Sunday, September 13, 2009

Second shower of sand martins (1 September 2009)

Today we ringed 201 birds out of 18 species. We had a sand martin shower at the last check and our ringer Sedat Inak had to ring until 2 am in the morning. Our volunteers Özgül Yahyaoğlu, Eylül Dizdaroğlu and Ayşe Bengisu Gelmez from Hacettepe University Biology Department joined us. As soon as Eylül and Bengisu arrived, they cleaned the house we stay in the village. Today's species are as follows:

Cetti's warbler
Savi's warbler
Great reed warbler
Red-backed shrike
Wryneck
Whitethroat
Marsh warbler
Garden warbler
Sand martin
Thrush nightingale
House sparrow
Swallow
Common rosefinch
Lesser whitethroat
Willow warbler
Redstart
Bee-eater
Golden oriole

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