Site Report: Istanbul
Istanbul by Barbara Carr
Istanbul by Barbara Carr
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) - 1st Winter
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) - 2nd Winter
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) - 2nd Winter
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Istanbul by Barbara Carr
Istanbul by Barbara Carr
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) - 1st Winter
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan)
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) - 2nd Winter
Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) - 2nd Winter
City
Visits
- 2025-02-16: We arrived in Istanbul for a 24-hour layover en route to Marrakesh. So, we took the metro to get to the center of the city. The metro was very confusing, however, with 2 different tickets needed and no help figuring out how much it was going to cost. In the end, I had some extra cash on the ticket after possibly just barely avoiding some kind of ticket scam. We got on one of those boat tours going up the Bosphorus Straight. The boat went on for a long ways, and it was especially freezing on the boat in the middle of winter. We capped off our trip to Istanbul by riding the ferry around to different parts of the city using the huge credit on my metro card. It cost about $13USD for two people to ride all around Istanbul on boats and subways. At the end of the day, we hiked up the hill to show Barbara where I was staying during the 1999 earthquake.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (12 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(12 records)
Class: Birds
(12 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis)
- Order: Pelicans
(2 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- European Shag (Gulosus aristotelis)
- Order: Perching Birds
(3 records)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies (4 records)
- Order: Tubenoses
(1 record)
- Family: Shearwaters and Petrels
- Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan)