Results of the 2nd Pannonian Eagle Census
05.02.2019.
In January, 2019, the 16th National Eagle Census was organized by MME/Birdlife Hungary in collaboration with the National Park Directorates and other NGOs.
An entire Imperial Eagle family was poisoned
17.09.2019.
On the 17th of August, the Körös-Maros Nemzeti Park Directorate was notified about the death of a few raptor birds. The ranger identified an adult male and female Imperial Eagles, he also found their two fleglings in the vicinity, which means that an entire eagle family is perished.
Czech Imperial eagles in 2018
17.9.2019
In the 2019 breeding season five pairs were successful in Czechia and raised six chicks. In total, birds occupied ten territories, all in southern Moravia.
Somebody shot a White-tailed Eagle juvenile. The bird died
15.8.2019
Somebody shot a White-tailed Eagle juvenile in the Litoměřice area. Unable to fly, he suffered for several days, until two mushroom pickers found him. The next day he should undergo the operation. Unfortunately, the young eagle died during the night.
Habitat restoration activities
2019.07.22.
In the spring and autumn we are keeping busy with habitat restoration work within the framework of the PannonEagle LIFE programme.
Imperial eagle siblings met again after months being separated
4.6.2019
In summer 2018 two chicks of the Imperial eagle got backpacks equiped with hi-tech GPS-GSM loggers to track their activity and detect potential dangers. We watched their journey as one siblings stayed exclusively in Central Europe, the other went straight to the south on the Greek island of Crete. Now they are both again in the Central Europe.
Blessing in disguise for a female eagle
29.5.2019
On Sunday, 19 May 2019, a non-flying female Imperial Eagle was found near its nest in the vicinity of Hlohovec (Slovakia). It was an individual of the pair which we have been monitoring for a long time and which shifts between several nesting localities.
Two White-tailed eagle chicks were killed by cuting down the tree with the nest
14.5.2019
Two White-tailed eagle chicks were killed in the South Bohemia when someone cut down the tree with their nest. „The chicks could not fly yet and were killed when the tree hit the ground. The police investigates this case,,“ said the dog handler Klára Hlubocká.
Several killed White-tailed eagles found in the South Bohemia
29.3.2019
Dog handler of the Czech society for ornithology Klára Hlubocká and specially trained dogs went on 13th March 13 at the request of Austrian colleagues to the South Bohemia to search for the White-tailed eagle with a transmitter suspected to have died.
Crime scene Großinzersdorf (Lower Austria) – more than 15 animals clearly poisoned, BirdLife Austria demands consequences
No end to the series of illegal raptor persecution around Großinzersdorf near Zistersdorf (Lower Austria). On the contrary, new poisoning cases claim the lives of one White-tailed Eagle, three Red Kites, and six Common Buzzards, as well as a yet unconfirmed number of foxes and martens.
After only a few dead birds had initially been discovered, intensive searching by members of the bird conservation organisation BirdLife Austria and a specially-trained team of sniffer dogs uncovered the full extent of the case.