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the KoKshetau national parK
The vertebrate fauna of the park is represented by 283 species
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The
Kokshetau National Natural Park was set up in
1996. The area of 1.34,511 hectares, it is located in
Zerenda district of
Akmola province and Aiyrtau district of
North Kazakhstan province. The territory of the
National park is covered with low mountain ranges of Kokshetau
Upland in the north-western part of the
Kazakh Hummocks. The highest
point of the Zerenda
Mountains is 588 m, of the Imantau Mountains - 661 m, of the Aiyrtau Mountains - 523 m and the Sarymbet
Mountain group -
409 m above sea level.
The territory of the park and the adjusting area is full of many beautiful lakes - Zerenda, Imantau, Shaikar etc.
Major rivers here are the Tersbutak, Chaglinka, Zhabai, Babykburluk.
Multiple temporary streams run down the slopes of the mountains, in lowlands there are springs and swamps.
The main tree species is the pine occupying the bottom, slopes and peaks of low hills and ridges, plains and hollows between hills. Other trees are the birch (warty and downy) and aspen that mix with the pine. One can find here bushes such as juniper, cotoneaster, rose, hawthorn, willow, raspberries, currant. The flora consists of many northern relic plants - ferns, wintergreen,
Linnaeus northern, squirrel ear,
European start- flower and others. The ladies’-slipper, sundew rotundifolia wintergreen and orchids Fuchs are included in the
Red Book of Kazakhstan.
The ungulates living here are
Siberian deer, elk, wild boar. In
1983, imported were Askanian deer, which have well acclimatized.
Predators inhabiting this nature reserve are wolves, foxes, dog-foxes, badgers, weasels, steppe polecats, martens, minks, lynxes. In recent years, the raccoon dog has migrated here from the northern regions
. In the forest, common is the blue hare, in forest edges - brown hares.
Birds typical for this region are small woodpeckers, thrushes, redwing, tree pipit, chaffinch, cuckoo, oriole, grouse, doves, buntings, warblers, chickadees, warblers. At lakes common are ducks, geese, swans, grebes and on their shores - herons, waders, wagtails. Of red-listed species one can see here the eagle, imperial eagle, owl, gray crane. Reptiles are represented by the lizard, patterned snake, plain and steppe viper, water snake; amphibians by green toad, grass and moor frog; fishes by carp, pike, perch, roach, ide, tench, burbot.
The invertebrate fauna of animals (insects, spiders, mites, molluscs, worms, etc.) is not properly studied yet. It is known that the steppe is inhabited by about
1000 species of beetles,
220 integer bedbugs, 70 species of Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, locusts, etc.), 64 species of spiders.
The Red Book species are the black-winged dragonfly, saga steppe and onconotus servillei (grasshoppers), skoliid wasp and cochineals
Polish (the source of a natural dye – carmine).
The national park has 13 natural monuments of national value: the
Green Cape, Smolnaya hill, Strekach hill, the Malinovyi cape, Porharnaya hill.
Two Brothers hill, Ostraya hill, a waterfall with a cave, Raskolotaya hill,
Cossack Island of
Lake Imantau, Obozreniye hill, Kotelok hill,
Relic rock array.
- published: 18 May 2015
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