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Bea wrote: November 1st, 2021, 11:12 am ☼ ☼ ☼

Wow, this sounds good :thumbs:

Your recordings are around mid/end of October, aren´t they? This would be time of autumn display for Eagle Owls, maybe this guy is confirming his territory with his hooting and also calling for his mate or maybe looking for a new female?

I would neither sleep with a closed window with such a concert outside not far away :D
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Hello Bea,

Yes, the first time I heard the eagle owl was on September 20.

You can listen to sound recordings
or look at reports without end - but to experience it live is incomparable...



Since November 1 I have heard the eagle owl only 2 times in this cemetery.
But in suitable weather conditions from another calling place.
I suppose it is on one of the churches in the vicinity.



The small old cemetery, which has been closed since 1900, was visited by more people on November 1 than usually..

More people visited than on all days of the year together, grave lights set up etc .
I suppose this disturbed the eagle owl?

On All Saints' Day, i heard the singing at night, but also the "devil's laughter".
That was simply indescribable!!!

I stood again with digital camera and smartphone for recording in the parking lot next door :)
That evening there was a visitor on the site - is it a warning call?
I find contradictory designations for it in the www

And: the volume of the different calls is different. The "uhu" is much quieter than the laugh.
Here is a recording

https://sndup.net/9f6k
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I think the 'laugh' is a female. It can be a couple.
Wonderful to hear it !!!!!
:innocent:

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Hello Biker :hi:

Great recording ---> lucky you, to have the possibility to follow such 'conversations' in your surrounding area :thumbs:

I assume that the one who is hooting is a male and the one who gives warning calls is a female.

Interestingly the male continues hooting despite the warning calls of the female ....
I think that the male is close enough to notice the warning calls, though being a bit further away.

Speculating about this could surely offer several possible reasons for this behaviour ..... :book:
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The surprising success story of the red kite
Intensive agriculture puts numerous species of the cultivated land in dire straits. Only the red kite seems to be immune to it. What are the reasons for that?




The history of the red kite in Switzerland doesn't really fit into the overall picture. The vast majority of birds in the agricultural area are under pressure. The populations of many once common and widespread species have collapsed in the course of the intensification of agriculture.
The skylark, for example, whose song was once omnipresent in our fields and meadows, has lost more than 90 percent of its original population in the canton of Zurich in recent decades. The situation is even more dramatic with the Whinchat, which has meanwhile almost completely cleared the Central Plateau. Ortolan and partridge have only been breeding in meager residual populations in recent years. According to a status report by the Swiss Ornithological Institute, the latter is now likely to have completely disappeared from Switzerland. It joins a number of agricultural birds such as the gray shrike and black-fronted shrike, which no longer find a place in this country.

It is completely different with the red kite, the largest of our birds of prey after the vultures and the golden eagle. Although it is also a typical inhabitant of the cultivated land, it has been able to steadily expand its distribution area in Switzerland over the last few decades. Since the nineties it has been advancing further and further into the larger alpine valleys. His hunting grounds now extend into the alpine zone. Around 3,000 pairs are now breeding in Switzerland. Only in the cantons of Geneva and Ticino are no evidence of breeding until now.

With the expansion into new and higher-lying areas, there was also a densification of the stocks in the lower elevations, which are unparalleled anywhere in the world. In the canton of Friborg, for example, there are over 30 pairs per 100 square kilometers. Across Europe, only Corsica has more red kites in less space. Nowhere in the world is the density of wintering red kites higher than in Switzerland.

The stocks of the red kite in Switzerland have been increasing continuously since 1990
Relative development of the breeding population of the red kite in Switzerland, in percent
Stock index/ Average

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Reading example: An index value of 150 means that the population of the red kite in the corresponding year was 50 percent above the mean value for the entire time period considered.
Source: Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach


But how can this development be explained? Has the red kite, unlike most of the other species with which it shares its habitat, benefit from the intensification of agriculture? And why are the population densities so high in densely populated and intensively used Switzerland of all places?

