White Stork Status: IV category, Endangered, EN: R. One of the 2 species of the genus found in Kyrgyzstan. The subspecies inhabiting the region is Ciconia ciconia asiatica Severtzov, 1873.
Black Stork Status: VI category, Near Threatened, NT: R. One of two species of the genus in the avifauna of the Kyrgyz Republic. Monotypic species.
Common Flamingo Status: VI category, Nearly Threatened, NT: R. The only species of the flamingo family in Kyrgyzstan.
Black-throated Loon Status: Category III, Critically Endangered, CR: R. Close to extinction in the territory of Kyrgyzstan. The nominal subspecies is found. The bird is the size of a domestic duck.
Savka Status: IV category, Endangered, EN, 2bcde. Monotypic species.
Red-breasted Merganser Status: Category VII, Least Concern, LC. Monotypic species.
Ferruginous Duck Status: VI category, Near Threatened, NT. Monotypic species. One of four species of the genus in the avifauna of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Whooper Swan Status: Category VII, Least Concern, LC. Rare breeding species. One of seven species of the genus in the global fauna and one of three in the fauna of Kyrgyzstan. Monotypic species.
Bar-headed Goose Status: Category VI, Near Threatened: R. A representative of the Tibetan species complex. A monotypic species.
Black Grouse Status: Category VI, Near Threatened: R. The subspecies L. t. mongolicus (Lonnberg, 1904) inhabits the Tian Shan mountains.
Kyrgyz hunters distinguished 13 species of birds of prey — the gyrfalcon: baybaktuu shunkar — gyrfalcon with noticeable hairs on its legs, kuiko shunkar (this is a very valuable bird — in ancient times, the winner of a competition was gifted 9 birds of prey, and this nine was led by the kuiko shunkar), kazy shunkar — true gyrfalcon, kara shunkar — gyrfalcon with black plumage (very difficult to train), taza shunkar — pure gyrfalcon without admixture, moynoktyu shunkar — gyrfalcon with a light
More than twenty years have passed since the publication of the last edition of the Red Book of the Kyrgyz SSR. It included 20 species from 16 genera of the class Aves. Even then, scientists from our country referred to international experience in nature conservation through the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources – IUCN. However, this did not go beyond references to this experience in the preface. At the same time, any wildlife conservation strategy,