BirdingArmenia

31/01/2024

The daily dose of Bombycilla :)
31.01.2024, Yerevan, Armenia
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Սրնգահավ | Bohemian Waxwing | Свиристель


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30/11/2023

Thinking of a birding tour to Armenia? Please check out the updated spring-summer 2024 tour itinerary, prices and available dates at our website:

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11/10/2023

Spring-summer 2023 birding moments - 3

14/08/2023

Spring-summer 2023 birding moments - 2

06/08/2023

Spring-summer 2023 birding moments - 1

28/02/2023

Birding at the foothills of Urts Mountains, Ararat province, Armenia.
A wonderful excursion with some great birds in the last days of winter.

11/02/2023

-Otus scops-

Eurasian Scops Owl is one of the most desired birds to see on our tours, and it is easily found at few places en route.


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31/01/2023

Midwinter Snowcock-quest. Successful 👍👍

Caspian Snowcock (Tetraogallus caspius) is not the easiest bird to reach and see even in spring and summer, when its high altitude habitat is more accessible. But we thought, why not to visit the birds in winter? 😉


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01/01/2023

Birding in the Arpa River valley (Vayots Dzor, Armenia) is great at any time of year. Here are some record shots from my latest trip to the area last week. Many more birds were seen (48 sp overall), but the most attractive were winter visitors from northern latitudes and high-altitude specialists... Looking forward to my next field trip in 2023.
Hope the new year will bring a peace to the region and the country, although it's hard to be very optimistic about that...
Regardless, Happy New Year to all BirdingArmenia followers!



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03/10/2022

Birding in Arpi National Park

25/09/2022

Birding at Lake Sevan

05/09/2022

-Aquila nipalensis-

Steppe Eagle - although globally threatened and classified as Endangered according to IUCN criteria, this is still a relatively common passage migrant in Armenia.

25/08/2022

-Gyps fulvus-

Eurasian Griffon is commonly seen in all parts of Armenia, but everywhere in small numbers.


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05/08/2022

-Saxicola maurus armenicus-

The 'Armenian' Stonechat male at its breeding grounds in Vayots Dzor, Armenia. This is the largest of three stonechat forms occurring in the Caucasus.
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24/07/2022

-Phoenicurus phoenicurus samamisicus-

A male Common Redstart of the race samamisicus showing the diagnostic white wing panel.

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11/07/2022

One of the special days on our spring and autumn tours is the visit to Caucasian Grouse habitats in subalpine meadows of Kotayk and Lori provinces, northern Armenia. Careful scan of the grassy slopes and talus fields - is the usual technique used in the search of the secretive grouse.

07/07/2022

One of the Caspian Snowcock lookouts in Vayots Dzor, Armenia

Our Bird Watching tours cover the whole range of habitats and elevations throughout the country, and our tours repeatedly reach 220+ species of birds observed during a standard spring-summer tour!

09/07/2021

-Jynx torquilla-

An elusive and a largely overlooked breeder in forests of NE and SE Armenia.

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17/09/2020

Highlights of Birding Armenia tours -

Francolinus francolinus - Black Francolin

This bird occurs only in dry subtropics of extreme south-east of Armenia on a border with Iran.
The species' population seems to do very well and it's is observed and heard on almost every visit to Arevik National Park.

06/08/2020

Levant Sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes)

A very good selection of raptors seen on a standard spring-summer birding tour to Armenia. But only one of them breeds almost exclusively in and around human settlements - in villages, towns and even public parks of Yerevan city.

11/07/2020

White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis) deserves its name and most of the time seen with at least some snow around...

24/06/2020

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Hippolais languida - Upcher's Warbler

Another bird with restricted range in the Western Palearctic, where it breeds only in the south-eastern corner of the region.

In spring Upcher's Warbler arrives relatively late, from mid-May onward, but then it is easily found in dry gorges and mountain foothills, thanks to its distinct repetitive song and characteristic flight from bush to bush.

19/06/2020

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Melanocorypha bimaculata - Bimaculated Lark

In breeding season this lark is usually easily detected by its loud and unmistakable song audible at long distance. In contrast, locating a bird singing somewhere high in the sky is not a straightforward task, while finding a landed bird is sometimes even more complicated because of its perfect blend with the habitat.

15/06/2020

Phoenicurus ochruros ochruros

General fieldguides to WP birds traditionally depict 'semirufus' race of the Black Redstart which has a tiny range in the Levant, but do not usually cover the quite similar variant of the closely related and highly variable nominate 'ochruros', which is found all over the Caucasus, NW Iran and E & C Turkey.
Surely this kind of nominate birds involved in most (if not all) of the cases with the 'semirufus' reports from the Caucasus.

13/06/2020

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Irania gutturalis - White-throated Robin (a.k.a. Irania)

Every birder visiting Armenia for a spring-summer tour, will surely have the White-throated Robin on his/her priority list.

Although secretive, this species is easily observed in various habitats and at various elevations throughout western and southern Armenia.

30/05/2020

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Prunella ocularis - Radde's Accentor

Radde's Accentor has very restricted range in the Western Palearctic. In Armenia, the species is found on most of the mountain ranges and upland plateaus, where it prefers gorges and slopes with abundance of rock and shrub.

By word of many visiting birders, Armenia is the easiest place in the WP, where you can see Radde's Accentor with minimal effort. In fact, the species habitats are accessible within half an hour drive from the capital city, on the slopes of Mount Aragats - a popular destination among birders for more than two decades now...

17/05/2020

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Vanellus leucurus - White-tailed Lapwing

The White-tailed Lapwing was first spotted in Armenia in May 1989, but only a decade later the species reappeared at the same site, when several apparently breeding pairs were found and provided great views to participants of the very first Birding Armenia tour. Soon afterwards their breeding here was proven, and since then small number of the lapwing is breeding in the country annually. The species in Armenia confined to a very small area in the Ararat Plain, where it occupies remaining patches of saline mudflats in fishfarms. The White-tailed Lapwing is Nationally Redlisted in Armenia.

13/05/2020

Highlights of Birding Armenia tours -

Oenanthe chrysopygia - Red-tailed Wheatear

(a.k.a. Rufous-tailed Wheatear, Persian Wheatear, Afghan Wheatear etc.)

In Armenia,this species was known only from the country's extreme SE, on a border with Iran. But since the last 15 or so years the bird is expanding its range northward, and is now found closer to Yerevan in Ararat and Vayots Dzor provinces, thus becoming more accessible for visiting birders.

26/04/2020

26/04/2020

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