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
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 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
Text & Photos © K. Gauger It took a year until I was down in Aze again but I had a great month with two groups from Germany and Denmark. Although we didn't see any vagrants, the trips were quite interesting with great observations and nearly all possible species! Here are some note and pics… Continue reading birdingtours May 2011
Text © K. Gauger This year in May/June 2010 we did trips with two groups from Germany. With rented Landcruisers we did the 'classic' routes including the Greater Caucasus, the eastern lowland, the coast and the Talysh Mountains. Starting in Baku on May 20th we went north along the coast with a stop on Cape… Continue reading trip report from spring 2010
Text © M. Heiß From 22nd February to 6th March 2010, we organised a field trip to Azerbaijan. Two friends from Germany joined the expedition. The wintertime is maybe not the best time to visit the country, but it offers great opportunities to see rare wintering species like larks and buntings from western Asia, impressive… Continue reading winter trip 2010
Birding Azerbaijan 