30.09.2019
In January a dead white-tailed eagle was found by a jogger in Lower Austria. The female was found on a freight road. The dead animal was lying on the ground without any indication of a natural cause of death. A complaint was filed and the bird was sent to the laboratory for examination. The analysis proofed poisoning by Carbofuran.
08.05.2019 - BirdLife Austria reports a horrific discovery from the Western Weinviertel region in Lower Austria. On 6th May a passionate birdwatcher notified the bird conservation organisation of a sad finding: Three five-week-old Eagle Owl chicks had been brutally punched to death and burried nearby their nest. The police have been notified and are currently investigating this case.
The main cause of death for raptors in Central Europe is illegal persecution from humans. Even species which are endangered and strictly protected, such as the Imperial Eagle, are regularly shot or poisoned. In addition to the international PannonEagle LIFE Project, Birdlife Austria is financing the education of two Nature Conservation Dogs to train them to become tracker dogs for the search for animal corpses and poisonous baits.
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.
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.
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.
2019.07.22.
In the spring and autumn we are keeping busy with habitat restoration work within the framework of the PannonEagle LIFE programme.
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.
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.
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.
