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ANOTHER SUCCESS IN THE CATCHING AND TAGGING OF REDBREASTS
13.02.2014A new successful catch was made on 12th February by the field team of "Safe Ground for Redbreasts" LIFE Project. Following a week of efforts, 45 Redbreasts and 35 Whitefronts were caught by cannon netting. Altogether 12 tags were fitted - 4 satellite and 8 Eobs GPS loggers. The successful catch benefitted also the SOR/BirdLife Romania, WWT and Le Balkan research who provided the satellite tags fitted on 4 of the birds. During 2014 catching season a SOR/BirdLife Romania staff was assisting the LIFE Project team in the field catch work. This activity is carried out...
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WORLD WETLANDS DAY 2014
12.02.20142 nd February is the date of the event, which involved two schools, two environmental organizations and two municipalities that celebrated World Wetlands Day in a region of two wetlands of international importance On February 7 and 8 , with a little delay due to weather conditions, the important date was celebrated by the training team of the “Safe Ground for Redbreasts” project and students from the schools "Prof. Dr. Zlatarov" - Shabla and "Jordan Jovkov" - Kavarna . Conveying t he message "Wetlands are not something...
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THE NUMBER OF WINTERING GEESE IN COASTAL DOBRUDJA IS GROWING
03.02.2014On February 1 st , 2014, a team of LIFE + " S afe Grounds for Red breasts " held the scheduled monitoring of wintering birds in the area. W ith the onset of the cold front from the north -east last week , it was normal to expect significantly larger numbers of wintering geese. In support of this expectation came and results - 12 500 Redbreasts and 19 000 White-fronted geese. In other words, these numbers are about three times higher than those recorded two weeks earlier, during the mid-winter waterfowl count. The...
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THE 38TH CENSUS OF WINTERING WATERBIRDS WAS CARRIED OUT AT 10 degrees C
24.01.2014The warm weather over the weekend made the birds stay north of the country 21 Jan 2014: In the period January 17 to 19, the 38th census of wintering waterbirds was successfully held. The warm weather in the country resulted in reporting less "northern" birds than usual. Due to high temperatures, typical wintering birds had chosen to remain in the north instead of flying long distances to our country. Traditionally, the main concentrations of birds were recorded along the Black Sea and the Danube, where tens of thousands of wintering geese were established....
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BREAKING NEWS FROM SHABLA
10.01.201410 January 2014: The first setting of cannon nets this season was a success! Yesterday afternoon the BSPB, WWT and RSPB team working on the LIFE + "Safe Grounds for Redbreasts" project managed to capture 12 Red-breasted and 28 Greater White-fronted Geese near Shabla Lake. Three of the red-breasted geese and 5 of the White-fronted now wear GPS radio transmitters to track their movements in the area of wintering and establish the impact of hunting and other disturbance factors on these movements. All birds are ringed, while transmitters are put on...
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STABLE NUMBERS OF REDBREASTS AT SHABLA AND DURANKULAK LAKES
06.01.2014On 4 and 5 January we held this year ’s first monitoring of wintering geese at Shabla , Durankulak Lake and S rebarna Lake . Due to the relatively high temperatures and thick fog last week it was normal to expect a small erthan usual number of wintering geese. In confirmation of this assumption came the results - near 4000 Red breasts and 8000 White-fronted Geese atthe two coastal lakes. The Red -breasted geese were concentrated mainly in Durankula k L ake where we recorded 3,600 birds. In the early morning they left in...
