Turkish Bird Checkist on BUBO Listing

Hello,

I am a Turkish birdwatcher and twitcher. I came to BUBO Listing to share my Turkish tick list with others, but later I found out that a Turkish Bird List does not exist. It is actually quite normal, as there is no official records/rarities committee in Turkey, and there is no certain list to use.

However is it all possible to just make symbolic list, just to keep me and other Turkish bird watcher who is/will be a member of BUBO listing busy? Because if that is possible, I can find the most reliable Turkish checklist I can find, or maybe even make one myself that most people will agree.

So far I'm using the WP list; but as all my ticks are from Turkey, the total number of species I've observed in 2 years (since I started birding) is really low when compared with total number of species on the WP list (about %25).

Thank you for your help

Hi Kuzey

As you will realise, we've been struggling to keep up with adding new lists! Turkey is though the most requested list by our users so I'll see if I can add this within a few days. I'll use a Turkey list from Avibase which is generally the best option when no official list is available.

First of all, thank you for your quick response!

I am very pleased to hear that; however I've just checked the AviBase list and there seems to be c.20 extra species that normally shouldn't be on the list (Canada Goose, Caucasian Snowcock, White-tailed Tropicbird, Solitary Snipe for instance).

The KuşBank (Birdbank; a bank of bird data on Turkey) list is much more reliable, with only 472 species (maybe more with a few taxonomical splits).

However, I'd be happy with any Turkish list

Whilst we like to support Avibase because it is regularly updated there is no information about the source of particular species and we do often find several mistakes like this. We can look to use the KuşBank list instead, which I presume is reasonably accurate and updated since it is used via World Birds . However, is it possible for you to get a copy of it electronically, preferably in spreadsheet format with English and scientific names? The first species I noticed was Cory's Shearwater, which the website via Google translated into "Boz minute hand", which doesn't seem very helpful

Well I can send it as a table if that's what you mean Would you like me to send it here ?

If you can, please email a spreadsheet to listing@bubo.org

Hi all.

Any joy with a list for Turkey yet as I'm unable to find one using 'Create New List'? I've got my 1990 dog-eared paper list to hand, would love to get it on BUBO... :laugh:

Atb,

James

Unfortunately not James, I think we'll stick to using the Avibase list. Won't happen for a while though - which I'm sure you can cope with if your records are 24 years old

Thanks for that Mike, I'll try Avibase and maybe import the list to Bubo...

Atb,

James

Any news about the Turkish List?

Thanks!
Thijs