Good news from Darwin Nature Reserve in Russia - yesterday fitted with our datalogger White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla started its third year of data transmission.

Born in 2015 male White-Tailed Eagle was ringed in the nest on 28^th of June the same year. He was also equipped with our datalogger and named Vlad. Since that time the logger has been delivering localization data, yesterday starting its third year of activity.

We wish Vlad a long and successfull life!

During the migration period many birds cover huge, and for some species even incredible, distances. In this respect the Common Buzzard Buteo buteo cannot be regarded as long distance migrant. Although no thorough research has been conducted, it is known to spend the winter relatively close to its breeding grounds. Therefore this year's spring migration of the bird fitted with our datalogger can be regarded as at least extraordinary. The buzzard decided to make its presence clearly visible in the scientific books, setting records for the covered distance. At the moment, since March 1^st, the number reads 9044 km. This averages over 88 km per day and 2261 km per month. Of course the data is only "straight line" calculation and does not include manouvers like for example circling.

The above mentioned data were calculated by means of statistical tools available on our portal free of charge after the purchase of our loggers.

This year Kordian (that is the name the bird was given) has visited 7 countries. Not an impressive number, but worth mentioning in this part of the world.

Kordian's migration can be followed on the page of the Estonian project since September 2015.

The winter continues. Most of the birds fitted with our devices spend it in far and wormer countries. For us it is time for intensive preparations towards the upcoming breeding season. Improvements of our loggers are being tested as the so far implemented solutions prove quite successful in the field. The loggers register data within the configured routine and the only obstacle observed seems to be the lack of gsm coverage in some areas, for which there is little we can do.

The 2016 breeding season has come to an end at this part of the planet. For our company it turned out to be a busy season, full of tests and experiences with new bird species. So far it turns out to be quite a successful season as the new range of GPS/GSM loggers do their job. The increased capabilities (one fix every 3 minutes) turned out possible not also in testing, but also in daily usage. Also the known problem of feathers blocking the solar panels seems not to inflict our loggers. This allows us to look forward to the future of this solution.

The moment has come! After a range of tests it is time to use our new logger model in practice. And so we did - yesterday the first logger sent 300 fixes throughout the whole day! Its "carrier" was a male Osprey Pandion haliaetus from Russia. The logger operated with a frequency of 1 fix every 3 minutes, which resulted in rounded number of 300 coordinates at the end of the day. Such new technology opens a whole new range of opportunities to the world of science. From now on not only will it be possible to specify the territory an animal utilizes, but also set the exact time frames of its daily activities.

We have never heard of an animal being so thoroughly tracked during such a relatively long time period. Although there are devices on the market offering higher acquisition frequencies (even every 1 second), they are capable of operating for limited time period only (around 1 hour). They can be also several times more expensive. What is worth mentioning is the fact, that those devices then stop operating as after such an intensive use their batteries need recharging. In unsuitable weather conditions recharging can take even several days.

At the end of the day our logger showed marginal battery use and already the next morning it was ready to operate. For another 300 fixes, for instance.

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The development of our loggers continues. Already at the beginning of this year we assumed some changes in the configuration and increase of data acquisition frequency. The tests proved that 5 minutes' interval is possible. So it happened. The new models were manufactured and further tested. These tests showed that the 5 minutes is.... too long! The loggers manage with no problems 3 minutes' intervals between consecutive registrations. That is how we reached 20 fixes per hour level!

The increase in amount of data means increase of data acquisition costs. Therefore we prepared a special price offer. Still not convinced? Well, so in addition we have a solution enabling the use of local GSM providers' connections eliminating the roaming costs.

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Little by little we are increasing the number of bird species fitted with our dataloggers. In January the very first vulture species was added to the list - the Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus. Two young birds were fitted with our 33 gram devices in distant Oman, where the research on these birds is being carried out by a team led by Dr. Mike McGrady.

From October 30^th till November 1^st the Spanish town of Binaced hosted the II Interntional Red Kite Symposium.

