Yet another sad news
Another sad news, this time from Israel. Boyetz - wintering Greater Spotted Eagle, was found dead on March 12th.
Boyetz was fitted with Aquila datalogger as a juvenile bird in summer 2019 in the Moscow District, Russia. Spent each winter in Israel. Unfortunatelly this year already in January his logger did not register any movements, therefore Russian scientists contacted local ornithologist for help. Since the logger was active, they had no problems finding the body.
In 2019 four Greater Spotted Eagles were fitted with our loggers within the project. Untli now only one bird has survived.
Results of GSE telemetry research published
The results of long-year studies on the European population of the Greater Spotted Eagles Aquila clanga were recently published. This time the aim was to reseach the migration strategies. Aquila dataloggers were used within the studies.
The publication can be viewed here.
Zadhira is dead
Unfortunately a sad news - one of the Russian Greater Spotted Eagles did not survive the migration. The bird named Zadhira was born last year and while in the nest was tagged with our 25g unit. Spent the winter on the Arabic Peninsula and then headed east, visiting Kuwait. Further east he reached the Zagrs Mountains which forced him to turn north. Unfortunately this journey did not last long. Soon after the logger started sending coordinates from one point only and after a week the body was found under a power line.
The only positive aspect is the international cooperation that took place in order to find the bird. That is extraordinary how people of different nations, cultures and religions can cooperate together. Neither CIA, FBI nor CNN would do it faster, more efficient and, above all, pleasant. Thank you all who contributed to that!
Greater Spotted Eagles return to breeding grounds
Migration map of Moscow's Greater Spotted Eagles
We are pleased to inform that we just published the migration map of Greater Spotted Eagles. Four born in the Moscow Region birds were fitted with our "Aquila25" loggers this year. Their journey can be followed here.
Meanwhile on our company's migration map you can follow the migration of another Russian GSE, this one born in Tatarstan.
Summer of Belarussian Greater Spotted Eagles in the nest camera lens
We have some news from the Belarus. The "Conservation of native birds" issued an article about this year's breeding season presenting some photos from the installed nest cameras. The full article (in Belarussian) is available here.