Migrations of Saker Falcons with satellite transmitters: results of June – September 2011
We bring to your attention the first results of tracking the Saker Falcons, marked with satellite transmitters in the south of Ukraine in 2011. About the previous expedition on searching Saker’s nests and marking the birds read here. As you probably remember from the earlier article, eight Saker’s chicks were marked in their nests, each […]
The International Expedition in Eastern Kazakhstan Region (Balkhash Аrea). Part 3
This post finishes a story about the scientific expedition to Kazakhstan in 2011. Part 1 is available here, Part 2 is here. The period of observations covers the middle of the third decade of May to the middle of the third decade of June In the third decade of May the Nightjars were already actively […]
The International Expedition in Eastern Kazakhstan Region (Balkhash Аrea). Part 2
This post continues a story about the scientific expedition to Kazakhstan in 2011. Part 1 is available to read here. The middle of the first decade of May was marked with appearance of first Rosy Starlings. And the Lesser Short-toed Lark and Calandra Larks had first fledglings which become easy and accessible prey for raptors. […]
The International Expedition in Eastern Kazakhstan Region (Balkhash Аrea)
During April – June 2011 I had the opportunity to conduct ornithological fieldworks in Kazakhstan. The expedition was organized under support of the International Fund for for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) and participated by representatives of France, UAE, Morocco, India, China, Africa, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Great Britain. The main objective was to study the […]
International expedition to study the Saker Falcon in the south of Ukraine
31.05-6.06.2011 a joint Ukrainian-Hungarian-Romanian expedition trip to study the Saker Falcon in the south of Ukraine was carried out. The main purpose was to mark Saker’s chicks with satellite transmitters to investigate their It is the first project in Ukraine dedicated to satellite telemetry of birds of prey. Photo: M.Prommer, M.Gavrilyuk, V.Vetrov, H.Torok As we […]
Results of spring counts in the alienated zone of Chornobyl Atomic Power Station (CAPS) in March 2011
This work continues of our studies of birds of prey fauna in the alienated zone of Chornobyl Atomic Power Station. The Chornobyl alienated zone always attracts researches with its wild surroundings almost deprived of traces of human activity, and with abundance of various groups of animals and birds. We used a chance to realize our […]
Results of counts of wintering birds of prey in 2011 in the Central Dnieper area
In January-February 2011 we have carried out counts of birds of prey to monitor their numbers. The counts covered districts of Cherkasy, Chyhyryn and Kaniv (Cherkasy region), as well as Svitlovodsk district (Kirovohrad region) and Kremenchuh district (Poltava region). Three counts were conducted in agrolandscapes using an automobile. Additive data were received during field visits […]
Counts and ringing of birds of prey in the north of Ukraine in winter 2011
To carry out monitoring of numbers and ringing of wintering birds of prey we did 5 visits of the areas within Kyiv region in the winter of 2011. 4.01 and 20.02 we visited a dump of solid domestic waste of Kyiv, 24.02 − cattle farm, 27.02 − grain elevator in Boryspil district, and 1.03 − […]
Counts of White-tailed Eagles at Kremenchuhske Reservoir during autumn 2010
In autumn 2010 we continued monitoring works in areas of autumn concentration of the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) at the Middle Dnieper. Results are presented below. The counts were carried out in key territories of concentrations of these eagles. They were fishponds, sites with high numbers of waterbirds discovered by us in previous years. We […]
Birds of prey in steppes of Russia – 2
In a previous material we have presented the results of studies of birds of prey during the automobile trip to Orenburg for the 13th international ornithological conference. On the way back the route of our travel was changed. Observation results for birds of prey during the car expedition from Orenburg (Russia) to Luhansk (Ukraine) are […]