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4 157observations 348species 68%of the Birds.kz list 12 of 20regions 3 326comments 95diary entries

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58 species in 2026

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2014

Big Year 2014
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where they watch birds

12 of 20 regions of Kazakhstan

Zhambyl Region3 397 Turkistan Region543 Almaty Region95 Mangystau Region33 Akmola Region29 Kyzylorda Region21 Almaty17 East Kazakhstan Region8 Shymkent6 Zhetysu Region4

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Karaganda Region3 Ulytau Region1

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Great Reed Warbler28 Jun
Arctic Loon27 Jun
Egyptian Nightjar2 Jun

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Most in 2014: 892 observations

Observations 4 157 Species 348 Diaries 95 Map 506 Comments 3 326

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all 2026 89 2025 100 2024 145 2023 252 2022 70 2021 252 2020 242 2019 317 2018 309 2017 394 2016 436 2015 513 2014 892 2013 143 2012 3

BIRD SPECIES

all species Steppe Eagle 148 Long-legged Buzzard 104 Pied Wheatear 85 Common Chiffchaff 84 Black Redstart 69 Turkestan Shrike 66 Black-throated Thrush 59 Lesser Whitethroat 56 Siberian Stonechat 52 Demoiselle Crane 48 Little Bustard 48 Bluethroat 48 Masked Wagtail 43 White-Winged Woodpecker 43 Eastern Imperial Eagle 42 Yellowhammer 40 Northern Wren 40 Eastern Buzzard 40 Long-eared Owl 40 Yellow-breasted Tit 38 Isabelline Wheatear 38 Great Bustard 37 Common Snipe 37 Common Sparrowhawk 36 White-tailed Sea-Eagle 33 Tree Pipit 33 Black-throated Accentor 32 Turkestan Tit 31 Common Kestrel 31 Cinereous Vulture 30 Eversmann's Redstart 30 Blyth's Reed Warbler 29 Common Buzzard 29 Common Chaffinch 29 Isabelline Shrike 28 Spotted Flycatcher 28 Great Tit 28 Grey Partridge 27 Green Sandpiper 27 Calandra Lark 27 White Wagtail 25 Northern Reed Bunting 25 Hume's Warbler 25 Wood Pigeon 25 Northern Wheatear 24 Western Marsh-Harrier 23 Great White Egret 23 Northern Lapwing 23 Mallard 23 Common Kingfisher 22 Eurasian Roller 22 Upland Buzzard 22 Corn Bunting 22 Hen Harrier 21 Eurasian Hobby 21 Pine Bunting 21 Common Teal 21 Grey-headed Goldfinch 21 Northern Goshawk 20 Yellow Wagtail 20 Brambling 20 Little Owl 20 Black-headed Gull 19 Common Crane 19 Ruddy Shelduck 19 Common Rosefinch 19 Eurasian Scops-Owl 19 Chukar Partridge 18 Red-headed Bunting 18 Common Nightingale 18 Eurasian Redstart 17 Crested Lark 17 Eurasian Blackbird 17 Common Redshank 17 Sky Lark 16 White Stork 16 Asian Paradise Flycatcher 16 Black Stork 16 Little Ringed Plover 16 Water Pipit 16 Common Starling 16 Greenish Warbler 16 Rock Bunting 16 Long-tailed Shrike 16 Sykes's Warbler 16 Shikra 16 Common Pheasant 16 Egyptian Vulture 15 Lesser Grey Shrike 15 European Robin 15 Pygmy Cormorant 15 Mistle Thrush 15 Hoopoe 15 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 15 Short-toed Snake-Eagle 15 Red-backed Shrike 14 Finsch's Wheatear 14 European Greenfinch 14 Caspian Gull 14 Desert Wheatear 14 Grey Wagtail 14 Wood Sandpiper 14 Common Cuckoo 14 Common Sandpiper 14 Mute Swan 13 Great Grey Shrike 13 Grey Heron 13 Eurasian Siskin 13 Citrine Wagtail 13 Eurasian Wryneck 12 Bohemian Waxwing 12 Indian Golden Oriole 12 House Sparrow 12 Black-winged Stilt 12 Fieldfare 12 Great Cormorant 12 Paddyfield Warbler 12 Spanish Sparrow 12 Cetti's Warbler 12 Tawny Pipit 12 Eurasian Linnet 11 Goldcrest 11 Booted Eagle 11 Gadwall 11 Desert Finch 11 Black Kite 10 Horned Lark 10 Steppe Grey Shrike 10 Purple Heron 10 Greater Short-toed Lark 10 Dalmatian Pelican 10 Griffon Vulture 10 Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush 10 Red-fronted Serin 10 Ruff 10 Temminck's Stint 10 Eurasian Collared Dove 10 Northern Shoveler 10 Common Raven 10 Solitary Snipe 9 Collared Pratincole 9 Black-tailed Godwit 9 Barn Swallow 9 Garganey 9 Osprey 9 White-crowned Penduline Tit 9 Bearded Tit 9 Little Stint 9 Great Rosefinch 