A beneficiary of the intensive land use?
Adrian Aebischer holds a PhD in biology and has been working with birds of prey for 20 years. He has witnessed the success story of the species first hand in recent years, as well as the decline of numerous other species of the cultivated land. He says: "The strong increase in the red kite in Switzerland over decades was quite surprising for us." Especially in comparison to the situation abroad, where the bird is sometimes under great pressure, this has raised many questions. Together with Patrick Scherler from the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, he wrote a comprehensive work entitled “The Red Kite. A bird of prey on the rise »written about the species that was recently published by Haupt-Verlag and traces the success story of the red kite.
Aebischer says: "In order to get to the bottom of the causes for this, one must first understand what demands the red kite makes on its habitat." Most of the birds that have problems in the agricultural country are ground-nesters and insect-eaters. While the latter would have trouble finding enough food, there is hardly enough time left for ground-nesting brooders due to the ever shorter intervals between two mowing dates in a meadow.

The example of the skylark shows how harsh the conditions for such species have become. It has one of the shortest breeding and nestling times for birds: the young leave the nest just a little more than three weeks after the eggs have been laid. But even that is no longer enough in many places to bring the brood through in time for the next mowing date.

The red kite, on the other hand, builds its nest on trees. Mowing a meadow more often does not have a negative impact on its breeding success. On the contrary: he even benefits from it. For hunting, he is dependent on semi-open landscapes, which he searches for small mammals such as mice and carrion. If he mows more frequently, these food sources become more visible to him and therefore more easily accessible. “There is a lot of food in meadows and fields, especially in the first hours after mowing or plowing,” explains Aebischer. "If the next day mowing and plowing in another place, the kites will find enough forage there."

In doing so, they benefit from the small-scale landscape mosaic of Switzerland with its various agricultural cultures. "In landscapes like this, kites can always find food somewhere without having to move too far from the nest." That is also the big difference to some regions abroad, according to Aebischer. In Germany and France, for example, the cultures are much larger in many places. As a result, the kites would have to search an extensive hunting area in order to find sufficient food. This fact explains, among other things, why the population densities of the species are lower abroad than in Switzerland.
When it comes to the choice of feed, the red kite shows few demands and is extremely adaptable. If a certain food is missing, he usually has little trouble switching to another food source.

But can it be concluded from this that intensive agriculture helps the red kite? "Not really," says Aebischer. "In short: The small areas of the fields with many mowing dates or crop changes per year have benefited the kites in Switzerland." Overall, however, the intensification of agriculture is having a negative impact. In landscapes in which hedges, individual trees and prey animals are missing, there are demonstrably fewer breeding pairs of red kites than in semi-open, well-structured cultivated landscapes. "In this regard, the landscapes in Switzerland are usually even more cleared than in neighboring countries," says Aebischer. In this country, however, this is compensated for by the aforementioned small area of ​​the fields.

In addition, both in Switzerland and in the rest of Europe, red kites and other birds of prey are proven to perish every year from poisons used in agriculture. Ultimately, it is also due to the red kite's great adaptability that the intensification of agriculture has not yet bothered him in this country.
Under pressure in neighboring countries
There are enough examples from neighboring countries that show that changes in management can, under certain circumstances, have a rapid and marked effect on the red kite population. Examples are the approval of new plant protection products, the reduction in the proportion of grassland or changes in the composition of crops, which can have an impact on the food supply.
In Europe, the red kite is one of those bird species that have experienced the greatest fluctuations in the population in recent decades. While the population in Switzerland has increased steadily over the past 50 years, the situation in the three most important countries for the species - Germany, France and Spain - was very different. Particularly in the nineties, there were massive populations there.

The reasons for this differ depending on the country. "Very often it was human-made changes in the environment that led to an increase or decrease in stocks," explains Aebischer. In East Germany, for example, the red kite came under great pressure after the fall of the Wall with the intensification of agriculture. The proportion of grassland fell sharply, and with it the populations of the European hamster - the main food of the red kite there - collapsed.

