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Welcome to the site «Bird of Kazakhstan». There are a lot of sites about birds on the Internet. There are sites about any groups of birds, for example such as Birds of Prey, Owls or Finches. There are sites about birds of any territory (such as country or region). There are forums which there is a communion of birdwatchers. There are encyclopedia sites about birds. Also there is a few of Internet pages of common birdwatchers. The information about birds of Kazakhstan is on the Internet also. Some of these sites belong to firms making birding tours to Kazakhstan. Other ones are the pages of foreign birdwatchers with photos of birds from Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan it is possible to watch about 500 species of the birds, furthermore the birds of the different habitats. Kazakhstan is the ninth by area country in the world and is located in the centre of Eurasia. There are different geographical zones on the territory of Kazakhstan. Deserts, steppes and forest-steppes, taiga, mountains, a lot of large and small lakes. In various geographical zones there are also different birds. Besides the large difference between summer and winter temperature in the same regions allows to observe absolutely different birds in one place at various year times. Every year more and more foreign birdwatchers come to Kazakhstan to have an eyes to birds. The number of Kazakhstan birdwatcher increases also. The birdwatching is very interesting hobby. It does not demand special skills and condition, it is possible to watch the birds not only leaving somewhere on fields but also going on work or looking on a feeding trough the window of the house. The part of materials of our site includes the photos sent us by the visitors of the site. We observe the birds in Kazakhstan since 2003. During this time we have visited almost all regions of the Kazakhstan. The news we have seen and have photographed we have published on the site. Also finding something new to ourselves from the literature we publish this information to the visitors of the site (some of the literature we used is available in the bookstore). For each species (and subspecies) of the birds there is a separate page with detailed information, such as the description of a bird, its distribution in Kazakhstan and briefly biology. The photos are the illustrations to this information. The information collected thus helps many visitors of the site to define birds all alone and to read about them something new. Certainly foreign birdwatchers mainly use the helpful information on where and when they can see birds. We hope that the information of our site also is useful to the various organizations and also to teachers and students. Good luck in birdwatching.
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November 01 2011. New photos of Paddyfield Warbler, Demoiselle Crane, Tawny Pipit, Short-eared Owl, Caspian Plover, Red-headed Bunting, Booted Warbler, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, White Wagtail, White Wagtail (ocularis) , Yellow Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (leucocephala) , Eurasian Curlew, Desert Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, Northern Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Great White Pelican, Rosy Starling, Asian Desert Warbler (by Gabor Papp); Eurasian Linnet, Hooded Crow, Carrion Crow, Rook, Northern Reed Bunting, European Robin, Steppe Grey Shrike, Grey Partridge (by Andrey Vilyayev); Carrion Crow, Common Chaffinch, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Caspian Gull, Mew Gull, Black-headed Gull, Azure Tit, Tree Sparrow, Great Cormorant, Black-Billed Magpie, Song Thrush, Fieldfare, Long-tailed Rosefinch (by Oleg Lyakhov); Brown Dipper, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Barn Swallow, Siberian Black-backed Gull, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Dalmatian Pelican, Great White Pelican, Caspian Tern (by Gennady Dyakin); Eastern Imperial Eagle (by Oleg Belyalov). October 25 2011. October diaries. New photos of Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Steppe Eagle, Long-eared Owl, Hooded Crow, Rook, Common Chaffinch, Great Tit, House Sparrow, Great Cormorant, Eversmann's Redstart, Common Starling, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Barred Warbler, Eurasian Blackbird (by Askar Isabekov); Sky Lark, Eurasian Siskin, Common Crane, Tree Sparrow, Common Starling (by Andrey Vilyayev).
October 21 2011. New species - Grey Phalarope (by Oleg Belyalov). New photos of Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Little Owl, Long-legged Buzzard, Stock Pigeon, Mute Swan, Common Chaffinch, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Dalmatian Pelican (by Andrey Vilyayev); Baraba Steppe Gull, Relict Gull, Blue Whistling Thrush (by Gennady Dyakin); Osprey (by Natalya Borovaya). October 16 2011. New photos of Temminck's Stint, Pine Bunting, Pallas's Gull, White Wagtail, Willow Tit, Northern Wren (by Gennady Dyakin); Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Siskin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Black-headed Gull, Great Tit, Black-Billed Magpie (by Oleg Lyakhov); Himalayan Griffon-Vulture (by Donald Burgess); Oriental Turtle Dove (by Vladimir Shefer); Cinereous Vulture, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Eurasian Jackdaw, Common Chaffinch, Brambling, Isabelline Shrike, Steppe Grey Shrike, Common Pheasant, Common Chiffchaff, Oriental Turtle Dove, Common Starling, Northern Lapwing (by Andrey Vilyayev). October 10 2011. New photos of Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Mallard Duck, Hooded Crow, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Chaffinch, Great Tit, House Sparrow, Eurasian Nuthatch, Common Starling (by Oleg Lyakhov); Crested Lark, Desert Wheatear (by Andrey Vilyayev); Chukar Partridge, Eastern Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, Common Pheasant (by Lyudmila San).
