Number: Normal type. The size of the global and Kazakh populations has not been quantified. The European population is estimated at 5.3–15.5 thousand pairs, which corresponds to 10.5–31.1 thousand mature individuals, but Europe accounts for less than 5% of the global range.
Status. A species that is not used for economic purposes, but has ecological, cultural and other value.
Distribution. In Kazakhstan, it breeds in the southern half north to the settlements of Novaya Kazanka, Raygorodok and the Gray tract on Will, the Northern Aral Sea near Akespe station, Betpak-Dalys at Chulak-Espe and the mouth of the Ile. About 3-4 pairs nested on the western shore of Alakol in 1993. Flights near Orenburg, to Naurzum (2002), to the lower reaches of Turgai (1975) and to Korgalzhyn (1970) are known.
