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most often in Almaty Region
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on the site since 15 March 2016

831observations 237species 46%of the Birds.kz list 1 of 20regions 185comments

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Common Crane 27 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 26 Greylag Goose 19 Bean Goose 15 Ruddy Shelduck 13 Ferruginous Duck 13 Wood Pigeon 12 Common Pheasant 12 Golden Eagle 12 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 12 Eurasian Roller 11 Western Marsh-Harrier 11 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 11 Mute Swan 10 Water Pipit 10 Shikra 10 Little Bustard 9 Dalmatian Pelican 8 Booted Eagle 8 Mistle Thrush 7 Northern Pintail 7 Common Coot 7 Red-crested Pochard 7 Sky Lark 7 White-crowned Penduline Tit 7 Merlin 7 Turkestan Shrike 7 Gadwall 6 Eurasian Curlew 6 European Turtle Dove 6 Great Crested Grebe 6 Long-tailed Rosefinch 6 Black-headed Gull 6 Black-Necked Grebe 6 Oriental Turtle Dove 6 Black Stork 6 Northern Lapwing 6 Stock Pigeon 6 Black Kite 6 Common Starling 6 Caspian Tern 6 European Bee-eater 5 Little Grebe 5 Great Cormorant 5 Common Sparrowhawk 5 Great White Pelican 5 Common Buzzard 5 Rosy Starling 5 Black-winged Stilt 5 Siberian Stonechat 5 Spanish Sparrow 5 Crested Lark 5 Pied Wheatear 5 Eastern Imperial Eagle 5 Indian Sparrow 5 Spotted Redshank 5 Black-crowned Night Heron 5 Steppe Eagle 5 Isabelline Shrike 5 Tree Pipit 4 Grey Heron 4 Grey-necked Bunting 4 Common Redshank 4 Common Kestrel 4 Barn Swallow 4 Peregrine Falcon 4 Common Snipe 4 Rough-legged Buzzard 4 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Pygmy Cormorant 4 Pallas's Sea-Eagle 4 Tufted Duck 4 Demoiselle Crane 4 Bohemian Waxwing 4 Collared Pratincole 4 Common Moorhen 4 Horned Lark 4 Lesser Short-toed Lark 4 Masked Wagtail 3 Little Ringed Plover 3 Crested Honey-Buzzard 3 Eurasian Magpie 3 Common Kingfisher 3 Lesser Kestrel 3 European Robin 3 Eurasian Hobby 3 Northern Reed Bunting 3 Cetti's Warbler 3 Great White Egret 3 White-Winged Woodpecker 3 Pacific Golden Plover 3 Curlew Sandpiper 3 Osprey 3 Ruff 3 Pied Avocet 3 Common Pochard 3 Kentish Plover 3 Black-throated Thrush 3 Great Grey Shrike 3 Desert Wheatear 3 Red-throated Thrush 3 Common Teal 3 Greater White-fronted Goose 3 Corn Bunting 3 Garganey 3 Mallard 3 Eurasian Wigeon 3 Common Oystercatcher 3 Common Chaffinch 2 Black Redstart 2 Red-mantled Rosefinch 2 Common Shelduck 2 Eurasian Jackdaw 2 Marsh Sandpiper 2 Glossy Ibis 2 Calandra Lark 2 Grey Wagtail 2 Red-fronted Serin 2 Tree Sparrow 2 Red-backed Shrike 2 Pallas's Gull 2 Little Bittern 2 Black-throated Accentor 2 Saxaul Sparrow 2 Mongolian Finch 2 Rock Bunting 2 Caspian Gull 2 Water Rail 2 Eurasian Scops-Owl 2 Lesser Grey Shrike 2 Lesser White-fronted Goose 2 Steppe Grey Shrike 2 Yellow Wagtail 2 Twite 2 Red-rumped Swallow 2 Plain Mountain Finch 2 Common Rosefinch 2 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 2 Chukar Partridge 2 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 2 Terek Sandpiper 2 Dunlin 2 Montagu's Harrier 2 Northern Shoveler 2 Common Sandpiper 2 Long-tailed Shrike 2 Buff-bellied Pipit 2 Northern House Martin 2 Smew 2 Upland Buzzard 2 Eurasian Linnet 2 Red-headed Bunting 2 White-winged Lark 2 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Common Cuckoo 2 Grey-headed Goldfinch 2 Common Tern 2 Long-legged Buzzard 2 Greater Sand Plover 2 Common Redpoll 2 Northern Goshawk 2 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 2 Common Chiffchaff 2 Eversmann's Redstart 2 Goosander 2 Hoopoe 1 Eurasian Bittern 1 Bearded Tit 1 European Nightjar 1 Indian Golden Oriole 1 Little Tern 1 Eurasian Spoonbill 1 Northern Wheatear 1 Eurasian Dipper 1 Pale Sand Martin 1 Sanderling 1 Eurasian Whimbrel 1 Black-headed Wagtail 1 Laughing Dove 1 Slender-billed Gull 1 Siberian Accentor 1 Hooded Crow 1 Green Sandpiper 1 Sand Martin 1 Hen Harrier 1 Paddyfield Warbler 1 Wood Sandpiper 1 Black Tern 1 House Sparrow 1 Meadow Pipit 1 Great Reed Warbler 1 Grey-headed Lapwing 1 Spotted Flycatcher 1 Red-breasted Goose 1 Lapland Longspur 1 Eurasian Collared Dove 1 Solitary Snipe 1 White-headed Duck 1 Rook 1 Baikal Bullfinch 1 Ortolan Bunting 1 Eurasian Stone Curlew 1 Little Stint 1 Northern Wren 1 Caspian Plover 1 Eurasian Blackbird 1 Pied Bushchat 1 Black-winged Pratincole 1 Red-necked Phalarope 1 Common Greenshank 1 Common Goldeneye 1 Grey Plover 1 Whiskered Tern 1 Eurasian Siskin 1 Isabelline Wheatear 1 Temminck's Stint 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Long-eared Owl 1 Turkestan Tit 1 Naumann's Thrush 1 Fieldfare 1 Rock Pigeon 1 Purple Heron 1 Arctic Skua 1 Citrine Wagtail 1 Eurasian Goldfinch 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 White-winged Tern 1 Meadow Bunting 1 Pine Bunting 1 Yellowhammer 1 Brambling 1 Desert Finch 1 Black-headed Penduline Tit 1 Tawny Pipit 1 White Wagtail 1 Common Mynah 1

