Text & Photos © K. Gauger Again I did my every year's spring trip and it turned out to be one of the best ever! Manly because of my visit to Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) with Mario Camici and others. But more of that later... Already the time in mainland Azerbaijan was great with 215… Continue reading May trip with Nakhchivan
Text & Photos © M. Heiß The numbers of migrating birds decrease day by day and the end of the spring count is near. Seawatching produced a good day of migrating Arctic Skuas together with Common Terns. Two exhausted Arctic Skuas rested along the beach. One of them was already dying, so I checked the… Continue reading Skuas and Raptors
Text & Photos © M. Heiß Birdwatching in May is probably the most comfortable time with warm temperatures between 20-25°C, sunny weather and many birds and great song activity. Calandra Larks and Isabelline Weathears are singing in the steppes, whereas Nightingales, Cuckoos and Turtle Doves are singing in the bushes. Along the lagoon small breeding… Continue reading Photographs of the last days
Text & Photos © M. Heiß Seawatching became more and more boring the last weeks with only a few migrating terns and waders, but last week I was surprised by an immature Glaucous Gull. The gull had whitish wings and tail and was much larger than the Caspian Gulls and despite the large observation distance… Continue reading Glaucous Gull and some more
Text & Photos © M. Heiß The last two weeks several bird species that are new for the spring counts had arrived. Some of them are new for the whole migration study, such as White-headed Duck, Green Warbler, Spotted Crake, Greater Sand Plover, White-tailed Lapwing, Caspian Plover or Lammergeier. A true highlight was a White-headed… Continue reading New species arrived
Text & Photos © M. Heiß Daily we observe new species, which arrived from the wintering grounds and pass through the Besh Barmag bottleneck. The last days arrived Black Redstart, Blackcap, Glossy Ibis, Whimbrel, Steppe Eagle, Wryneck, Montagues Harrier and many more. The number of migrating larks is now decreasing, whereas swallows are increasing. The… Continue reading Rare birds, mist netting and students from Baku
Text & Photos © M. Heiß The wintertime is obviously over and bird migration increase day by day. Currently, we observe good numbers of migrating passerines with daily hundreds of Reed Buntings, Chaffinches and White Wagtails, the first Yellow and Citrine Wagtails also arrived. Daily, thousands of larks pass through the Besh Barmag bottleneck, mainly… Continue reading Spring migration
Text & Photos © M. Heiß I am now back for the spring migration counts in Azerbaijan and I am now accompanied by Friedrich, a student from Germany who is doing research on resting passerines in bushes at the study site. These bushes are a welcome stopover for migrants and sometimes impressively crowed. After some… Continue reading Start of spring migration counts
Text & Photos © K. Gauger Here are some pics of trapped bird. I have been mist-netting at many places, but mainly in Shirvan NP and at Besh Barmag. beautiful Blue-cheeked Bea-eaters caught cross a channel in Shirvan NP Kingfisher, another colourful bird a samamisicus- Common Redstart, note that this bird has even red in… Continue reading nice catches
Text & Photos © K. Gauger It will take some time until my next trip to Aze. Meanwhile some older pics here... Eastern Black-eared Wheatear juv Pied Wheatear, or a hybrid with Black-eared? Rollers are common in agricultural land and the lower mountains despite intensive hunting Chukars occur widespread in the semi desert mountains Tawny… Continue reading breeding birds of the foothills
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