Birds in Kazakhstan
Our list for Kazakhstan has 227 bird species recorded regularly there: 26 residents, 80 summer visitors, 33 winter visitors, 83 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors
The list comes from 191,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
- Species on our list
- 227
- In October
- 144
- Common
- 109
- Busiest month
- May
This month: October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Kazakhstan in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for Kazakhstan
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Barn Swallow | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dove | ||||||||||||
| Magpie | ||||||||||||
| Rook | ||||||||||||
| Hooded Crow | ||||||||||||
| Great Tit | ||||||||||||
| Pied Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Kestrel | ||||||||||||
| Black-headed Gull | ||||||||||||
| Carrion Crow | ||||||||||||
| Jackdaw | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Mallard | ||||||||||||
| Yellow Wagtail | ||||||||||||
| Ruddy Shelduck | ||||||||||||
| Northern Lapwing | ||||||||||||
| Western Marsh-harrier | ||||||||||||
| Grey Heron | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Whitethroat | ||||||||||||
| Hoopoe | ||||||||||||
| Blackbird | ||||||||||||
| Common Tern | ||||||||||||
| Chaffinch | ||||||||||||
| Great Cormorant | ||||||||||||
| Cuckoo | ||||||||||||
| Chiffchaff | ||||||||||||
| Great White Egret | ||||||||||||
| Common Starling | ||||||||||||
| Sparrowhawk |
The year in Kazakhstan
Records by month| January | 3,025 |
|---|---|
| February | 2,640 |
| March | 5,698 |
| April | 16,090 |
| May | 85,872 |
| June | 33,292 |
| July | 5,758 |
| August | 6,407 |
| September | 12,148 |
| October | 11,368 |
| November | 4,882 |
| December | 3,442 |
May has the most records (86,000). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
12 of 30How common
All 227 birds, A to Z
- Alpine Chough
- Alpine Swift
- Arctic Loon
- Avocet
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barn Swallow
- Bearded Tit
- Black Grouse
- Black Lark
- Black Redstart
- Black Tern
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Blue Rock-thrush
- Blue Tit
- Bluethroat
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Booted Eagle
- Boreal Owl
- Brambling
Show all 227 birds
- Bullfinch
- Buzzard
- Carrion Crow
- Cattle Egret
- Cetti's Warbler
- Chaffinch
- Chiffchaff
- Chukar
- Cinereous Vulture
- Coal Tit
- Common Crane
- Common Gull
- Common Kingfisher
- Common Merganser
- Common Pheasant
- Common Quail
- Common Raven
- Common Redpoll
- Common Redstart
- Common Reed-warbler
- Common Rosefinch
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Shelduck
- Common Snipe
- Common Starling
- Common Swift
- Common Tern
- Coot
- Corn Bunting
- Corncrake
- Crag Martin
- Cuckoo
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Desert Finch
- Dipper
- Dunlin
- Dunnock
- Egyptian Vulture
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Nuthatch
- Eurasian Oystercatcher
- Eurasian Scops-owl
- Eurasian Siskin
- Eurasian Skylark
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Stone-curlew
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Woodcock
- Eurasian Wren
- European Bee-eater
- European Goldfinch
- European Honey-buzzard
- European Pied Flycatcher
- European Robin
- European Turtle-dove
- Fieldfare
- Gadwall
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Glossy Ibis
- Goldcrest
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Oriole
- Golden Plover
- Goldeneye
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Grey Shrike
- Great Spotted Woodpecker
- Great Tit
- Great White Egret
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Green Sandpiper
- Greenfinch
- Greenshank
- Grey Heron
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey Wagtail
- Greylag Goose
- Griffon Vulture
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hawfinch
- Hen Harrier
- Hobby
- Hooded Crow
- Hoopoe
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Martin
- House Sparrow
- Jack Snipe
- Jackdaw
- Kentish Plover
- Kestrel
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Lesser Whitethroat
- Linnet
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Gull
- Little Owl
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Tit
- Magpie
- Mallard
- Marsh Warbler
- Meadow Pipit
- Merlin
- Mistle Thrush
- Montagu's Harrier
- Moorhen
- Moustached Warbler
- Mute Swan
- Nightingale
- Nightjar
- Northern Goshawk
- Northern Lapwing
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Shoveler
- Oriental Honey-buzzard
- Osprey
- Pacific Golden-Plover
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Wagtail
- Pochard
- Purple Heron
- Red Crossbill
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Chough
- Red-breasted Goose
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-flanked Bluetail
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Redshank
- Redwing
- Reed Bunting
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ringed Plover
- Rock Dove
- Rook
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandwich Tern
- Savi's Warbler
- Sedge Warbler
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-toed Lark
- Smew
- Song Thrush
- Sparrowhawk
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Redshank
- Squacco Heron
- Stock Dove
- Sulphur-bellied Warbler
- Temminck's Stint
- Tree Pipit
- Treecreeper
- Tufted Duck
- Tundra Swan
- Twite
- Water Pipit
- Water Rail
- Western Marsh-harrier
- Wheatear
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- White-tailed Sea-eagle
- White-winged Tern
- Whitethroat
- Whooper Swan
- Willow Tit
- Willow Warbler
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodpigeon
- Wryneck
- Yellow Wagtail
- Yellow-browed Warbler
- Yellowhammer
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Kazakhstan?
227 species, each recorded regularly in Kazakhstan (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 26 residents, 80 summer visitors, 33 winter visitors, 83 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Kazakhstan, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Kazakhstan in October?
144 species on our list for Kazakhstan are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Chaffinch, Magpie, Rook, Hooded Crow and Rock Dove.
What are the most common birds in Kazakhstan?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Kazakhstan are Hooded Crow, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Eurasian Tree Sparrow and Rock Dove.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made













