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1 425observations 334species 65%of the Birds.kz list 18 of 20regions 3 756comments 14diary entries

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18 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region841 Almaty146 Zhetysu Region68 East Kazakhstan Region65 Zhambyl Region56 Karaganda Region50 Turkistan Region45 Pavlodar Region43 Mangystau Region33 Kyzylorda Region22

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Atyrau Region15 Abai Region15 Ulytau Region14 Akmola Region5 North Kazakhstan Region2 Aktobe Region2 Kostanay Region2 Shymkent1

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Long-legged Buzzard 32 Turkestan Shrike 24 Demoiselle Crane 22 Horned Lark 22 Steppe Eagle 22 Whooper Swan 19 Himalayan Vulture 19 Isabelline Shrike 18 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 17 Masked Wagtail 16 Black-winged Stilt 16 Citrine Wagtail 16 Great Tit 15 Common Crane 14 Dalmatian Pelican 14 Black-headed Gull 13 Rock Bunting 12 Bimaculated Lark 12 Ibisbill 12 Eastern Imperial Eagle 11 Common Buzzard 11 Griffon Vulture 11 Sky Lark 11 Little Ringed Plover 10 Temminck's Stint 10 Hume's Warbler 10 White Wagtail 9 Pallas's Sandgrouse 9 Caspian Gull 9 House Sparrow 9 Mallard 9 Common Pheasant 9 Water Pipit 9 Pallas's Sea-Eagle 9 Black-throated Thrush 9 Greater Sand Plover 9 Eastern Buzzard 9 Yellow Wagtail 9 Calandra Lark 9 Pied Wheatear 8 Great Cormorant 8 Ruddy Shelduck 8 Wood Pigeon 8 Western Grasshopper Warbler 8 Merlin 8 Eurasian Curlew 8 Great White Pelican 8 Common Sandpiper 8 Meadow Bunting 8 Mute Swan 8 Corn Bunting 8 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 8 Common Starling 7 White-headed Duck 7 Isabelline Wheatear 7 Ruff 7 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 7 Northern Reed Bunting 7 Sociable Lapwing 7 Eurasian Roller 7 Dunlin 7 Cinereous Vulture 7 Brambling 7 Little Owl 7 Black Lark 7 Eurasian Blackbird 7 Green Sandpiper 7 Lammergeier 7 Black-tailed Godwit 6 Bewick's Swan 6 Azure Tit 6 Northern Black Grouse 6 Mongolian Finch 6 Crested Lark 6 Black-crowned Night Heron 6 Northern Lapwing 6 Pine Bunting 6 Common Raven 6 Common Snipe 6 Eurasian Collared Dove 6 Red-headed Bunting 6 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 5 Common Sparrowhawk 5 Baraba Steppe Gull 5 Common Shelduck 5 Little Stint 5 Bean Goose 5 Chukar Partridge 5 Golden Eagle 5 European Bee-eater 5 Carrion Crow 5 Little Bustard 5 Lesser Short-toed Lark 5 Long-eared Owl 5 Wood Sandpiper 5 Grey-necked Bunting 5 Desert Wheatear 5 Common Mynah 5 Common Chiffchaff 5 Coal Tit 5 Hill Pigeon 5 Eversmann's Redstart 5 Lesser Whitethroat 5 Tufted Duck 5 Eurasian Magpie 5 Crimson-winged Finch 5 Spotted Flycatcher 5 Common Chaffinch 5 White-crowned Penduline Tit 5 Pallas's Gull 5 Mew Gull 5 Great Crested Grebe 4 Daurian Partridge 4 Richard's Pipit 4 Desert Finch 4 Greater Short-toed Lark 4 Common Coot 4 Little Grebe 4 Common Tern 4 Sykes's Warbler 4 Rough-legged Buzzard 4 Bohemian Waxwing 4 Hooded Crow 4 Upland Buzzard 4 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 4 Little Bittern 4 Saker Falcon 4 Black Kite 4 Black Stork 4 Grey Heron 4 Lesser Grey Shrike 4 Great Bustard 4 Lesser Kestrel 4 Northern Bullfinch 4 Spotted Redshank 4 Barn Swallow 4 Eurasian Jackdaw 4 Guldenstadt's Redstart 4 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 4 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 4 Common Redshank 4 Common Kestrel 4 Peregrine Falcon 4 Ortolan Bunting 4 Common Pochard 3 Lesser Sand Plover 3 White-browed Tit-Warbler 3 Pied Avocet 3 Common Rosefinch 3 Terek Sandpiper 3 Alpine Accentor 3 Tawny Pipit 3 Long-tailed Shrike 3 Stock Pigeon 3 