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1 041observations 283species 55%of the Birds.kz list 11 of 20regions 551comments 8diary entries

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Kostanay Region945 Turkistan Region27 Aktobe Region16 Akmola Region14 Kyzylorda Region13 Ulytau Region7 Almaty5 Almaty Region4 North Kazakhstan Region4 West Kazakhstan Region3

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Fieldfare 16 Bohemian Waxwing 16 Common Redpoll 14 Northern Bullfinch 14 Lesser White-fronted Goose 13 Great Spotted Woodpecker 13 Red-breasted Goose 12 Whooper Swan 12 Eastern Imperial Eagle 11 Long-tailed Rosefinch 10 Common Sparrowhawk 10 Brambling 9 Great Tit 9 Common Chiffchaff 9 Common Crane 9 Greater White-fronted Goose 9 Baraba Steppe Gull 9 Blyth's Reed Warbler 8 White Wagtail 8 Common Chaffinch 8 Eurasian Siskin 7 Snowy Owl 7 Hawfinch 7 Yellowhammer 7 Western Marsh-Harrier 7 Song Thrush 7 Azure Tit 7 Little Stint 7 Yellow Wagtail 7 Merlin 7 Common Starling 7 Rook 6 Northern Reed Bunting 6 Sky Lark 6 Garganey 6 Black-winged Pratincole 6 Pallas's Gull 6 Mute Swan 6 Bluethroat 6 Eurasian Goldfinch 6 Grey Partridge 6 Siberian Stonechat 6 Pied Flycatcher 6 Ruddy Shelduck 6 Common Pochard 6 Northern Wheatear 6 Mistle Thrush 6 Eurasian Whimbrel 6 Hooded Crow 6 Demoiselle Crane 6 Mallard 6 Black Redstart 6 Spotted Flycatcher 6 Black-headed Gull 6 Red-headed Bunting 5 Greylag Goose 5 Black-winged Stilt 5 Eurasian Magpie 5 Lesser Whitethroat 5 Black-tailed Godwit 5 Pine Bunting 5 Snow Bunting 5 Eurasian Redstart 5 Common Goldeneye 5 Little Bustard 5 Redwing 5 House Sparrow 5 European Bee-eater 5 Hen Harrier 5 Red Crossbill 5 Ruff 5 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 5 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 5 Horned Lark 5 Rough-legged Buzzard 5 Tree Sparrow 5 White-headed Duck 5 Eurasian Blackbird 5 Black Lark 5 Isabelline Wheatear 5 Lesser Grey Shrike 5 Common Shelduck 5 Eurasian Hobby 5 Northern Black Grouse 5 Great Grey Shrike 5 Bewick's Swan 5 Siberian Black-backed Gull 5 Desert Wheatear 4 Great Crested Grebe 4 Red-backed Shrike 4 Rosy Starling 4 Tufted Duck 4 Booted Warbler 4 Bearded Tit 4 Common Treecreeper 4 Pallid Harrier 4 Common Sandpiper 4 Northern Lapwing 4 Eurasian Collared Dove 4 White-winged Lark 4 Caspian Plover 4 Great White Egret 4 Sociable Lapwing 4 Common Whitethroat 4 Steppe Eagle 4 Mew Gull 4 White-winged Tern 4 Wood Pigeon 4 Citrine Wagtail 4 European Greenfinch 4 Dalmatian Pelican 4 Common Rosefinch 4 Tawny Pipit 4 Hoopoe 4 Gadwall 4 Long-legged Buzzard 4 Desert Finch 4 Common Mynah 4 Eurasian Linnet 3 Northern Shoveler 3 Carrion Crow 3 Long-tailed Tit 3 Dunlin 3 Common Swift 3 Hume's Warbler 3 Red-breasted Flycatcher 3 Golden Eagle 3 Little Gull 3 Twite 3 Black-throated Accentor 3 Grey Heron 3 Willow Warbler 3 Little Ringed Plover 3 Common Buzzard 3 Red-footed Falcon 3 Red-crested Pochard 3 Goosander 3 Montagu's Harrier 3 Common Raven 3 Greater Ringed Plover 3 Eurasian Wigeon 3 Common Snipe 3 Greenish Warbler 3 Short-eared Owl 3 Greater Scaup 3 Lesser Kestrel 3 Pine Grosbeak 3 Common Cuckoo 3 Eurasian Bittern 3 Northern Pintail 3 Blue Tit 3 Wood Sandpiper 3 Common Redshank 3 Common Oystercatcher 3 Rustic Bunting 3 Great Cormorant 3 Grey Plover 3 Slavonian Grebe 3 Turkestan Shrike 3 Pied Avocet 3 Tree Pipit 3 Green Sandpiper 3 Red-necked Phalarope 3 Ortolan Bunting 3 Spanish Sparrow 3 Barn Swallow 3 Common Coot 3 Black Kite 3 European Robin 3 Kentish Plover 2 Common Tern 2 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 2 Oriental Turtle Dove 2 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 2 Long-tailed Duck 2 Common Kestrel 2 Black-Necked Grebe 2 Saker Falcon 2 Laughing Dove 2 Bean Goose 2 Marsh Sandpiper 2 Collared Flycatcher 2 Willow Tit 2 Calandra Lark 2 White-crowned Penduline Tit 2 Grey Wagtail 2 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 2 Caspian Tern 2 Lesser Short-toed Lark 2 Coal Tit 2 Whinchat 2 Red-Necked Grebe 2 Siberian Accentor 2 Eurasian Roller 2 Greater Short-toed Lark 2 Pygmy Cormorant 2 Barred Warbler 2 Dunnock 2 Common Teal 2 Long-eared Owl 2 Steppe Grey Shrike 2 Eurasian Jackdaw 2 Common Greenshank 2 Terek Sandpiper 2 Pallas's Warbler 2 Stock Pigeon 2 Little Owl 2 Cinereous Vulture 2 Siberian Crane 2 Smew 2 Cetti's Warbler 2 Sand Martin 2 Barnacle Goose 2 Eurasian Golden Plover 2 Goldcrest 2 Curlew Sandpiper 2 Masked Wagtail 2 Black Tern 2 Rock Pigeon 2 Common Nightingale 2 Pander's Ground-Jay 1 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Slender-billed Gull 1 Western Grasshopper Warbler 1 Arctic Loon 1 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Temminck's Stint 1 Eurasian Penduline Tit 1 Spotted Nutcracker 1 Naumann's Thrush 1 Sykes's Warbler 1 Purple Heron 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Common Moorhen 1 Pallas's Reed Bunting 1 Rufous Bush Robin 1 Black Stork 1 Great Reed Warbler 1 Indian Sparrow 1 White-Backed Woodpecker 1 Gull-billed Tern 1 Osprey 1 Streaked Scrub Warbler 1 Northern Goshawk 1 Squacco Heron 1 Pied Wheatear 1 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 1 Red-fronted Serin 1 Black-crowned Night Heron 1 Griffon Vulture 1 Black-headed Wagtail 1 Eurasian Stone Curlew 1 Ural Owl 1 Black-throated Thrush 1 Glossy Ibis 1 Paddyfield Warbler 1 Grey-headed Goldfinch 1 Spotted Redshank 1 European Golden Oriole 1 Water Rail 1 Eurasian Jay 1 Arctic Skua 1 Asian Desert Warbler 1 Great Bustard 1 Dark-bellied Brent Goose 1 Turkestan Tit 1 Variable Wheatear 1 Common Pheasant 1 Bimaculated Lark 1 Little Bittern 1 White-winged Crossbill 1 Booted Eagle 1 Sanderling 1 White's Thrush 1 Crested Lark 1 Eurasian Curlew 1 Lapland Longspur 1 Pallas's Sandgrouse 1 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 1 Red-flanked Bluetail 1 European Nightjar 1 Little Tern 1 Sedge Warbler 1

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all Kostanay Region 945Turkistan Region 27Aktobe Region 16Akmola Region 14Kyzylorda Region 13 Ulytau Region 7Almaty 5Almaty Region 4North Kazakhstan Region 4West Kazakhstan Region 3Karaganda Region 3

Whooper Swan 24 Apr 2013 · Mamyrkol lake, Kamysty reg, Kostanay obl... 😍 1

Long-legged Buzzard 13 May 2013 · Akshiy vill, Dzangeldy reg, Kostanay obl...

Common Oystercatcher 27 Jun 2013 · Zholzara lake,Kamysty reg, Kostanay obla... 😍 2

Little Stint 13 May 2013 · Taush, Kostanay Region 😍 1

Dalmatian Pelican 24 Jun 2013 · Zharkol lake, Naurzum rezerve, Kostanay...

Eurasian Whimbrel 20 Apr 2013 · Qulyköl, Kostanay Region 😍 1🐤 1

Sociable Lapwing 7 May 2013 · Naurzumsky Nature Reserve, Kostanay Regi...

Curlew Sandpiper 13 May 2013 · Taush, Kostanay Region

Red-breasted Goose 19 Apr 2013 · Qulyköl, Kostanay Region 😍 1

Common Pochard 28 Apr 2013 · Batpakkol lake, Kostanay Region 😍 1

Red-footed Falcon 24 May 2013 · Naurzumsky Nature Reserve, Kostanay Regi...

Caspian Plover 22 May 2013 · Kostanay Region

European Golden Oriole 24 May 2013 · Naurzum, Karamendi, Kostanay Region

European Bee-eater 12 May 2013 · Akshiganak vill, Dzangeldy reg, Kostanay... 😍 1

Rough-legged Buzzard 18 Apr 2013 · Razdolnoe vill, Naurzum reg, Kostanay ob... 😍 1

Demoiselle Crane 24 Apr 2013 · Kulykol lake, Kamysty reg, Kostanay obla... 😍 1

Demoiselle Crane 12 Jun 2013 · Danabike riv, Naurzum reg, Kostanay obla...

Red-headed Bunting 23 May 2013 · Damdy riv, Naurzum reg, Kostanay oblast 😍 2

Western Citrine Wagtail 24 Jun 2013 · Zharkol lake, Naurzum rezerve, Kostanay...

Western Citrine Wagtail 18 Apr 2013 · Qulyköl, Kostanay Region

2 Yellow Wagtail 29 Apr 2013 · Batpakkol lake, Kostanay Region 😍 1

Great Reed Warbler 28 Jun 2013 · Sulukol lake,Auliekol reg, Kostanay obla...

Barn Swallow 5 Jul 2013 · Naurzum, Karamendi, Kostanay Region 😍 1

Merlin 2 May 2013 · Sholakkopa vill, Naurzum reg, Kostanay o... 😍 1

Awards of Алексей

6 awards · several levels in each

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100 100 species

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200 200 species

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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

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 New species for the site

5 5 new species for the site

10 10 new species for the site

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1 1 diary entry

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