Today we ringed 25 birds out of 11 species. Our Scottish ringer Kirsty Jane Lees arrived at the station today. For a couple of days she will be ringing at Aras station.
Today we ringed 9 birds out of 6 species. Our volunteer Özgü left the station today after 29 days ofvolunteering.
Today was again a very poor day and we could only ring 8 birds out 7 species. Our volunteer Peren left the station today after 14 days of volunteering at Aras station.
Today we ringed 29 birds our of 12 species.
Today we ringed 12 birds out of 5 species. Our British ringers Ron and Jerry left and our Dutch volunteer Rene Vos came today.
Today there was swallow and sand martin shower at the station and we ringed 221 birds out of 14 species.
Today we ringed 9 birds out of 9 species. Our volunteer Emine Köpük left the station today.
Today we ringed 17 birds out of 12 species. Our volunteer Emine Köpük arrived at the station today. She is coming from Naxcivan and recently started to get interest in birds.
Today we ringed 19 birds out of 11 species. Peren and Feyzan sisters arrived today to volunteer for our station. Peren is studying in Ankara University whereas Feyzan is studying in Middle East Technical University.Eylül and Bengisu left Aras today after 15 nice days of ringing.
Today we ringed 24 birds out of 10 species. Ringing team made a small kite today and enjoy the day trying to make it fly. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 20 birds out of 13 species. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 32 birds out of 14 species. Today's species are as follows:
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:
Today we ringed 32 birds out of 18 species so that we ended up with August by ringing 738 birds out of 53 species in total. Güler Bozok,Yiğit Ozan Çolak, Abdurrahman Sefalı, Yelda Yağcı, Sezgi Yalçınsü, Merve Aksu and Nadin Ebeoğlu helped us at the station during these 20 days. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 28 birds out of 14 species. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 22 birds out of 10 species. Our volunteer Nadin left the station today. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 17 birds out of 9 species. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 37 birds out of 17 species. Today's species are as follows:
Today we ringed 20 birds out of 10 species. Yelda and Sezgi from Istanbul University Veterinary Faculty, Merve from Ondokuz Mayıs University faculty joined us where Güler, Yiğit, Yakup and Abdurrahman left the station for Kuyucuk Bird Station. Today's species are as follows:
Since the weather is a little cooler than previous years, we started bird ringing 5 day earlier. Sedat Inak, who is our ringing specialists are running the station this fall with the help of many volunteer students from different universities all around Turkey. Today we started ringing at the station with the help Güler Bozok, Yiğit Ozan Çolak, Abdurrahman Sefalı and Yakup Şaşmaz.
We ringed 35 birds out of 15 species.
KuzeyDoga Society has celebrated the World Migratory Bird Day at its Aras River Bird Research and Education Center situated near Yukari Ciyrikli village, Tuzluca, Iğdır. Over 40 people and 15 students participated from Yukarı Cıyrıklı village, Gazi Teachers' School and Iğdır city. The celebration was honored by Iğdır Director of Environment and Forestry Mr. Taner Tazegün and Kafkas University professor Dr. İsa Özaydın.For more pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/kuzeydoga/WorldMigratoryDay2009Aras
Today is labor day. However it is officially an off day here in Turkey, we kept ringing at Aras Station :-) Today the weather was a little cloudy and partially rainy in the afternoon. We ringed 30 birds out of 13 species. We ringed the first garden warbler of the season this year.
We finished the month of April here at Aras station with 5 ringers from Kenya, UK, Netherlands and Turkey. Today it was a nice day and we ringed 42 birds out of 17 species.
Today was a maginificient day of ringing because we had the most numbers of the birds since we started at Aras station this season. We ringed 99 birds out 18 species. First red-backed shrikes of the season arrived at the station and unfortunately they already killed two birds in the net, too.
Today it was warm all day and we had really good numbers of birds. We ringed 60 birds out 20 species.
We ringed 27 birds out of 11 species. The weather was warm all day.
Today we ringed 25 birds out of 11 species.
Today we again ringed less birds 25 out of 12 species due to bad weather.
Today two of our new volunteer from Netherlands joined us. Their names are Arnold and Luc. Arnold is an experienced ringer whereas Luc is a trainee. Out Turkish volunteer Fatih and Tuğçe left the station as well.
Today is national sovereignty and children's day in Turkey and it is 86th anniversary year of the establishment of the Turkish parliament. Then founder of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gifted this day to world children and it is being celebrated as children's day.
Today we still had bad weather and we could only ring 12 birds out of 6 species.
Today we had a good warm spring day around 13 degrees all day. The most surprising event of the day was ringing three common buzzards. The number of the species and the number of the birds we ring is increasing day by day. Today we ringed 36 birds out of 15 species.
Today it was clear and shiny around 13 degrees and we got very good numbes of birds today. Since Jukka left, we are 3 ringers from now on. Sedat, Richard and James. Not only the number but also the number of the species increasd today and today we ringed 5 new species at Aras Station for this season. We ringed 43 birds out of 14 species.
Today we had very few birds due to bad weather of clouds and rain at 8 degrees al day. We observed a short-toed eagle migrating, bearded tits right behind our trailer, an osprey hunting in the pond and little crake. Today we ringed 11 birds out of 10 species.
