Text & Photos © Michael Heiß I was happy to guide a birding group through Azerbaijan from 28 May to 9 June 2018. The trip was offered by Batumi Birding in cooperation and with Olivetravel.co and Natig Travel Nakhchivan, which took over the local organisation and made all the necessary arrangements for the group like… Continue reading Batumi Birding ‘Undiscovered Azerbaijan’ 28 May to 9 June 2018
Text by Kai Gauger, photos by Lars Delling, Moritz Schulze, Christian Baarlink, Martin Fichtler and Kai Gauger From May 20th to 28th Kai Gauger led a trip along the birding hotspots in eastern Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan. The guests were from Germany, Austria, Denmark and Great Britain and the ground logistics were (as always) perfectly arranged… Continue reading spring birding tour 20.-28.05.2018
Text & Photos © Max Baumgarten I continued my breeding bird survey in western Azerbaijan and May started superb with the discovery of an Armenian Gull colony. Although supposed for some years this was the first breeding record for the country and it might even be one of the largest colonies of this species in… Continue reading News from Max and the breeding birds
Text & Photos © Max Baumgarten My name is Max and I study Biodiversity and Ecology (M.Sc.) at Greifswald University (Germany). I am currently conducting the field work in Azerbaijan for my master thesis with the title 'The breeding bird communities of the western parts of Azerbaijan and their response to human alteration'. In the… Continue reading Breeding bird survey in western Azerbaijan
Just recently a dataset of 30.000+ bird records from Azerbaijan has been uploaded to eBird and is now ready for getting explored! This online database provides an easy opportunity to prepare birding trips and find out what to expect. Nevertheless, there are still ornithological gaps of knowledge, so if you intend to visit Azerbaijan it… Continue reading Azerbaijan in eBird
Text © Michael Heiß Thanks to Gerard Troost and trektellen.nl the data of a nocturnal bird migration study from Besh Barmag bottleneck is now online available: http://trektellen.nl/count/view/2030/20110803 Displayed are the number of calls per species for each night, where 'night' is defined as timespan from sunset to sunrise. The temporal calling activity can be obtained… Continue reading Nocturnal bird migration data of Besh Barmag bottleneck
Text © Pia FettingPhoto © Michael Heiß Whilst studying bird migration at Besh Barmag bottleneck in Azerbaijan last autumn, some of the counters had the idea to network with other bottlenecks and support other initiatives. Thus, they will travel to Eilat in Israel this March to participate at 'Champions of the Flyway'. This event atone… Continue reading Champions of the Flyway 2018
Shirvan National Park Easily accessible along the Baku-Astara highway 120 km south of Baku, Shirvan National Park is one of Azerbaijan’s top all-round nature sites and is best known as the home of the iconic goitered gazelle. The gazelle is an absolute Azerbaijan success story, since their numbers had dropped to just a few hundred… Continue reading Day trip – Shirvan-Gobustan
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