WTE Full Text Documents - English (online available)

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96.Sea eagle project Newsletter 2008

Pictures, maps, diagrams

Document library of the RSPB, page 1

http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/library/newsletters.aspx

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97.Sea eagle project Newsletter 2009

Pictures, maps, diagrams

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98.Sea eagle project Newsletter 2010

Pictures, maps, diagrams

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99.Towards a Baltic Sea Unaffected by Hazardous Substances

HELCOM Overview 2007
WTE mentioned
http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Krakow20 ... MM2007.pdf

Learn more about the Baltic Sea:

See the Baltic Sea
Baltic Environmental Forum, Riga 2009
The book is available in English, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian at visitbalticsea.net
http://www.visitbalticsea.net/download/Book_EN.pdf

Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Baltic Sea
http://www.visitbalticsea.net/

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100.Predatory bird health - white-tailed sea eagle

Key message:
Strong relationships have been found between white-tailed sea eagle reproductive ability and concentrations of DDTs and PCBs in their eggs (12). Reproduction in the Baltic eagle population in the 1970s was reduced to 1/5 of the pre-1950 background level. Following bans of DDT and PCB during the 1970s around the Baltic, eagle productivity began to recover in the 1980s and since the mid-1990s is largely back to pre-1950 levels. The population on the Swedish Baltic coast has increased at 7.8 % per year since 1990.

On the Swedish coast of the Bothnian Sea, nestling brood size remains below the pre-1950 level and the occurrence of dead eggs is significantly higher than in the Baltic Proper and Bothnian Bay, indicating a possible impact from other contaminants (10).

This fact sheet includes data from two coastal populations in Sweden and from a sample of coastal and inland populations in Germany (Federal State Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).

Björn Helander & Anders Bignert, Department of Contaminant Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, Christof Herrmann, Agency for Environment, Nature Conservation & Geology of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. HELCOM Indicator Fact Sheets 2009. Online

Map, diagrams

http://www.helcom.fi/BSAP_assessment/if ... irdHealth/

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101.Some Notes

The oldest Finnish White-tailed Eagle
Interesting resightings and recoveries of ringed birds, updated April 2007
“E-3.948 was ringed as a chick in southwestern Finland on 19.6.1973. More than 25 years later (29.7.1998), the bird was found dead in the same area.”
Source: http://www.luomus.fi/english/zoology/ri ... esting.htm

Update July 2013: Norway´s oldest known White-tailed Eagle
She is about 31 years old and lives in Steigen, Northern Norway. There are 60 breeding pairs in this area, average age: 15 years.
Source: NRK Nordland, 31 July 2013. By Andreas Budalen
http://www.nrk.no/nordland/dette-kan-va ... 1.11158982

The last recorded native white-tailed eagle in Britain
It was a rare albino (all-white) eagle that was shot in Shetland in 1917.
Source:http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/white-tailedeagle

Read more about this albino eagle: Animal Mind, by Frances Pitt, 2006 (originally published in 1927)
Chapter XIII. Territory; Pages 181-183. Online available at Google books (go to Google/Books/key word: Animal Mind).

See another white specimen: “Aquila alba”, Museum of Natural History in Vienna

Page 20 (pdf document page 2) :
http://www.europeanraptors.org/document ... 9-0028.pdf

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102.Newspaper articles/UK

Newspaper articles (mainly UK) and links.

Chris Monk´s WTE collection "All things White-tailed Eagle" at BirdForum. “BirdForum is the net's largest birding community, dedicated to wild birds and birding (…).”

To the article collection:
http://www.birdforum.net/archive/index.php/t-80029.html

To BirdForum, main page:
http://www.birdforum.net/

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103.Characteristics of White-tailed Sea Eagle Nest Sites in Hokkaido, Japan

Saiko Shiraki, 1994

The Condor 96:1003-1008; The Cooper Ornithological Society 1994

KW: nest site selection, nest tree, nesting forest, vegetation structure

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/fil ... -p1008.pdf

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104.First North American Nesting and Occurrence of Haliaeetus Albicilla on Attu Island, Alaska

"The nearctic range of White-tailed Eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) is listed as casual in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (Attu, where probably breeds, Unalaska), in eastern Greenland and off Massachusetts, near Nantucket Lightship (AOU 1983). The species breeds only in western Greenland in the nearctic; a breeding report from Baffin Island has not been confirmed (AOU 1983). Reference in the AOU Check-list to H. albicillu breeding
at Attu is based on data presented herein. We discovered an active aerie of this species on Attu Island
(52”49’N, 173”lO’E) in 1982. We have numerous observations of four individual H. albicilla there in May
to September, 1977 to 1986 (summary follows)."

Theodore G. Tobish, Jr. and Lawrence G. Balch

The Condor 89: 433-434; The Cooper Ornithological Society 1987

KW First nest, Attu Island, Aleutian Islands

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/fil ... -p0434.pdf

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105.Action Plan for the White-tailed Eagle at the Danube River

South East Europe

WTEs mentioned in: Danubeparks Newsletter, February 2010

Contains a map: Danube Parks

"The Danube River Network of Protected Areas has been founded in 2009 to improve the coordination of nature protection activities along the Danube. 12 Protected Areas from 8 Danube countries are now cooperating on a permanent basis in their conservation activities."

http://da000241.host.inode.at/files/436 ... y_2010.pdf

Read more:

Mura-Drava-Danube Trans-Boundary Biosphere Reserve

"On 17 September 2009, in an act of great environmental leadership and trans-boundary cooperation, the Governments of Croatia and Hungary signed a joint declaration to establish a Trans-Boundary Biosphere Reserve along the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers in 2010, which would be Europe’s largest one."

WTEs mentioned

Contains pictures and maps

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/facts ... eserve.pdf

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106.NEWCASTLE DISEASE VIRUS AND CHLAMYDIA PSITTACI IN FREE-LIVING RAPTORS FROM EASTERN GERMANY

Elvira Schettler, Jörns Fickel, Helmut Hotzel, Konrad Sachse, Wolf Juürgen Streich, Ulrich Wittstatt and Kai Frölich

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 39(1), 2003, pp. 57–63
Copyright: Wildlife Disease Association 2003

KW: Chlamydia psittaci, Germany, Newcastle disease virus, polymerase chain reaction,

http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/39/1/57.pdf

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107.White-tailed Eagles in Scotland and the reintroduction project in eastern Scotland

Interview with Claire Smith. Date of the interview: 26 January 2009

"In this interview Claire Smith from the RSPB talks about the situation of White-tailed Eagles in Scotland and the ongoing reintroduction program in eastern Scotland."

http://europeanraptors.org/interviews/i ... smith.html

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108.Post-Fledging Movements and Foraging Habitats of Immature White-tailed Sea Eagles in the Nemuro Region, Hokkaido, Japan

"In Far East Asia, Hokkaido is the southernmost breeding area for White-tailed Sea Eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla). A small number of White-tailed Sea Eagles breed in Hokkaido and are considered resident. Many White-tailed Sea Eagles, a long with Steller's Sea Eagles (H. pelagicus), also winter in Japan, mainly in Hokkaido. There are some reports on natal dispersal and movements of immatures for the European populations of White-tailed Sea Eagles (e.g., Helander 1980, Saurola 1981, Krone 1983, Stjernberg and Saurola 1983, Meyburg et al. 1994). These authors reported that eagles mostly do not spend their first winter near their natal areas, and some immatures migrate long distances, exceeding 1000 km. However, similar information does not exist for these eagles in Asia. The objectives of this study were to monitor the movements of immature White-tailed Sea Eagles from natal areas and to determine their foraging habitats."

Saiko Shiraki, Raptor Res. 36(3):220-224, Copyright The Raptor Research Foundation, Inc. 2002

KW: post-fledging movement, raging habitat, anthropogenic food sources, Hokkaido, Japan

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/jrr/v036n0 ... p00224.pdf

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109.People and wildlife conflict or co-existence?

Raptor predation on livestock (page 20)

Rosie Woodroffe, Simon J. Thirgood, Alan Rabinowitz, Cambridge University Press, 2005

“Conflict between people and wildlife is a major emerging conservation issue that is difficult to resolve. A wide array of wildlife species, from elephants to predatory birds, threaten human lives and livelihoods and are killed by people for this reason. Some of these species are common pests; unfortunately, others are threatened with extinction. This book discusses whether, and how, coexistence of people and endangered wildlife may be encouraged, using measures such as novel and traditional farming methods, compensation, sustainable hunting and ecotourism.”

Parts of the book available at Google-Books. Scroll the title page down to read the book and find the raptor article at page 20 or go to “about this book” at the top left and find an overview.

http://books.google.com/books?id=7mN0uM ... &q&f=false

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110.Lead poisoning in Steller’s Sea Eagles and White-tailed Sea Eagles

“Lead poisoning in Steller’s Sea Eagles and White-tailed Sea Eagles”, Nobumichi Kurosawa, First Symposium on Steller’s and White-tailed Sea Eagles in East Asia pp. 107-109, 2000 UETA, M. & MCGRADY, M.J. (eds) ©Wild Bird Society of Japan, Tokyo Japan.

