Facts
Kazakhstan, land of the Qazaqs, is situated between the Caspian Sea and the borders of western China. Positioned on the great Silk Route, it has an immense diversity of habitats ranging from large canyons to sand deserts, steppe to Spruce forests. The country has an area of 2,717,300sq km of which 47,500sq km is water. At its lowest point, Vpadina Kaundy, it is 132m below sea level; its highest point, Khan Tangiri Shyngy (Pik Khan-Tengri), is 6,995m above sea level.
Kazakhstan has 55 species of bird that are mentioned in The Red Data Book of Kazakhstan. V1. Animals. Part 1 Vertebrates (1996), Almaty, 327p. Species that appear in the book are given a number which represents the status of the species in the country.
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Category 1 Vanishing species (species or subspecies under threat of extinction, including species that are possibly already extinct, since there has been no information on them for several years - no more than 50 individuals).
Category 2 Declining species (species whose population is relatively large, but decreasing with disastrous speed, which may place these species in the vanishing category in the near future).
Category 3 Rare species (species that are no longer threatened with extinction, but that encountered in such small numbers or in such limited areas that they could easily vanish if there were an unfavorable change in there habitat due to natural or anthropogenic factors).
Category 4 Uncertain species (species whose way of life has not been studied sufficiently and whose number and population status are alarming, but a lack of data prevents their assignment to one of the previous categories)
Category 5
Restored species (species whose status, thanks to conservation measures, no longer raises concern, but which may not be taken commercially and over whose populations a permanent watch is needed).
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Species that are cited in The Red Data Book of Kazakhstan are:
- White Pelican - 1
- Dalmatian Pelican - 2
- Squacco Heron - 2
- Little Egret - 3
- Eurasian Spoonbill - 2
- Glossy Ibis - 2
- White Stork - 1 (ssp. asiatica)
- Black Stork - 3
- Greater Flamingo - 2
- Red-breasted Goose - 2
- Swan Goose - 1
- Whooper Swan - 2
- Bewick's Swan - 5
- Marbled Duck - 1
- Ferruginous Duck - 3
- Velvet Scoter - 3
- White-headed Duck - 1
- Osprey - 1
- Short-toed Snake-eagle - 2
- Booted Eagle - 3
- Steppe Eagle - 5
- Eastern Imperial Eagle - 3
- Golden Eagle - 3
- Pallas's Sea-eagle - 1
- White-tailed Eagle - 2
- Lammergeier - 3
- Egyptian Vulture - 3
- Himalayan Griffon-vulture - 4
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- Gyrfalcon - 3
- Saker Falcon - 1
- Barbary Falcon - 1
- Peregrine Falcon - 1
- Altai Snowcock - 2
- Siberian Crane - 1
- Common Crane - 3
- Demoiselle Crane - 5
- Purple Swamphen - 2
- Great Bustard - 1
- Little Bustard - 2
- McQueen's Bustard - 2
- Sociable Lapwing - 1
- Ibisbill - 3
- Little Curlew - 3
- Slender-billed Curlew - 1
- Asiatic Dowitcher - 4
- Great Black-headed Gull - 2
- Relict Gull - 1
- Black-bellied Sandgrouse - 3
- Pin-tailed Sandgrouse - 3
- Pallas's Sandgrouse - 4
- Eversmann's Dove 3
- Eurasian Eagle Owl - 2
- Pander's Ground-Jay - 3 (ssp. ilensis)
- Blue-whistling Thrush - 5
- Great Rosefinch - 4
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