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The wildlife of Azerbaijan consists of its flora and fauna and their natural habitats. The symbol of fauna in Azerbaijan is the Karabakh horse (Azeri: Qarabağ atı) which is a mountain-steppe racing and riding horse which can be found only in Azerbaijan. It is one of the oldest breeds, with ancestry dating to the ancient world.
Caucasian leopards are endangered because of illegally hunt, human disturbance, etc. The World Wildlife Fund has stated that these animals are one of the most critically endangered species in the Caucasus Mountains. The Caspian tiger, also called Hyrcanian tiger was found in Azerbaijan until the late 1950s. But it became extinct over 40 years ago.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Azerbaijan.The avifauna of Azerbaijan include a total of 423 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
The Wildlife Photography subreddit is a community of 696k netizens interested in wild animal photography. They've got all kinds of animals (we're using the term here loosely, by the way) on there ...
The winners of the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, organized by the Natural History Museum, have been announced. From a record-breaking 59,228 entries submitted by ...
Image credits: Nature Photographer of the Year (NPOTY) 2024 #3 Category Mammals: Highly Commended, "Gone Fishing" By Hannes Lochner "A small-spotted genet visits a water pond for a sip and ...
Absheron National Park (Azerbaijani: Abşeron Milli Parkı) is a national park of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests' ecoregion. [1] It was established on 8 February 2005, on an area of 783 hectares (7.83 km 2) in the administrative territory of the District of Azizbeyov (now Khazar) in the City of Baku, on the base of Absheron State Nature Preserve.
The ecoregion lies mostly in the Kura-Aras Lowland, drained by the Kura River which flows eastward to empty into the Caspian Sea, and its southern tributary the Aras.It is bounded on the north by the Caucasus range, on the west by the Lesser Caucasus, and on the southwest by the Armenian Highlands, on the south by the Elburz Range, and on the east by the Caspian Sea. 70% of the ecoregion is ...