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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 [...]

On 23 June I was sitting on our terrace eating cherry and thinking about the matters of life with my camera in my hand because I wanted to take photos of the male Black Redstart that breeds every year under the eaves. It was a real pleasure. The white homing pigeons of a far street [...]

Besides the regular check of mountain Imperial Eagle territories where we decided not to ring chicks years ago, I spent two days with Márton Horváth, Imre Fatér, Tamás Szitta and other colleagues in the lowlands in mid-June ringing eagles and collecting food remains and feathers.  As in the previous season Attilla Bereczky, a professional tree [...]

Honey Buzzards arrived at their territories in early May and still often perform the distinct “wing-clapping” display flight. While we attempted to find the nest site of a Lesser Spotted Eagle pairs from a vantage point with my friend Gábor Domboróczki I was lucky and could take closer flight photos about two adult Honey Buzzards. [...]

During the last few months I spent a lot of time organizing the Budapest Conference on „Power lines and bird mortality in Europe” under a contract to MME/BirdLife Hungary. This is an extremely important bird conservation issue since mortality on power lines, due to collision and especially electrocution, has been confirmed as one of the [...]

I took this photo of a young female Peregrine after it had been ringed by Miklós Váczi in the Bükk Mountains on 14 may 2008. The colour ringed bird has recently been identified as the female of one of the breeding pairs in the Pilis Mountains over 120 km west of its natal territory. More [...]