We visited the Heves Plain grasslands for checking resident and migrating birds of prey on 16th September with my friend Péter Tóth.
I think there were relatively few raptors there to the season, probably because of the low prey availability due to the extreme dry weather for months.
On an alfalfa land I could take some closer images of Red-footed Falcons and when I downloaded them it turned out that one of the young RFFs is colour ringed.There is an aggregation site of RRFs nearby, anyway.
I could read the code of its ring, the bird was ringed by Attila Fülöp near Nagyvárad (Oredea), in Partium, Rumania, 125 km away from the site I photographed it.
The Milvus Group has been managing the breeding site very successfully for years. As a result of artificial nest provision the number of breeding pairs has increased to 33 from 1 since 2003 when the breeding population almost disappeared (http://milvus.ro/ariiprotejate/valea-alceului ).
I uploaded some images of the Falcons into the New Images gallery.
Thanks very much to Attila Nagy and Szilárd Daróczi of Milvus and to Szabolcs Solt and Péter Palatitz of MME for the pieces of information about the bird and the breeding site.
Regards,
András
