Bird's paradise in southeast Turkey: Hevsel Gardens

Bird's paradise in southeast Turkey: Hevsel Gardens

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The 8,000-year-old Hevsel Gardens in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, which is on the UNESCO Heritage List, hosts around 200 bird species.
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The number of birds in Hevsel Gardens, spanning around three thousand hectares, varies according to the migration seasons.
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Hevsel Gardens, where settled bird species such as pink-breasted warbler, nightingale, wren, night herons and water chickens live together, is known as the most important recreation area of the region during migration seasons.
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Birds migrating from Africa to Asia and Europe during the spring season leave with the autumn in the Hevsel Gardens where they stay and are fed.
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A large part of the summer migratory birds has returned to Africa as the weather began to get cold in Hevsel.
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But migratory birds flying from northern countries have replaced them.
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In Hevsel, the sounds of birds from the north, such as stone birds and European robin, echo.
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Mammals such as otters, squirrels and foxes also live in the historic Hevsel Gardens, where agriculture has been carried out for centuries and meets the vegetable and fruit needs of the city and the region.
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In 2013, Hevsel Gardens was nominated for a UNESCO World Heritage list. In 2015, it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
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