Armenian Bird Census Council & Ecotour Travel Agency are inviting birdwatchers to visit our contrasting country and to record about 150 bird species, including such specialties as Caspian Snowcock, Alpine Accentor, White-winged Snowfinch, Radde’s Accentor, White-throated Robinwide, Persian Wheatear, White-tailed Lapwing and number of others.

Armenia, despite on the small size includes wide variety of habitats from dry semi-deserts to alpine meadows, which are inhabited by different species of birds. In the semi-deserts, you can find such species as: Fisch's Wheatear, Upcher's Warbler, in the forest areas the shelter is founded by Semi-collared Flycatcher, Medium Spotted Woodpecker, in wetlands: White-tailed Plover, White-headed Duck, in the mountain steppes the inhabitants are: Radde's Accentor and Siberian Stonechat, while the alpine zone attracts Caspian Snowcock and Alpine Accentor,

Armenia hosts wide diversity of habitats: semi-deserts, steppes, forests, sub-alpine meadows, wetlands, etc. Being a mountainous country with rigorous terrain, Armenia is full of rocks, cliffs, gorges, and canyons.

In Armash we will have an opportunity to see Pygmy Cormorant, Little Bittern, Purple and Squacco Herons, Black-crowned Night-heron, and Spoonbill

Aragats is the highest mountain of Armenia, it holds four peaks, the highest of which has an altitude 4090 m. The mountain holds variety of habitats: semi-desert on the bottom through mountain steppe and deciduous forest at the middle and sub-alpine belt on the high elevation. The Southern slope of the mountain is cut by deep canyon with high cliffs on both sides.