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There are several important wintering sites for Eagles in Hungary. Among them, the most numerous are the White-tailed Eagle consisting of lots of Northern European individuals. Majority of the immature, local Eastern Imperial Eagles spends the winter here, as well. Although, they are rare; Spotted Eagles and Golden Eagles occur occasionally on the Counts.
In the past few decades, regional monitoring efforts were made in a few particularly important areas; however, these were done using different methods at different time of the year. Usefulness of these data was limited. Therefore, Raptor Conservation Department of MME initiated a monitoring programme utilizing uniform methods in 2004. More than 11.500 square-kilometers were monitored by about 241 participants covering the most important habitats last year. Altogether, 530 White-tailed Eagles, 230 Imperial Eagles, seven Golden Eagles and six Greater Spotted Eagles were registered.
Imperial Eagle in the Hortobágy (Photo: Will Nicholls).
The Hevesi Eagle Count is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, as is the National Eagle Count its 10th, so we hope this double jubilee would motivate people to participate in a larger number than ever and beat all the previous records.
Please, contact your local coordinator if you would like to participate in the Eagle Count (see their details under „Information” on the datasheet)!
Tasks:
- Choosing areas to be surveyed, preliminary orientation (how to get there, marking tracks or observation points etc.) preparing field maps.
- Dividing areas within the region between the surveyors.
- Sending out maps, instruction booklets and the locations of the study areas to the surveyors. Maps with UTM Grid can be required from the Monitoring Centre/MME.
- Field survey between 11-13 of January by the provided protocol (during the field work one can make notes on the maps and the “Eagle Count” datasheets).
- Sending datasheets to the Monitoring Centre/MME by January 18th. E-mail: monitoring@mme.hu, mailing address: 4401 Nyíregyháza 1. Pf.286.
- Evaluating data and informing participants.
Please make sure you fill in the datasheets the way suggested by the instruction booklet! You can read more on this here.
We advise you to print the “User’s Guide” besides the “Worksheet” datasheet (both can be found in one page A/4 format).
Completed datasheets can be sent directly to the Monitoring Centre/MME (Email: monitoring@mme.hu; Address: 4401 Nyíregyháza 1. P. O. Box 286). Sending data sheets by email is preferred enabling us processing data faster.
Deadline for receiving data is January 18th.
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