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1 495observations 357species 70%of the Birds.kz list 9 of 20regions 2 515comments 78diary entries

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9 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region1 065 Almaty222 Zhambyl Region68 Zhetysu Region54 Turkistan Region37 Akmola Region29 East Kazakhstan Region15 Karaganda Region4 Abai Region1

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Most in 2013: 532 observations

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Black-throated Thrush 41 Long-legged Buzzard 27 Yellow Wagtail 22 Steppe Eagle 20 Isabelline Shrike 19 Common Buzzard 18 White-headed Duck 17 Eastern Buzzard 15 White Wagtail 15 Black-winged Stilt 14 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 14 Pied Wheatear 12 Turkestan Shrike 12 Black-tailed Godwit 11 Great Cormorant 11 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 10 Grey Heron 10 Black-Necked Grebe 10 Little Stint 10 White's Thrush 10 Red-necked Phalarope 9 Demoiselle Crane 9 Black-throated Accentor 9 Kentish Plover 9 Peregrine Falcon 9 Bohemian Waxwing 9 Wood Sandpiper 8 Collared Pratincole 8 Garganey 8 Blue-capped Redstart 8 Little Ringed Plover 8 Cinereous Vulture 8 Water Pipit 8 Temminck's Stint 8 Red Crossbill 8 Dalmatian Pelican 8 Ruff 8 Greater Short-toed Lark 8 Boreal Owl 8 Black-headed Gull 8 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 8 Common Tern 8 Horned Lark 7 Spanish Sparrow 7 Himalayan Rubythroat 7 White-Winged Woodpecker 7 Eurasian Scops-Owl 7 Goldcrest 7 Bean Goose 7 Great White Pelican 7 Yellowhammer 7 Caspian Gull 7 Black Kite 7 Northern Wheatear 7 Black Stork 7 Common Kingfisher 7 Common Oystercatcher 7 Steppe Grey Shrike 7 Chukar Partridge 7 Corn Bunting 7 Great Grey Shrike 7 Lesser Sand Plover 7 Pied Avocet 7 Common Snipe 7 Dunlin 6 Golden Eagle 6 Curlew Sandpiper 6 Northern Reed Bunting 6 Spotted Redshank 6 Northern Lapwing 6 Grey-headed Goldfinch 6 Spotted Flycatcher 6 Calandra Lark 6 Eurasian Curlew 6 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 6 Red-mantled Rosefinch 6 Eurasian Roller 6 Ruddy Shelduck 6 Common Redshank 6 Common Shelduck 6 Eastern Imperial Eagle 6 Whooper Swan 6 Common Sparrowhawk 6 White-browed Tit-Warbler 6 Common Starling 6 Little Owl 6 Tawny Pipit 6 Eversmann's Redstart 6 Greater Sand Plover 5 Sky Lark 5 Rough-legged Buzzard 5 Common Coot 5 Terek Sandpiper 5 Greater Ringed Plover 5 Rock Pigeon 5 Red-crested Pochard 5 Mistle Thrush 5 Pallas's Sandgrouse 5 Brown-necked Raven 5 Sanderling 5 Little Bustard 5 European Bee-eater 5 Citrine Wagtail 5 Booted Eagle 5 Common Cuckoo 5 Rock Bunting 5 Brambling 5 Tree Sparrow 5 Red-fronted Serin 5 Rook 5 Western Marsh-Harrier 5 White-winged Grosbeak 5 Common Pheasant 5 Green Sandpiper 5 Eurasian Hobby 5 Eurasian Whimbrel 4 Red-billed Chough 4 Black Redstart 4 Bimaculated Lark 4 Blyth's Reed Warbler 4 Egyptian Vulture 4 Cetti's Warbler 4 Red-backed Shrike 4 Common Chaffinch 4 Rosy Starling 4 Pallas's Gull 4 Hen Harrier 4 Mongolian Finch 4 Mallard 4 Pallid Harrier 4 Lesser Grey Shrike 4 Crested Lark 4 Fieldfare 4 Tree Pipit 4 Eurasian Spoonbill 4 Masked Wagtail 4 Greylag Goose 4 Black Tern 4 Red-headed Bunting 4 Common Raven 4 Black-headed Wagtail 4 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 4 Pacific Golden Plover 4 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 4 Eurasian Blackbird 4 Great Reed Warbler 4 Spotted Nutcracker 4 Red-throated Thrush 4 European Nightjar 4 White-winged Tern 4 Water Rail 4 Common Pochard 4 Redwing 4 Long-eared Owl 4 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 4 Common Greenshank 4 White-capped Bunting 4 Northern Hawk Owl 4 Carrion Crow 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 Indian Golden Oriole 4 Eurasian Siskin 3 Griffon Vulture 3 Shikra 3 Crimson-winged Finch 3 