In the northeast of France, on the other hand, poisons used to control voles were responsible for the sharp decline in the number of birds of prey. The kites ate the poisoned rodents, local mass deaths were the result. As a result, the species even died out in some departments. In Spain, on the other hand, a lack of food led to the abandonment of open garbage dumps in some regions and slaughterhouse waste no longer being dumped.

Poaching and the targeted application of poisonous bait also cause local populations to decline again and again. This is particularly problematic in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria.
"Such examples show how volatile the stocks of red kites and other birds of prey are," says Aebischer. Changes in management that have a negative effect on the food base of the bird of prey, for example, can lead to local populations suddenly declining again in Switzerland.

The dangerous journey to winter quarters becomes unnecessary
Another factor that is likely to have had a positive effect on the red kite in Switzerland as well as in other regions of Central Europe in recent years is climate change. Mild winters and shorter periods with closed snow cover mean that many kites meanwhile forego the dangerous journey to the south in autumn and hibernate in Central Europe. While such overwintering was rare just a few decades ago, today over 4,000 red kites spend the cold season in Switzerland.

Aebischer suspects that this also led to more breeding pairs, since the overwinterers are no longer exposed to the dangers on the migration route. "It is interesting that the breeding populations have increased especially where the number of overwintering individuals has also increased." In addition to the Swiss plateau, this can also be observed in southern Sweden, the Czech Republic and in the French Auvergne.

The Swiss Ornithological Institute is also concerned with the surprising rise of the red kite. As part of a long-term project launched in 2015, researchers in the cantons of Friborg and Bern want to get to the bottom of the cause even more precisely. To date, more than 400 birds have been equipped with GPS transmitters to track their migratory movements. Cameras installed in nests should also document the breeding success and the factors that influence it.

"In short, the project aims to research those factors that influence population dynamics," explains Aebischer. These included breeding success, survival rate, use of space and migration. For the first time, it was possible to trace in detail how several hundred birds roam after the breeding season and what their migration routes are. Above all, the project is hoped to provide valuable insights for other countries, where the red kite still has a difficult time, according to Aebischer. "If we know the detailed reasons for the rapid increase in the red kite in Switzerland, that can provide clues as to how we can help the species elsewhere."

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Literature: Aebischer, A. & Scherler, P. (2021): The red kite, a bird of prey on the upswing. Haupt-Verlag, Bern
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@sova :2thumbsup:

I am happy about the development. Of course ... I sincerely appreciate any recovery of a species population. Except for mosquitoes and ticks. If there were a good balance in the ecological system, some species would not be so severely threatened. You know I like Goshawk, but there is a way to push it back a little. To make rule in an area more difficult for him. The red kite. :nod:
I already wrote it on the subject of ospreys ... maybe twice. :mrgreen:

