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most often in Mangystau Region
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on the site since 11 February 2020

6 847observations 388species 76%of the Birds.kz list 13 of 20regions 2 450comments 1diary entry

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1-thplace of 93

324 species in 2026

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2025

Big Year 2025
1-th place · 284 species

where they watch birds

13 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Mangystau Region6 097 Astana181 Turkistan Region172 Akmola Region131 Almaty130 Almaty Region60 Zhambyl Region26 West Kazakhstan Region25 Shymkent7 Kyzylorda Region6

3 more regions

Ulytau Region5 Zhetysu Region4 Aktobe Region3

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new species in 2026

+24first time on the site for this member

Eastern Yellow Wagtail30 Oct
Yellow-browed Warbler20 Oct
Little Bunting19 Sep

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200720172026

Most in 2026: 1 680 observations

Observations 6 847 Species 388 Diaries 1 Map 536 Comments 2 450

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Caspian Gull 206 Common Kestrel 113 Red-backed Shrike 110 Common Sparrowhawk 90 Willow Warbler 88 Blyth's Reed Warbler 85 Common Chiffchaff 84 White Wagtail 82 Common Snipe 78 Siberian Black-backed Gull 76 Western Marsh-Harrier 68 Common Tern 66 Glossy Ibis 65 Pied Wheatear 63 Northern Reed Bunting 59 Paddyfield Warbler 58 Spotted Flycatcher 58 Great Cormorant 57 Wood Sandpiper 56 Eurasian Redstart 55 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 55 Hooded Crow 50 Mallard 48 Shikra 48 Little Stint 47 Common Kingfisher 46 Black-headed Gull 45 Sykes's Warbler 44 Black-winged Stilt 44 Siberian Stonechat 44 Greater Flamingo 43 Spotted Crake 42 Tree Pipit 42 Ruff 41 Bluethroat 41 Citrine Wagtail 40 Common Whitethroat 40 Osprey 40 Grey Heron 39 Black Kite 39 Yellow Wagtail 39 Hoopoe 39 Pine Bunting 39 Song Thrush 37 Common Buzzard 36 Long-legged Buzzard 36 European Robin 35 Lesser Grey Shrike 35 Common Redshank 35 Eurasian Roller 35 Mute Swan 34 Booted Warbler 34 Long-eared Owl 34 Water Rail 34 Green Sandpiper 33 Garden Warbler 33 Baraba Steppe Gull 33 Little Egret 33 Dunlin 32 Red-breasted Merganser 32 Tufted Duck 32 Common Starling 32 Great White Egret 32 Eurasian Hobby 32 Little Ringed Plover 32 Great Reed Warbler 31 Purple Heron 31 Northern Wheatear 31 Black-headed Wagtail 30 Lesser Whitethroat 30 Steppe Eagle 30 Sky Lark 30 Kentish Plover 29 Yellowhammer 29 Eurasian Blackbird 28 Red-breasted Flycatcher 28 Common Teal 28 Black Redstart 28 Slender-billed Gull 28 Masked Wagtail 28 Common Sandpiper 27 Solitary Snipe 27 Chukar Partridge 27 Levant Sparrowhawk 27 Fieldfare 26 Hen Harrier 25 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 25 Oriental Turtle Dove 25 House Sparrow 24 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 24 Mew Gull 24 Great Spotted Woodpecker 23 Eurasian Wryneck 23 Red-necked Phalarope 23 Crested Lark 23 Black-Necked Grebe 23 Great Grey Shrike 23 Whinchat 23 Eurasian Reed Warbler 22 Meadow Pipit 22 Common Shelduck 22 Ruddy Turnstone 22 Great Crested Grebe 22 Little Owl 22 Ortolan Bunting 21 Common Rosefinch 21 Golden Eagle 21 Pallas's Gull 21 Dalmatian Pelican 21 Curlew Sandpiper 21 Eurasian Whimbrel 20 Pied Avocet 20 Common Goldeneye 20 Pygmy Cormorant 20 Turkestan Shrike 20 Barn Swallow 20 Eurasian Collared Dove 20 Grey Wagtail 20 Savi's Warbler 19 Whiskered Tern 19 Dunnock 19 Caspian Tern 19 Squacco Heron 19 Blue Tit 19 Spanish Sparrow 19 Eurasian Magpie 19 Red-crested Pochard 19 Rosy Starling 19 Common Coot 18 Wood Pigeon 18 Great Tit 18 White-winged Tern 18 Eurasian Siskin 18 Northern Wren 18 Little Tern 18 Red-headed Bunting 18 Common Pochard 18 Marsh Warbler 18 Redwing 18 Common Cuckoo 18 Sandwich Tern 18 Common Moorhen 18 Little Crake 18 Northern Lapwing 17 Grey Partridge 17 Baillon's Crake 17 Goldcrest 17 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 17 Desert Finch 17 Eurasian Wigeon 17 Pallid Harrier 17 Greater Ringed Plover 16 Mistle Thrush 16 Griffon Vulture 16 Brambling 16 Garganey 16 Lesser Short-toed Lark 16 Cattle Egret 16 Bar-tailed Godwit 16 Calandra Lark 16 Common Pheasant 15 Rook 15 White-tailed Lapwing 15 Corn Bunting 15 Steppe Grey Shrike 15 Ruddy Shelduck 15 Whooper Swan 15 Barred Warbler 14 Hawfinch 14 Bohemian Waxwing 14 Black-crowned Night Heron 14 Northern Shoveler 14 White-winged Lark 14 Little Bittern 14 