Northern Wheatear 3 Gadwall 3 Red-breasted Rosefinch 3 Long-tailed Rosefinch 3 Songar Tit 3 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 3 Rock Pigeon 3 Barbary Falcon 3 Tree Pipit 3 Goldcrest 3 White-winged Lark 3 Caspian Plover 3 Oriental Turtle Dove 3 Ferruginous Duck 3 Eurasian Hobby 3 Laughing Dove 3 Red-mantled Rosefinch 3 Mistle Thrush 3 Marsh Sandpiper 3 Finsch's Wheatear 3 Himalayan Rubythroat 3 Red-necked Phalarope 3 Great Reed Warbler 3 Meadow Pipit 3 Booted Warbler 3 Black-throated Accentor 3 Booted Eagle 3 Relict Gull 3 Eurasian Wryneck 3 White-winged Grosbeak 2 Northern Wren 2 Northern Pintail 2 Common Nightingale 2 Rosy Starling 2 Greater Scaup 2 Eurasian Scops-Owl 2 Black Woodpecker 2 Sanderling 2 Red-backed Shrike 2 Siberian Stonechat 2 Red-flanked Bluetail 2 Garganey 2 European Turtle Dove 2 Hume's Whitethroat 2 Curlew Sandpiper 2 Spanish Sparrow 2 Siberian Rubythroat 2 Long-tailed Tit 2 Tree Sparrow 2 Indian Golden Oriole 2 Alpine Swift 2 Greater Spotted Eagle 2 Eurasian Nuthatch 2 Steppe Grey Shrike 2 Common Whitethroat 2 Macqueen's Bustard 2 Black-Necked Grebe 2 Water Rail 2 Red-throated Thrush 2 Eurasian Wigeon 2 Grey Partridge 2 Rock Sparrow 2 Bearded Tit 2 Osprey 2 Northern House Martin 2 Brandt's Rosefinch 2 Wallcreeper 2 European Nightjar 2 Twite 2 Common Swift 2 White-capped Bunting 2 Common Greenshank 2 Western Marsh-Harrier 2 Egyptian Vulture 2 Northern Goshawk 2 Black-headed Wagtail 2 Pallid Harrier 2 Bluethroat 2 Pygmy Cormorant 2 Great Grey Shrike 2 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 2 Willow Tit 2 Pacific Golden Plover 2 Greater White-fronted Goose 2 Goosander 1 Red-billed Chough 1 Black Redstart 1 Willow Ptarmigan 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 Eurasian Siskin 1 European Robin 1 Asian Short-toed Lark 1 Yellow-breasted Tit 1 Red-footed Falcon 1 Dusky Thrush 1 Eurasian Redstart 1 White-winged Scoter 1 Himalayan Accentor 1 White Stork 1 Common Teal 1 Hen Harrier 1 Asian Desert Warbler 1 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 1 Baillon's Crake 1 Menetries Warbler 1 Red-Necked Grebe 1 Pallid Scops Owl 1 Caspian Tern 1 Rustic Bunting 1 Red-breasted Flycatcher 1 Yellow-billed Chough 1 Fieldfare 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 1 Montagu's Harrier 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Siberian Tit 1 Greylag Goose 1 Black Tern 1 Brown-necked Raven 1 Blue-capped Redstart 1 Eurasian Linnet 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Brown Accentor 1 Common Cuckoo 1 Pander's Ground-Jay 1 Great White Egret 1 Common Redpoll 1 Long-tailed Duck 1 Rook 1 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler 1 Solitary Snipe 1 Jack Snipe 1 Pale Sand Martin 1 Common Kingfisher 1 Glossy Ibis 1 White-tailed Lapwing 1 White-Winged Woodpecker 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Upcher's Warbler 1 Northern Hazelhen 1 Greater Flamingo 1 Red-fronted Serin 1 Spotted Nutcracker 1 Arctic Loon 1 Eurasian Penduline Tit 1 Blue Whistling Thrush 1 Eurasian Dipper 1 Red Phalarope 1 Blyth's Rosefinch 1 Eurasian Jay 1 Barred Warbler 1 Greenish Warbler 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 European Greenfinch 1 Red-crested Pochard 1 Plain Mountain Finch 1 Kentish Plover 1 Willow Warbler 1 White-winged Snowfinch 1 Northern Shoveler 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Hoopoe 1 Eurasian Whimbrel 1 Hawfinch 1 Black-breasted Tit 1 Paddyfield Warbler 1 Daurian Jackdaw 1 Clamorous Reed Warbler 1 Grey-headed Goldfinch 1 White-throated Robin 1 Indian Pond Heron 1 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 1 Dusky Warbler 1 Common Goldeneye 1 Common Moorhen 1 Eurasian Crag Martin 1