Gladly again:
Rotmilan vertreibt Habicht

Eine Erfolg versprechendere Strategie könnte es sein, den Gegnern des Habichtes attraktive Angebote zu machen. Der Rotmilan beispielsweise attackiert und vertreibt den Habicht aus seinem Revier, um seine Brut zu schützen. Dasselbe gilt für ein Krähenpärchen mit Nachzucht. Krähen werden wiederum vom Rotmilan vertrieben, wenn sie seinem Horst zu nahe kommen. Durch Lärm lassen sich Greifvögel eher nicht beeindrucken, sagte Schanze. Die Ansiedlung vom Habichtvertreiber Rotmilan kann man mit sogenannten „Mäuseburgen“ fördern. Diese können aus einer einfachen Palette mit etwas Streu dazwischen und einem Strohballen darauf bestehen. Weil Mäuse Salmonellen übertragen können, sollten diese Bauten in ausreichender Entfernung vom Stall stehen. Mäuseburgen fördern auch die Ansiedlung von Bussard, Waldohr- und Schleiereule. Dies werde vom Habicht als ungemütlich empfunden. Das Aufstellen von Ansitzmöglichkeiten für den Mäusebussard und Rotmilan sei auch hilfreich, die Sitzstange muss dann 6 cm Durchmesser haben.
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Red kite drives away goshawk A more promising strategy could be to make attractive offers to opponents of the hawk. The red kite, for example, attacks and drives the goshawk out of its territory to protect its brood. The same applies to a pair of crows with offspring. Crows are in turn driven away by the red kite when they get too close to its eyrie. Birds of prey are not impressed by noise, said Schanze. The settlement of the red kite hawk expeller can be promoted with so-called “mouse castles”. These can consist of a simple pallet with some litter in between and a bale of straw on top. Because mice can transmit salmonella, these structures should be located at a sufficient distance from the barn. Mouse castles also encourage the settlement of buzzards, long-eared owls and barn owls. This is perceived by the hawk as uncomfortable. It is also helpful to set up sitting areas for the buzzard and red kite, the perch must then have a diameter of 6 cm.
(https://www.wochenblatt.com/landwirtsch ... 17323.html)
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Batumi Raptor Count hat retweetet
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28. Nov.
🏆 It won! 🏆 I’m so happy to share that Worlds Collide has won Best Short at Ireland Wildlife Film Festival.
So proud of the film and all the effort of those who helped make it.
To celebrate the success you can now watch the film free online 🎉
https://vimeo.com/452185987/d942

Quote:"Worlds Collide - Censored
Across the eastern coast of the Black Sea, through the foothills of the Southern Caucasus Mountains, one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles takes place.
Over a million birds of prey pass through a narrow bottleneck in Georgia. Below them, scientists and birders eagerly watch and record the skies whilst local traditions send showers of bullets and nets snapping in their direction."
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This owl traveled from Poland to Spandau in a pool! :sad:
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A pool was delivered to a woman from Spandau from Poland. A stowaway with wings crouched in the large package.
There sat a long-eared owl totally Soaked and scared
The owl was hypothermic, very emaciated. Nobody knows how long she's been trapped.

The bird was immediately taken to the small animal clinic at the Free University of Berlin. With a body weight of only 210 grams, he/she was far too light. But apart from an eye infection, the owl was still in good condition.

After the stopover at the veterinary clinic, she is now being nursed to the NABU wild bird station in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. The long-eared owl is soon to be released back into the wild in its native habitat.

For this purpose, the transport to Poland is now being organized near the place where it was presumably packed by mistake.

https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/diese-e ... ch-spandau


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The long-eared owl has now recovered in the wild bird sanctuary ©Foto Marc Engler/NABU Berlin
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Songs of Disappearance

On December 3 the album "Songs of Disappearance" was released and is getting more and more attention. 53 species of birds threatened in Australia can be heard on it: from the Australian palm cockatoo, the southern bark owl to the purple-crowned Fairy-wren.

According to the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which determines the music charts in Australia, the album is currently at number 3 in the international charts, which means that the birds have already overtaken well-known musicians such as ABBA, Justin Beaver and Taylor Swift.

Maybe this is motivation for other continents to release an album of disappearance.

https://songsofdisappearance.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Disappearance
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Hello dear people-and a happy new year to all of you (the year is still young, so please allow me to send you my best wishes)!

Last night I came across a piece of music which may be interesting for You Tube content creators among you and others as well. The more often I listen to it, the more it turns out, at least for me, to be perfect "eagle music"- illustrating their flight, their majesty, their swiftness, etc. etc.
Available at Epidemic Sound, a Swedish royalty-free soundtrack providing company. Music by Bonnie Grace, title: "I Give Ye My Spirit" (more than appropriate if I think of the birds covered by this forum ...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikRO8Y5 ... rt_radio=1

May the spirit guide you through the coming season!
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For everyone with access to arte TV: There is an excellent doc on ospreys in the North East of the US (Connecticut River) bei Jacob Steinberg, 2021: (German title) "Der Sommer der Fischadler".
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/103505-00 ... ischadler/
Available until 12-04-2022! (and maybe one day on You Tube, who knows ....)
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I'm afraid that we will have to deal with THIS again this year - very concerning . The H5N1 strain (see last autumn) now pops up everywhere .....

