The present web page is a complete systematic check-list of the vertebrates which live actually in Kyrgyzstan. Wildlife KG pursue 5 basic aims:

• Information about the animals of Kyrgyzstan for all enthusiasts, especially for schools, universities and local authorities in the country, because there are not up to now enough comparable sources of information.

• Pictures and texts should support the determination of animal species, because there are no field guides available for Kyrgyzstan.

• Establishment of a forum for information exchanges and with it of a bigger circle of enthusiasts & engaged for nature conservation in Kyrgyzstan.

• To give everyone the possibility to publish own photos and observations for the interested public and herewith the support of a data bank establishment.

• Establishment of a data bank as a basis for designing distribution maps and analysis of population sizes. Every support, assistance and advice is welcome for this !

Thorsten Harder, Kyrgyzstan & Askar Isabekov

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles

Amphibians

Fishes

Because every check list can be never entire, it is open for every kind of sound information and looking for the support of other enthusiasts. New or complementary observations will be evaluated and after this immediately trained in the check-list. Observations will be published by naming of the author under “news” according to it's news value. Qualitatively good photos are put on the “specie-page”. Further details you'll find under "User Info".

Please understand if it comes to delays with the publication. Any information send please via "Contact". For the protection from Spam & viruses we would not like to publish our addresses on this page.

The web page "wildlife.kg" gives an overview about the actual vertebrate fauna of Kyrgyzstan – state April, 2010. Basis of the present systematic check-list are more than ten-years field work as well as intensive search of the available literature. The animals are filed according to their systematic allocation in the classes (pages). While clicking in the upper column , a systematic list of all Kyrgyz animals, belongs to the group, appears together with small photos on the right side. Every photo is standing for a "specie page" to which you come by clicking the name or the photo. On the "specie page" you'll find additional information about biology & distribution in KG as well as more & better photos, where we have.
A complete overview of all existing "specie pages" you get in the column "Photo gallery". If you does not know the affiliation of a specie to a group, you can find the specie via "Search".
At the moment we have designed "specie pages" only where we dispose of own photos from Kyrgyzstan. In spite of a great worldwide picture offer we come along to the principle to use almost excluding photo which have been taken within Kyrgyzstan. An important reason for this is, for example, that many migration birds never to be seen in her breeding dress in Kyrgyzstan and would be never recognized, therefore, by interested laymen. Many animal species incline to local variations which we want to consider herewith.

Our web page can be used by all enthusiasts with pleasure as a source of information. The texts and pictures are available particularly for teachers and students. By using pictures for scientific publications / master works / dissertations we ask for previous written approval and a suitable reference :


Wildlife.kg is cited as :

Harder, Thorsten & author's group
World Wide Web electronic publication
www.wildlife.kg, version (5/2010).

This web page is an advancement of the idea-giving side of Askar Isabekov, www.birds.kz. We thank Askar for the possibility to use his idea & technology, creative assistance during the arrangement of our side and to use his photos and texts where we still have none. The check-list itself originated in long-years field work of engaged and friends of NABU Kyrgyzstan, above all Dr. Valentina Toropova, Sergei Kulagin, Dr. Valery Eremchenko, Dr. Lydia Kustarova, Stephan Flechtner, Victoria Eremchenko, Jürgen Steudtner, Thomas Heinicke, Cetkasy Sagynbaev u.v.a. A part of the field work and literature searches was financed by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union of Germany (NABU e.V.).

Thorsten Harder, Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek, 1.May 2010
Wildlife Kyrgyzstan