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Kyzylkol, the Glossary

Kyzylkol (Қызылкөл; Кызылколь) is a lake in Sozak District, Turkestan Region, Kazakhstan.^[1]

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Important Bird Areas of Kazakhstan
Turkistan Region

Achnatherum

Achnatherum is a genus of plants which includes several species of needlegrass.

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Alhagi

Alhagi is a genus of Old World plants in the family Fabaceae.

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Almaty

Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of over two million.

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Artemisia (plant)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae, with almost 500 species.

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Brackish water

Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.

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Caragana halodendron

Caragana halodendron is a species of flowering plant in the pea family (Fabaceae).

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Carp

The term carp (carp) is a generic common name for numerous species of freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large clade of ray-finned fish mostly native to Eurasia.

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Common shelduck

The common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) is a waterfowl species of the shelduck genus, Tadorna.

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Endorheic lake

An endorheic lake (also called a sink lake or terminal lake) is a collection of water within an endorheic basin, or sink, with no evident outlet.

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Eurasian teal

The Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), common teal, or Eurasian green-winged teal is a common and widespread duck that breeds in temperate Eurosiberia and migrates south in winter.

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Gadwall

The gadwall (Mareca strepera) is a common and widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.

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Garganey

The garganey (Spatula querquedula) is a small dabbling duck.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.

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Greylag goose

The greylag goose or graylag goose (Anser anser) is a species of large goose in the waterfowl family Anatidae and the type species of the genus Anser.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Karatau Mountains

The Karatau or Qaratau (Қаратау жотасы) is a mountain range located in southern Kazakhstan.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Kumkent

Kumkent (Құмкент) is a village in Sozak District in Turkestan Region of Kazakhstan.

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Lake Akkol

Akkol is a lake in the Talas District, Zhambyl Region, southern Kazakhstan. Kyzylkol and lake Akkol are lakes of Kazakhstan.

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List of lakes of Kazakhstan

Excluding the northernmost districts, Kazakhstan consists of endorheic basins, where rivers flow into one of the numerous lakes. Kyzylkol and List of lakes of Kazakhstan are lakes of Kazakhstan.

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Little ringed plover

The little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius) is a small plover.

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Loess

A loess (from Löss) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.

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Mallard

The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa.

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Northern shoveler

The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck.

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Pale martin

The pale martin or pale sand martin (Riparia diluta) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family.

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Ruddy shelduck

The ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea), known in India as the Brahminy duck, is a member of the family Anatidae.

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Saline water

Saline water (more commonly known as salt water) is water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts (mainly sodium chloride).

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A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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Saltwort

Saltwort is a common name for various genera of flowering plants that thrive in salty environments, typically in coastal salt marshes and seashores, including: The ashes of these plants yield soda ash, which is an important ingredient for glassmaking and soapmaking.

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Sattar snowtrout

Sattar snowtrout (Schizothorax curvifrons) is a species of cyprinid native to the highlands of south-central Asia from Iran to China where it can be found in most types of freshwater habitats.

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Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters.

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Sholakkorgan

Sholakkorgan (Шолаққорған) is a settlement and the administrative center of Sozak District in Turkistan Region of Kazakhstan.

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Sozak District

Sozak (Созақ ауданы, Sozaq audany) is a district of Turkistan Region in southern Kazakhstan. Kyzylkol and Sozak District are Turkistan Region.

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Takir (soil)

Takir (takyr) (такыр, originally from Kazakh or another Turkic language) meaning "smooth, even, or bare", is a type of relief occurring in the deserts of Central Asia, similar to a salt flat in the southwestern United States.

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Tamarix

The genus Tamarix (tamarisk, salt cedar, taray) is composed of about 50–60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.

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Turkistan Region

Turkistan Region, formerly South Kazakhstan Region (translit) (Южно-Казахстанская область) from 1992 to 2018 and Chimkent Region (Чимкентская область.) from 1963 to 1991 is the southernmost region of Kazakhstan.

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Ushbas

The Ushbas (Үшбас) is a river in southern Kazakhstan. Kyzylkol and Ushbas are Turkistan Region.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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Water bird

A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyzylkol

Kyzylkol, the Glossary

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Important Bird Areas of Kazakhstan

Turkistan Region

References