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5 362observations 336species 65%of the Birds.kz list 8 of 20regions 1 014comments 87diary entries

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206 species in 2026

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8 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region2 891 Almaty1 819 Zhetysu Region410 Turkistan Region93 East Kazakhstan Region80 Zhambyl Region61 Shymkent4 Abai Region4

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Western Grasshopper Warbler6 Jul
European Turtle Dove6 Jun
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BIRD SPECIES

all species Turkestan Shrike 104 Common Chaffinch 81 Masked Wagtail 67 Mallard 62 Azure Tit 61 Eurasian Blackbird 60 Lesser Whitethroat 57 Siberian Stonechat 56 Spotted Flycatcher 55 Grey Wagtail 55 Little Ringed Plover 55 Common Kestrel 53 Long-legged Buzzard 52 Eversmann's Redstart 51 Red-fronted Serin 51 Common Chiffchaff 50 Coal Tit 49 Eurasian Roller 48 Carrion Crow 47 Common Whitethroat 46 Brambling 46 Mistle Thrush 45 Common Redshank 45 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 44 Black-throated Thrush 44 Pied Wheatear 42 Isabelline Wheatear 41 Dalmatian Pelican 41 Black-headed Gull 41 Great Cormorant 40 Grey-headed Goldfinch 39 Eurasian Siskin 39 Black-winged Stilt 39 Hume's Warbler 39 Black Kite 39 Barn Swallow 38 Hoopoe 38 Common Moorhen 38 Green Sandpiper 38 Common Sparrowhawk 38 Common Sandpiper 37 Yellow Wagtail 36 Whooper Swan 36 Common Treecreeper 36 Citrine Wagtail 36 Ruddy Shelduck 36 Wood Pigeon 35 Temminck's Stint 34 Caspian Gull 34 Eurasian Collared Dove 34 Common Pheasant 33 Great Tit 33 Goldcrest 33 White-browed Tit-Warbler 32 White-winged Grosbeak 31 Black-headed Wagtail 31 Common Starling 31 Greenish Warbler 31 Calandra Lark 30 European Greenfinch 30 Red-crested Pochard 30 Wood Sandpiper 29 Northern Lapwing 29 Tawny Pipit 29 White Wagtail 29 Rosy Starling 28 Great White Egret 27 Common Tern 27 Steppe Eagle 27 Crested Lark 27 Tree Pipit 27 Northern Reed Bunting 27 Chukar Partridge 27 Little Stint 26 Blue Whistling Thrush 26 Corn Bunting 26 Brown Dipper 26 Isabelline Shrike 26 Water Pipit 25 Common Nightingale 25 Greater Short-toed Lark 25 Ruff 25 Laughing Dove 25 White-headed Duck 24 Rock Bunting 24 Black-Necked Grebe 24 Mute Swan 24 Common Kingfisher 24 Black-throated Accentor 24 Tree Sparrow 23 Pied Avocet 23 Lesser Grey Shrike 23 Common Shelduck 23 Eurasian Hobby 22 Eastern Buzzard 22 Yellowhammer 22 Garganey 21 Great Spotted Woodpecker 21 Red-mantled Rosefinch 21 Eurasian Curlew 20 Grey Heron 20 Eurasian Dipper 20 Common Rosefinch 20 Common Coot 20 Eurasian Magpie 19 Great Crested Grebe 19 Rook 19 European Bee-eater 18 Common Cuckoo 18 Golden Eagle 18 Northern Wheatear 18 Common Mynah 18 Western Marsh-Harrier 18 Eastern Imperial Eagle 18 Blyth's Reed Warbler 18 Blue-capped Redstart 18 Eurasian Jackdaw 17 Common Pochard 17 Pygmy Cormorant 17 Common Snipe 17 Eurasian Linnet 17 Common Buzzard 17 Red-headed Bunting 17 Pine Bunting 17 Common Greenshank 17 Sykes's Warbler 16 Long-tailed Rosefinch 16 Lesser Short-toed Lark 16 Black-tailed Godwit 16 Bluethroat 16 Alpine Accentor 15 Songar Tit 15 Cinereous Vulture 15 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 15 House Sparrow 15 Long-eared Owl 14 Hooded Crow 14 Little Grebe 14 Bohemian Waxwing 13 Kentish Plover 13 Long-tailed Tit 13 Gadwall 13 Great White Pelican 13 Spotted Nutcracker 13 Yellow-billed Chough 13 Grey-necked Bunting 13 Red-necked Phalarope 13 Ferruginous Duck 13 Lammergeier 13 Demoiselle Crane 13 Northern Pintail 12 Horned Lark 12 Northern Shoveler 12 Sky Lark 12 Pallas's Sandgrouse 11 Marsh Sandpiper 11 Northern Wren 11 