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White-tailed sea eagles in Slīterē 2022

. . . A new topic for a new year.
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let's hope that the year 2022 will be successful and happy. :2thumbsup:
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Info about Nationalpark Sliteres

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The Slītere National Park (Latvian: Slīteres nacionālais parks) is the smallest of the four national parks in Latvia. It belongs to the European Natura 2000 network. The area is located on the northern tip of Courland around Cape Kolka. It includes 163.6 km² of land and 101.3 km² of water up to the 10 m depth line in the Baltic Sea.
The national park is divided into several protection zones. Individual parts are not allowed to be entered by visitors. However, there are several cycling and hiking trails through the national park.

Wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalpark_Sl%C4%ABtere

https://www.latvia.travel/en/sight/slit ... ional-park

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Latvijas Dabas fund cameras:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIcQwg ... hMBclDJENw

Link to the stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSdIz1PUwQk

Dabas Dati Kameras 2021/2022
https://dabasdati.lv/lv/kameras2021

The Slīterē Topic in DDF begins here:
https://forums.dabasdati.lv/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4170

Info by Jānis Ķuze:
The nesting area of the white-tailed eagle has been known here since 2010 - the eagles first nested in an approximately 20-year-old artificial nest, then they moved and built a nest 200 meters away, where they nested in 2013.
For the next five years the nest was uninhabited and the location where the birds had moved was unknown till 2018/2019. In the winter of 2006 the nest was visited by a pair of golden eagles, however one of the birds was not fully grown and nesting was not started in the spring.

The camera system at the nest was installed in early 2019. In the fall, two white-tailed eagles started visiting the nest. Both birds are without rings. But there is reason to believe that at least one or possibly both eagles are new to the area - in 2013- when the last successful nesting was in this nest, female was ringed.

The nest is built in a pine tree at a height of about 15 meters. Next to it is a half-fallen pine that rubs against the nest tree in windy weather and makes a squeaking noise. For this reason, the microphone is not located on the nest as in other cases, but a little further down on the branch. As a result, the sound from the nest is not that intimate.

This is one of the two sea eagle areas known in the area of Slītere National Park (in the third area the nest was once just outside the park). Birds are believed to feed both at sea and inland, but we will get a good idea of when nesting begins.

The camera system was installed on the nest by Jānis Ķuze and Jānis Rudzītis. Many thanks to Helmut Hofman for the help with the maintenance of the system!
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Pictures of the Inhabitants


Silva has a scar on the left side of her beak below the nostril.
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Sliters' eyes are still a bit brownish.
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Characteristics of the eagle:
Crissy wrote: March 7th, 2020, 9:26 am Good picture of tail comparison: left male, right female
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https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 18#p712418
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More pictures of their tail feathers
Liz01 wrote: September 13th, 2020, 10:34 am Tail feathers by Slīters
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https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 83#p763183
Liz01 wrote: September 14th, 2020, 7:01 pm Tail feathers by Silva
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https://www.looduskalender.ee/forum/vie ... 92#p763292
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Latvijas Dabas fonds:
As the species evolves, birds of prey have to adapt to grow as many chicks as can be fed, and older chicks are always fed first to survive at least as long as they can.
The camera is mounted to monitor natural processes without human intervention. Similar things happen in hundreds of nests every year.
The adaptation ( sacrifice the youngest chick) of the birds of prey, has developed over millions of years, it is necessary for the survival of the species.


Important events at the nest:
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Ringed eagle visitors at the nest 2022

The list will be updated here if and when some ringed eagles will be identified here.
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thank you Liz for the introduction!

welcome to the new year! let's hope it will be a fruitful season!
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Happy New Year to the empty nest!!

No surprises :rolleyes:
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13:58 a bit fresh snow in the nest
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January 2nd

Good Morning :hi:

it seems unusual to me that none of them come to the nest. I hope they are doing well :bow:
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January 3

Good Morning :hi:

still lousy weather
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JANUARY 5th

13:50 Nest was already clean.... Now it starts snowing again :slap:
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January 8th

Good Morning :hi:

still no sign of our eagles :shake:
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January 9th

Good Morning. :hi:

Waiting for.... Image


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JANUARY 11th

12:15 A "sunny" nest :loveshower:
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Very long complete absence of both eagles, wouldn't you say?

I keep checking in and looking at the snow for prints - none :-(
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