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The Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo), or just simply Hobby, is a small slim falcon. It belongs to a rather close-knit group of similar falcons often considered a subgenus Hypotriorchis.

Scientific name: Falco subbuteo
Dutch name: Boomvalk
English name: Eurasian Hobby
Place: Bijar Protected Area
Date: 08 May 2009
Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 8:39
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The White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 195–215 cm (77–85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which differ slightly in size, breed in Europe (north to Estonia), northwestern Africa, southwestern Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan), and southern Africa. The White Stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. When migrating between Europe and Africa, it avoids crossing the Mediterranean Sea and detours via the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, because the air thermals on which it depends do not form over water.

Scientific name: Ciconia ciconia
Dutch name: Ooievaar
English name: White Stork
Place: Bijar Protected Area
Date: 15 Apr 2009
Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 8:30
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The Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) (formerly European Cuckoo) is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis and the coucals.

This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly of Dunnocks, Meadow Pipits, and Eurasian Reed Warblers

Scientific name: Cuculus canorus
Dutch name: Koekoek
English name: Common Cuckoo
Place: Bijar Protected Area
Date: 18 Jun 2008
Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 8:17
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The Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) is a wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, breeding in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Asia. The European populations are migratory, wintering in tropical Africa; the more northerly Asian populations also migrate further south within Asia. It is a rare but regular wanderer north of its breeding range.

Scientific name: Ardea purpurea
Dutch name: Purperreiger
English name: Purple Heron
Place: Bijar Protected Area
Date: 01 Apr 2008
Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 8:10
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The Black-headed Bunting, Emberiza melanocephala, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a group now separated by most modern authors from the finches, Fringillidae.

It breeds in southeast Europe east to Iran. It is migratory, wintering in India. It is a rare but regular wanderer to western Europe.

Black-headed Bunting breeds in open scrubby areas including agricultural land. It lays 4-6 eggs in a nest in a tree or bush. Its natural food consists of insects when feeding young, and otherwise seeds.

Scientific name: Emberiza melanocephala
Dutch name: Zwartkopgors
English name: Black-headed Bunting
Place: Bijar
Date: 12 Apr 2008
Posted: Mon 16 May 2011, 8:49
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This bird is 30 cm long and blond neck is the size of crows. Turquoise blue due to Body, Rvtnh the flight feathers brown with black wings and under the blue trunks and colorful ago, is not confused with other birds (only likely, the young bird to be confused with the Green Qbay Hindi).

Scientific name: Coracias garrulus
Dutch name: Scharrelaar
English name: European Roller
Place: Bijar
Date: 12 Apr 2008
Posted: Mon 16 May 2011, 8:15
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