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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 [...]

Andris has already posted about the research of the Imperial Eagles in Turkey and the 6th expedition he participated in. This spring (2012) I had a chance to join the field team again since Marci couldn’t being too busy with other matters. We spent 9 days in Turkey and a few more in Bulgaria helping [...]

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 [...]

We wish all our dear Visitors Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! András & Gábor

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 [...]