In Latvia:
Quote: "Laboratory tests have confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza for six dead swans, the Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) said January 18."
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/envi ... a.a439376/
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Ha, what did I say!
"The season of the ospreys" in French, uploaded by ARTE TV: "Le retour du balbuzard pêcheur":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrNZeWb2Vvg
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There is a new press release (Jan 25, 2022) of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) on avian influenza:
https://www.cms.int/en/news/scientific- ... mendations

Quote: "H5N1 is currently the avian influenza lineage most found in Africa and Eurasia in both poultry and wild birds. It affects wildfowl, waders, gulls, cranes, grebes, herons, pelicans, gamebirds, corvids and raptors, and occasionally mammals such as Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) and Harbour (Phoca vitulina) and Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus).
(...)
General recommendations concerning different categories of animals affected include:

Wild birds:
• There is no benefit in attempting to control the virus in wild birds through culling or habitat destruction
• All those with responsibilities for animal health are reminded of the advice of FAO and OIE, and international obligations under CMS, the Ramsar Convention and the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), to ensure that there is no consideration of killing of wild birds, spraying toxic products or negatively affecting wetland and other habitats as disease control measures

Poultry:
• Responses to HPAI in poultry must follow OIE international standards, guidelines and recommendations on notifications, surveillance, diagnosis, trade and control measures
• Biosecurity should include efforts to prevent the spread of infection from infected poultry holdings to wild birds
• A reorganization of poultry production systems highly susceptible to avian influenza exposure will minimise the risk of virus introduction and further spread

Captive birds:
• There is no justification for any pre-emptive culling of zoological collections."
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I guess this could be called good news?

https://www.courthousenews.com/eu-court ... -preserve/

Quote: "(CN) — A Latvian carp farm inside a natural preserve does not deserve additional compensation for damages it claims it suffers from the protection of migratory birds, the European Union's top court ruled on Thursday.
(...)
Sātiņi-S, the name of the carp fish farm company, sued for compensation in relation to its business setbacks in the Sātiņi Ponds nature reserve in western Latvia. The company manages large areas in the preserve where it grows carp for sale.

The preserve is an important habitat for migratory birds, including birds of prey and black storks. It was included in the EU's network of nature preserves, known as Natura 2000, and therefore falls under the bloc's conservation laws.

Thursday's rulings came in two related lawsuits Sātiņi-S filed against Latvia alleging it was not remunerated adequately for business losses it claimed it suffered as a result of the preserve.
(...)
The court noted the company knew that the land it purchased in 2002 was on a nature preserve. It also found that the peat land in question does not fall under EU agricultural compensation schemes set up to help farmers whose profits are hurt by nature preserves."
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Red kite Not endangered by wind power

Wind power in Germany must be expanded in order to achieve climate targets. New construction projects also fail because of the red kite as wind turbines are considered a danger to the bird of prey. An EU research project disproves the assumption.

https://news.i-n24.com/news/27775.html

https://www.life-eurokite.eu/en/projects/eurokite.html
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I just picked up an amazing story from another forum:
February 25, 2022 6:24 a.m.

