2019.07.22.

In the spring and autumn we are keeping busy with habitat restoration work within the framework of the PannonEagle LIFE programme.

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.

05.02.2019.

In January, 2019, the 16th National Eagle Census was organized by MME/Birdlife Hungary in collaboration with the National Park Directorates and other NGOs.