Great Rosefinch 3 Variable Wheatear 3 Baraba Steppe Gull 3 Grey Plover 3 Hoopoe 3 Rufous Bush Robin 3 Little Grebe 3 Meadow Bunting 3 Mew Gull 3 Eurasian Linnet 3 Northern Goshawk 3 Hooded Crow 3 Wood Pigeon 3 Eurasian Collared Dove 3 Sykes's Warbler 3 Desert Wheatear 3 Montagu's Harrier 3 Brown Accentor 3 Lesser Whitethroat 3 Ortolan Bunting 3 Common Nightingale 3 Sociable Lapwing 3 Northern Pintail 3 Long-tailed Rosefinch 3 Tufted Duck 3 Common Chiffchaff 3 Merlin 3 Eurasian Jackdaw 3 Little Tern 3 Common Swift 3 Northern Wren 3 Yellow-billed Chough 3 Common Goldeneye 3 Common Sandpiper 3 White-crowned Penduline Tit 3 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 3 Lammergeier 3 Eurasian Stone Curlew 3 Alpine Accentor 3 Asian Desert Warbler 3 Siberian Stonechat 3 Bewick's Swan 3 Grey-necked Bunting 3 Great Tit 3 Azure Tit 3 European Robin 3 Barbary Falcon 3 Goosander 3 Mute Swan 3 Blue Whistling Thrush 3 Caspian Tern 3 Song Thrush 2 Common Kestrel 2 Baillon's Crake 2 Eurasian Wigeon 2 European Greenfinch 2 Isabelline Wheatear 2 Hume's Whitethroat 2 Grey Wagtail 2 Pygmy Cormorant 2 European Turtle Dove 2 Red-flanked Bluetail 2 Ibisbill 2 Plain Mountain Finch 2 House Sparrow 2 Common Rosefinch 2 Osprey 2 Little Bittern 2 White Stork 2 Black Lark 2 Himalayan Accentor 2 Black-winged Pratincole 2 Purple Heron 2 Gull-billed Tern 2 Ferruginous Duck 2 Long-tailed Shrike 2 Eurasian Woodcock 2 Buff-bellied Pipit 2 Oriental Turtle Dove 2 Yellow-breasted Tit 2 Gadwall 2 Northern House Martin 2 Twite 2 Smew 2 Upland Buzzard 2 Hawfinch 2 Asian Short-toed Lark 2 Sand Martin 2 Red-breasted Rosefinch 2 Paddyfield Warbler 2 Rock Sparrow 2 Coal Tit 2 Daurian Jackdaw 2 Clamorous Reed Warbler 2 Meadow Pipit 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 Solitary Snipe 2 Eastern Orphean Warbler 2 Ruddy Turnstone 2 White-throated Robin 2 Long-tailed Tit 2 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 2 Himalayan Vulture 2 Guldenstadt's Redstart 2 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 2 Lesser Kestrel 2 Common Treecreeper 2 Crested Honey-Buzzard 2 Pale Sand Martin 2 Eurasian Goldfinch 2 Marsh Sandpiper 2 Pallid Scops Owl 2 Turkestan Tit 2 Saxaul Sparrow 2 Blue Rock Thrush 2 Songar Tit 2 Desert Finch 2 Bearded Tit 2 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 2 Indian Pond Heron 2 Eurasian Wryneck 2 Willow Tit 2 Greenish Warbler 2 Eurasian Golden Plover 1 Yellow-backed Wagtail 1 Eurasian Magpie 1 Little Crake 1 Savi's Warbler 1 Northern Black Grouse 1 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler 1 Laughing Dove 1 Northern Bullfinch 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Siberian Rubythroat 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Pomarine Skua 1 Oriental Lark 1 White-tailed Lapwing 1 Northern Hazelhen 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Greater Flamingo 1 Saker Falcon 1 Lesser Short-toed Lark 1 Whinchat 1 Common Whitethroat 1 Olive-backed Pipit 1 Arctic Loon 1 Slender-billed Gull 1 Eurasian Dipper 1 Red Phalarope 1 Eurasian Nuthatch 1 Brandt's Rosefinch 1 Blyth's Rosefinch 1 Relict Gull 1 Red-Necked Grebe 1 Booted Warbler 1 Wood Warbler 1 Indian Sparrow 1 Menetries Warbler 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 Finsch's Wheatear 1 Pallas's Sea-Eagle 1 Swinhoe's Snipe 1 Greater Spotted Eagle 1 Red-rumped Swallow 1 Great Bustard 1 White-winged Snowfinch 1 Common Moorhen 1 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Pine Bunting 1 Eurasian Redstart 1 Northern Shoveler 1 Dusky Thrush 1 Stock Pigeon 1 Red-footed Falcon 1 Bluethroat 1 Black-breasted Tit 1 Barn Swallow 1 Common Crane 1 Baikal Bullfinch 1 Grey Partridge 1 Great Crested Grebe 1 Macqueen's Bustard 1 Glaucous Gull 1 Western Grasshopper Warbler 1 White-winged Lark 1 Brown Dipper 1 Pander's Ground-Jay 1 Caspian Plover 1 Great White Egret 1

