Saving the Saker in Kyrgyzstan
My birding journey started a year ago when our Fauna & Flora International (FFI) team launched a pilot project on the Saker Falcon Falco cherrug in Kyrgyzstan.
Category: Guest Blogs
The breeding birds of Sonkul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
A guest blog by Ivan Turkovskii In 2019 I was awarded an OSME grant and want to tell you about the project the aim of which was to survey the breeding birds on Sonkul Lake as well...
What is happening at Besh Barmag bottleneck?- News from Azerbaijan
A guest blog by Michael Heiss, member of the Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count team No Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count was organised for autumn 2019. That is sad. The organisation team made this tough decision, because it...
Saving an Egyptian vulture – the story of Anna
A guest blog by Volen Arkumarev This is the story of a young Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus called Anna. She was born and raised in captivity in Prague Zoo but is among those privileged birds which were...
Globally important numbers of Steppe Eagle discovered in Saudi Arabia: an update
A guest blog by Jem Babbington, Phil Roberts & Mike McGrady Further monitoring has been undertaken following on from the initial counts of approximately 4900 Steppe Eagles recorded at two rubbish dump sites north of Riyadh. See...
Raising awareness of Socotra’s Egyptian Vultures and unique wildlife
A guest blog from Ali Yahya A. Mahroos on behalf of the Socotra UNE-GEF team. Socotra, Yemen.
Globally important number of Steppe Eagles discovered in Saudi Arabia
Guest blog by Mischa Keijmel This article is written following the sighting of large aggregations of Steppe Eagles Aquila nipalensis at dump sites north-west of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The area was suspected to be important because a...
A lady birder in Egypt
Guest blog by Basma Sheta I am Basma Sheta, from Damietta on the north coast of Egypt. I have a PhD in Zoology, specializing in bird ecology. The study of birds was one of the most beautiful...
Volunteering In Lebanon
A guest blog by Valentine Moser from Switzerland This autumn I spent two weeks volunteering in Lebanon in support of the project RaptorCountLebanon2019. Watching from our viewing platform overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea was a great experience! I...
Studying Cyprus Wheatear
Guest blog by Patrick Styles Cyprus wheatear in the Troodos Mountains have been studied since 2009 by Prof. Will Cresswell (University of St Andrews) and a succession of PhD students. The first work was carried out by...
Greeting from the Cradle of Civilization
Guest blog by Salwan Ali Abed from Iraq I started my ornithological adventure in 2005, when I did my first bird survey visit to the marshes of southern Iraq. It was the first time I was introduced to the...
The wintering population of Egyptian Vultures in Ethiopia
Guest Blog by Volen Arkumarev During the second half of January 2019 a team from BSPB, RSPB, BirdLife Africa, EWNHS, SCF, NCF and APLORI**(full details below) conducted a field survey to establish the number of wintering Egyptian Vultures in...
Azerbaijan and the Besh Barmag project
Guest blog from Gunay Behramzade Hello my name is Gunay and I’m an ecologist. Since my childhood I have a great passion for nature, but my great interest in birds started during my university years when I met German...
Fighting illegal bird killing
A guest blog by Lloyd Scott The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) is a European bird protection NGO based in Bonn Germany. Each year, we bring together around 250 volunteers from across the globe to conduct strategic...