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on the site since 19 May 2014

1 151observations 264species 51%of the Birds.kz list 12 of 20regions 2diary entries

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12 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region341 Zhetysu Region230 Zhambyl Region191 Abai Region153 Almaty140 Pavlodar Region32 Ulytau Region30 Karaganda Region12 Akmola Region10 East Kazakhstan Region9

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Kyzylorda Region2 Mangystau Region1

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Most in 2016: 417 observations

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all 2024 19 2021 101 2020 273 2019 1 2018 6 2017 238 2016 417 2015 70 2014 6 2013 5 2012 2 2011 3 2010 7 2009 1 2008 2

BIRD SPECIES

all species Long-legged Buzzard 26 Turkestan Shrike 23 Saker Falcon 18 Golden Eagle 18 Macqueen's Bustard 15 Isabelline Wheatear 13 Little Bustard 13 Blue Whistling Thrush 13 Steppe Eagle 12 Tawny Pipit 12 Eastern Imperial Eagle 12 Common Pheasant 12 Little Owl 12 Common Kestrel 10 Azure Tit 9 White Wagtail 9 Caspian Gull 9 Demoiselle Crane 9 Calandra Lark 9 Pied Wheatear 9 Great Bustard 9 Common Chaffinch 9 Little Ringed Plover 9 Mallard 8 Masked Wagtail 8 Saxaul Sparrow 8 Northern Reed Bunting 8 Common Redshank 8 Common Sparrowhawk 8 Ruddy Shelduck 8 Siberian Stonechat 8 Green Sandpiper 8 Steppe Grey Shrike 8 Greater Short-toed Lark 8 Lesser Whitethroat 7 Northern Goshawk 7 Red-headed Bunting 7 Common Tern 7 Barn Swallow 7 Northern Shoveler 7 Spotted Flycatcher 7 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 7 Pied Avocet 7 Lesser Grey Shrike 7 Bluethroat 7 Desert Wheatear 7 Eurasian Blackbird 7 Black Lark 7 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 7 Grey Wagtail 7 Eurasian Curlew 7 Yellowhammer 7 Eversmann's Redstart 7 Red-mantled Rosefinch 6 Common Starling 6 Lesser Short-toed Lark 6 Tree Pipit 6 Eurasian Collared Dove 6 Black-headed Gull 6 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 6 White-Winged Woodpecker 6 Yellow Wagtail 6 Pallas's Sandgrouse 6 Booted Warbler 6 Northern Lapwing 6 Long-tailed Rosefinch 6 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 6 Common Chiffchaff 6 Common Cuckoo 6 Eurasian Roller 6 Chukar Partridge 6 Horned Lark 6 Ortolan Bunting 5 Isabelline Shrike 5 Bohemian Waxwing 5 Mute Swan 5 Rosy Starling 5 Lammergeier 5 Brambling 5 Pallid Harrier 5 Blue-capped Redstart 5 Northern Black Grouse 5 Marsh Sandpiper 5 Hume's Warbler 5 Pine Bunting 5 Black Kite 5 Eurasian Siskin 5 Tree Sparrow 5 Eurasian Hobby 5 Grey-headed Goldfinch 5 Cinereous Vulture 5 Greater Sand Plover 5 Great Tit 5 Great Cormorant 5 Black-winged Stilt 5 Common Oystercatcher 5 Goosander 4 Black Redstart 4 Eurasian Jackdaw 4 Short-eared Owl 4 Great Crested Grebe 4 Pallas's Gull 4 Common Teal 4 Hen Harrier 4 Crested Lark 4 Turkestan Tit 4 Great White Pelican 4 Common Sandpiper 4 Himalayan Vulture 4 Northern Pintail 4 Great White Egret 4 Great Grey Shrike 4 Black-throated Thrush 4 Black-headed Wagtail 4 Oriental Turtle Dove 4 Common Shelduck 4 Common Kingfisher 4 White-winged Grosbeak 4 Eurasian Stone Curlew 4 Red-fronted Serin 4 Crested Honey-Buzzard 4 Booted Eagle 4 Wood Pigeon 4 Common Pochard 4 European Bee-eater 4 Merlin 4 Common Rosefinch 4 Black Stork 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 Hoopoe 4 Northern Wheatear 4 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Grey Partridge 4 Hooded Crow 3 Western Marsh-Harrier 3 Bimaculated Lark 3 Montagu's Harrier 3 Curlew Sandpiper 3 Long-tailed Tit 3 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 3 Shikra 3 Spanish Sparrow 3 Rough-legged Buzzard 3 Grey-necked Bunting 3 Twite 3 Sky Lark 3 European Nightjar 3 Eurasian Goldfinch 3 White-winged Tern 3 Citrine Wagtail 3 Eurasian Scops-Owl 3 Bearded Tit 3 Little Tern 3 Mistle Thrush 3 Dalmatian Pelican 3 Ibisbill 3 Red-crested Pochard 3 Asian Desert Warbler 3 Kentish Plover 3 Northern Wren 3 Temminck's Stint 3 Grey Heron 3 Red-backed Shrike 3 Red-footed Falcon 3 Common Buzzard 3 Common Moorhen 3 Corn Bunting 3 European Golden Oriole 3 Common Nightingale 3 White-winged Lark 3 Eurasian Linnet 3 Ferruginous Duck 3 Little Stint 3 Brown-necked Raven 3 Grey Plover 3 Greylag Goose 3 Mongolian Finch 2 Common Mynah 2 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Lesser Kestrel 2 Garganey 2 Common Coot 2 Gull-billed Tern 2 Rufous Bush Robin 2 Goldcrest 2 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 2 Common Snipe 2 Eurasian Wigeon 2 European Robin 2 Indian Sparrow 2 Gadwall 2 Black Tern 2 Northern House Martin 2 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 2 Black-Necked Grebe 2 Eurasian Whimbrel 2 Smew 2 Upland Buzzard 2 European Greenfinch 2 Yellow-billed Chough 2 Common Crane 2 Eurasian Redstart 2 Common Whitethroat 2 Collared Pratincole 2 Pygmy Cormorant 2 Black-throated Accentor 2 Meadow Bunting 2 Mew Gull 2 Carrion Crow 2 Whooper Swan 2 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 2 Spotted Redshank 2 Desert Finch 2 Wallcreeper 2 Wood Sandpiper 2 Pander's Ground-Jay 2 Arctic Loon 1 Slender-billed Gull 1 Red-necked Phalarope 1 Eastern Buzzard 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 Rock Sparrow 1 Caspian Tern 1 Rock Bunting 1 Blyth's Reed Warbler 1 Water Rail 1 Ruff 1 Richard's Pipit 1 Baraba Steppe Gull 1 Indian Pond Heron 1 Common Quail 1 Tufted Duck 1 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Greater Spotted Eagle 1 Common Raven 1 Caspian Plover 1 Plain Mountain Finch 1 Little Grebe 1 House Sparrow 1 Willow Warbler 1 Terek Sandpiper 1 Egyptian Vulture 1 Common Redpoll 1 Barbary Falcon 1 Common Swift 1 Dunlin 1 Western Grasshopper Warbler 1 Laughing Dove 1 Common Goldeneye 1 Brown Dipper 1 Yellow-backed Wagtail 1 Pale Sand Martin 1 Eurasian Bittern 1 Eurasian Magpie 1 Willow Tit 1 Black-crowned Night Heron 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Fieldfare 1 Sociable Lapwing 1 Great Reed Warbler 1 Osprey 1 Spotted Nutcracker 1 Eurasian Penduline Tit 1

