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I have checked countless pictures of raptors in books and on the internet and I always concluded that flight shots can’t be surpassed. I know it’s quite subjective but I believe this behavior expresses the best what is a raptor about. It’s been a while since I planned to take some quality flight pictures of certain [...]

Each year in mid-January raptor fans take part in a synchronised winter eagle count called “Sasszinkron” in Hungarian (“sas” = “eagle”). It is organised on the same day in most regions of Hungary and participants use the same method in order to get the most accurate national estimation on the number of wintering eagles. On [...]

Dear Visitor! We are happy to inform you that we have created a gallery called NEW IMAGES.  Our new pictures will be uploaded here at the size of 900 pixels on the longer side. We will keep these pictures in the gallery for a month and then we move them to the gallery they belong to. Enjoy [...]

We spent a few hours with raptor watching in the north-east of the Heves Plain on 5th January with my friend Attila Bartha. The sky was dull but we saw a relatively good number of birds of prey in spite of the snow cover: 15+ White-tailed Eagles but only two adult Eastern Imperial Eagles perching [...]

With my wife and the kids we spent the turn of the year in Debrecen and had really great time with my parents. While driving on the way back home we counted 84 Common Buzzards, 1 Rough-legged Buzzard, 8 Kestrel and 1 imm/ad female Hen Harrier in a 100m-wide transect along the road between Debrecen [...]

This is the 4th winter that I have been following the Sakers and Peregrines coming to my hometown Debrecen to hunt for pigeons. By photos I could distinguish 7 different Sakers in the previous season. So far I have seen 3 of them this winter. On Dec. 28 finally I had some time to spend [...]

Dear Visitor! We have just added a new species, the White-tailed Eagle to our website! Enjoy the pictures! Happy New Year! Gabor & Andras

Dear Visitor! We would like to wish you Merry Christmas and a successful Happy New Year! Gábor and András

Dear Visitor, Welcome to our website, we hope that you will find interesting images of raptors in the galleries! Please share with us your thoughts about the photos and the website! Many thanks and we wish you a pleasure staying on RaptorImages! Andras & Gabor