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on the site since 20 November 2022

583observations 278species 54%of the Birds.kz list 5 of 20regions 220comments

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229 species in 2026

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5 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region353 Almaty90 Mangystau Region59 Kostanay Region42 Zhetysu Region39

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Lapland Longspur10 Oct
Bean Goose9 Oct
Red-breasted Goose9 Oct

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Most in 2026: 453 observations

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Lesser Short-toed Lark 12 Caspian Gull 11 Common Kestrel 11 Turkestan Shrike 9 Eastern Buzzard 9 Eastern Imperial Eagle 7 Common Redshank 7 Black-headed Gull 7 Common Chiffchaff 7 Steppe Eagle 7 Common Sparrowhawk 7 Common Tern 7 Sand Martin 6 Collared Pratincole 6 Long-legged Buzzard 6 Black-throated Thrush 5 Black-Necked Grebe 5 Black Redstart 5 Temminck's Stint 5 Greenish Warbler 5 Tawny Pipit 5 Meadow Pipit 4 Wood Sandpiper 4 Pied Wheatear 4 Calandra Lark 4 Eurasian Linnet 4 Red-breasted Merganser 4 Hume's Warbler 4 Fieldfare 4 Northern Wheatear 4 Isabelline Shrike 4 Blyth's Reed Warbler 4 Little Stint 4 Red-billed Chough 4 Rock Bunting 4 Tufted Duck 4 Little Grebe 3 Red-necked Phalarope 3 Himalayan Vulture 3 White Wagtail 3 Baraba Steppe Gull 3 Great Tit 3 Lesser Whitethroat 3 Bean Goose 3 White-Winged Woodpecker 3 Mallard 3 Water Pipit 3 Tree Pipit 3 Eversmann's Redstart 3 Crested Lark 3 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 3 Black Kite 3 Black Tern 3 Rook 3 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 3 Grey Partridge 3 Guldenstadt's Redstart 3 Western Marsh-Harrier 3 Common Rosefinch 3 Greater Sand Plover 3 Greater Short-toed Lark 3 Red-backed Shrike 2 Common Snipe 2 Redwing 2 Merlin 2 Common Chaffinch 2 Rosy Starling 2 Long-eared Owl 2 Steppe Grey Shrike 2 Pallas's Gull 2 Pacific Golden Plover 2 Common Quail 2 Sykes's Warbler 2 Ibisbill 2 Eurasian Woodcock 2 Red-crested Pochard 2 Desert Wheatear 2 Kentish Plover 2 Bluethroat 2 Mute Swan 2 Isabelline Wheatear 2 Chukar Partridge 2 Black-winged Pratincole 2 Grey Heron 2 Mistle Thrush 2 Slender-billed Gull 2 Lesser Kestrel 2 White-crowned Penduline Tit 2 Rock Pigeon 2 Pale Sand Martin 2 Crested Honey-Buzzard 2 Curlew Sandpiper 2 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 2 Carrion Crow 2 Demoiselle Crane 2 Montagu's Harrier 2 Northern Shoveler 2 Booted Warbler 2 Barn Swallow 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 Common Sandpiper 2 Hoopoe 2 Bearded Tit 2 Bohemian Waxwing 2 Brambling 2 Eurasian Magpie 2 Indian Sparrow 2 Eurasian Whimbrel 2 Smew 2 Little Ringed Plover 2 Garganey 2 Brandt's Rosefinch 2 Wood Pigeon 2 Greylag Goose 2 Eurasian Blackbird 2 Red-mantled Rosefinch 2 Eurasian Stone Curlew 2 Song Thrush 2 Spanish Sparrow 2 Common Crane 2 White-winged Lark 2 Brown Accentor 2 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 2 Ruddy Turnstone 2 Ruff 2 Great Crested Grebe 2 White-browed Tit-Warbler 2 Caspian Plover 2 Common Starling 2 Glossy Ibis 2 Spotted Flycatcher 2 Rustic Bunting 2 Bewick's Swan 1 Common Mynah 1 Great Grey Shrike 1 Black-headed Wagtail 1 Oriental Turtle Dove 1 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 1 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 1 Ferruginous Duck 1 Savi's Warbler 1 Northern Black Grouse 1 Great Cormorant 1 Whooper Swan 1 Common Moorhen 1 Eurasian Hobby 1 Corn Bunting 1 Ortolan Bunting 1 Eurasian Crag Martin 1 Northern Wren 1 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Solitary Snipe 1 Rough-legged Buzzard 1 Red-breasted Goose 1 Eurasian Jackdaw 1 Marsh Sandpiper 1 Bimaculated Lark 1 Common Kingfisher 1 Eurasian Curlew 1 Short-eared Owl 1 Yellowhammer 1 Willow Tit 1 Egyptian Vulture 1 Spotted Redshank 1 White-winged Grosbeak 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 Garden Warbler 1 Eurasian Siskin 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Japanese Waxwing 1 European Robin 1 Common Buzzard 1 White-headed Duck 1 Himalayan Accentor 1 Red-fronted Serin 1 Sandwich Tern 1 Lapland Longspur 1 Tree Sparrow 1 Coal Tit 1 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Common Whitethroat 1 Common Teal 1 House Sparrow 1 Dunnock 1 Spotted Nutcracker 1 Red Crossbill 1 Little Gull 1 Asian Desert Warbler 1 Black-throated Accentor 1 Pygmy Cormorant 1 Blue Whistling Thrush 1 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 1 Little Tern 1 Baillon's Crake 1 European Nightjar 1 Eurasian Roller 1 Saxaul Sparrow 1 Mew Gull 1 Booted Eagle 1 Pallid Scops Owl 1 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 Eurasian Goldfinch 1 Horned Lark 1 Citrine Wagtail 1 Water Rail 1 Boreal Owl 1 Common Pochard 1 Caspian Tern 1 Asian Rosy-Finch 1 Eurasian Scops-Owl 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 1 Broad-billed Sandpiper 1 European Bee-eater 1 Eurasian Wigeon 1 European Greenfinch 1 Lesser Grey Shrike 1 Lesser White-fronted Goose 1 Yellow Wagtail 1 Twite 1 Pallas's Sandgrouse 1 Red-rumped Swallow 1 Ring-billed Gull 1 Dalmatian Pelican 1 Red-breasted Flycatcher 1 Plain Mountain Finch 1 Azure Tit 1 Osprey 1 Yellow-billed Chough 1 Long-tailed Rosefinch 1 Common Greenshank 1 Whiskered Tern 1 Terek Sandpiper 1 Golden Eagle 1 Turkestan Tit 1 Moustached Warbler 1 Northern Hawk Owl 1 Northern Reed Bunting 1 Long-tailed Tit 1 Black-winged Stilt 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 1 Pine Bunting 1 Dunlin 1 Black Stork 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Goldcrest 1 Northern Lapwing 1 Stock Pigeon 1 Buff-bellied Pipit 1 Little Owl 1 Gadwall 1 Masked Wagtail 1 Upland Buzzard 1 Hawfinch 1 Siberian Stonechat 1 Brown Dipper 1 Green Sandpiper 1 Red-breasted Rosefinch 1 Brown-necked Raven 1 Ruddy Shelduck 1 Blue Tit 1 Black-crowned Night Heron 1 Eurasian Collared Dove 1 Red-headed Bunting 1 Black Woodpecker 1 Baikal Bullfinch 1 Northern Pintail 1 Clamorous Reed Warbler 1 Common Raven 1 Grey-headed Goldfinch 1 Lammergeier 1 Western Grasshopper Warbler 1 Common Coot 1 Sky Lark 1 Greater Ringed Plover 1 Great White Egret 1 Eurasian Nuthatch 1 Desert Finch 1

