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Hungary: Yay! It´s an eagle!

11 March 2018 https://sokszinuvidek.24.hu/viragzo-vid ... feszkeben/

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Estonia: Golden Eagle nest cam

Many thanks to Looduskalender and Kotkaklubi (the Estonian Eagle Club) for giving everybody the fantastic opportunity to observe the family life of Golden Eagles. The nest is located in the Soomaa region. Live stream: http://tv.eenet.ee/kaljukotkas.html

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What´s the difference between Golden Eagles and White-tailed Eagles?

Here is a general overview. You can compare also other species with this tool https://www.birdid.no/bird/eBook.php?co ... cieID=1413
Find more information and photos in the 16 page brochure “Eagles and Black Stork in Estonia”, © Kotkaklubi, 2009 MTÜ. PDF available here http://www.kotkas.ee/eagle-life/documents


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Golden Eagle nest (left) and White-tailed Eagle nest (right) in Estonia 2018. Screenshots: maertha

Territories (Norway/Scotland)
  • “White‐tailed and Golden Eagles appear to partition nesting habitat in the west of Scotland by altitude. This corresponds with behaviour in western Norway and with the situation described in historical accounts of nest‐sites in western Scotland prior to extinction of White‐tailed Eagles.” Read more: Comparative nest habitat characteristics of sympatric White-tailed Haliaeetus albicilla and Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos in western Scotland. Richard J. Evans , James Pearce‐Higgins , D. Philip Whitfield , Justin R. Grant , Alison MacLennan & Robin ReidBird Study (2010) 57, 473–482. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... 010.489317
Diet (data from several European countries)
  • Breeding season diets of sympatric White-tailed Eagles and Golden Eagles in Scotland: no evidence for competitive effects. D. Philip Whitfield, Mick Marquiss, Robin Reid, Justin Grant, Ruth Tingay & Richard J. Evans (2012) Breeding, Bird Study, 60:1, 67-76, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... ccess=true
  • WtE diet, several sources: See e.g. doc #40-44 viewtopic.php?f=46&t=233 and doc #23, 29 viewtopic.php?f=46&t=240
  • Food items brought to the Estonian WTE nest 2016 viewtopic.php?f=18&t=825
  • New study: "Prey selection by Danish Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos during the breeding seasons 2005-2016". Jan Tøttrup Nielsen collected a total of 1640 prey items (pellets and remains) in and around five nests in the northern part of Jutland. He identified 73 prey species (birds: 50, mammals: 22; one reptile species). According to Tøttrup Nielsen, the most frequently registered species were common pheasant, wood pigeon, crow, European hare, roe deer, water vole, mallard, domestic chicken and black-headed gull. Full article/PDF download via the Danish Ornithological Society´s (DOF) Website/News release 16 March 2018 http://www.dof.dk/om-dof/nyheder?nyhed_id=1639, see: De danske Kongeørnes fødevalg i yngletiden 2005-16, Jan Tøttrup Nielsen, 2018, DOFT 112, nr. 1: 11-18.
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Congratulations, Estonia!

Egg number one has arrived today.

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Update, 21 March: Egg #2 (17:20)
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Updates
5 April 2018: Something has happened, only one egg remains in the nest. The reason is unclear.
13 April 2018: Info about the only egg in the white-tailed eagle nest by Urmas Sellis http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/2269
24 April 2018: Chick in the nest http://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en/node/2327
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Happiness Day

Baby, it's cold outside.
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It's that time of year again :2thumbsup:

How does an egg develop from the time it is laid to the time it hatches?
For White-tailed Eagle eggs it takes about 38 days to hatch, chicken eggs have a 21 day incubation period - very similar things happen in the eggs of eagles and chickens.


Chicken Embryo Development. Published by Poultry CRC, November 2013. Created by AXS Biomedical Animation Studio Inc.
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White-tailed Eagle Breeding

The White-tailed Eagle in Estonia. Info by Kotkaklubi http://www.kotkas.ee/species/white-tailed-eagle
Brief info by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... /breeding/
Collection of photos and videos. ARKive Fact File https://www.arkive.org/white-tailed-eag ... albicilla/

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Sea Eagle's Nest. Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939) public domain

WtE nests, web cam observations/Looduskalender forum documentation (in English)
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Eastern imperial eagle poisoned in Slovakia

Female of the imperial eagle called Petényi found poisoned yesterday. Female has been ringed in 2013 in Hungarian Mátra mountains. Poisoned also foxes and 3 common buzzards.
From 2012 until now there have been poisoned in SVK together 44 rare raptors (public amenity value of 120.000 eur!)

http://www.dravce.sk/web/index.php/sk/i ... cu-petenyi


Another satellite-tagged Golden eagle ‘disappears’ in Inverness-shire, Scotland, Great Britain

https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordp ... ouse-moor/
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Welcome to the club – Finland´s first White-tailed Eagle live cam starts soon

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Almost Easter. Let´s talk about an exotic bird - the chicken

The mystery of the yellow legs or: Where did the chicken come from? https://www.livescience.com/2337-real-q ... icken.html

BBC documentary

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Estonia: Freedom! Vet Madis Leivits releases a White-tailed Eagle into the wild

The raptor had been found some weeks ago with lead poisoning symptoms and was nursed back to health in the animal care unit of the Estonian Universtiy of Life Sciences.
Photos and video here https://parnu.postimees.ee/4454913/vide ... -vabadusse
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Young White-tailed Eagle in the Gostynin-Wloclawek nature reserve, Poland. By Andreas Weith (Own work)
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Happy Easter!

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More about eggs, rabbits, hares, gods and gooddesses here, see 14-16 April viewtopic.php?f=46&t=236&start=540 viewtopic.php?f=46&t=236&start=560
And don´t forget to visit the Museum of Hoaxes today http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink ... _fools_day
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UK: It is always good news to see eagles on a golf course

Craignure Golf Course on the island of Mull has been home to a pair of white-tailed eagles, both in their twenties, since nine years. Source/article https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... lf-course/

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US: A telephone lineman brought back New York's bald eagles

About 53 years ago, Tom Rauber saw the last pair of bald eagles in New York state. Amazing story about an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist and a species brought back from the brink of extinction. Read the article by Gwendolyn Craig here
http://auburnpub.com/news/local/remembe ... 98c71.html

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Conservation conflict, Germany: When White-tailed Eagles become a threat to Great Bustards

Germany is currently home to only 259 Great Bustards. White-tailed Eagles are a serious threat for these rare birds. Article (in German) 9 April 2018 http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Potsda ... ge-Trappen

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Great bustard (Otis tarda) Source: 1905 German Encyclopaedia, public domain
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At that location "Fiener Bruch", (It is quite near to my home location :D ) probably is the following not a current problem for other reasons.
Fact is: where number of WTE increases, not only great bustards are endangered, LSE are also displaced.
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Biker, I'm not sure I understand what you meant by “at Fiener Bruch probably is the following not a current problem for other reasons”. Could you please explain it a little more?
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A bird population that almost does not exist anymore for many reasons can' t be displaced anymore by another species which number increases.
Otherwise it is unfortunately so: the more WtEs, all the less LSE, (they will be displaced)
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Thanks for explaining you point of view!
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Update: Multi-Camera View 2018

Urmas Lett created this feature some years ago. Click on the link or the screenshot below to see at a glance what´s happening at all monitored places. Click any of the thumbnail images to view the corresponding camera. http://pontu.eenet.ee/

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