4.6.2019
In summer 2018 two chicks of the Imperial eagle got backpacks equiped with hi-tech GPS-GSM loggers to track their activity and detect potential dangers. We watched their journey as one siblings stayed exclusively in Central Europe, the other went straight to the south on the Greek island of Crete. Now they are both again in the Central Europe.
29.5.2019
On Sunday, 19 May 2019, a non-flying female Imperial Eagle was found near its nest in the vicinity of Hlohovec (Slovakia). It was an individual of the pair which we have been monitoring for a long time and which shifts between several nesting localities.
14.5.2019
Two White-tailed eagle chicks were killed in the South Bohemia when someone cut down the tree with their nest. „The chicks could not fly yet and were killed when the tree hit the ground. The police investigates this case,,“ said the dog handler Klára Hlubocká.
29.3.2019
Dog handler of the Czech society for ornithology Klára Hlubocká and specially trained dogs went on 13th March 13 at the request of Austrian colleagues to the South Bohemia to search for the White-tailed eagle with a transmitter suspected to have died.
No end to the series of illegal raptor persecution around Großinzersdorf near Zistersdorf (Lower Austria). On the contrary, new poisoning cases claim the lives of one White-tailed Eagle, three Red Kites, and six Common Buzzards, as well as a yet unconfirmed number of foxes and martens.
After only a few dead birds had initially been discovered, intensive searching by members of the bird conservation organisation BirdLife Austria and a specially-trained team of sniffer dogs uncovered the full extent of the case.
No end to the illegal persecution of raptors in Lower Austria. As recently as February, 15 dead animals had been found near Großinzersdorf, including one poisoned White-tailed Eagle, four Red Kites, and seven Common Buzzards. Shortly afterwards, a dead Common Buzzard with its talons removed was found near Haringsee, and now the bird conservation organisation BirdLife Austria received a report of a dead Common Buzzard near Ottenthal in the district of Mistelbach: shot, as the pathological findings showed
27. 2. 2019
The Common buzzard was poisoned in Czechia in January. The later analysis proved that it was killed by carbofuran.
5. 2. 2019
The Czech government signed on Monday 4th February the important decree, which adds the Imperial eagle as a target species of the SPA Soutok-Tvrdonicko in the South Moravian Region.
31. 1. 2019
Although they are siblings, the distance between them is about 2,000 kilometers. While one of the pair of Imperial eagles, whose path we have been following since July 2018, is currently staying close to Czech borders, the second one is in Greece.
These lines are hard to write...We have to say farewell to a young and talented nature photographer, conservationist and friend.
