Population: It was "relatively common" in East Kazakhstan 100 years ago, but has been encountered only twice in the last 15 years. The total number of wintering birds in the world is 54.4 thousand individuals. The proportion of adults is unknown, but it is conditionally assumed that their total number is 36-43 thousand individuals.
Status. A rare and endangered species. Category I. A rare species on the verge of extinction.
Distribution. At the beginning of the twentieth century. It nested on the Ukok plateau near the borders of Kazakhstan, in the delta of the Black Irtysh, along the Irtysh below the lake. Zaisan and 25 km above Semipalatinsk, as well as, apparently, on the lake. Markakol in the Southern Altai. Until the middle of the twentieth century. on migrations and even in winter, it often appeared in the Ili Valley, in the interfluve of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya; the last meeting here was in October 1962. Until 2000, the species was regularly observed on Lake Turanga Bay, but then almost never met. In 2023, three dry-nosed geese were noted here among the thousandth cluster of gray geese.
