Text © Pia Fetting This blogpost covers the time between the 4th and 16th of September before the BirdCamp at Besh Barmag started. During these days Chris and I were in Azerbaijan, later joined by Micha. We mainly did migration counts (the numbers are available on trektellen: http://trektellen.org/maps/index/0/1533) at Besh Barmag and went to some… Continue reading Summary of the days before the bird camp 2016
Text & Photos © M. Heiß The rush of nature and bird friends from the Bird Camp Besh Barmag ebbed away and after the wonderful dinner in Baku Pia and I drove back to the bottleneck area. We counted together for the next 1,5 days and after she left to do migration counts in Batumi… Continue reading Last days at Besh Barmag in autumn 2016
New bird counting data from Besh Barmag available on Trektellen. http://www.trektellen.nl/count/view/1533/20160911
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 & Photos © M. Heiß The results of a recently published article propose to differentiate four species within the greater spotted woodpecker complex. One of them is Dendrocopos (major) poelzami that occurs in northern Iran and the adjacent Talysh Mountains in Azerbaijan. The latter is the only place within the Western Palearctic where it… Continue reading New bird species for Azerbaijan?
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
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