AZERBAIJAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY CONDUCTED PRESS CONFERENCE

Azerbaijan Ornithological Society (AOS) conducted press conference about the results of the project "Conservation of Egyptian Vulture in Lesser Caucasus within the territory of Azerbaijan".

        Director of Azerbaijan Ornithological Society Elchin Sultanov, scientific secretary of Azerbaijan Ornithological Society Tahir Kerimov, project coordinator Guler Isayeva and project officer Emin Mammadov participated in this press conference. They gave overall results about the project to the Mass media representatives.

         AOS team founded new nesting areas in the territory of Lesser Caucasus (Dashkasan, Gedebey, Samukh). New nesting sites for this bird were found in Lesser Caucasus part of Azerbaijan. In general 7 new living nests besides additionally 3 flying birds in different sites and 9 proposed nests of EV were found during researches of 2012. Results give us opportunity to estimate nesting population of Egyptian Vulture 96pair in Azerbaijan for the last two years