October 07 2011. New species - Red-flanked Bluetail (by Vassiliy Fedorenko and Oleg Belyalov). New photos of Common Sandpiper, Northern Shoveler, Little Stint, Common Moorhen, Black-Bellied Sandgrouse, Asian Desert Warbler (by Gennady Dyakin); Rock Dove, Meadow Bunting, Common Chiffchaff, Common Starling (by Vladimir Shefer); Steppe Eagle, Purple Heron, Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Long-legged Buzzard, European Nightjar, Macqueen's Bustard, Northern Reed Bunting, White Wagtail, White-winged Grosbeak (by Andrey Vilyayev). September 30 2011. New photos of Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pine Bunting (by Oleg Lyakhov); Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Tree Pipit, Stock Pigeon, Eurasian Roller, Grey-necked Bunting, Eurasian Hobby, Common Kestrel, Common Chaffinch, Isabelline Shrike, White Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, Eurasian Redstart, Common Chiffchaff, Hume's Warbler, Greenish Warbler, Black-Billed Magpie, Great Crested Grebe, Stonechat, Laughing Dove, Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Barred Warbler, Black-throated Thrush (by Askar Isabekov).
September 22 2011. The new subspecies of Common Crane was described in Kazakhstan - Tibetan Common Crane (Grus grus korelovi). New photos of Garganey, Long-legged Buzzard, Citrine Wagtail, Masked Wagtail, Ruddy Shelduck (by Lyudmila San); Grey Heron, Tufted Duck, Mute Swan, Common Coot, Dalmatian Pelican, Common Shelduck (by Venera Nugmanova); Mallard Duck, Eurasian Goldfinch, Hooded Crow, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Chaffinch, Grey Wagtail, Northern Wheatear, House Sparrow, Common Chiffchaff, Great Crested Grebe, Common Starling, Lesser Whitethroat, Fieldfare (by Oleg Lyakhov); Common Crane (by Oleg Belyalov). September 18 2011. New photos of Common Sandpiper, Sky Lark, Northern Shoveler, Mallard Duck, Greylag Goose, Common Pochard, Long-legged Buzzard, Temminck's Stint, Little Ringed Plover, Western Marsh-Harrier, Eurasian Roller, Mute Swan, Pine Bunting, Common Kestrel, Red-footed Falcon, Common Chaffinch, Common Coot, Common Snipe, Black-winged Stilt, Black-tailed Godwit, Black Kite, Isabelline Wheatear, Red-necked Phalarope, Ruff, Stonechat, Common Starling, Spotted Redshank, Common Greenshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Northern Lapwing (by Oleg Lyakhov). September 11 2011. New photos of Albino Rook, Grey Heron, Eurasian Roller, Masked Wagtail, Eurasian Spoonbill (by Lyudmila San); Desert Finch (by Timur Iskakov); Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Lesser Whitethroat (by Vladimir Shefer); Mallard Duck, Greylag Goose, Grey Heron, Hooded Crow, Rook, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great White Egret, Rock Bunting, Common Kestrel, Common Chaffinch, Common Coot, Common Snipe, White-tailed Sea-Eagle, Pallas's Gull, Common Nightingale, Bluethroat, Black Kite, Spotted Flycatcher, Northern Wheatear, Azure Tit, House Sparrow, Common Chiffchaff, Great Crested Grebe, Lesser Whitethroat, Mistle Thrush, Northern Lapwing (by Oleg Lyakhov). 
Bird watching diary. Since 2003 I watch the birds. As a matter of fact in the beginning I only photographed birds, then I began to notice the birds I saw, and further I began to do records which I tried more or less in detail to write what and where I saw. Certainly, first of all I tried to photograph a bird, not always it was possible but at once I tried to fix in the diary all birds I have seen. Sometimes I saw unusual or just interesting behavior of birds, I also tried to record it in a diary. Since 2005 I began to publish these diaries on the site. In these diaries you can read about birds from almost all regions of Kazakhstan. 
Over 500 species of the birds were observed in the Kazakhstan. All species of the birds are divided into ten pages which it is possible to get by the top menu from other pages of the site. The full list of all birds which ever were recorded in Kazakhstan is presented on "taxonomy" page. From the “taxonomy” page it is possible to enter to the list of the species spelling the family you interested. Lists of the species on the “Families” pages differ from the full list on “taxonomy” page. I excluded some vagrant species recorded more than 80-100 years ago. Taxonomy of the orders, families and species is taken by the book of Professor E.I.Gavrilov "Fauna and Distribution of the Birds of Kazakhstan", Almaty, 1999. 
Unfortunatelly it is impossible to photograph all species of birds. This page helps you to see photographed species only. Each species shows by icon and name on English. Click image to see the page of selected bird. 
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