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[maertha]

Raptors. A Field Guide to Surveys and Monitoring (Second Edition 2009, free access)

Editors: Jon Hardey, Humphrey Crick, Chris Wernham, Helen Riley, Brian Etheridge & Des Thompson; published by Scottish Natural Heritage and The Stationary Office
Downloadable files available on the EURAPMON Website http://www.eurapmon.net/activities/good ... -package-5

[maertha]

Good news for eagle enthusiasts.

Nest webcam, Estonia:
http://pontu.eenet.ee/player/saunja.html

Information about the owners of the nest: What do we know about Linda and Sulev? Source: Looduskalender, March 2013. By Urmas Sellis http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/15997

White-tailed Eagle nest camera 2013/2014. Source: Looduskalender, November 2013. Text and photos: Urmas Sellis http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/18356

[maertha]

Interesting eagle news from Australia: „The Tasmanian subspecies of the wedge-tailed eagle may have arrived just a few hundred years ago.”

Source: Australian Geographic. By Wes Jud, 11 November 2013
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/ ... -finds.htm

[maertha]

Also interesting for bird watchers:
The Looduskalender wild boar camera season 2013/2014 starts http://pontu.eenet.ee/player/siga.html

[maertha]

Eagle or Swan: That was the question. Source: DN.no, 2 January 2014 http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article2742042.ece
News in English.no, 2 January 2014: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2014/01/02/ ... hits-swan/

[maertha]

The Schlei, documentary by Thomas Behrend

A film about the Schlei, a firth of the Baltic Sea in northern Germany. According to Behrend, the region is home to four pairs of White-tailed Eagles.
The film is currently available in the Arte Mediathek: http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/047319-000/la-schlei

Brief overview about the Schlei on the website of water-ways.net:
http://www.european-waterways.eu/e/info ... schlei.php

[maertha]

Eagle kills cat
Source: nrk.no, 5 January 2014. By Stian Eide http://www.nrk.no/nordland/katten-fjosp ... 1.11450595

[maertha]

If you live near the Danube, don´t miss the first Danube-wide Winter Census of the White-tailed Eagle on 12th January 2014.


Published by DANUBEPARKS, 30 January 2014

See also: Please report your White-tailed Eagle Sightings along the Danube river!
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=228

For more information check the magazine Danube inside, page seven.
Danube Inside (in English). Source: Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority Romania
http://www.ddbra.ro/media/Danubeparks%2 ... 13_low.pdf
Danube Inside (in German, siehe Seite sieben). Source: Danubeparks.org
http://www.danubeparks.org/files/1333_D ... _final.pdf

[maertha]

Winter census results: 750 White-tailed Eagles along the Danube

Nine countries, 3000 kilometres along the Danube river, 3000 working hours and about 300 volunteers

In English: Danube Parks, 13 January 2014 http://www.danubeparks.org/?story=416
In German: WWF Austria, 13 January 2014 http://www.wwf.at/de/menu27/subartikel2758/

[maertha]

Nature film recommendation: "Sea Eagle – Bird with the golden eye"

Documentary on the White-tailed Eagle and other animals (ospreys, wolves, bears, raccoon dogs) in Belarus/Central Europe.
Summary here: http://press.discovery.com/emea/apl/pro ... olden-eye/

The film is available on several video sharing websites.

[maertha]

Another nature documentary: Raptor grabs camera and films penguin colony

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdR-WlciBlo&gl=US
Published by JohnDownerProd, 17 January 2014

Learn more about the “camerabird” (striated caracara/Phalcoboenus australis) on ARKive:
http://www.arkive.org/striated-caracara ... australis/

[maertha]

Live-stream from an imperial eagle's feeding area in Hungary

Very interesting place, but if you want to see it, you have to watch some commercial advertising. According to the webside, the project was created to provide safe food for the endangered imperial eagle. White-tailed eagles, other birds and animals visit the feeding ground too.