3 Mute Swan 17 Jul 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2

6 Eurasian Magpie 12 Mar 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 1🐤 4

Common Moorhen 4 Jul 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2

Mute Swan 29 May 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2🐤 1

Little Grebe 10 Jul 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 🐤 3

3 Whiskered Tern 8 Jul 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region ✍️ 1🐤 2

Peregrine Falcon 19 Feb 2023 · Almaty Region 😍 2

Water Pipit 31 Jan 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 🐤 1

Stock Pigeon 3 Feb 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region

Sky Lark 3 Feb 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 3🐤 1

3 Pygmy Cormorant 17 Jan 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2

Northern Goshawk 19 Jan 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 6🐤 1

Long-tailed Rosefinch 17 Jan 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 4🐤 2

Little Grebe 17 Jan 2023 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 🐤 1

3 Great White Egret 23 Aug 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2

2 Mute Swan 25 May 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2🐤 2

Common Starling 20 Jan 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 1

Golden Eagle 20 Jan 2022 · Almaty Region 😍 2

Common Pheasant 10 Jan 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 1

Eversmann's Redstart 10 Jan 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 2

2 Merlin 10 Jan 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 3

2 Western Marsh-Harrier 13 Jan 2022 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region

Mute Swan 12 Dec 2021 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 1

3 White-crowned Penduline Tit 24 Dec 2021 · Nizovya reki Turgen, Almaty Region 😍 4🐤 2

Awards of Иван

4 awards · several levels in each

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