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During the last week of September 2001 we spend seven days at the holiday resort of Dalyan located in south-western Turkey. Our very nice hotel Calypso was located right along the Dalyan river which was about a ten minutes walk from the village. From the village boats could be rented for trips into the delta and to Istuzu beach. The aim of our holiday was focussed on having a relaxed week and enjoy the nice weather and excellent Turkish food. Birding was restricted to some strolls around the hotel and during standard tourist trips. The area looked very promising in birding point of view with a rather wide variety of habitats consisting of a river, a reed fringed lake and delta, cultivated fields, coastal scrubs, rocky outcrops  and mountains covered with pine forests further inland. Despite that the birding was very poor producing only 51 species. Apparantly the end of September is the worst month of the year in birding point of view. Most summer visitors had already left and the migration season still had to begin. That is why I restricted this “report” to a list of birds observed with some short comments on every species. Nevertheless we enjoyed our week’s stay which was really relaxing. Maybe it is a good idea to go back again some time during early spring….

 

 

NR.

ENGLISH NAME

NUMBERS

COMMENTS

1

Little Grebe

10

dalyan river and delta

2

Horned Grebe

1

dalyan river

3

Great Cormorant

1

lake koycegiz

4

Mallard

4

lake koycegiz

5

Greater Flamingo

1

lagoon at istuzu beach

6

Little Egret

8

dalyan river and delta

7

Gray Heron

1

dalyan delta

8

Purple Heron

1

dalyan delta

9

Great Egret

1

dalyan river

10

Eurasian Spoonbill

1

lagoon near istuzu beach

11

Western Marsh-Harrier

1

cotton fields near hotel

12

Greater Spotted Eagle

2

cotton fields near hotel

13

Lesser Kestrel

1

cotton fields near hotel

14

Eurasian Kestrel

1

fields surrounding hotel

15

Audouin's Gull

4

dalyan river

16

Mediterranean Gull

2

dalyan river

17

Little Tern

4

dalyan river

18

Eurasian Collared-Dove

25

common

19

Common Kingfisher

50

common

20

Great Spotted Woodpecker

1

along dalyan river

21

Eurasian Jay

20

common

22

Black-billed Magpie

3

along road to efese

23

Carrion Crow

5

dalyan delta

24

Common Raven

2

dalyan river

25

Eurasian Golden-Oriole

2

fields surrounding hotel

26

Red-backed Shrike

30

common

27

Isabelline Shrike

5

fields surrounding hotel

28

Northern Shrike

1

Kaunos ruins

29

White-throated Dipper

1

along stream inland

30

Eurasian Blackbird

6

fields surrounding hotel

31

Spotted Flycatcher

50

common

32

Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin

1

cotton fields near hotel

33

Whinchat

4

cotton fields near hotel

34

Rock Nuthatch

10

Kaunos ruins

35

Barn Swallow

5

cotton fields near hotel

36

Common House-Martin

2

cotton fields near hotel

37

Cetti's Warbler

2

fields surrounding hotel

38

Sedge Warbler

2

dalyan delta

39

Eastern Bonelli's Warbler

6

mountains inland

40

Blackcap

1

fields surrounding hotel

41

Greater Whitethroat

4

cotton fields near hotel

42

Lesser Whitethroat

4

fields surrounding hotel

43

Great Tit

8

fields surrounding hotel

44

Blue Tit

1

fields surrounding hotel

45

Crested Lark

4

cotton fields near hotel

46

Rock Petronia

3

Kaunos ruins

47

White Wagtail

10

fields surrounding hotel

48

Yellow Wagtail

5

fields surrounding hotel

49

Gray Wagtail

6

fields surrounding hotel

50

European Goldfinch

25

fields surrounding hotel

51

Corn Bunting

25

fields surrounding hotel

 


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