Wildlife of Kazakhstan
Wildlife of Kazakhstan includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats.
Fauna
Animals native to Kazakhstan:
- Argali
- Bactrian camel
- Barbel
- Beluga sturgeon
- Brown bear
- Caracal
- Caspian seal
- Caspian Sea wolf
- Central Asian red deer
- Channidae
- Cheetah
- Common spoonbill
- Dogs
- Dhole
- Eurasian lynx
- Goitered gazelle
- Golden eagle
- Gray wolf
- Great bustard
- Great gerbil
- Greater flamingo
- Hemorrhois ravergieri
- Jerboa
- Onager
- Pallas' cat
- Parnassius delphius
- Phrynocephalus reticulatus
- Russian desman
- Russian tortoise
- Saiga antelope
- Sand cat
- Snow leopard
- Squacco heron
- Steppe eagle
- Sterlet
- Trapelus agilis
- Urial
- Varanus griseus
- White stork
Birds
Main article: List of birds of Kazakhstan
The avifauna of Kazakhstan includes a total of 513 species, of which 5 are rare or accidental
Flora
The diversity of a flora of Kazakhstan considerably varies both by structure and number of various systematic taxones of plants, and by geography, in particular, by nature-climatic zones and high-altitude belts. In Kazakhstan there are more than 6,000 species of highest vascular plants, about 5,000 species of mushrooms, 485 species of lichen, and more than 2,000 species of seaweed.
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