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1 510observations 305species 59%of the Birds.kz list 11 of 20regions 268comments 3diary entries

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11 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Turkistan Region888 Almaty Region298 Almaty123 Abai Region69 Shymkent30 Mangystau Region29 Zhetysu Region21 Kyzylorda Region16 Zhambyl Region15 West Kazakhstan Region13

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Most in 2018: 642 observations

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all 2022 6 2021 23 2020 17 2019 55 2018 642 2017 494 2016 77 2015 34 2014 24 2013 5 2012 29 2011 33 2010 46 2009 13 2008 4 2007 2 2002 1 2000 2 1990 1 1978 1 1977 1

BIRD SPECIES

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

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all Turkistan Region 888Almaty Region 298Almaty 123Abai Region 69Shymkent 30 Mangystau Region 29Zhetysu Region 21Kyzylorda Region 16Zhambyl Region 15West Kazakhstan Region 13Ulytau Region 1

2 Eastern Imperial Eagle 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak lakes, Almaty Region

2 Black-crowned Night Heron 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak lakes, Almaty Region

Common Greenshank 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak lakes, Almaty Region

Little Ringed Plover 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak lakes, Almaty Region

Little Bustard 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region

3 Ferruginous Duck 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region

European Bee-eater 17 Aug 2018 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region

Red-billed Chough 8 Aug 2018 · Northern Tyan - Shan, Almaty Region

3 Spotted Nutcracker 8 Aug 2018 · Northern Tyan - Shan, Almaty Region

2 Common Whitethroat 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

3 Himalayan Rubythroat 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

Himalayan Vulture 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

Sulphur-bellied Warbler 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

Wallcreeper 8 Aug 2018 · Northern Tyan - Shan, Almaty Region

Black Kite 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

Yellow-billed Chough 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

Ibisbill 8 Aug 2018 · Northern Tyan - Shan, Almaty Region

Northern Wren 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

Eurasian Dipper 8 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region 😍 1

Oriental Turtle Dove 7 Aug 2018 · Ketmen, Almaty Region

4 Upland Buzzard 4 Aug 2018 · Kanshengel, Almaty Region

Long-legged Buzzard 4 Aug 2018 · Kanshengel, Almaty Region

Lesser Short-toed Lark 4 Aug 2018 · Strana zhavoronkov, Almaty Region

Calandra Lark 4 Aug 2018 · Kanshengel

Awards of Борис

7 awards · several levels in each

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25 25 species

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100 100 species

150 150 species

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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

10/20 10 regions

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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

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

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2017 Big Year 2017

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