Cyprus Bird Camp, October 2023
Guest blog by Lara Winsloe In 2022 I volunteered at the Marine Turtle Conservation Project in Northern Cyprus which is run by the local marine conservation NGO SPOT Marine Life. During my field work with nesting sea...
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Intercontinental collaboration secures a migratory bird population
Guest blog by Steffen Oppel Ten years ago, the Egyptian Vulture population in Eastern Europe was in freefall because too many birds were killed by human activities wherever they went along their migratory journeys. By expanding conservation...
The autumn migration of raptors in Iran: an educational opportunity and commemorating Michele Panuccio.
Guest blog by Abraham Shokouhi Bird migration is a remarkable ecological occurrence, and within the realm of birds, raptor migration stands out as a truly magnificent phenomenon. Witnessing the grandeur of an Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagles, or...
FLY WITH US TO THE EYMİR ORNITHOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER
Guest blog by Bahar Öksüzer Sevgili okuyucular, Herkese merhaba ben Bahar Öksüzer, Ankara Üniversitesi Biyoloji bölümünde eğitim macerama devam etmekteyim. Sizlere kendim ve diğer tüm gönüllü arkadaşlarım adına Eymir Halkalama İstasyonu’ndan yazıyorum. Hep beraber Eymir Ornitoloji Araştırma...
A glimpse into the Batumi Raptor Count of 2023
Guest blog by Fernando Gros and Eva Drukker Every autumn the skies above Batumi, Georgia open up to a spectacular phenomenon, where in a mere two-and-a-half months millions of raptors fly through this bottleneck, making their way...
Looking for signs of Shearwaters Breeding on Cyprus
Guest blog by Antaia Christou In Cyprus, seabird conservation efforts to date have focused on the breeding colony of Audouin’s Gull (Larus audouinii), Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) and Mediterranean Shags (Gulosus aristotelis desmarestii) on the Kleides archipelago...
Training on “Raptor Identification and migration count”, Galala, Egypt
Guest blog by Haitham Mossad For the second successive year Nature Conservation Egypt (NCE) has organized a full spring raptor migration count on top of the Galala Plateau on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. The NCE...
The story of the last surviving wild Siberian Crane (Omid) and Roya
Guest blog by Keramat Hafezi Birgani The Siberian Crane is a critically endangered species of birds. There used to be three populations, of which the ‘central’ population was already extinct by 2002. Omid (in Persian “hope”) is...
Socotra celebrates World Bird of Prey Day
Guest blog by Ahmed Saeed Suleiman On Yemen’s island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean we have held events to celebrate our Egyptian Vultures and other birds of prey for several years. This...
Swift Conservation in Iran: educating the public
Guest blog by Abraham Shokouhi In the first guest blog about our Common Swift Apus apus Conservation Project in Iran in 2020 I mentioned that our work is greatly assisted by citizen science. We aim to continue...
A trip to Syria to meet falcon trappers and traffickers
Guest blog by Lyse Mauvais In April 2023, I travelled to northeast Syria to meet falcon hunters and traders, a little over a year after publishing my first piece on falcon trafficking in Syria. I’m no ornithologist, but as a...
Training young people in bird monitoring in Egypt
Guest blog by Basma Sheta I am really pleased to write this account of a training programme in the basic techniques of bird monitoring that was undertaken at Lake Manzala, Egypt in autumn 2022 and funded by...
Cyprus Bird Camp 2022
Guest blog by Robin Snape In October 2022, KUŞKOR was granted £1,500 by OSME’s Youth Development Fund, to organise and implement a second Autumn Bird Camp on Cyprus in partnership with BirdLife Cyprus. Seventeen young people from...
The Prinias of Eastern Arabia: Graceful (P. gracilis) vs Delicate (P. lepida) – a Taxonomic Tangle
Guest blog by Gregory Askew The Graceful Prinia (Prinia gracilis) is a small, brownish, long-tailed warbler of damp habits in otherwise arid environments, including in and around anthropogenic sites. Where it occurs, it’s often quite abundant—nigh ubiquitous....