of main nesting areas: one week survey required during May or June. 
Details: small boat essential. Accommodation in tents or in villages around the 
lake. 
* Eber Lake 
Location: near Aksehir, lake district. 
Description: large freshwater lake covered mainly with dense reed. No recent 
information, but known to be still very good for birds. Eber Lake is probably 
strongly related to Aksehir Lake hydrologically and ecologically. 
Information required: one-week survey during May or June, ideally simultaneously 
with survey of Aksehir Lake. 
* Sugla Lake 
Location: south of Seydisehir, lake district. 
Description: formerly 20,000 hectares lake, now little water and sometimes totally 
dry. This lake has suffered enormously from abstraction. Local fishermen are 
now without income, and the site is therefore now known as the Turkish Aral Sea . 
Complaints from locals forced the authorities to pump water occasionally, but 
extent of wetland at present unknown. 
Information required: at least four days during 15 May-30 June should be spend by 
a team with a car to establish whether there are reedbeds or other suitable places 
with birds. 
* Siitciiler vulture colony 
Location: 70 km south of Egirdir, lake 
district. 
Description: cliff faces in Taurus 
mountains. Probably eight nests of 
Griffon Vultures Gypsfulvus identified 
in 1992. 
Information required: exact number 
should be determined during one day 
during May-June. 
Details: accommodation in tents. There 
is a bus service from Istanbul to Siitciiler 
and regular buses from Egirdir to 
Siitciiler. 
*** Tuz Lake 
Location: Central Anatolia, in the heart of Turkey. 
Description: about 1 10,000 hectares saltlake. Presence of Turkey's major colony of 
Greater Flamingos Phoeiiicopterus ruber (11,000 nests) proved during aerial 
surveys in 1991 and 1992, but still little information on south and southwest 
which are probably extremely important. Extensive areas of saltflats and some 
springs or streams creating freshwater habitats. 
Information required: breeding bird survey during May to June, for at least 10 days. 
Details: Probably the area is largely inaccessible even with four-wheel-drive 
vehicles, and likely to require a lot of footwork. 
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