Birds of Kazakhstan

List of Common Birds Found in Kazakhstan

Native Birds

• Arctic Loon
• Barbary Falcon
• Bar-headed Goose
• Barnacle Goose
• Barn Swallow
• Bean Goose
• Bearded Tit
• Bewick’s Swan
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-headed Penduline Tit
• Black Kite
• Black Lark
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black Scoter
• Black Stork
• Black-winged Stilt
• Booted Eagle
• Caspian Tern
• Cattle Egret
• Cinereous Vulture
• Common Buzzard
• Common Chaffinch 
• Common Chiffchaff
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Myna
• Common Pochard
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Shelduck
• Common Sparrowhawk
• Common Teal
• Crested Honey-buzzard
• Crested Lark
• Dalmatian Pelican
• Dark-bellied Brent Goose
• Demoiselle Crane
• Desert Finch
• Eastern Buzzard
• Eastern Imperial Eagle
• Egyptian Vulture
• Eurasian Bittern
• Eurasian Blackbird
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Hobby
• Eurasian Honey-buzzard
• Eurasian Hoopoe
• Eurasian Kestrel
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Spoonbill
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Ferruginous Duck
• Fire-fronted Serin
• Gadwall
• Garganey
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle
• Goosander
• Gray Heron
• Graylag Goose
• Great Cormorant
• Great Crested Grebe
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Scaup
• Greater Spotted Eagle
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Great Gray Owl
• Great Tit
• Great White Egret
• Great White Pelican
• Griffon Vulture
• Harlequin Duck
• Hen Harrier
• Himalayan Snowcock
• Himalayan Vulture
• Hooded Crow
• House Sparrow
• Ibisbill
• Indian Pond Heron
• Lammergeier
• Laughing Dove
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser White-fronted Goose
• Levant Sparrowhawk
• Little Bittern
• Little Egret
• Little Grebe
• Long-legged Buzzard
• Long-tailed Duck
• MacQueen’s Bustard
• Mallard
• Montagu’s Harrier
• Mute Swan
• Northern Goshawk
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Wheatear
• Osprey
• Pallas’s Gull
• Pallas’s Sandgrouse
• Pallas’s Sea-eagle
• Pallid Harrier
• Peregrine Falcon
• Pied Avocet
• Pine Bunting
• Purple Heron
• Pygmy Cormorant
• Red-breasted Goose
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red-headed Bunting
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-throated Loon
• Rock Bunting
• Rough-legged Buzzard
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Saker Falcon
• Saxaul Sparrow
• Shikra
• Short-toed Snake-eagle
• Slavonian Grebe
• Smew
• Squacco Heron
• Steppe Eagle
• Tufted Duck
• Upland Buzzard
• Velvet Scoter
• Western Marsh-harrier
• White-browed Tit-warbler
• White-headed Duck
• White Stork
• White-tailed Sea Eagle
• White Wagtail
• White-winged Lark
• White-winged Scoter
• Whooper Swan
• Yellow-breasted Bunting

Non-native Birds

• Ashy Drongo
• Baikal Teal
• Bonelli’s Eagle
• European Shag
• Herring Gull
• Hooded Crane
• Lesser Flamingo
• Masked Shrike
• Red Knot
• Saunders’s Tern
• Woodchat Shrike
• Yelkouan Shearwater

Kazakhstan’s best birding sites include Almaty Region and Tian Shan Mountains, Tengiz-Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve, and Altyn-Emel National Park. The peak season for birding in Kazakhstan generally falls within the spring and early summer months, specifically from late April to early June.