john shaquille is a world renowned own authentic se, let's say to come to a professor in the united states every year, chandra, time to homeland attacking and comes to this area part of the country. what draws him here is a 5 kilometer squared pocket of land. the iris river wetlands, john came across it in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth. and i thought this looks like a globally important oasis and critical spot for migration breeding and wintering, birds. and it's compet different coming here in person. and i thought this is it, this is a place where i wanna do long term research to really understand what birds use this area. this rare, wet land, situated in the dry sub desert region is created when the iris river floods. it's ideally located for migrating birds out of 35 global hot spots. we're at the intersection of not one, but 23 of the eight's worlds global bird migration flyers that intersect right where we are in north eastern turkey. it is one of the most special wetlands on the platter. bass, he discovered a treasure child. how did he fail? it was so exciting