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Khar Turan , Iran 15-17 November 2018
Trip report,
Khar Turan National Park
The Kharturan National Park has two areas, the Wildlife Refuge and the Protected Area. It is considered as Iran’s largest biosphere reserve. It is the home of many mammal species, birds, crawfish and amphibians. Asian Cheetahs and Iranian Zebra are the most famous species there. And also the most important habitats ”pleske's ground jay”. It is the only endemic bird species of Iran.
We arranged a bird watching trip with seven members of club to this area On Wednesday November 15th. Travel started at 5pm from Tehran to the side of Shahrud city in Semnan province and we went to Ghale Balla village. At 10 pm we arrived at the residence.
The day after in early morning, we derived to the Delbar security station. We had some stopped on the way. We saw Eversmann's redstart, red breasted flycatcher, and Eurasian siskin. After that, we went to the security guard to get a entrance permission. Group of Iranian zebra was the first thing we saw. spanish sparrow, crested lark, Masked White Wagtail are our other observation near this point.
Afternoon we visited Khankhoodi village, remains of Taher Abad Castle and surrounding gardens, then went back to our residence.
The next morning, in order to find the pleske's ground jay, we went to Reza Abad village. In Rudshur area we stopped to see Water rails instead of ,we saw Desert lark, Eurasian skylark, Scrub warbler.
Suddenly we noticed two pleske's ground jay and Slowly approached them. If we saw them only from our bionuclerer, but it was fantastic.
After that we saw Common chaffinch, Brambling, Eurasian teal, and Northern raven.
On the way back, we were lucky enough to see again Iranian (Pleske's) Ground Jays that were near the road and we watched them very well and took some pictures from inside the car.
After that we came back to our residence and leave there about 5 pm.
List of species:
1 - eurasian teal
2 - eurasian black vulture
3 - eurasian sparrowhawk
4 - long legged buzzard
5 - green sandpiper
6 - water rail
7 - crowned sandgrouse
8 - eurasian collared dove
9 - laughing dove
10 - little owl
11 - bar tailed lark
12 - desert lark
13 - crested lark
14 - eurasian skylark
15 - Masked white wagtail
16 - red breasted flycatcher
17 - eversmann's redstart
18 - common redstart
19 - finsche's wheatear
20 - eastern pied wheatear
21 - song thrush
22 - scrub warbler
23 - common chiffchaff
24 - common chaffinch
25 - brambling
26 - eurasian siskin
27 - house sparrow
28 - eurasian tree sparrow
29 - spanish sparrow
30 - common starling
31 - eurasian magpie
32 - pleske's ground jay
33 - billed chough
34 - northern raven
Except of other observations includes: Gebeer Gazelle and Feral Goat (of course, kept on the fencings), and Urial mouflon and Persian toad agama is.
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