Starling 6 Northern Wren 6 Pied Avocet 6 Masked Wagtail 6 Common Swift 6 Black-throated Accentor 6 Coal Tit 6 Northern House Martin 6 Himalayan Accentor 6 Common Oystercatcher 6 Eurasian Jackdaw 6 White-crowned Penduline Tit 6 Common Mynah 5 Plain Mountain Finch 5 Alpine Accentor 5 Black Stork 5 Eurasian Redstart 5 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 5 Garganey 5 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 5 Common Cuckoo 5 White-headed Duck 5 Wallcreeper 5 Tree Sparrow 5 Eastern Imperial Eagle 5 Northern Goshawk 5 Desert Wheatear 5 Bluethroat 5 Eurasian Curlew 5 Oriental Turtle Dove 5 Sand Martin 5 Brandt's Rosefinch 5 Common Goldeneye 5 Egyptian Vulture 5 Greenish Warbler 5 Eurasian Wigeon 5 Dunlin 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 European Nightjar 4 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Red-breasted Merganser 4 Steppe Grey Shrike 4 Wood Pigeon 4 Little Stint 4 Little Owl 4 Eurasian Collared Dove 4 Little Grebe 4 Black-crowned Night Heron 4 Montagu's Harrier 4 Grey-necked Bunting 4 Brown Dipper 4 Songar Tit 4 Greater Ringed Plover 4 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 4 Long-tailed Tit 4 Black-headed Wagtail 4 Turkestan Tit 4 Upland Buzzard 4 Greater Sand Plover 4 Common Rosefinch 4 Spotted Redshank 4 Bearded Tit 4 Fieldfare 4 Blue Whistling Thrush 4 Long-eared Owl 4 Spanish Sparrow 3 European Robin 3 Marsh Sandpiper 3 Red-backed Shrike 3 Cetti's Warbler 3 White-browed Tit-Warbler 3 Collared Pratincole 3 Common Treecreeper 3 Shikra 3 Ibisbill 3 Gull-billed Tern 3 Blyth's Reed Warbler 3 Rock Pigeon 3 Indian Sparrow 3 Glossy Ibis 3 Rustic Bunting 3 Northern Hawk Owl 3 Greylag Goose 3 Laughing Dove 3 White-winged Snowfinch 2 Bewick's Swan 2 Great White Pelican 2 Grey Plover 2 Ortolan Bunting 2 Northern Bullfinch 2 Bar-tailed Godwit 2 Solitary Snipe 2 Osprey 2 Saker Falcon 2 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 2 Red-breasted Flycatcher 2 Twite 2 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 2 Saxaul Sparrow 2 Pallid Scops Owl 2 Water Rail 2 Merlin 2 Indian Golden Oriole 2 Pallas's Sandgrouse 2 Finsch's Wheatear 2 Red Crossbill 2 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Terek Sandpiper 2 Common Snipe 2 Stock Pigeon 2 Buff-bellied Pipit 2 Rock Sparrow 2 Common Crane 2 Western Grasshopper Warbler 2 Black Tern 2 Brown-necked Raven 2 White-winged Lark 2 Sanderling 1 Red-Necked Grebe 1 Little Bustard 1 Redwing 1 Mongolian Finch 1 White-winged Tern 1 Meadow Bunting 1 Black-winged Pratincole 1 Northern Black Grouse 1 Caspian Tern 1 Pallid Harrier 1 Savi's Warbler 1 Baikal Bullfinch 1 Grey Partridge 1 Clamorous Reed Warbler 1 Slender-billed Gull 1 Red-throated Thrush 1 Eurasian Nuthatch 1 Bimaculated Lark 1 Little Gull 1 Hume's Whitethroat 1 Great Reed Warbler 1 Greater Flamingo 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Willow Tit 1 Corncrake 1 Caspian Plover 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Desert Finch 1 Moustached Warbler 1 White-capped Bunting 1 Long-tailed Shrike 1 Song Thrush 1 Great Rosefinch 1 Streaked Scrub Warbler 1 Kentish Plover 1 Asian Desert Warbler 1

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all Almaty Region 1116Almaty 665Mangystau Region 54Zhetysu Region 47East Kazakhstan Region 31 Astana 1

Only “needs identification” 7

White-headed Duck 9 May · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 3

Mute Swan 9 May · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region

White-headed Duck 9 May · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 6

Hume's Warbler 9 May · Sorbulaq lake system, Almaty Region 😍 1

Common Whitethroat 9 May · Sorbulaq lake system, Almaty Region

Greylag Goose 9 May · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 🐤 1

Hume's Warbler 9 May · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region

Calandra Lark 9 May · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 3

Little Bittern 3 May · Pond near Airport, Almaty 5 photos (short) 😍 10

Shikra 3 May · Almaty 3 photos (short) 😍 3

Red-headed Bunting 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 3

Yellow Wagtail 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 2

Crested Lark 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 5

Egyptian Vulture 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 9

Crested Lark 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 3

Common Tern 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 5

Eurasian Crag Martin 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 1

Common Chiffchaff 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 1

Lesser Whitethroat 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 5

Long-legged Buzzard 1 May · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 1

Common Sparrowhawk 1 May · Ile river canyon, Qonaev, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 3

Common Mynah 1 May · Ile river canyon, Qonaev, Almaty Region 🐤 2

Eurasian Crag Martin 1 May · Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 1

Golden Eagle 1 May · Almaty Region 😍 6

Awards of Никита

6 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

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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

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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

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

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