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all Almaty Region 341Zhetysu Region 230Zhambyl Region 191Abai Region 153Almaty 140 Pavlodar Region 32Ulytau Region 30Karaganda Region 12Akmola Region 10East Kazakhstan Region 9Kyzylorda Region 2Mangystau Region 1

Red-headed Bunting 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

Common Chiffchaff 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

European Bee-eater 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 2

Lesser Grey Shrike 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

2 Spanish Sparrow 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

Hume's Warbler 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

Spotted Flycatcher 23 May 2021 · Lower Ile river, left bank, Akdala hunti... 😍 1

Little Ringed Plover 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Grey-headed Wagtail 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Barn Swallow 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Rosy Starling 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Eurasian Roller 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Turkestan Shrike 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Common Kestrel 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 2

Pied Wheatear 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 1

Tawny Pipit 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region

Common Sparrowhawk 8 May 2021 · Malaysary ridge, Zhetysu Region 😍 2

Common Moorhen 25 Apr 2021 · Kiz, Almaty Region 😍 1

Great Crested Grebe 25 Apr 2021 · Kiz, Almaty Region 😍 1

Siberian Stonechat 25 Apr 2021 · Kiz, Almaty Region 😍 1

Blue Whistling Thrush 21 May 2021 · Almaty 😍 1

Grey Wagtail 21 May 2021 · Sunkar, Almaty 😍 2

Azure Tit 4 May 2021 · Sunkar, Almaty 😍 2

Awards of Сергей

5 awards · several levels in each

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25 25 species

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1 1 observation

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1K 1 000 observations

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3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

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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 1 diary entry

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