Text © Pia Fetting Little Bunting (juvenile) © Pia Fetting In the first half of October rain and a low cloud cover brought some real ornithological goodies to the study site! An Oriental Skylark was heard in the fields on 7th of October and luckily sound recorded the day after: http://www.xeno-canto.org/389517 The second Yellow-browed Warbler… Continue reading The first Little Buntings for Azerbaijan and other nice eastern species at Besh Barmag
Text & Photos © Pia Fetting Volunteer Esther releasing a Wryneck After some stormy and colder days in the beginning of September, temperatures rose again and it was once more like midsummer; still very hot (30+°C) and very dry. After more than three month without rain in this region, all ponds and lagoons were empty.… Continue reading September at Besh Barmag – Much heat, less birds
Text & Photos © Christoph Himmel Mixed flock of Kentish-, Ringed Plovers, Collared Pratincole and Little Stints Now my time in Azerbaijan comes to an end and I prepare to go back to Germany. Besides my counts during the last weeks, I also examined some specimens at the Zoological Museum of the Institute of Zoology… Continue reading Finish of the wader study at Gyzylagach
Text & Photos © Pia Fetting Mist-nets at sunrise Arriving in Azerbaijan in the middle of August, the first days were used for organisational issues and meetings. I finally started bird ringing on the 20th of August. This month is rather hot with temperatures of more than 30°C during daytime and never below 20°C at… Continue reading First two weeks of bird ringing at Besh Barmag
Text & Photos © Christoph Himmel This is the second blog post about my wader project in Azerbaijan and after nearly two months of fieldwork, I have to say I’m quite overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of waders, especially in Gyzylagach State Reserve. After my friends Stella and Sönke had left some weeks ago, I… Continue reading Pacific Golden Plover and more
Text & Photo © Christoph Himmel During my wader counts at Lake Machmudchala I discovered two interesting Penduline Tits, which somehow look like Black-headed Penduline Tits (Remiz macronyx) or at least like hybrids. Both had blackish heads with a various amount of grey feathers in the nape. Unfortunately, the plumage was heavily worn. One bird… Continue reading Black-headed Penduline Tits?
Text & Photo © Christoph Himmel Greater Sandplover at Neftcala beach This blog post will introduce you to a research project about waders in the area of Gyzylagach (southeastern Azerbaijan). It gives you brief insights into the fieldwork and informs about nice sightings and numbers of waders. The aim of this project is to update… Continue reading First impressions of a wader study at the Caspian coast
Bird Camp participants and crew © Emin Mammedov/Nature Friends Find the trip report of the Bird Camp Besh Barmag: here!
This documentary shows the activities of the latest bird migration camp at Besh Barmag bottleneck in April 2017 and was kindly produced by an excellent team of: http://www.whattookyousolong.org/ https://youtu.be/zZf6-mPuXDs
© Emil Lundahl & Pia Fetting The Besh Barmag bottleneck near Siyezen (coordinates: 40°59'N, 49°13'E) has recently been identified as a major flyway, where high concentrations of migrating birds are funneled through a narrow coastal plain between the Greater Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. The existence of a bottleneck was proven in extensive field studies… Continue reading Volunteers needed: Bird ringing at Besh Barmag
Birding Azerbaijan 