REGION

all Almaty Region 841Almaty 146Zhetysu Region 68East Kazakhstan Region 65Zhambyl Region 56 Karaganda Region 50Turkistan Region 45Pavlodar Region 43Mangystau Region 33Kyzylorda Region 22Atyrau Region 15Abai Region 15Ulytau Region 14Akmola Region 5North Kazakhstan Region 2Aktobe Region 2Kostanay Region 2Shymkent 1

Sykes's Warbler 12 Jun 2020 · Koksaray, Turkistan Region 3 photos (short) 😍 7🐤 2

Sykes's Warbler 11 Jun 2020 · Kyzylkumy, Turkistan Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8🐤 2

Lesser Whitethroat 14 Jun 2020 · Turkestan region 😍 2

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 14 Jun 2020 · Turkestan region 😍 7🐤 1

Great Reed Warbler 20 Jun 2020 · Panfilovsky r, n, Konyrylen, Jetisu Regi... 3 photos (short) 😍 9

Clamorous Reed Warbler 7 Jun 2020 · Tabakbulak, Kyzylkum desert, Turkistan R... 😍 5

Desert Finch 7 Jun 2020 · Desert Kyzylkum, Turkistan Region 😍 15🐤 1

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 8 Jun 2020 · Eastern Kyzylkum, Turkistan Region 2 photos (short) 😍 20🐤 3

Macqueen's Bustard 7 Jun 2020 · Turkistan Region 😍 25

Blue Whistling Thrush 31 May 2020 · Almaty 😍 11

Eastern Common Swift 28 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 2 photos (short) 😍 11

Common Kestrel 21 Jun 2015 · Altai 😍 10🐤 1

Little Bittern 21 May 2020 · ozertso on Ryskulova-Shemyakina, Almaty 😍 1🐤 1

Common Tern 21 May 2020 · ozertso on Ryskulova-Shemyakina, Almaty

Black-crowned Night Heron 21 May 2020 · ozertso on Ryskulova-Shemyakina, Almaty 😍 5

Common Coot 21 May 2020 · ozertso on Ryskulova-Shemyakina, Almaty 😍 3

Little Bittern 18 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 2 photos (short) 😍 4

Common Whitethroat 18 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 😍 5

Western Grasshopper Warbler 18 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 😍 3

Eastern Common Swift 17 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 😍 1

Common Moorhen 17 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 😍 6

Eurasian Jackdaw 17 May 2020 · Pond near Airport, Almaty 😍 5

Great Tit 17 May 2020 · Baum Grove, Almaty

Black-crowned Night Heron 17 May 2020 · Baum Grove, Almaty 😍 2🐤 1

Awards of Олег

7 awards · several levels in each

awardgroup.species

10 10 species

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

awardgroup.regions

3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

10/20 10 regions

15/20 15 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

5 5 new species for the site

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

10 10 diary entries

awardgroup.bigyear

2007 Big Year 2007

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