The Northeast region of Turkey is one of the world’s most important bird flyways, as millions of birds from hundreds of species make their way between Eastern Europe and Africa. For several years, Kuzey Doga, a Turkish conservation organization, has been monitoring and banding birds to document the importance of the wetlands across Turkey, and working with local people in order to protect habitat. These birds, some local and some migratory, represent a small sampling of the region’s many winged visitors. Shown here are:
- Common Sandpiper
- Great Snipe
- Eurasion Oriole
- Kingfisher
- Moustached Warbler
- Ortolan Bunting
- Purple Heron
- Penduline Tit
- Rosy Starling
- Robin
- Sparrow Hawk
- Scoops Owl
- Water Rail