The Red Kite Milvus milvus is a european raptor species. Its distribution range covers almost exclusively the European continent. It is a migratory species and also the wintering grounds spread across Europe and its southern part. Majority of the popultion winters in northern and western Spain.

Such meetings take place not very often. Mainly due to the fact that this Polish name is rather rare, although well known to every Polishman. Despite these facts on almost two occassions two Kordians have met recently. With a little help of our loggers. This is how it started...

It is a well known fact that telemetry facilitates gathering of vital data on various nature aspects, both positive and negative. As for the latter, many proofs of human stupidity causing damage to environment is being collected on almost monthly basis. Even if only one family of species would be taken into account, the news are worrying - a migrating Eastern Imperial Eagle poisoned in Poland this year, a Polish Greater-Spotted Eagle shot in Montenegro few years ago. Every year in every country incidents of this type are recorded by virtually every project where telemetry is involved. This applies also to a project on Ospreys Pandion haliaetus lead in Russia this year.

New breeding season has started. And with it we present the new series of GPS/GSM loggers. Thanks to the past experiences we now managed to reduce not only the dimensions, but also the weight of the devices. Also the programming side has been significantly improved to allow reducement the energy consumption, especially in tough weather conditions.

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In 2014 the list of Aquila datalogger's tagged species was extended by the Eastern Impeial Eagle Aquila heliaca. A few of these majestic eagles were tagged in Europe. In distant Kazakhstan one juvenile bird was also fitted with a logger. After a successfull journey in autumn the bird settled in Saudi Arabia, where it is spending the winter. Until today the logger has sent 1472 fixes and thanks to the AquilaSystem-GPS module it is posiible not only to track bird's current position, but also to perform exact estimations of the occupied territory.

With the beginning of the year a new functionality has been implemented into the AquilaSystem-GPS module, the tool for visualizing data obtained by means of dataloggers. The functionality enables calculation of spacial GIS data. This type of analysis so far have only been available in highly sophisticated and expensive applications. Now they can be performed within the module with a few mouse clicks using the very latest data sent by the loggers. The data can then easily be imported into presentations or publications in form of both numeric data and map visualization.

Long autumn and winter evenings are perfect time for catching up with office work. Thanks to them we finally managed to update our gallery. For the start went the pictures of raptors. Feel invited to visit the gallery.

The conference took place on 25-27 of September in Kosicka Bela, Slovakia as part of the Life Project on conservation of the Lesser Spotted Eagle in Slovakia.

Some time ago we informed about our dataloggers being used in the project on research of the biotop preference of the Polish Red Kite population, led by researchers of the University of Life Sciences in Poznan. This year 21 juvenile birds were tagged and they all headed for the Iberian Peninsula during their autumn migration. We went to Spain in order to test whether we can find a tagged bird in the field.

Between September 20th and 22nd the city of Elabuga of the Republic Tatarstan hosted an international conference on conservation and research of raptors. Organised by the Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network (RRRCN), the FSI National Park “Nizhnyaya Kama”, the FSI “Volga-Kama Nature Reserve”, the Elabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University and the NGO “Siberian Environmental Center” (Sibecocenter), the conference gathered experts on the fields from around the globe.

In cooperation with the Odessa Zoopark, the "Aquila" company fitted an Eagle Owl Bubo bubo with a datalooger for the first time in history. For many years the Zoopark in Odessa has been conducting various activities on nature conservation field. Among the most spectacular ones one could name the formation of the "Lower Dniestr National Park" or the research on the Ukrainian birds of prey. Recently special emphasis has been stressed out on reintroduction of the Eagle Owl. Several raised in captivity individuals are being released to the nature by the zoopark workers annually.

We have just opened our account on Twitter with the purpose to keep everybody informed mainly about what is going on around company's main office, the "Grzędy" Forest Lodge, including recent observations of numerous creatures as well as the current weather. Please feel invited to track the latest news!

We are pleased to inform that the "Aquila" company does not stop supporting the Greater Spotted Eagle conservation research. Five individuals from the Biebrza population have been tagged this year so far, of which three are GSE juveniles and one is a juvenile hybrid. The fifth tagged bird is for many years highly anticipated GSE female.