Soner Oruc

Brief Bio:

Cranebaby, greymullet, mullberry,   sparrowhawk, baba, bird and birdLovEr, bird, life survival, Uğukuşu, Şifa Heybesi, Middle East University (METU), Sarıbaş, Orhantepe village, Akçay village, İSDEMİR, Anatolia, Caucasus, colorful and polyphonic worlds of birds, sing songs to birds, scorpions and snakes, reptiles, cockroach plant, butterflies,  peoples and the cosmos.

Knowledge about wild birds and the problems they face, as well as bird awareness and bird watching. In 2012, received "Experienced Bird Ringer'' license from the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks. In 2014, I published the book “ODTÜ’nün Kuşları” (Birds’s of METU) together with my friend Kasım Kırlangıç. Living in Arhavi since 2022 and improving my knowledge and experience in the traditional bird wisdom (ethno ornithology) and plant wisdom (ethnobotany) of the Laz people.

Project Abstract: Educational Anthropological Documentaries (teaser). How to make ethnobotany: A case Study in the Western Lesser Caucasus Mountain Highlands “Yayla(s)”

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(Traditional Plant Wisdom)