Archive for January, 2009

Counts of Birds of Prey in January 2009 in Cherkasy Region

During January 2009 three counts of birds of prey were carried out in agricultural landscapes of Cherkasy region. A motor-car was used for the counts; the total route length amounted to 178 km. The investigations covered: 2.01.09 – Zolotonosha and Chornobay districts; 17.01.09 – Cherkasy and Chygyryn districts. Weather conditions: snow cover was 10-15 cm […]

New Issue of Journal «Berkut» Published

New issue of Ukrainian ornithological journal “Berkut” (2007, Vol. 16, Iss. 2) includes the following papers on birds of prey: • Dombrovsky V.Ch. – Toward breeding of the Spotted Eagle in Western and South Ukraine. [in Russian] • Kitowski I., Pitucha G. – Long term changes in the population size of the Eurasian Marsh Harrier […]

Present Status of Ukrainian Birds of Prey

In spite of great ornithologists’ interest, Ukrainian birds of prey still remain a poor studied group. Due to changes in distribution and numbers, status of many raptor species has changed in many regions and is actually unknown. As a consequence, the ornithologists often rely on data from former researches, which now don’t correspond to real […]

Counts and catching of birds of prey

14.01.2009 we visited the urban junkyard of Kyiv, located in Obukhov district near the village of Krenychi. There we carried out counts and catching of birds of prey. It was recorded a concentration of Corvidae (Jackdaw, Rook), about 3,000 individuals in a total. Apart from these species, the junkyard is a feeding place for the […]

Winter ringing of raptors near Kyiv

Raptor ringing is one of our studies directions A trip to Kyiv area turned out to be rather interesting. After Christmas holidays I was enthusiastic to spend a day in nature and be revived with good impressions. Since the very dawn of 9.01.2009 I set tackles for catching raptors near the village of Pukhovka (Brovary […]

Wintering counts of birds of prey in the alienated zone of Chornobyl atomic power station

RESULTS OF COUNTS OF LARGE BIRDS OF PREY IN THE ALIENATED ZONE OF CHORNOBYL ATOMIC POWER STATION IN DECEMBER 2008 The 30 Kilometer Chornobyl’s alienation zone is poorly studied and at the same time one of the most interesting area. Participants of the expedition from 23th December to 26th December 2008 by car ‘Niva’ conducted […]