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most often in Almaty Region
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656observations 300species 58%of the Birds.kz list 8 of 20regions 67comments 2diary entries

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8 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region412 Zhambyl Region70 Almaty60 Zhetysu Region57 Akmola Region43 Turkistan Region10 Karaganda Region3 Astana1

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Most in 2013: 558 observations

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BIRD SPECIES

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

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all Almaty Region 412Zhambyl Region 70Almaty 60Zhetysu Region 57Akmola Region 43 Turkistan Region 10Karaganda Region 3Astana 1

5 Grey Heron 1 Aug 2012 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 😍 1

3 Common Cuckoo 26 May 2012 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 1

7 Little Bittern 28 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 2

3 Little Ringed Plover 16 Jun 2012 · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 😍 1

3 Grey Partridge 21 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 😍 2🐤 1

6 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 21 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 1

4 Collared Pratincole 21 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 😍 1

9 Red-rumped Swallow 15 Jul 2012 · Gagarina avenue, Almaty 😍 1

5 Common Moorhen 14 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region

3 Northern Lapwing 14 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 😍 1

4 Curlew Sandpiper 14 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 😍 2

2 Black-headed Gull 14 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 😍 1

2 Caspian Gull 14 Jul 2012 · Sorbulak lake, Almaty Region

2 Rock Bunting 7 Jul 2012 · Saty, Almaty Region 😍 1

Pine Bunting 7 Jul 2012 · Saty, Almaty Region

8 Common Whitethroat 7 Jul 2012 · Assy plateau, 2200-2250m, Almaty Region 😍 1

4 Turkestan Shrike 7 Jul 2012 · Saty, Almaty Region 😍 2

2 Rock Bunting 7 Jul 2012 · Saty, Almaty Region

3 Blue-capped Redstart 7 Jul 2012 · Kegen District, Almaty Region 😍 1

2 Central Asia Starling 7 Jul 2012 · Kegen District, Almaty Region

6 Common Whitethroat 7 Jul 2012 · Kegen District, Almaty Region

5 Common Rosefinch 7 Jul 2012 · Kegen District, Almaty Region 😍 1

Common Whitethroat 7 Jul 2012 · Kegen District, Almaty Region

2 Coal Tit 7 Jul 2012 · Kegen District, Almaty Region

Awards of Антонина

6 awards · several levels in each

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25 25 species

50 50 species

100 100 species

150 150 species

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awardgroup.observations

1 1 observation

10 10 observations

50 50 observations

100 100 observations

250 250 observations

500 500 observations

awardgroup.regions

3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 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

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

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2013 Big Year 2013

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