Bird Monitoring in the Aras River Valley, TUrkey
The Aras River Valley is located in eastern Turkey within eyesight of the Armenian border. The River Valley lies at the intersection of three major global flyways (areas of high migratory activity) making it an extremely diverse place to study migratory birds. At the Aras Bird Research and Education Center, we use old school capture-mark-recapture techniques paired with newer technology like geolocator devices to monitor bird populations and study migration patterns. The Aras Bird Research and Education Center has been in operation since 2005 and has become an invaluable source of long-term trends in the region's bird community, where bird populations are historically understudied.
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