Greater White-fronted Goose 14 Peregrine Falcon 14 Isabelline Wheatear 14 Merlin 13 Ring-billed Gull 13 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 13 Common Oystercatcher 13 Temminck's Stint 13 Common Greenshank 13 Grey Plover 13 Egyptian Vulture 13 Sanderling 13 Terek Sandpiper 12 Azure Tit 12 Northern Pintail 12 Black-tailed Godwit 12 Red Crossbill 12 Slavonian Grebe 11 Coal Tit 11 Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 11 Little Grebe 11 Hume's Warbler 11 Common Chaffinch 11 Lesser Black-backed Gull 11 Finsch's Wheatear 11 Jack Snipe 11 Lesser Kestrel 11 European Bee-eater 11 Sedge Warbler 11 Little Bustard 11 Eurasian Woodcock 11 Eurasian Jackdaw 11 Horned Lark 11 Thrush Nightingale 11 European Stonechat 10 Laughing Dove 10 Rock Sparrow 10 Blue Whistling Thrush 10 Eurasian Penduline Tit 10 Eastern Imperial Eagle 10 Greater Short-toed Lark 10 European Golden Oriole 10 Marsh Sandpiper 10 Gadwall 10 Common Raven 10 Tree Sparrow 10 Eurasian Spoonbill 10 Gull-billed Tern 10 Isabelline Shrike 9 Common Mynah 9 Red-throated Pipit 9 Red-Necked Grebe 9 Cinereous Vulture 9 Bearded Tit 9 Eurasian Golden Plover 9 European Greenfinch 9 Little Gull 9 Pied Flycatcher 9 European Nightjar 9 Eurasian Goldfinch 8 Buff-bellied Pipit 8 Brown Dipper 8 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 8 Bewick's Swan 8 Streaked Scrub Warbler 8 Carrion Crow 8 Broad-billed Sandpiper 8 Blackcap 8 Black-throated Thrush 8 Northern Bullfinch 8 Northern Black Grouse 7 Black Tern 7 Stock Pigeon 7 Glaucous Gull 7 Yellow-backed Wagtail 7 Sand Martin 7 Tawny Pipit 7 Eurasian Bittern 7 Long-tailed Shrike 7 Greylag Goose 7 Great Black-backed Gull 7 Common Crane 7 Black-winged Pratincole 7 Red-footed Falcon 7 Cetti's Warbler 7 Goosander 6 Spotted Redshank 6 Water Pipit 6 Alpine Swift 6 Rock Pigeon 6 Willow Tit 6 Black Lark 6 White-headed Duck 6 Arctic Loon 6 Eastern Buzzard 6 Wood Warbler 6 Greater Scaup 6 Moustached Warbler 6 Common Swift 6 Herring Gull 6 Baikal Bullfinch 6 Macqueen's Bustard 6 Greater Sand Plover 6 Eversmann's Redstart 6 Lammergeier 5 Himalayan Vulture 5 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 5 Long-tailed Tit 5 Eurasian Curlew 5 White-winged Grosbeak 5 Eurasian Linnet 5 Demoiselle Crane 5 Red-fronted Serin 4 Black-throated Accentor 4 Greenish Warbler 4 Short-eared Owl 4 Eastern Yellow Wagtail 4 Saker Falcon 4 Great White Pelican 4 Crested Honey-Buzzard 4 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 4 Northern House Martin 4 Great Snipe 4 Smew 4 Long-tailed Rosefinch 4 Menetries Warbler 4 Blue Rock Thrush 4 Northern Goshawk 4 Western Grasshopper Warbler 4 Desert Wheatear 4 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 4 Rufous Bush Robin 4 Booted Eagle 4 Common Treecreeper 4 Common Quail 3 Guldenstadt's Redstart 3 Eurasian Stone Curlew 3 Western Capercaillie 3 Red-rumped Swallow 3 Montagu's Harrier 3 Willow Ptarmigan 3 Grey-headed Goldfinch 3 White-browed Tit-Warbler 3 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 3 Rock Bunting 3 Little Bunting 3 Pallas's Sandgrouse 3 Ferruginous Duck 3 Long-tailed Duck 3 Semi-collared Flycatcher 3 Woodchat Shrike 3 Spotted Nutcracker 3 Yellow-breasted Tit 2 Greater Spotted Eagle 2 Ibisbill 2 White-capped Bunting 2 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 2 Indian Golden Oriole 2 Caspian Plover 2 Pander's Ground-Jay 2 Rough-legged Buzzard 2 Turkestan Tit 2 Songar Tit 2 Yellow-billed Chough 2 Grey-necked Bunting 2 Wallcreeper 2 Red-billed Chough 2 Clamorous Reed Warbler 2 Caucasian Chiffchaff 2 Pied Bushchat 2 Indian Sparrow 2 River Warbler 2 Asian Desert Warbler 2 Great Bustard 2 Eurasian Dipper 2 Bimaculated Lark 2 Eurasian Scops-Owl 2 Blue-capped Redstart 1 Black Stork 1 Black Woodpecker 1 Oriental Cuckoo 1 Brandt's Rosefinch 1 Dusky Warbler 1 Brown Accentor 1 Snowy Owl 1 White-crowned Penduline Tit 1 Common Nightingale 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Common Redpoll 1 Himalayan Rubythroat 1 Black-legged Kittiwake 1 White-winged Snowfinch 1 Red-mantled Rosefinch 1 Hume's Whitethroat 1 Bean Goose 1 Arctic Skua 1 Upcher's Warbler 1 Eurasian Nuthatch 1 White Stork 1 Lapland Longspur 1 Sociable Lapwing 1 Pallas's Warbler 1 Black-breasted Tit 1 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 1 Grey-Headed Woodpecker 1 Trumpeter Finch 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 White-Winged Woodpecker 1 Twite 1 Collared Flycatcher 1 Rustic Bunting 1 Black-headed Bunting 1 Masked Shrike 1 Great Rosefinch 1

