Text © Tomas Axén Haraldsson Photos © Andreas Sandberg Four Swedish birders visited Azerbaijan 17-24 April 2016, focusing on the migration at Besh Barmag and two days in the Greater Caucasus. I helped them with planning, species and contacts. Their trip was overall successful but with some small troubles with rangers in Laza (not the… Continue reading Trip summary 16-24 April 2016
A post by Tomas Axén Haraldsson on the OSME website. Enjoy reading! http://osme.org/content/azerbaijan-interlude-young-naturalists
A very detailed and excellent report of the bird migration count at Besh Barmag in October 2015 is now online available: Azerbaijan 25-30 October 2015 Enjoy reading!
Text © Tomas Axén Haraldsson Photos © Emil Lundahl . A Swedish birding group monitored the spectacular migration at Besh Barmag for a few days during the week 25-30 October. The group was from the youth committee of Swedish BirdLife on an initiative and leadership by me. We also met up with a local NGO,… Continue reading Autumn migration at Besh Barmag
Interesting article about the vocalisation of wintering Chiffchaffs in Azerbaijan by Lukas Pelikan. http://sternaberttrips.blogspot.de/2015/10/vokalisation-zilpzalp.html (in German with English summary)
Just click on the link to his pbase gallery and enjoy! http://www.pbase.com/david_monticelli/bird_trip_to_azerbaijan&page=all Caucasian Snowcock © David Monticelli Güldenstädt's Redstart © David Monticelli Shikra © David Monticelli
Have a look at Josh's stunnning photographs of Azerbaijan's birdlife including Nakhchivan! https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrmjones/sets/72157653695948552 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater © Josh Jones Terek Sandpipers © Josh Jones Grey-necked Bunting © Josh Jones
Enjoy the impressive wildlife videos from Igor Byshnev! Insights into a colony of herons at Ag Gel National Park! Colourful Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters! Displaying Caucasian Snowcocks! Thousands of Little Bustards! Rollers in the Shirvan National Park! A common Raven hunting for Red-beasted Goose and Little Bustards! https://youtu.be/aHU0CBFICPQ
Text © K. Gauger & M. Heiß Arriving at Baku Airport in the early morning of 16th January we immediately received our cars, which have been organised by our tour operator Kaspian Tur. For the ten participants of the trip we rented three 4WD cars. After a brief instruction we had a nice night drive… Continue reading Winter trip 2015. First days: Gobustan and Shirvan National Park
Text © Hans Olk, Fred Olk & Simon Olk Photos © Fred Olk & Simon Olk From the 10th of October till the 7th of November 2014 we visited Azerbaijan with the primary goal to study bird migration at the Besh Barmag bottle-neck. We are three birders from the Netherlands, at home we carry out… Continue reading 30 days bird migration at Besh Barmag
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