Raptor migration watchsite at Bosporus
Starting from 22nd September members of Milvus Group together with members of Istanbul Birdwatching Society are observing the migration of birds of prey at the Bosphorus strait, which is well known as one of the most important migration route for soaring birds in Europe. Observations are made at 4 countpoints simultaneously. The migration study camp will last till 13th October. To see the results please acces the species list. Hopefully the species list will be udated every day.
Tags: bird, bird of prey, Bosphorus, migration
4 October, 2008 at 10:33 pm
hello,
I’ m interesting for help you the next year for counting the raptors and storks.
Have you an adress ?
5 October, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hello,
Everybody who is interested to participate in the coming years in the activities of our Bosporus migration monitoring camp should send an email to my address (marton.kelemen(et)milvus.ro).
The plans for the next year are not finalized yet, as we want to analyse the results of this (as we call it) 0 year. However in the next season according to our expectations, the camp will last longer and just as this time the work will be based mainly on voluntary work.
In the following weeks a dedicated sub-page for the camp will be developed, on which regular news will be posted regarding our future plans. So please visit our site in the future for further details.
All the best,
Marton Kelemen
5 October, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Hello,
thank you for your e-mail. I’m sorry because I don’t speak english very well. I
live near LYON (France). During autumn, september 1989 & 1991 I stayed to ISTANBUL and SARIYER for the migration. I would like come back for the migration of the black-stork and birds of preys during september 2009.
Sincerely.
Christian FREGAT
7 October, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hello everybody,
Finally we managed to update the list containing the observations. Enjoy!
There were some serious problems with regards the camping site in Istanbul, we were forced to leave the original camping site, to find a new place but without any electricity.
That is why the update is coming so late!
All the best,
Marton Kelemen
9 October, 2008 at 1:49 am
Hi Again!
The observation list is again updated.
There are some good observations which are not mentioned on the list as the birds were not migrating. As I suppose that most of the visitors on this page are interested mainly in raptors I would mention only two observations of odd Eleonora’s Falcons as well as one sighting of an adult Lanner. Hopefully many more birds to come till the end of this week, when our 0 year experimental camp will close down.
Marton
11 October, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Hello Everybody!
The first camp of the Milvus Group organized at the Bosphorus, Turkey has come to an end. I was informed that due to the bad weather the team decided to start the journey home today evening.
However, I was also informed that yesterday there was a gorgeous day with probably more than 40.000 raptors (there were definitely more birds counted than that, but after elimination of double counts the number can decrease).
The final number of birds counted yesterday as well as the overall totals for the camp will be uploaded on this website during the first days of the next week.
Milvus Group would like to thank everybody who participated for their time and financial efforts, please remember that this year the camp was organized on a completely voluntary basis. In the years to come we would also like to base the camp on voluntary work, but we will try to secure funding which will enable us to provide good working conditions for everybody.
If you would like to join our team in 2009, and participate in the activities of our raptor migration count in one of the most important migration bottle-neck sites of Europe, please send us a message on the marton.kelemen(et)milvus[dot]ro email address.
All the best,
Marton
12 October, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Congratulation Guys!
I wish to participate in, but my job is in the first place :) …
Maybe in the next year.
Regards,
Attila
15 October, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Hello Everybody!
You can access and enjoy now the totals of the entire observation.
Regards,
Koma
11 November, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Congratulations!
It seems you guys had fun. Good numbers, hopefully the work will contine. Thanks for the updated list during the field work!
Doma
5 March, 2009 at 1:28 am
Very nice post, I share the same position about this.
17 March, 2009 at 3:05 am
nice!
15 April, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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1 May, 2009 at 12:03 am
I was wondering if you will run a ringing station at the count site. I live in Canada and every spring and fall we band migrating raptors,coming and going to there breeding grounds. It is a great way to monitor the birds, and gives the opportunity for many foreign recoveries! With numbers like that passing by, the numbers ringed could be quite substantial…………
I would be interested in sharing methods and results…….
cheers,
Nigel
11 September, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Hi there, tomorrow I will go to Istanbul and hope to do some migration counting, can you tell the exact location of the best spot and whether there is a website with results of migration counts there? I have found some publications but no websites?
kind regards
Leo
Ps do you know the website for european migration counts: http://www.trektellen.nl ? originally a dutch site but now covering the whole of western Europe (Estland – gibraltar!)
11 September, 2009 at 12:39 pm
oeps sorry wrong e-mail adress (mine), please reply to the adress above!
16 October, 2009 at 9:59 am
Dear Nigel Shaw please contact me
about rıngıng
my email is yirticidata@gmail.com
thank you
Dogan
16 October, 2009 at 10:01 am
Dear Leo Ballering
please contact me about migration counts at the Bosphorus
yirticidata@gmail.com
I have many years of data and am looking for past years counts to add to my data base
Dogan
16 October, 2009 at 10:03 am
Dear Christian FREGAT
please contact me and send me your past counts at the Bosphorus
to add to our data base. Also I can answer any questons you have about
the migration here.
Dogan