REGION

all Mangystau Region 6097Astana 181Turkistan Region 172Akmola Region 131Almaty 130 Almaty Region 60Zhambyl Region 26West Kazakhstan Region 25Shymkent 7Kyzylorda Region 6Ulytau Region 5Zhetysu Region 4Aktobe Region 3

Only “needs identification” 31

Red-backed Shrike 31 May · Mangystau Region 😍 3

Great Reed Warbler 31 May · Mangystau Region 😍 1

Red-backed Shrike 31 May · Mangystau Region 😍 7

Spotted Flycatcher 31 May · Mangystau Region 😍 2

Common Whitethroat 31 May · Mangystau Region 😍 6🐤 1

Little Gull 29 May · Fort-Shevtshenko, Mangystau Region 😍 2

Caspian Gull 29 May · Fort-Shevtshenko, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Pallas's Gull 29 May · Fort-Shevtshenko, Mangystau Region 😍 1

White-winged Tern 29 May · Fort-Shevtshenko, Mangystau Region 😍 3

Sandwich Tern 29 May · Fort-Shevtshenko, Mangystau Region 😍 5🐤 1

3 Sanderling 29 May · Fort-Shevtshenko, Mangystau Region 😍 5

2 Great Crested Grebe 30 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 1🐤 1

Purple Heron 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 3🐤 1

Mallard 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Wood Sandpiper 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Greater Ringed Plover 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Pied Avocet 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 3

Black-tailed Godwit 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 3

Curlew Sandpiper 28 May · Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 5🐤 1

Black Kite 26 May · Botanical Garden, Almaty 😍 1

Wood Pigeon 26 May · Atakent Exhibition Center, Almaty 😍 7

2 Great Tit 26 May · Orbita-1, Almaty 😍 4

Golden Eagle 24 May · Almaty 😍 1

2 Brown Dipper 24 May · Kok-Zhailau, Almaty 😍 9

Awards of Канатбек

9 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

350 350 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

2.5K 2 500 observations

5K 5 000 observations

awardgroup.regions

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

awardgroup.pioneer

1 New species for the site

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

awardgroup.bigyear

2025 Big Year 2025

2023 Big Year 2023

2021 Big Year 2021

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