REGION

all Almaty Region 1065Almaty 222Zhambyl Region 68Zhetysu Region 54Turkistan Region 37 Akmola Region 29East Kazakhstan Region 15Karaganda Region 4Abai Region 1

Common Tern 27 Jul 2013 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 😍 1

Caspian Gull 27 Jul 2013 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 😍 1

Hodgson's Rosefinch 20 Jul 2013 · Cosmostation, Ile Alatau National Park,... 😍 1

Himalayan Lammergeier 20 Jul 2013 · Cosmostation, Trans-Ili Alatau, Almaty R... 😍 1

Alpine Accentor 20 Jul 2013 · Cosmostation, Trans-Ili Alatau, Almaty R... 😍 1

Meadow Bunting 14 Jul 2013 · Kastekskoye gorge, Trans-Ili Alatau, Alm... 😍 1

2 Northern Wheatear 14 Jul 2013 · Kastek, Almaty Region 😍 1

Eurasian Linnet 14 Jul 2013 · Kastek, Almaty Region 😍 1

Common Rosefinch 14 Jul 2013 · Kastek, Almaty Region 😍 1

Red-headed Bunting 14 Jul 2013 · Kastek, Almaty Region 😍 1

European Bee-eater 14 Jul 2013 · Targap village, Almaty region 😍 2

2 White-browed Tit-Warbler 13 Jul 2013 · Almaty 😍 1

Red-mantled Rosefinch 13 Jul 2013 · Big Almaty Lake, Ile-Alatau National Par... 😍 1

Himalayan Rubythroat 13 Jul 2013 · Big Almaty Lake, Ile-Alatau National Par... 😍 3🐤 1

Western Marsh-Harrier 7 Jul 2013 · Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 1

2 Black-crowned Night Heron 7 Jul 2013 · Lakes Maly Sorbulak, Almaty Region 😍 2

Lesser Grey Shrike 6 Jul 2013 · Akterek, Almaty Region

2 Oriental Turtle Dove 6 Jul 2013 · Akterek, Almaty Region 😍 4🐤 1

2 Indian Golden Oriole 6 Jul 2013 · Akterek, Almaty Region 😍 1

3 Common Sparrowhawk 6 Jul 2013 · Akterek, Almaty Region 😍 1

Asian Paradise Flycatcher 6 Jul 2013 · Degeres, Verkhnyaya Kaselenskaya highway...

Shikra 30 Jun 2013 · Zheltorangy, Almaty Region 😍 1

Tree Sparrow 30 Jun 2013 · Bura, Southern Balkhash area, Almaty Reg... 😍 1

2 Saxaul Sparrow 30 Jun 2013 · Bura, Southern Balkhash area, Almaty Reg... 😍 1

Awards of Василий

7 awards · several levels in each

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1 1 observation

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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

awardgroup.pioneer

1 New species for the site

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

10 10 diary entries

50 50 diary entries

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2012 Big Year 2012

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