{"id":169,"date":"2011-12-29T00:11:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/en\/?p=169"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:26:15","slug":"%d1%81urrent-state-of-the-saker-falcon-population-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/169","title":{"rendered":"\u0421urrent state of the Saker Falcon population in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saker Falcon (<em>Falco cherrug<\/em>) \u2212 is a rare breeding species of birds of prey, listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine. Its number has sharply declined in the first half of the 20th century. Then a gradual restoration of the population started in the 1980s, and in the Red Data Book of Ukraine (Milobog, 2009) the bird number was estimated as 250-300 pairs. As a result of the population growth in Europe <em>BirdLife International<\/em> in 2010 revised the conservation status of this raptor and moved it from the category \u00ab<em>endangered<\/em>\u00bb (EN) to \u00ab<em>vulnerable<\/em>\u00bb (VU). This fact caused many negative responses of birds of prey experts (see, for instance, <a title=\"RAPTORS CONSERVATION 19\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sibecocenter.ru\/rc19angl.htm\">articles of O.V.Belyalov, A.V.Moshkin in the journal &#8220;Raptors Conservation&#8221; (2010)<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>The Saker population in Ukraine is extremely vulnerable. Major threats are poaching (includes taking out birds for falconry), inadequate food supply, lack of breeding sites. Therefore, we support a reasonable position to return the status  \u00ab<em>endangered<\/em>\u00bb for the species.<\/p>\n<p>At the Saker International Conference in Hungary, September 2010, there was presented a report by Yu. V. Milobog and V.V. Vetrov on the current state of population of this species in Ukraine and adjacent territories. As a result of more detailed studies conducted in recent years, the number was estimated as 315-345 pairs. The report is available here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Open file\" href=\"\/files\/SakerConf2010.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-left doc\" src=\"\/img\/misc\/SakerConf.jpg\" alt=\"Open file\" ><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Milobog Y., Vetrov V. Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) in Ukraine and adjacent areas \/\/ Conservation of the Saker Falcon (<em>Falco cherrug<\/em>) in Europe  &#8211; Sharing the results of the life06nat\/h\/000096 \u201cConservation of the Falco cherrug in the Carpathian Basin\u201d Project (Bukk National Park Directorate Eger, Hungary, 16-18 September 2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Size 40 kB, pdf-file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) \u2212 is a rare breeding species of birds of prey, listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine. Its number has sharply declined in the first half of the 20th century. Then a gradual restoration of the population started in the 1980s, and in the Red Data Book of Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-field-researches","category-new-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raptors.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}