In the beginning of November the famous travel writer and book author Mark Elliott visited the Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count. His impressions are summarised in an article by the The Caspian Post: https://caspianpost.com/en/post/news/caspian-region/birding-hotspot-besh-barmaq/ Enjoy reading!
Photos © Elvin Məmmədsoy, Zülfü Fərəcli, Leyla Muslim, Pia Fetting In the last week the counters at Besh Barmag bottleneck were surprised by some warm and sunny days. Unfortunately, this resulted in pretty slow migration with only a few birds on passage. But at least some delightful highlights were presented to the team like a… Continue reading Slow bird migration at Besh, but a European Serin and a Red-rumped Swallow!
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Photos © Elvin Məmmədsoy In the afternoon of 1 October 2022 some team members of the Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count headed north to search for a satellite-tagged Sociable Lapwing from Kazakhstan. A tagged bird was reported by the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK) very close to their counting station. After some… Continue reading Tagged Sociable Lapwing found near Shabran
Photo © Philip Elbek To cite Gabi Caucal, our count coordinator: 'When there is nothing, there is something!' Overall, a pretty slow day at Besh Barmag with strong southerly winds and a lot of dust and sand in the eyes and binoculars of the counters, but a quick birding walk in the nearby shrubland produced… Continue reading Second Black-throated Trush for the Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count
The latest Sandgrouse issue contains an article about the occurrence of Caspian and Black-headed Penduline Tits in Azerbaijan by Michael Heiß and Christoph Himmel: https://osme.org/sandgrouse/sandgrouse-44-1/ Titel: Recent status of Caspian Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus caspius and Black-headed Penduline Tit Remiz (pendulinus) macronyx in Azerbaijan. Summary: Caspian Penduline Tit and Black-headed Penduline Tit are known from the literature to occur… Continue reading New insights into the occurrence of Penduline Tits in Azerbaijan published
Check out another podcast about birdwatching tourism in Azerbaijan by Elizabeth Linder and Kai Gauger! https://podcast.azerbaijan.travel/episodes/the-art-of-bird-tourism-in-azerbaijan
Zülfü Fərəcli gives a talk to the Əkinçi project (https://akinchi.org/) about birdwatching and bird conservation in Azerbaijan. Non-native viewers might use the English subtitle. https://youtu.be/7sHU7-3YGbQ
Photos © Zülfü Fərəcli On 6 September 2021 Zülfü Fərəcli found Azerbaijan's second Black-winged Kite at Besh Barmag. Congratulations! https://youtu.be/UHnCqy1lYU8
Text & Photos © Pia Fetting The first records of Little Bunting for Azerbaijan were recently published in the Sandgrouse magazine of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East: Fetting P & Buddemeier J (2021) First records of Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla for Azerbaijan. Sandgrouse 43(1): 146-150. https://osme.org/sandgrouse/ Summary: During a comprehensive survey of migratory birds at… Continue reading First records of Little Bunting published in Sandgrouse
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