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883observations 303species 59%of the Birds.kz list 11 of 20regions 122comments

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303 species in 2026

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11 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

East Kazakhstan Region277 Almaty Region203 Almaty155 Zhetysu Region101 Turkistan Region68 West Kazakhstan Region23 Abai Region22 Akmola Region11 Astana9 Atyrau Region8

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Wood Warbler9 Sep
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Crested Honey-Buzzard8 Sep

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Hume's Warbler 16 Blyth's Reed Warbler 12 Tree Pipit 12 Eastern Buzzard 11 Siberian Stonechat 11 Common Kestrel 10 Greenish Warbler 10 Common Chiffchaff 10 Common Rosefinch 9 Black-headed Wagtail 9 Ruddy Shelduck 8 Common Tern 8 Barn Swallow 8 Rock Bunting 8 Caspian Gull 8 Pallas's Gull 8 Great Reed Warbler 8 Willow Tit 8 Red-backed Shrike 8 Spotted Flycatcher 8 Pine Bunting 7 Northern Wheatear 7 Spotted Nutcracker 7 White Wagtail 7 Green Sandpiper 7 Common Buzzard 7 Masked Wagtail 7 Eurasian Redstart 6 European Bee-eater 6 Grey Wagtail 6 Booted Eagle 6 Eurasian Nuthatch 5 Mallard 5 Common Treecreeper 5 Common Sparrowhawk 5 Western Marsh-Harrier 5 Gadwall 5 Long-legged Buzzard 5 Common Redshank 5 Great White Egret 5 Yellow Wagtail 5 Water Pipit 5 Common Chaffinch 5 Black Kite 5 Common Sandpiper 5 Caspian Tern 5 Eastern Imperial Eagle 5 Common Cuckoo 5 Ferruginous Duck 5 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 5 Eurasian Linnet 5 Collared Pratincole 4 Temminck's Stint 4 Black-throated Thrush 4 Chukar Partridge 4 Black-headed Gull 4 Lesser Grey Shrike 4 Wood Pigeon 4 Isabelline Wheatear 4 Great Crested Grebe 4 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 4 Grey Heron 4 Rosy Starling 4 Turkestan Shrike 4 Eurasian Roller 4 Great Cormorant 4 House Sparrow 4 Red-mantled Rosefinch 4 Lesser Short-toed Lark 4 Grey Partridge 4 White-crowned Penduline Tit 4 Mistle Thrush 4 Black-throated Accentor 4 Oriental Turtle Dove 4 Northern Goshawk 4 Eurasian Jackdaw 4 Great Tit 4 Common Moorhen 4 Little Tern 4 Black Stork 4 Demoiselle Crane 4 Bluethroat 4 Lammergeier 4 Paddyfield Warbler 4 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 3 Black-Necked Grebe 3 Common Starling 3 Kentish Plover 3 Osprey 3 Common Goldeneye 3 White-Winged Woodpecker 3 Grey-headed Goldfinch 3 Cetti's Warbler 3 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 3 Common Crane 3 Goosander 3 Common Oystercatcher 3 Blue-capped Redstart 3 Little Ringed Plover 3 Black-crowned Night Heron 3 Crested Lark 3 Pied Wheatear 3 Wood Sandpiper 3 Sand Martin 3 Eurasian Wigeon 3 Black Redstart 3 White-Backed Woodpecker 3 Coal Tit 3 Golden Eagle 3 Fieldfare 3 Common Whitethroat 3 Black-winged Stilt 3 Hawfinch 3 Red Crossbill 3 Northern House Martin 3 Common Swift 3 Eurasian Spoonbill 3 Eurasian Magpie 3 Shikra 3 Hoopoe 3 Cinereous Vulture 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 Lesser Whitethroat 3 Ortolan Bunting 3 Tawny Pipit 3 Spotted Redshank 2 Eurasian Hobby 2 Red-billed Chough 2 Gull-billed Tern 2 Northern Bullfinch 2 Black-winged Pratincole 2 Solitary Snipe 2 Pale Sand Martin 2 Eurasian Curlew 2 Yellowhammer 2 White-winged Grosbeak 2 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 2 Griffon Vulture 2 Spanish Sparrow 2 Himalayan Accentor 2 Tree Sparrow 2 Common Snipe 2 Little Bittern 2 White Stork 2 Common Teal 2 Pacific Swift 2 Arctic Loon 2 Pygmy Cormorant 2 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 2 Tufted Duck 2 European Nightjar 2 Brambling 2 Steppe Eagle 2 Meadow Bunting 2 Relict Gull 2 Horned Lark 2 Citrine Wagtail 2 Water Rail 2 Common Pochard 2 European Greenfinch 2 Long-eared Owl 2 Red-rumped Swallow 2 Dalmatian Pelican 2 Red-crested Pochard 2 Snow Bunting 2 Yellow-billed Chough 2 Common Greenshank 2 Mute Swan 2 Willow Warbler 2 White-capped Bunting 2 Purple Heron 2 Northern Reed Bunting 2 Long-tailed Tit 2 Carrion Crow 2 Montagu's Harrier 2 Northern Lapwing 2 Little Owl 2 Hooded Crow 2 Greylag Goose 2 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Black Tern 2 Blue Tit 2 Black Woodpecker 2 Brown Accentor 2 Common Nightingale 2 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Common Raven 2 Western Grasshopper Warbler 2 Common Coot 2 Greater Short-toed Lark 2 Sky Lark 2 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 2 Indian Golden Oriole 2 Rook 2 Eversmann's Redstart 2 Corn Bunting 2 Curlew Sandpiper 1 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 1 Wood Warbler 1 Ruff 1 Common Pheasant 1 Eurasian Wryneck 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Northern Shoveler 1 Eurasian Goldfinch 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Pallid Scops Owl 1 Brandt's Rosefinch 1 Goldcrest 1 Rufous Bush Robin 1 Blue Rock Thrush 1 Saxaul Sparrow 1 Long-tailed Shrike 1 Bewick's Swan 1 Great Rosefinch 1 Bohemian Waxwing 1 Common Mynah 1 Bearded Tit 1 Booted Warbler 1 Himalayan Vulture 1 Crested Honey-Buzzard 1 Eurasian Dipper 1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 1 Blue Whistling Thrush 1 Eurasian Whimbrel 1 Siberian Tit 1 Smew 1 Hen Harrier 1 Garganey 1 Sykes's Warbler 1 Common Kingfisher 1 Brown Dipper 1 Brown Shrike 1 Lapland Longspur 1 Lesser Kestrel 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 Red-fronted Serin 1 White-winged Scoter 1 Rock Sparrow 1 White-headed Duck 1 Common Shelduck 1 Rough-legged Buzzard 1 Brown-necked Raven 1 European Golden Oriole 1 Yellow-breasted Tit 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eurasian Blackbird 1 Common Quail 1 Black Lark 1 European Robin 1 Himalayan Rubythroat 1 Vega (Mongolian) Gull 1 Eurasian Collared Dove 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Red-headed Bunting 1 Red-necked Phalarope 1 Northern Wren 1 White-winged Lark 1 Indian Sparrow 1 Northern Black Grouse 1 Dusky Warbler 1 Northern Pintail 1 Garden Warbler 1 Eurasian Siskin 1 Clamorous Reed Warbler 1 Whooper Swan 1 Calandra Lark 1 Caspian Plover 1 White-tailed Lapwing 1 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 1 Baraba Steppe Gull 1 Laughing Dove 1 Little Grebe 1 Long-tailed Rosefinch 1 Grey-necked Bunting 1 Eurasian Crag Martin 1 Egyptian Vulture 1 Azure Tit 1 Greater Sand Plover 1 Plain Mountain Finch 1 White-winged Snowfinch 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Alpine Swift 1 Twite 1 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 1 Corncrake 1 Songar Tit 1 Steppe Grey Shrike 1 Song Thrush 1 White's Thrush 1 Little Bustard 1 Isabelline Shrike 1 Turkestan Tit 1 Guldenstadt's Redstart 1 Eurasian Scops-Owl 1 Pied Avocet 1 Rock Pigeon 1 Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler 1 Glossy Ibis 1 Thrush Nightingale 1 Pallid Harrier 1 Great White Pelican 1 White-browed Tit-Warbler 1