9 Common Tern 9 Little Grebe 9 Eurasian Goldfinch 8 Golden Eagle 8 Common Coot 8 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 8 Great Crested Grebe 8 Rough-legged Buzzard 8 Tree Sparrow 8 White-throated Robin 8 Northern Pintail 8 Ortolan Bunting 8 Hooded Crow 8 Common Pochard 8 European Bee-eater 8 Pallid Harrier 8 Glossy Ibis 8 Black-headed Wagtail 8 Laughing Dove 7 Pied Bushchat 7 Hume's Whitethroat 7 Stock Pigeon 7 Common Greenshank 7 Water Rail 7 Indian Sparrow 7 Rosy Starling 7 Black-breasted Tit 7 Lammergeier 7 Red-necked Phalarope 7 Pander's Ground-Jay 7 Eurasian Spoonbill 7 White-winged Grosbeak 7 Macqueen's Bustard 6 Carrion Crow 6 Crimson-winged Finch 6 White-capped Bunting 6 Oriental Turtle Dove 6 Red-crested Pochard 6 Common Quail 6 White-tailed Lapwing 6 Siberian Accentor 6 Eurasian Jackdaw 6 Short-eared Owl 6 Saker Falcon 6 Eurasian Stone Curlew 6 Common Whitethroat 6 Rook 6 Eurasian Magpie 6 Common Swift 5 Great White Pelican 5 Ibisbill 5 Kentish Plover 5 Eurasian Eagle-Owl 5 Greater Sand Plover 5 Himalayan Vulture 5 Common Shelduck 5 Oriental Lark 5 Grey-necked Bunting 5 Eurasian Woodcock 5 Bimaculated Lark 5 Eurasian Curlew 5 Blue Whistling Thrush 5 Pied Avocet 5 European Nightjar 5 Merlin 5 Sand Martin 4 Montagu's Harrier 4 Rock Sparrow 4 Black-Necked Grebe 4 Eurasian Wigeon 4 Greater White-fronted Goose 4 Little Tern 4 European Turtle Dove 4 Eastern Rock Nuthatch 4 Gull-billed Tern 4 Common Oystercatcher 4 Variable Wheatear 4 Western Grasshopper Warbler 4 Tufted Duck 4 Caspian Tern 4 Lesser Short-toed Lark 4 Blue-capped Redstart 4 Smew 4 Baraba Steppe Gull 4 Common Moorhen 3 Clamorous Reed Warbler 3 Coal Tit 3 Red-breasted Flycatcher 3 Wallcreeper 3 Alpine Swift 3 White-winged Lark 3 Lesser Kestrel 3 Slender-billed Gull 3 Red-mantled Rosefinch 3 Bewick's Swan 3 Rock Pigeon 3 Ferruginous Duck 3 Sulphur-bellied Warbler 3 Common Goldeneye 3 Spotted Redshank 3 Willow Warbler 3 Common Mynah 3 Greylag Goose 3 Greater Spotted Eagle 3 Blue Rock Thrush 3 Whooper Swan 3 Curlew Sandpiper 2 Black Tern 2 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 Glaucous Gull 2 Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker 2 Northern Black Grouse 2 Long-tailed Tit 2 Pin-Tailed Sandgrouse 2 Jack Snipe 2 Pale Sand Martin 2 Siberian Black-backed Gull 2 Willow Tit 2 Pacific Golden Plover 2 Long-tailed Rosefinch 2 Upcher's Warbler 2 Black Lark 2 White-headed Duck 2 Twite 2 Spotted Nutcracker 2 Eurasian Penduline Tit 2 Eurasian Dipper 2 Common Treecreeper 2 Red-billed Chough 2 White-winged Tern 2 Rufous Bush Robin 2 Booted Warbler 2 Menetries Warbler 2 Pallas's Sandgrouse 2 Red-rumped Swallow 2 Red-flanked Bluetail 2 Plain Mountain Finch 2 Asian Desert Warbler 2 Terek Sandpiper 2 Pallas's Gull 2 Streaked Scrub Warbler 2 European Golden Oriole 2 Goosander 2 Egyptian Nightjar 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Eurasian Honey-Buzzard 2 Thrush Nightingale 2 Little Egret 1 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 1 Black-winged Pratincole 1 Azure Tit 1 Pallas's Sea-Eagle 1 Baillon's Crake 1 Northern House Martin 1 Yellow-browed Warbler 1 Hawfinch 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler 1 Eurasian Jay 1 Mongolian Finch 1 Meadow Bunting 1 Blyth's Rosefinch 1 Crested Honey-Buzzard 1 Yellow-eyed Pigeon 1 Arctic Loon 1 Rustic Bunting 1 Daurian Partridge 1 Little Gull 1 Blue Tit 1 Meadow Pipit 1 Whinchat 1 Great Reed Warbler 1 White-Backed Woodpecker 1 Sociable Lapwing 1 Greater Flamingo 1 Northern Hazelhen 1 Himalayan Rubythroat 1 Guldenstadt's Redstart 1 Eurasian Bittern 1 Marsh Sandpiper 1 Bean Goose 1 Willow Ptarmigan 1 Rock Ptarmigan 1 Song Thrush 1 Long-tailed Duck 1 Brown Accentor 1 Brown Dipper 1 Slavonian Grebe 1 Black Woodpecker 1 Brown-necked Raven 1 Black-headed Penduline Tit 1 Trumpeter Finch 1 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Dunlin 1 Moustached Warbler 1 Little Bittern 1 Himalayan Accentor 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Barbary Falcon 1 Red Crossbill 1

