Archive for March, 2009

Observations of marked birds

There came a period of bird spring migration, and again we’re searching the sky for silhouettes of our favourites. Quite often we don’t guess that our observations might give an unexpected result. During last decades an individual marking of birds of prey by using colour rings, wing tags or ‘windows’ on wings is rather common-spread. […]

The third cycle of counts of BP in the alienated zone of CAPS

THE FINAL STAGE OF WINTER COUNTS OF LARGE BIRDS OF PREY IN THE ALIENATED ZONE OF THE CHORNOBYL ATOMIC POWER STATION IN THE WINTER 2008-2009 The third cycle of counts of large birds of prey during winter 2008-2009 was carried out 17-20.02.2009. Snowfalls, started on the threshold of counts, have returned leaving winter. The ground […]