Bird

Turkish authorities registered and ringed 33,817 birds from 178 species in 2021, according to a report released by the country's Agriculture and Forestry Ministry.

Around 28,723 of the birds were ringed at local stations in the country, while 4,836 of them were ringed within the scope of scientific research projects.

Birdwatcher Mustafa Erturhan, who has been working in the Turkish Railways (TCDD) for 30 years, has been photographing birds on rails during road maintenance works.

Revealing the relationship between birds and rails, Erturhan has so far photographed 21 bird species in 15 years and created a special series called the "Nature of Railway and Birds."

Birds are descended from a dinosaur species called Oviraptorosaurs

Approximately 18,000 flamingos that hatched two months ago in the İzmir Bird Sanctuary, one of the world's leading artificial breeding islands, began to flap their wings in the "nursery" to fly.

Some 18,000 flamingos, who hatched 2 months ago in İzmir Bird Sanctuary, began to learn how to flap their wings in to fly. (AA Photo)

Hersek Lagoon in northwestern Turkey hosts summer migratory birds that come to the area for incubation, in addition to being home to water birds. (AA Photo)

Located at the junction of the routes of birds migrating from Asia, Europe and Africa, a bird research center in eastern Turkey registered and ringed around 5,000 birds from 97 species between March and June.

The Gediz Delta in the western province of İzmir, home to 10 percent of the world's flamingo population, will be a "kindergarten" for the baby flamingos as the hatching season has started.

"Baby flamingos that are now a part of the flock will start flying around by September," Dicle Tuba Kılıç, the head of the Nature Association, told daily Milliyet on May 10.

Ljubljana – Bird Buddy, a project of a smart bird feeder created by a predominately Slovenian team, has raised a total of EUR 4.19 million on Kickstarter, the global crowdfunding platform, thus becoming the most successful Slovenian project by far.

Utah University faculty member and professional nature photographer Turkish Professor Çağan Şekercioğlu has become the person who saw the most bird species in the world in 2020.