Home |  Login |  Partners |  Search | Menu

News 4/36 - 02.11.2006, Özge Balkız
 Third flamingo breeding colony in Turkey
     02.11.2006
     Özge Balkız

This year, flamingos bred in a third colony in Turkey. Acigol, located in the Mediterranean (37° 48’N, 29° 49’E) is a site where reproduction took place in 1993 with 100 pairs counted. During the last three years, a volunteer was in charge of making surveys at the site but never observed a colony. Finally this year, through the observations sent to Kusbank, an internet based spatial database on birds (www.kusbank.org), we received the good news: at 16 April 2006, two bird watchers observed some flamingo nests at Acigol. The same observers made a second survey at 8 July 2006 and observed 100 chicks of 30-40 cm and dark grey colour at the site. This confirmed that a successful reproduction occurred in Acigol this year, for the second time since 1993.


                    

 • Generalities
Species description
The Greater Flamingo Network
Charter for the use of data
 • Counts
World
Winter
Breeding period
Other periods
 • Breeding
Breeding sites
Number of breeders
Number of chicks
 • Banding
 • You read a band ?
 • Services
 • Downloads
Summary of bands used
Flamingo Specialist Group Newsletters
FLAMINGO Freeware
 • Integrate this project
 • Photographs
2010 banding, Camargue
2011 banding, Camargue
2012 banding, Camargue
2013 banding, Camargue
2014 banding, Aigues-Mortes
2015 banding, Camargue
2015 Nest Operation, Camargue
Supporting Flamingos
The programme
Subscribe
Language
910074 visits
164035 visitors
2 connected


 ©2006, Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat