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Home > Migration blog > Bad news about the migration of the Lesser Spotted Eagles

Bad news about the migration of the Lesser Spotted Eagles

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 08:46 Written by Administrator Tuesday, 22 November 2011 08:38

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Not all news coming from the 15 lesser spotted eagles which we monitor in our project with the help of the satellite transmitters are good. After the worrying news about Beni 1 who missed the crossing to Africa above the Suez Channel we also found out about Lisa’s death caused by the inhabitants of a Zambian village who thought it was a magical bird.

The last data received raised some question marks about the status of two other eagles monitored through satellite by our project. Beni 2, a juvenile male equipped with transmitter on 20 July 2011 near Benesti in the county of Sibiu has not sent any information since 06.11.2011. There are three options: the transmitter broke down, the juvenile is dead or it lost its transmitter. Both Beni 1 and Beni 2 are the nestlings of Benjamin, the adult male equipped with a satellite transmitter by our project and which is currently in Zambia.

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The transmitter of Koves, an adult male equipped with transmitter on 14 July 2011 in Podisul Hartibaciului close to Coves in the county of Sibiu has sent signals from the same location, the town of Mubende from Uganda since 4.11.201. On 17.11.2011 we have received the last signal from Koves. The fact that the signals have been coming from the same location may mean that the bird is held captive, that it has lost its transmitter and someone found it or that it was killed and someone took the transmitter.

 

 

 

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According to these not so happy pieces of news we may conclude that Aquila pomarina is extremely vulnerable not only when they are in nesting territories like Romania because of the human activities going on (logging, hunting, intensive agriculture etc.) but that during their migration to Africa and while they are wintering in the African land they are also exposed both to natural causes (for instance they cannot find a crossing to Africa) and to human factors (for instance the killing of birds due to superstitions).

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0 #1 r\Roger Q Skeen 2011-11-30 10:38
Sad news on Koves, he was brought to our office here in Kampala last week, not sure on death but suspect poisoning.Sorry :sad:
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