Sneaky Magpies Outwit Scientists by Removing Tracking Devices

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180979634/

Quote: "When researchers placed small GPS tracking devices on Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen), they intended to learn more about the birds' movements and social dynamics. Instead, the crafty magpies teamed up to outsmart the scientists and helped each other dismantle and remove their trackers. The collaboration was an example of altruistic behavior rarely observed in birds. It provides strong evidence of problem-solving and cooperation among the social species, reports Gizmodo’s George Dvorsky."
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May 14, 2022

Discovered by a bird counter as part of the "Hour of Garden Birds", bird count NABU, Germany:

GT: "Special guest at the garden pond
A bird counter in Greifenstein in the Lahn-Dill district was able to count a rare and very shy visitor: a black stork.
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First walrus sighted in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Walrus on Rügen: Is the climate crisis to blame?
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For a short stopover, a walrus headed for the Baltic Sea island of Rügen - an unexpected sight for many tourists. Experts see one reason above all when visiting the animal.

Rare guest on the island of Rügen: A walrus caused a stir on the largest German island. After the animal, which was over two meters long, was sighted there on Thursday morning, it swam away again in the evening. This was reported by Michael Dähne, curator for marine mammals at the German Maritime Museum, on Friday. Before that, the animal turned around again briefly. "People were excited. You don't get an opportunity like that very often."

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/pan ... huld-.html
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Shoes for Eagles

posted on You Tube on June 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSdjlRNpGIc

Enoch Wildlife Rescue

Quote: "Martin discusses his occasional use of “Eagle Shoes”. Though not too often, over the years, when an eagle’s feet are not working properly, he gives custom made “shoes” a try to hold the feet in a more natural position and assist with healing."
https://www.gowildlife.org/shoes-for-eagles
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Certainly not an isolated case ... so much for the hunter lobby. :evil:
Ein erschossener Seeadler ist Ende Februar bei Gardelegen gefunden worden – in der Nähe wurde auch der GPS-Sender, den das streng geschützte Tier getragen hatte, entdeckt. Durch diesen kamen Naturschützer schließlich auf den mutmaßlichen Täter: Denn der Mann hatte den erschossenen Seeadler offenbar mit nach Hause genommen. Als er dort später den Sender entdeckte, entsorgte er den Kadaver in einem Gewässer. Den Sender hängte er an ein Stück Holz und warf ihn ebenfalls ins Wasser.

Der Sender war an einem Holzstück im Wasser gefunden worden.Bildrechte: LIFE EUROKITE

Durch die gespeicherten Routendaten kam man dem Jäger auf die Schliche. Nach Angaben von Rainer Raab vom zuständigen Artenschutzprojekt "Life Eurokite" ist es das erste Mal, dass in Deutschland der illegale Abschuss eines Adlers mit Hilfe eines Senders minutiös und auf den Meter genau dokumentiert werden konnte.

Auskunft gab das Speichermedium auch über den erschossenen Seeadler selbst. Demnach war er 2019 im Landkreis Anhalt-Bitterfeld geboren und mit dem Sender versehen worden. Später wurde er noch auf Hiddensee beringt. Axel Hirschfeld, der Sprecher des "Komitee gegen den Vogelmord e.V.", sagte, die Auswertung habe auch ergeben, dass der geschossene Seeadler "kerngesund" gewesen sei.
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A dead white-tailed eagle was found near Gardelegen at the end of February – the GPS transmitter worn by the strictly protected animal was also discovered nearby. Through this, conservationists finally came to the alleged perpetrator: Because the man had apparently taken the shot eagle home. When he later discovered the transmitter there, he disposed of the carcass in a body of water.

He hung the transmitter on a piece of wood and also threw it into the water. The transmitter was found on a piece of wood in the water. Copyright: LIFE EUROKITE

The stored route data enabled the hunter to be tracked down. According to Rainer Raab from the responsible species protection project "Life Eurokite", it is the first time in Germany that the illegal shooting down of an eagle with the help of a transmitter could be documented meticulously and to the meter.

The storage medium also provided information about the shot sea eagle itself. According to this, he was born in 2019 in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district and was provided with the transmitter. He was later ringed on Hiddensee. Axel Hirschfeld, spokesman for the "Committee Against Bird Murder e.V.", said the evaluation also showed that the white-tailed eagle that was shot was "perfectly healthy".
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