Common Birds of Turkiye

Pictures of common garden birds taken with the 24-70mm f4, on my recent visit to Turkiye.

Eastern Turkey starlings in flight

A pair of tree sparrows on a winterberry tree

Starlings and one pipit? 

Seagull

NATTY Bulk Carrier ship

Seagulls fly behind the ship and feed on fish that flee from the disturbance of the ship in the water.

 

 

pic above by: Süheyl Burak , https://unsplash.com/

The Greylag goose and the black duck may be Common Mergansers (male).

 The Gooses feed a cookie on the Kizilirmak River.

Two geese with dried leaves.

The hooded crow (Corvus cornix)

                                                                      

Mosque near Mados Avanos icecream cafe, a cross the Kizilirmak river 

A laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) walks down the street at Istanbul

a flock of Pigeon 

                                                                           

Rock Pigeon at  Sultanhanı Caravanserai  gate

A flock of starlings descended on an electric wire near the Ramada Hotel in Cappadocia

European Shag

Europen Shag swimming on the Bosporus Strait

diving for food

The Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus) forages on a bushes in Cappadocia

European Magpie flew over Cappadocia's unique landscape

Eastern Turkiye starlings and a  lone Eurasian Magpie

 

Cappadocia Hot air Balloon - 'fairy-chimney' landscape, © Dr. Redzlan A. Rahman

GPS information: - 

Latitude - 38  40.928799  0 (38.682147)

Longitude - 34  49.627102  0 (34.827118)

Altitude - 1104.60 m