Bittersweet fate of the logger manufacturer
When business is passion, this seems inevitable - sometimes you do not know whether to laugh or cry. We have been facing this state surprisingly often recently. Imagine this - a logger fitted 6 years ago, stopped sending data in 2022 and after 2 years starts sending again. But it turns out te bird had been dead for some time, and something simply flipped the carcass allowing the sunlight to charge the battery and activate the device.
New Aquila dataloggers
We have the pleasure to announce the introduction of whole new range of Aquila loggers. The most important novelties are the weight, which significantly extends the range of bird species they can be utilised on, and data transmission via GPRS, which enormously reduces the costs of data acquisition.
For details on full product range please feel free to visit our page.
First sighting of Amur Falcon in Kazakhstan
Last year during field works in Kazakhstan we managed to observe and photograph the Amur Falcon Falco amurensis. It turned out to be the first confirmed sighting of the species in modern times for the country. In the recent issue of the "Raptor Conservation" magazine No. 47 of the RRRCN organization an article was published. Please feel free to read and download further in this article.
Wintering habitats of Egyptian Vultures (and Steppe Eagles) in India - the article
Summary: Egyptian Vultures are globally threatened species and their breeding range stretch from southwestern Europe in the eastern direction up to northwestern India, as well as sub-Saharan Africa. In summer 2022 five individuals of the species were tagged with Aquila dataloggers within the conservation project “Endangered raptor species conservation on the Indo-Palearctic migratory flyway in Kazakhstan”. All the five individuals flew southeast for their autumn migration and four birds reached Rajasthan Region in India, where three of the birds remained while one travelled further south to Pakistan. In January 2023, I visited India and the wintering grounds of the three birds, successfully finding all of them, which gave an opportunity to describe the wintering habitats and birds’ behaviors. In addition, one Steppe Eagle tagged also with Aquila logger in 2021 in Khakassia Region, Russia within the RRRCN Conservation Project, was wintering in the area.
Download the full article in pdf format here.
Third International Scientific and Practical Conference "Eagles of Palearctic: Study and Conservation" - outcomes
The conference is history now. Time for summing up, outcomes, publications as well as actions aimed at impovemet of the raptor's conservation efforts. All the information can now be found in the latest issue of the "Raptor Conservation" magazine number 47, available online on the russian language magazine page, but also in the einglish version of the RRRCN organization.
Further in the article you will find the review document of the conference in both languages. Feel free to read and download.
We would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity of participating in the conference.
AQC Project's news
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Research in Russia continues
The monitoring works within the Russian part of the species' range is being continued. Despite terrifying results so far (of 9 birds tagged since 2019 only 2 have remained alive) we still believe...
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The nightmare goes on
And on, and on, and on. And the autumn can easily be called black for our Greater Spotted Eagles. During the migration already 3 birds have been found dead. The saddest (if one may graduate such...
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Yet another sad news
Another sad news, this time from Israel. Boyetz - wintering Greater Spotted Eagle, was found dead on March 12th. Boyetz was fitted with Aquila datalogger as a juvenile bird in summer 2019 in the...