A few team pics from our recent trip. Thanks a lot to Elvin Mammadsoy from Birding Azerbaijan HERE and HERE for sorting out the logistics particularly to track down Great Rosefinch and Guldenstadt's Redstarts this time of year which have ascended to high altitudes.
This trip's team was Vincent Legrand (Photographer), Rene-Marie Lafontaine (retired biologist from Brussels NHM) , Harry Murphy (WP lister) , Elvin and myself. A great trip , which we have a dubbed as a wonderful disaster as we dipped two of our main targets which was East Caucasian Tur (for Vince) and Caspian Seal and the only rarity we found was a hybrid. After dipping Omid twice in Azerbaijan, we are used to missing our main target out here and are already planning the next trip.
Vince and Elvin. Elvin is the founder of the first eco-tourism company in Azerbaijan and can arrange any eco-tourism/birding trip at excellent value (e.g. we paid about £550 each for a week of food, accommodation, several off road vehicles, drivers, park entrance fees, police 'fines', guiding and full logistic arrangements). The food was a delicious wide range of local food. Contact Elvin through Birding Azerbaijan
HEREVince posing for his ambassador of Kite image stabilisation binoculars promotion pics. To see Vincent's professional photos from this trip see
HERE (when he posts them). Vincent is one of the top Western Palearctic rarity photographers (he and Daniele Occhiato are the field leaders) with hundreds of published photos across WP birding literature, particularly in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds (Shirihai and Svennson). His gear weighs over 20kg.
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