(The link contains also 10 articles about Steller’s Sea Eagles, available as pdf-document.)

KW: lead poisoning, Kushiro Zoo, Japan

http://www.netlaputa.ne.jp/~mj-ueta/eagle.htm

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111.White-tailed Eagles/Scotland

Contains pictures

KW: Scottish range, distribution, status, Scotland, breeding, nesting

http://www.birdsofscotland.org.uk/white ... -eagle.pdf

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112.Population Development of Baltic Bird Species: White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)

Key message
At the beginning of the 20th century, as a consequence of severe persecution the White-tailed Sea Eagle faced extinction all around the Baltic Sea. In Denmark, the species even disappeared after 1911, and the same happened in Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region of Russia.

Due to protection measures, the population started to recover during the 1920s, but the positive trend was reversed from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s by the harmful effects of chemical pollutants (DDT, PCBs, and mercury) on mortality, fertility and reproduction success. Due to the ban of DDT and other pesticides in the early 1970s, the reproduction parameters started to improve at the beginning of the 1980s, and returned to normal levels in the mid-1990s (Helander et al. 2002). This resulted in an increase of breeding pair numbers in all Baltic Sea countries, which started during the 1980s and is still ongoing. From 1991 to 2007 the total Baltic population grew from about 680-690 bp to 2,100-2,250 bp.

Christof Herrmann, Agency for Environment, Nature Conservation, and Geology of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Oliver Krone, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
Torsten Stjernberg, WWF Finland’s White-tailed Sea Eagle working group, Finland
Björn Helander, Department of Contaminant Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.

HELCOM Indicator Fact Sheets 2009. Online
Update: HELCOM Baltic Sea Environment Fact Sheet 2011 http://www.helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/ ... -sea-eagle

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113.CAUTION: ELECTROCUTION! Suggested Practices for Bird Protection on Power Lines

Text: Dr. Dieter Haas, Dr. Markus Nipkow in collaboraton with Georg Fiedler, Markus Handschuh, Dr. Martin Schneider-Jacoby and Richard Schneider

© NABU Bundesverband, NABU-German Society for Nature Conservation, Registered Charity
E-Mail: NABU@NABU.de • Internet: http://www.NABU.de

http://www.nabu.de/vogelschutz/caution_ ... cution.pdf

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114.Protecting birds on powerlines: a practical guide on the risks to birds from electricity transmission facilities and how to minimise any such adverse effects

Dr. Dieter Haas, Dr. Markus Nipkow, Georg Fiedler, Richard Schneider, Waltraut Haas, Bernd Schürenberg
On behalf of NABU - German Society for Nature Conservation, Registered Charity and BirdLife Partner Germany (Produced for BirdLife International, 12. July 2003)

NABU – Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V., 53223 Bonn, Telephon: ++49-(0)228-4036-0 E-mail: NABU@NABU.de Internet: http://www.NABU.de

http://test.birdsandpowerlines.org/imag ... rlines.pdf

Pictures: Protecting birds on powerlines
(Produced for BirdLife International, 12. July 2003)

http://test.birdsandpowerlines.org/imag ... res(2).pdf

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115.A study of White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla movements and mortality at a wind farm in Norway

The wind power plant on the island of Smøla, western Norway, is currently the largest in Norway; it has 68 turbines with nominal capacity of 2–2.3 MW each, hub height of 70 m and rotor blade radius of 38–41 m,. It was constructed in two phases between 2001 and 2005. Approximately 60 White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla territories are found in the whole Smøla archipelago. Before construction there were 13 Eagle pairs holding territories in the wind farm area and within 500 m of it, whereas in 2009 this was reduced to only five. Since 1996, baseline data on the White-tailed Eagle population size and reproduction have been collected.

Nygård, T., Bevanger, K., Dahl, E.L., Flagsted, Ø., Follestad, A., Hoel, P.H., May, R. & Reitan, O.; © 2010 BOU & The Author(s)

This paper forms part of the proceedings from the BOU conference Climate Change and Birds.
Other papers from these proceedings can be viewed at http://www.BOUPROC.net.

http://www.bou.org.uk/bouproc-net/ccb/nygard-etal.pdf