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Birding Azerbaijan: April 2012
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Mittwoch, 18. April 2012. The last two weeks. Several bird species that are new for the spring counts had arrived. Some of them are new for the whole migration study, such as White-headed Duck. Green Warbler, Spotted Crake, Greater Sand Plover, White-tailed Lapwing, Caspian Plover. Or Lammergeier. A true highlight was a White-headed Yellow Wagtail. With all intergrades you can imagine. A flock of Citrine Wagtails.
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Birding Azerbaijan: März 2015
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Donnerstag, 26. März 2015. Winter trip 2015. Greater Caucasus. K Gauger and M. Heiß. After the awful dump at Besh Barmag we drove via Quba into the Greater Caucasus in order to see a much nicer landscape. Our plan was to reach Xinaliq regardless the possible snow cover or expected cold temperatures high up in the mountains. Nobody of us has ever been there in winter, so we were pretty excited. The next morning sta...
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Birding Azerbaijan: November 2014
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Dienstag, 18. November 2014. 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! See the complete numbers at trektellen:. Http:/ www.trektellen.nl/totalen.asp? Birdwatching in Azerbaijan - a guide to nature and landscape. Güldenstadt's Redstart at Qizil Gaya, by Kai Gauger. Working in Azerbaij...
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Birding Azerbaijan: Winter trip 2015. Besh Barmag: Gulls, gulls, gulls...
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Freitag, 13. März 2015. Winter trip 2015. Besh Barmag: Gulls, gulls, gulls. K Gauger and M. Heiß. After a night in Q. Ə we continued the way back to the coast. Unfortunately, the weather along the mountains was all but good with low clouds, rain and no visibility. Gulls and morning light on the snow-covered caucasus © Steve Klasan. Our camping site at Besh Barmag ©. The delta of the main wastewater outflow. We wer...
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Birding Azerbaijan: Dezember 2011
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Freitag, 9. Dezember 2011. K Gauger and Photos. 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! Jochen shooting the Serins. Lots of snow in the caucasus foothills. And again more Little Bustards. Andre in the mud. Me and the Shashlik! Güldenstadt's Redstart at Qizil Gaya, by Kai Gauger.
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Birding Azerbaijan: November 2012
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Freitag, 2. November 2012. New bird species for Azerbaijan? Text and Photos © M. Heiß. In field, it is distinguishable by its brownish underparts and softer calls, which support a soon split. Perktaş, U. and Quintero, E. (2012), A wide geographical survey of mitochondrial DNA variation in the great spotted woodpecker complex,. Note the brownish underparts. Güldenstadt's Redstart at Qizil Gaya, by Kai Gauger. Worki...
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Birding Azerbaijan: April 2014
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Montag, 7. April 2014. Article published about bird migration at Besh Barmag. Text and 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. Sometimes White Pelicans can be found among them.
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Birding Azerbaijan: Winter trip 2015. Greater Caucasus.
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Donnerstag, 26. März 2015. Winter trip 2015. Greater Caucasus. K Gauger and M. Heiß. After the awful dump at Besh Barmag we drove via Quba into the Greater Caucasus in order to see a much nicer landscape. Our plan was to reach Xinaliq regardless the possible snow cover or expected cold temperatures high up in the mountains. Nobody of us has ever been there in winter, so we were pretty excited. The next morning sta...
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Birding Azerbaijan: Mai 2012
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Birdwatching news and bird photography from Transcaucasia - by Kai Gauger and Michael Heiß. Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012. Text and Photos ©. 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 beach the next day for more birds, when I found eight (! Dead along the shore. A Hobby on the bea...