European Robin 11 Bewick's Swan 11 Shikra 11 Desert Wheatear 10 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 10 Red-billed Chough 10 Indian Sparrow 10 Common Oystercatcher 10 Dunlin 10 Great Grey Shrike 10 Oriental Turtle Dove 10 Plain Mountain Finch 10 White-Winged Woodpecker 10 Desert Finch 10 White-crowned Penduline Tit 10 Barred Warbler 10 Relict Gull 10 Wallcreeper 9 Spanish Sparrow 9 Tufted Duck 9 Turkestan Tit 9 Willow Tit 9 Spotted Redshank 9 Steppe Grey Shrike 9 European Nightjar 8 Terek Sandpiper 8 Greater Sand Plover 8 Common Teal 8 Common Raven 8 Pacific Golden Plover 8 Little Owl 8 Ibisbill 8 Cetti's Warbler 8 Himalayan Vulture 8 Long-tailed Shrike 8 Little Bustard 8 Grey Plover 8 Collared Pratincole 8 Pallas's Gull 8 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 7 Booted Eagle 7 Guldenstadt's Redstart 7 Smew 7 Goosander 7 Eurasian Nuthatch 7 Rock Sparrow 7 Black Redstart 7 Brown-necked Raven 7 Lesser Kestrel 7 Red Crossbill 7 Northern House Martin 7 Eurasian Scops-Owl 7 Red-backed Shrike 6 Peregrine Falcon 6 Alpine Swift 6 Common Goldeneye 6 Ruddy Turnstone 6 Black-crowned Night Heron 6 Little Bittern 6 Mongolian Finch 6 White-capped Bunting 6 Paddyfield Warbler 6 Upland Buzzard 6 Caspian Tern 6 Curlew Sandpiper 6 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 6 Rock Pigeon 6 Eurasian Jay 6 Water Rail 6 Glossy Ibis 6 Fieldfare 6 Eurasian Whimbrel 5 Rough-legged Buzzard 5 Little Tern 5 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 5 Montagu's Harrier 5 Greylag Goose 5 Brown Accentor 5 Ortolan Bunting 5 Solitary Snipe 5 Pale Sand Martin 5 Great Reed Warbler 5 Meadow Bunting 5 Mew Gull 5 Black Stork 5 Sand Martin 5 Eurasian Redstart 4 Eastern Orphean Warbler 4 Gull-billed Tern 4 Lesser Sand Plover 4 Black Tern 4 Meadow Pipit 4 Himalayan Accentor 4 Red-rumped Swallow 4 Godlewski's Bunting 4 Himalayan Rubythroat 4 Northern Bullfinch 4 Saxaul Sparrow 4 Eurasian Wigeon 4 Common Redpoll 4 Rufous Bush Robin 4 Common Crane 3 Caspian Plover 3 Eurasian Goldfinch 3 Booted Warbler 3 White-winged Lark 3 Indian Golden Oriole 3 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 3 Egyptian Vulture 3 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 3 Bearded Tit 3 Crested Honey-Buzzard 3 Rustic Bunting 3 Eurasian Crag Martin 3 Greater Ringed Plover 3 Siberian Black-backed Gull 3 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 2 White-winged Tern 2 Merlin 2 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 2 Slender-billed Gull 2 Red-throated Thrush 2 Bean Goose 2 Northern Black Grouse 2 Savi's Warbler 2 White-winged Snowfinch 2 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 2 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 2 Common Swift 2 Bimaculated Lark 2 Great Rosefinch 2 Slavonian Grebe 2 Buff-bellied Pipit 2 Osprey 2 Hawfinch 2 Red-breasted Rosefinch 2 Brandt's Rosefinch 2 Blue Rock Thrush 2 Clamorous Reed Warbler 2 Richard's Pipit 2 Dusky Thrush 2 Yellow-breasted Tit 2 Ural Owl 1 Grey-Headed Woodpecker 1 Black Woodpecker 1 Greater Scaup 1 Pander's Ground-Jay 1 Pallid Scops Owl 1 Asian Short-toed Lark 1 Black-headed Penduline Tit 1 Redwing 1 Common Quail 1 Northern Goshawk 1 Baikal Bullfinch 1 Grey Partridge 1 Blyth's Rosefinch 1 Pine Grosbeak 1 Greater Flamingo 1 Western Grasshopper Warbler 1 Baillon's Crake 1 Sanderling 1 Finsch's Wheatear 1 Asian Desert Warbler 1 Hen Harrier 1 White-Backed Woodpecker 1 White Stork 1 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Greater Spotted Eagle 1 White-winged Scoter 1 European Turtle Dove 1 Little Gull 1 Eurasian Woodcock 1 Saker Falcon 1 Himalayan Snowcock 1 Daurian Partridge 1 Eurasian Wryneck 1 Boreal Owl 1 Red-throated Pipit 1 Squacco Heron 1

