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In the second week of last February I attended the Science Meeting of the EURAPMON project (www.eurapmon.eu) in Murcia, Spain. After the workshop we took the opportunity and spent a few days in the field with Nick P. Williams watching and photographing raptors in Castilla la Mancha and Extremadura. Spain is beautiful, the Spaniards are [...]

In January I took a chance on a place, which used to be one of the top three temporary settlement areas for young and immature Eastern Imperial Eagles (EIEs) and White-tailed Eagles (WTEs) one decade ago. The number of wintering eagles has decreased significantly since then, but they still can be seen every day in [...]

After the previous post comparing the Common Buzzard with the Rough-legged Buzzard here is another possible ID pitfall: a juvenile Common Buzzard and a juvenile Long-legged Buzzard. The picture shows the size difference between these two species as it is in reality, so the Common Buzzard is obviously smaller. Checking the wing-body proportions one can [...]

In spite of the drought dense populations of field voles emerged by November in unploughed fields, grassy field margins and fallow-lands on the Heves Plain. This is well shown by the relative high density of wintering Buzzards and Harriers. The plumage variety in the Common Buzzard is infinite, individuals with very different plumage colours and [...]

I have to apologize to all those who were already looking for the kazakh trip report I had promised this past summer. Now I’m trying to make up for this. If I had to summarize Kazakhstan raptorwise I would say that it is a must for any raptor fan. Since- except a short trip to [...]

I have been eager to take photos of Long-legged Buzzards for years but it is not so simple since these beautiful birds, according to their name, really prefer open, treeless areas where it is rather problematic to use a mobile photo hide successfully. Thus, I haven’t made any attempt until recently. There are specimens in [...]

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 [...]

In early August I found the nest and the fully developed nestling of a Short-toed Eagle pair in South Bükk Mountains. This territory is one of my favourites because I found it for the first time in 1989 when I started my studies in Eger. The adults were not aware of my presence so I [...]

In autumn 2007 while we were driving on the way to Georgia I spotted an adult Imperial Eagle from the motorway in NW Turkey.  At my earlier request Can Bilgin kindly sent me the available historical data for Turkey and from this particular place there had not been any observation about Imperial Eagles before. We [...]

I have spent 3 months (Apr-June) in Kazakhstan doing fieldwork in an international project. Although it wasn’t about raptors I spent my spare time searching for them and I tried to take pictures as well. This normally meant the worst part of the day lightwise. I added some new pictures to the next species which [...]