REGION

all Zhambyl Region 3397Turkistan Region 543Almaty Region 95Mangystau Region 33Akmola Region 29 Kyzylorda Region 21Almaty 17East Kazakhstan Region 8Shymkent 6Zhetysu Region 4Karaganda Region 3Ulytau Region 1

Only “needs identification” 1

5 Common Pheasant 2 May 2023 · Ertai, Jambyl Region 😍 2

Lesser Whitethroat 29 Apr 2023 · Ertai, Jambyl Region 😍 1

Turkestan Shrike 29 Apr 2023 · Ertai, Jambyl Region 😍 2

Northern Goshawk 26 Apr 2023 · Ertai, Jambyl Region

Shikra 1 May 2023 · Ertai, Jambyl Region 😍 3

3 Purple Heron 15 Apr 2023 · Ertai. Zhambyl oblast. 😍 3🐤 1

Caspian Gull 13 Apr 2023 · foothills Karatau, Ertay, Jambyl Region 😍 2

Eurasian Blackbird 13 Apr 2023 · foothills Karatau, Ertay, Jambyl Region 😍 2

Wood Pigeon 13 Apr 2023 · foothills Karatau, Ertay, Jambyl Region 😍 3

Northern Wheatear 12 Apr 2023 · Ertay, Zhambyl Region 😍 2

Pied Wheatear 12 Apr 2023 · Ertay, Zhambyl Region 😍 2

6 Little Bustard 12 Apr 2023 · Ertay, Zhambyl Region 😍 1

Horned Lark 9 Apr 2023 · Ertai. Zhambyl oblast.

Eurasian Redstart 9 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region

2 Alpine Swift 8 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Finsch's Wheatear 9 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region

Finsch's Wheatear 7 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Finsch's Wheatear 7 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 3🐤 1

Finsch's Wheatear 7 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 1

Isabelline Wheatear 9 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 2

Calandra Lark 9 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 1

5 Black-Bellied Sandgrouse 9 Apr 2023 · ShERKALA, Mangystau Region 😍 6

Common Sandpiper 8 Apr 2023 · 5A microdistrict embankment, Aktau, Mang...

Awards of Малик

7 awards · several levels in each

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10 10 species

25 25 species

50 50 species

100 100 species

150 150 species

200 200 species

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300 300 species

awardgroup.observations

1 1 observation

10 10 observations

50 50 observations

100 100 observations

250 250 observations

500 500 observations

1K 1 000 observations

2.5K 2 500 observations

awardgroup.regions

3/20 3 regions

5/20 5 regions

10/20 10 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.pioneer

1 New species for the site

awardgroup.diary

1 1 diary entry

10 10 diary entries

50 50 diary entries

awardgroup.bigyear

2014 Big Year 2014

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