REGION

all Almaty Region 2891Almaty 1819Zhetysu Region 410Turkistan Region 93East Kazakhstan Region 80 Zhambyl Region 61Shymkent 4Abai Region 4

Pallid Scops Owl 6 Jun · Araltobe, Almaty Region 5 photos (short) 😍 10

Caspian Plover 6 Jun · Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 6

Lesser Short-toed Lark 6 Jun · Taukumy, Almaty Region 😍 3

Brown-necked Raven 6 Jun · Taukumy, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 7

Greater Short-toed Lark 6 Jun · Kanshengel, Southern Balkhash area, Alma... 😍 5

Greater Short-toed Lark 6 Jun · Kanshengel, Southern Balkhash area, Alma... 😍 4

Bimaculated Lark 6 Jun · Kanshengel, Southern Balkhash area, Alma... 😍 7

Greater Short-toed Lark 6 Jun · Kanshengel, Southern Balkhash area, Alma... 😍 5

Isabelline Wheatear 6 Jun · Kanshengel, Southern Balkhash area, Alma... 😍 5

Oriental Turtle Dove 6 Jun · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 5

European Turtle Dove 6 Jun · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 6

Long-legged Buzzard 6 Jun · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 7

Indian Sparrow 6 Jun · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 6

Red-headed Bunting 6 Jun · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 3 photos (short) 😍 5

Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 6 Jun · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 9

Demoiselle Crane 6 Jun · Aydarly, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 10

Little Ringed Plover 6 Jun · Aydarly, Almaty Region 😍 5

Black-winged Stilt 6 Jun · Aydarly, Almaty Region 😍 6

Glossy Ibis 6 Jun · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 2 photos (short) 😍 5

Black-tailed Godwit 6 Jun · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 😍 7

Squacco Heron 6 Jun · Sorbulak lake surroundings, Almaty Regio... 3 photos (short) 😍 7

Meadow Bunting 30 May · Kokpek gorge, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 6

Eurasian Crag Martin 30 May · Kokpek gorge, Almaty Region 😍 2🐤 4

Mongolian Finch 30 May · Bolshiye Boguty, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8

Awards of Виктория

6 awards · several levels in each

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25 25 species

50 50 species

100 100 species

150 150 species

200 200 species

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300 300 species

awardgroup.observations

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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

awardgroup.years

1 1 year on the site

3 3 years on the site

5 5 years on the site

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

10 10 diary entries

50 50 diary entries

awardgroup.bigyear

2022 Big Year 2022

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