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)
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
Hans, Fred and Simon Olk from the Netherlands have been in Azerbaijan and did great migration birding at Besh Barmag. Within less than a month they counted 1.3 million birds! Unfortunately they had to leave too early for the huge winter influx of Little Bustards and many others, but anyway they saw a lot. Amoung… Continue reading WOW!!!
Text & Photos © M. Heiß The analysis of the bird migration study from autumn 2011 and spring 2012 at Besh Barmag is still going on and produced the first article: "The Importance of Besh Barmag Bottleneck (Azerbaijan) for Eurasian Migrant Birds" Acta Ornithologica 48(2):151-164. 2013. The bottleneck is important for several species occuring in… Continue reading Article published about bird migration at Besh Barmag
Text © Tomas Axén Haraldsson, Sweden In April 2012 me and three friends travelled in Azerbaijan for a week of birding adventure. The main source of inspiration, knowledge and help in planning was Kai Gauger and to him we owe the success of our trip. One purpose of that trip was to scout and… Continue reading Swedish Birders visited Azerbaijan in autumn 2013
Text & Photos © M. Heiß In April, a group of Swedish birdwatchers visited my counting spot at Besh Barmag during their trip through Azerbaijan. Please find their excellent trip report on Swedish Club 300 or netfugl.dk. Birdwatching tourists - a rare sight, but with increasing annual numbers.
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