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Dear Friends, The past year was really busy for us as we finally published the Hungarian version of our Birds of Prey of Hungary photography book together with our friend Zoltan Turny as a co-author.  It has been a highly motivating project thanks to many people who supported it. We are planning to publish the [...]

Foxes are not against easy food, especially in winter. But it is not always safe to take prey from an Imperial Eagle territory when the owners are at home, as the following image, which I took in 2010, shows it. Last weekend a smart fox performed a funny action in front of me. It was [...]

On 17th of December, I could manage to photograph a 1st-year female Steppe Eagle with a colour ring on her left leg in Raysut, Oman. Based on the black-orange colours and the A16 code the bird could have been identified as the one that had been ringed by Igor Karyakin and his colleagues, Andrey Kovalenko [...]

I have planned a trip to Oman for many years for collecting data and photo documentation on Eastern Imperial Eagles and other raptors but unfortunately it did not come true in the past years. But not in 2012! The 1st Meeting of Signatories of the CMS (Bonn Convention) Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of [...]

We wish our Friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2013 filled with health, love, wealth and good luck! András és Gábor

The winter and spring passed very quickly with extreme hard work, mainly in the office, unfortunately, but with interesting raptor conservation related consultancy at least. I am trying to summarize the more important photo events of the last five months below (Wintering Eagles, Spain!, Spanish Imperial Eagles). Regards, András

The Spanish Imperial Eagle (SIE – Aquila adalberti) is the closest relative of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (EIE – Aquila heliaca). Actually, the two species were separated only in the 1990s. Today they are thought to form a so called superspecies. The Spanish Imperial Eagle is probably the rarest Aquila species of all. Its breeding [...]