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  1. fotoemin

    Spotted Sandpiper ?

    We've been birding in Turkey for a while and today at Kaldirim, a lagoon lake at southern Turkey, Yumurtalik lagoons, Adana we saw this bird. In our opinion it seems to be like a Spotted Sandpiper but as there's only one accepted record in Turkey, it's a mega. So we want to be sure of its ID and...
  2. fotoemin

    Accipiter spp. from Vietnam

    Hi to all, Three days ago we saw this sparrowhawk at Cat Tien NP, Vietnam. Have doubts to identify it, hope someone can help on this...
  3. fotoemin

    Cisticolas from Ethiopia

    No experts on these? I have more questions on the way. If you think it is impossible to identify these by photos, location and elevation you can say that. You can see the information mentioned above by bringing the mouse on the photo but not clicking.
  4. fotoemin

    Cisticolas from Ethiopia

    Here three more photos belongs to 2 different individual(plus one with two birds in one photo. In this photo, i have the sound recording of the right standing individual and can send as an e-mail if necessary)
  5. fotoemin

    Cisticolas from Ethiopia

    Hi to all, Last three weeks we were enjoying the birds of Ethiopia, especially focused on some areas and had near 400 species in 16 days. We had also some id challenges too, especially on Cisticolas. I had able to attach 5 photos belongs to 3 different individuals. I will try to add three...
  6. fotoemin

    Lesser Yellowlegs? Turkey

    Hi to all, i'm not the observer also but have some more information on this record. It was recorded at Evros delta, at a lagoon on 5th of September. (border with Greece) The photographer is not keen on birds. He first published the first photo(which fits with the Lesser yellowlegs) Then we asked...
  7. fotoemin

    Comment by 'fotoemin' in media 'Terek Sandpipers amongst other waders'

    What a nice place:) I saw only once a Terek Sandpiper in Turkey...
  8. fotoemin

    More Marmaris

    Middle spotted is my favourite woodpecker:) Very nice day;)
  9. fotoemin

    ID Help: Anatolian Finch: Crimson-winged or Mongolian Finch

    Hi to all, I upload two different positions of the same individual. http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/110628/sort/1/cat/500/page/1 http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/110629/sort/1/cat/500/page/1 What are you thinking now? regards, Emin
  10. fotoemin

    Comment by 'fotoemin' in media 'Crimson-winged Finch'

    Hi, So what are you thinking about these? http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/110628/sort/1/cat/500/page/1 http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/110629/sort/1/cat/500/page/1 Thanks for your efforts but it is still a Mongolian to me like Guy Kirwan and...
  11. Crimson-winged Finch

    Crimson-winged Finch

    • fotoemin
    • Media item
    • rhodopechys sanguineus
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Middle-East
  12. Crimson-winged Finch

    Crimson-winged Finch

    • fotoemin
    • Media item
    • rhodopechys sanguineus
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Middle-East
  13. fotoemin

    Comment by 'fotoemin' in media 'Crimson-winged Finch'

    Moderator, You can be sure about its ID, I identified it in the field and now I will post an another photo of the same individual which shows white wing-bars. I will give a link, after I upload it;)
  14. Crimson-winged Finch

    Crimson-winged Finch

    A young male. Nominate race sanguinea. Range of nominate: Asia Minor, Levant, Caucasus, Iran, mts. of WC Asia. Range of race alienus: Morocco, NE Algeria.
    • fotoemin
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    • crimson winged finch rhodopechys sanguinea
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Middle-East
  15. fotoemin

    Introduced birds in Europe

    In Turkey there are three introduced species(cage espace-breeding confirmed in the wild) Psittacula krameri-Ring necked Parakeet Psittacula eupatria-Alexandrine Parakeet Acridotheres tristis-Common Myna
  16. fotoemin

    Rarest bird you've found yourself

    Here is the invalid Turkish checklist, it includes a species which has been not published yet..(Canada Goose in Kizilirmak Delta was first for Turkey) If the number of expert birders increase in the future in Turkey, I'm sure that this list will pass 550 species.. I can not attach the excel...
  17. fotoemin

    Rarest bird you've found yourself

    Did you see the other specialities in the wadi? Also at the gravil pits of Birecik, Iraq Babblers found and photographed by a tour guide this year. Do u have chance to look at that marshes? Here is a See-see Partridge which I have in an another locality this June. It was early morning so light...
  18. fotoemin

    Comment by 'fotoemin' in media 'Great grey shrike'

    Hi, I approve that this is a Steppe Grey Shrike(Lanius pallidirostris). This is a different species now, isn't it?
  19. fotoemin

    Young Birder

    I am still young also:P I have been birding since 2002(I have started in 2001 actually but my regular records started on February 2002) I'm now 20.. My Turkish checklist is 365, and life list is 370.(just a visit to Germany) 300. species in Turkey was Green Warbler(Phylloscopus nitidus) 350...
  20. fotoemin

    Rarest bird you've found yourself

    What does this mean?
  21. fotoemin

    Rarest bird you've found yourself

    There are 1000 bird-watchers and bird photographers approximately.(This hobby have been started in Turkey at 1980s with ten bird-watchers, first birdwatcher in Turkey was at 1964..)I am birding since 2002:) and yes country has a official list(but no categories yet, totally 467 species which 305...
  22. fotoemin

    What are the worst words a birder can hear?

    In Turkey "bird" means also genital of man(in slang language). Sometimes some people can make this bad joke.. +What are you doing? -I'm watching birds. +Oh really, come and see my bird then.. -Buzz off :-/
  23. Black-tailed Godwit with digiscoping

    Black-tailed Godwit with digiscoping

    Black-tailed Godwit is a passage migrant in Turkey and it winters in the deltas and the lakes of Turkey.
    • fotoemin
    • Media item
    • amurulluğu balıkdamı black-tailed godwit limosa limosa
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Middle-East
  24. fotoemin

    Comment by 'fotoemin' in media 'my first lifer in turkey'

    Hi Bob, A very nice digiscoping. In Turkish we said these birds "Dogusken kus" you might know, this means fighting birds, but because of these variable forms we also say these "Degisken kus" which means variable birds with changing two letters:) Doguskenkus or Degiskenkus :)
  25. fotoemin

    Rarest bird you've found yourself

    I found two new species for Turkey this year. One of them was "Black-throated Thrush" from central asia, and the other was "Lesser Flamingo" from Tropical Africa..Two "Egyptian Geese" was the third for the country in 2002 and fifth "Yellow-browed Warbler" was in 2004. "Common Redpoll" was...
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