The Golden Eagle Trust has published a summary of the Golden Eagle reintroduction project in Ireland for 2001 to 2011.
It contains breeding numbers, youngs fledged, birds released and much more. Illegal persecution is covered and at the end a summary for other raptor species like the Red Kite and the White-tailed Eagle is included.
Go here to read the full report:
Irish Golden Eagle Project Summary 2001-2011
A recent and very important scientific publication providing a framework for the conservation of the Hen Harrier in the United Kingdom is available is a PDF download (90 pages).
To read and download the report, click here:
A Conservation Framework for Hen Harriers in the United Kingdom
The proceedings on the 6th International Conference for Conservation of the Eastern Imperial Eagle are available for download:
Рroceedings on the 6th International Conference for Conservation of the Eastern Imperial Eagle.
For the download to work you have to register. It might happen that you will see a Bulgarian website when you click “Download the publication”. Just click on the English icon in the top right corner and the website will change back to English.
This is a must read for anyone interested in the Eastern Imperial Eagle. I don’t know of any publication with more up to date details on the species.
Also see this interview:
Interview with Dimitar Demerdjiev about the Eastern Imperial Eagle in Bulgaria
The population of the Eastern Imperial Eagle in Austria and neighbouring countries is still small and every bird that dies because of humans is one too many.
Although the breeding success in 2011 was the highest in Austria since the species came back as a breeding species (10 pairs, 7 successful, 14 young fledged), one of the juveniles has already been shot – and this was only detected because the bird hat a transmitter which was attached to the young eagle by Birdlife Austria as part of their conservation program of the Eastern Imperial Eagle.
This is very sad and a shame that something like this still happens in 2011. And it is not the first case of an illegally shot eagle. Since 2007 at least 4 White-tailed Eagles have been shot. And more eagles (both species) have been poisoned during the last years. And of course not all illegally killed birds are found.
More information (in German ) can be found here:
http://www.birdlife.at/coro-skat/presse/junger-kaiseradler-abgeschossen.html
Vultures are in trouble in many countries. In order to raise the public awareness about this fascinating creatures, there will be the International Vulture Awareness Day on September 3rd, 2011.
This annual event is supported by a huge number of organisations.
For more information, see here:
http://www.vultureday.org/2011/index.php
Lead poisoning is a serious threat to many raptors like the White-tailed Eagle, Golden Eagle, Bearded Vulture or Steller’s Sea Eagle.
A new important German publication (with English summaries for every article) about this issue with a focus on the White-tailed Eagle is now available from the Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung in Berlin where Sea Eagle expert Oliver Krone and his team have been doing research on lead poisoning for many years.
The new book (more than 120 pages) was published after a conference on the topic in 2009 and has many papers about the feeding ecology, population dynamics and lead poisoning of the White-tailed Eagle and other species like the Bearded Vulture or the impressive Steller’s Sea Eagle.
This is a must read for anyone who is interested in lead poisoning and raptors.
More information about the book and important facts about White-tailed Eagles and lead poisoning is available here:
The table of contents of the new book is here (PDF):
http://seeadlerforschung.de/downloads/Inhaltsverzeichnis_II.pdf
A detailed and very good review in German of this publication written bei Dieter Haas can be found in this PDF:
The Egyptian in Vulture is a rare and endangered vulture species in almost all countries where the it occurs. In Bulgaria the BSPB is working hard to protect the species.
Now a new website is online with information about the species, the threats the birds face and what is done to protect them.
Conservation and Research of the Egyptian Vulture in Bulgaria
16 more young White-tailed Sea Eagles from Norway have been moved to a secret location in Scotland where they will eventually be released into the wild as part a the reintroduction program for Europe’s largest eagle in eastern Scotland.
More information can be found on the RSPB website:
Safe arrival for sea eagle chicks
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (northern Germany) 49 hector of critical habitat for Lesser Spotted Eagle (one of the rarest and most endangered raptors in Germany) have been destroyed. The habitat were valuable grasslands use for foraging by 3 pairs of. Now they have been turned into fields which are not nearly as good a foraging habitat as the grasslands were.
According to Birdlife Germany, this is illegal as this was done in a protected area.
You can help and protest against this development by sending a letter to the regional government. More information (in German) incl. information about where to send protest letters can be found here.
http://mecklenburg-vorpommern.nabu.de/themen/landwirtschaft/13746.html
More information about the Birdlife Germany and their conservation work for the Lesser Spotted Eagle and how you can help can be found here:
http://www.nabu.de/tiereundpflanzen/voegel/vogelschutz/schreiadler/pate/index.html
After a successful conference in April 2011 in Budapest, the Budapest Declaration on bird protection and power lines has been adopted by the participants of the Budapest Conference “Power lines and bird mortality in Europe”.
The Conference was co-organised by MME/BirdLife Hungary, the Ministry of Rural Development of Hungary and BirdLife Europe and was kindly hosted by MAVIR (the Hungarian Transmission System Operator Company Ltd.), as part of the official programme of the Hungarian EU Presidency in 2011. It was attended by 123 participants from 29 European and Central Asian countries,the European Commission, UNEP-AEWA, six energy and utility companies, experts, businesses and NGOs.
13 conference presentations, 12 posters, the Budapest Declaration and the list of conference participants are available for download on the following MME website:
http://www.mme.hu/termeszetvedelem/budapest-conference-13-04-2011