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all Almaty Region 353Almaty 90Mangystau Region 59Kostanay Region 42Zhetysu Region 39

Only “needs identification” 11

Great Cormorant 28 Feb · Embankment, Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 1

European Black Redstart 28 Feb · Embankment, Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 3🐤 1

2 Crested Lark 28 Feb · Embankment, Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 4

Common Pochard 28 Feb · Embankment, Aktau, Mangystau Region 😍 5

2 Eastern Buzzard 22 Feb · Almaty

3 Rustic Bunting 22 Feb · Pond near Airport, Almaty 😍 9🐤 1

Common Sparrowhawk 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region

European Robin 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region 😍 2

5 Upland Buzzard 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region

4 Eastern Buzzard 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region

Great Tit 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region 😍 1

Guldenstadt's Redstart 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region

Common Sparrowhawk 15 Feb · Kimasar, Ile-Alatau National Park, Almat... 😍 1

3 Eastern Buzzard 15 Feb · Avat, Almaty Region 😍 1

2 Eastern Buzzard 1 Feb · Kimasar, Ile-Alatau National Park, Almat... 😍 5

Caspian Gull 1 Feb · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 1

4 Caspian Gull 1 Feb · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region

Caspian Gull 1 Feb · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region

2 Guldenstadt's Redstart 1 Feb · Middle Ile river, Qonaev, Almaty Region 😍 1

6 European Black Redstart 1 Feb · Along reki Ile near Kapchagaya, Qonaev,... 😍 3✍️ 3🐤 3

Rock Pigeon 1 Feb · Along reki Ile near Kapchagaya, Qonaev,...

Red-breasted Merganser 1 Feb · Along reki Ile near Kapchagaya, Qonaev,... 🐤 3

3 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Feb · Along reki Ile near Kapchagaya, Qonaev,... 😍 2🐤 3

3 Eastern Buzzard 16 Dec 2025 · Dendropark, Almaty 😍 1

Awards of Илья

4 awards · several levels in each

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1 1 observation

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3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

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1 1 year on the site

3 3 years on the site

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