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most often in Almaty Region
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on the site since 5 January 2019

259observations 140species 27%of the Birds.kz list 3 of 20regions 37comments

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3 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Almaty Region158 Turkistan Region57 Almaty44

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201620212026

Most in 2016: 200 observations

Observations 259 Species 140 Map 151 Comments 37

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BIRD SPECIES

all species Greater Short-toed Lark 9 Long-legged Buzzard 7 Lesser Short-toed Lark 5 Calandra Lark 5 Common Mynah 4 Turkestan Shrike 4 Black-winged Stilt 4 Hoopoe 4 Cinereous Vulture 4 Common Kestrel 4 Guldenstadt's Redstart 3 Tawny Pipit 3 Himalayan Rubythroat 3 Lesser Grey Shrike 3 Eurasian Roller 3 Eastern Imperial Eagle 3 Black-crowned Night Heron 3 Ferruginous Duck 3 Oriental Turtle Dove 3 Grey Wagtail 3 Himalayan Vulture 3 Crested Honey-Buzzard 3 Temminck's Stint 3 Spotted Flycatcher 3 Booted Eagle 3 White-winged Grosbeak 3 Pied Wheatear 3 Isabelline Wheatear 3 Sykes's Warbler 3 Pallid Scops Owl 3 Little Owl 3 Crested Lark 2 Black Kite 2 Black-throated Accentor 2 Bimaculated Lark 2 Carrion Crow 2 Himalayan Accentor 2 Demoiselle Crane 2 Great White Pelican 2 Glossy Ibis 2 Greater Sand Plover 2 Water Pipit 2 Caspian Plover 2 Brown Dipper 2 Moustached Warbler 2 Common Whitethroat 2 Lesser Whitethroat 2 Great White Egret 2 Hume's Warbler 2 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 2 Caspian Gull 2 Turkestan Tit 2 White-crowned Penduline Tit 2 Grey Heron 2 Golden Eagle 2 Rock Bunting 2 Red-fronted Serin 2 Plain Mountain Finch 2 Eurasian Hobby 2 Lesser Kestrel 2 Red-mantled Rosefinch 2 Northern Wheatear 2 Rufous Bush Robin 2 European Bee-eater 2 Great Cormorant 2 Indian Sparrow 2 White-Winged Woodpecker 2 Rock Sparrow 1 Brown Accentor 1 Red-billed Chough 1 Yellow-billed Chough 1 Eurasian Jackdaw 1 Rosy Starling 1 Brown-necked Raven 1 Dalmatian Pelican 1 Pygmy Cormorant 1 Purple Heron 1 Eurasian Spoonbill 1 Mute Swan 1 Ruddy Shelduck 1 Red-crested Pochard 1 White-headed Duck 1 Western Marsh-Harrier 1 Common Sparrowhawk 1 Shikra 1 Common Buzzard 1 Steppe Eagle 1 Egyptian Vulture 1 Chukar Partridge 1 Common Pheasant 1 Common Crane 1 Little Bustard 1 Macqueen's Bustard 1 Kentish Plover 1 White-tailed Lapwing 1 Common Oystercatcher 1 Common Sandpiper 1 Collared Pratincole 1 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 1 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 1 Rock Pigeon 1 Eurasian Collared Dove 1 Laughing Dove 1 Common Cuckoo 1 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 1 Eurasian Scops-Owl 1 Alpine Swift 1 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 1 White-winged Lark 1 Horned Lark 1 Oriental Lark 1 Black-headed Wagtail 1 Citrine Wagtail 1 Masked Wagtail 1 Long-tailed Shrike 1 Steppe Grey Shrike 1 Blyth's Reed Warbler 1 Hume's Whitethroat 1 Menetries Warbler 1 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 1 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 1 Songar Tit 1 Coal Tit 1 Corn Bunting 1 Pine Bunting 1 White-capped Bunting 1 Grey-necked Bunting 1 Red-headed Bunting 1 Grey-headed Goldfinch 1 Eurasian Linnet 1 Crimson-winged Finch 1 Mongolian Finch 1 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 1 Blue-capped Redstart 1 Eversmann's Redstart 1 Common Nightingale 1 Mistle Thrush 1 Blue Whistling Thrush 1 Spanish Sparrow 1 Saxaul Sparrow 1

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all Almaty Region 158Turkistan Region 57Almaty 44

Only “needs identification” 1

Crested Lark 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 2 photos (short) 😍 4

Steppe Lesser Short-toed Lark 21 May 2016 · Taukumy, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 5

Black-winged Stilt 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 5 photos (short) 😍 4

Indian Sparrow 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 3 photos (short) 😍 4

Lesser Whitethroat 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 5

Spotted Flycatcher 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 😍 4

Long-legged Buzzard 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, desert Taukum, Yuzhnoe Priba... 3 photos (short) 😍 5

Greater Sand Plover 21 May 2016 · Taukumy, Almaty Region 6 photos (short) 😍 3

Eastern Imperial Eagle 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, Taukum sands, Southern Balkh... 3 photos (short) 😍 3

Eastern Imperial Eagle 21 May 2016 · Kanshengel, Taukum sands, Southern Balkh... 7 photos (short) 😍 5

Little Bustard 21 May 2016 · Kurtinskoye reservoir, Almaty Region 😍 1

Eurasian Hobby 21 May 2016 · Kurtinskoye reservoir, Almaty Region 😍 2

Calandra Lark 21 May 2016 · Kurty, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 3

Eurasian Eagle-Owl 21 May 2016 · Kurty, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 7

Great White Pelican 21 May 2016 · Sorbulak lake system, Almaty Region 3 photos (short) 😍 5

Great White Pelican 21 May 2016 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 4 photos (short) 😍 8

Dalmatian Pelican 21 May 2016 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 8 photos (short) 😍 4

White-headed Duck 21 May 2016 · Sorbulak Lake System, Almaty Region 😍 1

Eastern Scops-Owl 22 May 2016 · St. Nicholas Cathedral, Almaty 11 photos (short) 😍 10

Sykes's Warbler 22 May 2016 · Kazakhstan, Almaty Region, Ili River Val... 😍 2

Common Pheasant 22 May 2016 · Ile river floodplain, Almaty Region 😍 1

White-Winged Woodpecker 22 May 2016 · Ile river floodplain, Almaty Region 8 photos (short) 😍 3

Common Oystercatcher 22 May 2016 · Ile river floodplain, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 2

Common Cuckoo 22 May 2016 · Ile river floodplain, Almaty Region 2 photos (short) 😍 8

Awards of Павел

4 awards · several levels in each

awardgroup.species

10 10 species

25 25 species

50 50 species

100 100 species

awardgroup.observations

1 1 observation

10 10 observations

50 50 observations

100 100 observations

250 250 observations

awardgroup.regions

3/20 3 regions

awardgroup.years

1 1 year on the site

3 3 years on the site

5 5 years on the site

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