Eagle camera/live-stream
http://imperialeagle.hu/content/webcam
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/15040907

Information about the increasing number of poisoning cases, project background and facts on the imperial eagle in Hungary
http://imperialeagle.hu/content/helicon ... ts-hungary

Pictures of technical details and surroundings
http://parlagisas.hu/content/webkameran ... dennapjait

Source: HELICON. For an eagle-friendly Hungary

[macdoum]

The farmers in Scotland complaining again;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-e ... e-25921453

[maertha]

Thanks macdoum. I added this article already to the topic „WtE in the Media“ 2014, doc.22 viewtopic.php?f=46&t=628&p=294396#p294396 It´s a heated debate again … I really hope an eagle-friendly solution can be found.

[maertha]

People in the UK still have the quite rare opportunity to observe a Steller´s sea eagle "in the wild". Several newspapers reported that the 10-year-old eagle “Nikita” quit her job as object of exposition last week. A Steller´s sea eagle is easy to identify – it´s probably the most impressive bird you´ve ever seen.

This video shows Steller´s sea eagles and White-tailed Eagles at their wintering grounds near the Shiretoko Peninsula on the northeastern side of Hokkaido, Japan. Information about the region: http://www.japantravelinfo.com/adventur ... php?hike=1


Video published by Redrumwins, June 2012

Learn more about these magnificent raptors (Haliaeetus pelagicus) on ARKive http://www.arkive.org/stellers-sea-eagl ... pelagicus/

Edit, 30 January 2014: Missing Nikita the Steller's sea eagle is found in Lancashire Source: BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-yo ... e-25972051

[maertha]

If you are you searching for an easy way to identify birds, fishes, butterflies and all kind of wild plants, check out the Finnish project NatureGate. It works in eight languages.

Some examples (recordings of bird sounds and calls):

• White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/li ... iled-eagle
  Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) - call and the “drumming sound” of the courtship flight http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/linnut/snipe
  Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/linnut/bittern

Source: NatureGate http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/

[maertha]

Wait, where do birds really sleep?


Read more on Slate.com. You can follow the author Nicholas Lund on Twitter at @TheBirdist
http://www.slate.com/authors.nicholas_lund.html

[maertha]

Another White-tailed Eagle pair goes online soon. The nest is located in the Roggebotzand in the Netherlands. Fox, beaver and eagle owl families can also be observed again this year.

Online:

• Eagle Owl http://www.volgdeoehoe.nl/

Season starts in March:

• Fox http://volgdevos.nl/
  Beaver https://www.volgdebever.nl/
  Information on the local Wte population in Dutch http://www.staatsbosbeheer.nl/Nieuws%20 ... arend.aspx
  Webcam http://www.volgdezeearend.nl/

General information about national parks in the Netherlands in English on the Staatsbosbeheer´s website: http://www.staatsbosbeheer.nl/English.aspx
”Staatsbosbeheer is commissioned by the Dutch government and manages a sizeable amount of the nature reserves in the Netherlands.”

[maertha]

"The private life of a sea eagle" - Interesting interaction between a 2013 fledgling and his father during the autumn in East Scotland.
Source: RSPB, text by Rhian Evans. Click here to see the video http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwor ... fault.aspx

[maertha]

Recently I came across this title: The Eagle Watchers - Observing and Conserving Raptors Around the World

It is an anthology of anecdotal stories, written by an international group of raptor researchers.
As the editors (and eagle experts) Ruth Tingay and Todd Katzner state in the preface:
“Eagle biologists are a wild, untamed lot”... In this book 29 of them share their inside knowledge with the reader.

You can find more information on the book at Todd Katzner´s website http://katznerlab.com/the-eagle-watchers
Extracts are available at Google Books and Amazon.

• Ruth Tingay
  Biography, list of publications http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/Resea ... lresID=153

• Todd E. Katzner
  Biography, list of publications http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/Resea ... lresID=438