Text & Photos © K. Gauger Slender-billed Gulls can be seen regugularly in small numbers Pallas's Gulls are winter visitors along the coast and around the lagre inland lakes Mediterranean Gulls have some small colonies here Dalmatian Pelicans pass in flocks and also spend the winter in the wetlands Arctic Skuas are regular migrants in… Continue reading along the coast
Text & Photos © K. Gauger The breeding birds in Aze are Black-headeds but during migration millions of Yellow Wagtails of different subspecies pass through. Here are some of them... male feldegg, local breeding bird female feldegg, in a resting flock I was very confused, when I saw this bird! It turned out to be… Continue reading Yellow Wagatils
Text © K. Gauger & Photos © H.J. Fünfstück Here are some more photos from our autumn trip. This lark in Kizil Agach looked not like the Lesser Short-toeds which I know from Aze. Comments on subspecies Id are most welcome! Syrian Woodpecker Merlin Black Francolin Goitered Gazelle Little Owl Temminck's Stint Short-eared Owl Finsch's… Continue reading more pics
Text & Photos © K. Gauger From 28.10. to 09.11. I did a trip with some friends from Germany. See what we could find during these two successfull weeks! We arrived in Baku early morning, got our cars at the airport and started immediately to the field. At sunrise we arrived at Besh Barmag, Michas… Continue reading late autumn 2011
Text & Photos © M. Heiß After some more or less boring days, the 7th November was maybe the most impressive observation day during the entire autumn season. After a cold and stormy night the landscape was covered with a thin but complete layer of snow. These bad weather conditions lasted the whole day with… Continue reading First snow
Text & Photos © M. Heiß I am currently in Tbilisi (Georgia) due to some trouble with the prolonging of my visa. I hope to get it as soon as possible to continue the bird counts. The last counting day was quite surprising as obviously a shift in species composition took place and several further… Continue reading Start of Sandgrouse and Bustard migration
Text & Photos © M. Heiß Temperature dropped the last few days and obviously forced some more migrating birds to past through the Besh Barmag bottleneck. Thousands of Sky and Calandra Larks are heading south. The number of migrating finches and buntings increases every day, whereas the number of Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters, White Wagtails and Yellow… Continue reading Autumn migration continuous
Text © M. Heiß Chris Gibbins visted the study site to check the gulls at the Caspian Sea. He has already posted some stunning photographs on his blog! Find his website at: http://chrisgibbins-gullsbirds.blogspot.com/
Text & Photos © M. Heiß Currently, I am conducting a bird migration study in Azerbaijan. The study site is situated between Greater Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. Both are migration barriers and large amounts of migrants are funnelled through a narrow coastal plain. This area offers the great opportunity to study migrants at the… Continue reading bird migration
Text & Photos © K. Gauger My second trip this spring started on 23.05. with a dof travel group. A detailed trip report will be available soon, so I wont write much here. Again we started south and had still lots of migrating passerines in the first days, including two singing Blyth's Reed Warblers! One… Continue reading dof travel
Birding Azerbaijan 