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all East Kazakhstan Region 277Almaty Region 203Almaty 155Zhetysu Region 101Turkistan Region 68 West Kazakhstan Region 23Abai Region 22Akmola Region 11Astana 9Atyrau Region 8Zhambyl Region 6

Only “needs identification” 16

Willow Tit 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 1

3 Blyth's Reed Warbler 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 5

2 Lesser Whitethroat 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

3 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 5

10 Willow Tit 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

Grey Wagtail 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

2 White Wagtail 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

Common Snipe 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 1

3 Eurasian Redstart 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 3

Masked Wagtail 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

Common Chaffinch 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

House Sparrow 27 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 2

needs identification 8 Unidentified bird 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 1

Red-backed Shrike 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

Spotted Flycatcher 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 5

Masked Wagtail 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

2 Eurasian Redstart 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 3

3 White-Backed Woodpecker 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas... 😍 6

5 Hume's Warbler 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Tosqayin, East Kazakhstan... 😍 1

2 Willow Tit 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Tosqayin, East Kazakhstan...

3 Great Cormorant 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Tosqayin, East Kazakhstan... 😍 3

5 Red-backed Shrike 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Tosqayin, East Kazakhstan... 😍 5

Eurasian Wigeon 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

3 Tufted Duck 26 Jul · Markakol lake, Urunkhayka, Tosqayin, Eas...

Awards of Айжан

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