Many thanks to Looduskalender and Kotkaklubi (the Estonian Eagle Club) for giving everybody the fantastic opportunity to observe the family life of Golden Eagles. The nest is located in the Soomaa region. Live stream: http://tv.eenet.ee/kaljukotkas.html
Golden Eagle nest (left) and White-tailed Eagle nest (right) in Estonia 2018. Screenshots: maertha
Territories (Norway/Scotland)
“White‐tailed and Golden Eagles appear to partition nesting habitat in the west of Scotland by altitude. This corresponds with behaviour in western Norway and with the situation described in historical accounts of nest‐sites in western Scotland prior to extinction of White‐tailed Eagles.” Read more: Comparative nest habitat characteristics of sympatric White-tailed Haliaeetus albicilla and Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos in western Scotland. Richard J. Evans , James Pearce‐Higgins , D. Philip Whitfield , Justin R. Grant , Alison MacLennan & Robin ReidBird Study (2010) 57, 473–482. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... 010.489317
Diet (data from several European countries)
Breeding season diets of sympatric White-tailed Eagles and Golden Eagles in Scotland: no evidence for competitive effects. D. Philip Whitfield, Mick Marquiss, Robin Reid, Justin Grant, Ruth Tingay & Richard J. Evans (2012) Breeding, Bird Study, 60:1, 67-76, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10 ... ccess=true
New study: "Prey selection by Danish Golden Eagles Aquila chrysaetos during the breeding seasons 2005-2016". Jan Tøttrup Nielsen collected a total of 1640 prey items (pellets and remains) in and around five nests in the northern part of Jutland. He identified 73 prey species (birds: 50, mammals: 22; one reptile species). According to Tøttrup Nielsen, the most frequently registered species were common pheasant, wood pigeon, crow, European hare, roe deer, water vole, mallard, domestic chicken and black-headed gull. Full article/PDF download via the Danish Ornithological Society´s (DOF) Website/News release 16 March 2018 http://www.dof.dk/om-dof/nyheder?nyhed_id=1639, see: De danske Kongeørnes fødevalg i yngletiden 2005-16, Jan Tøttrup Nielsen, 2018, DOFT 112, nr. 1: 11-18.
How does an egg develop from the time it is laid to the time it hatches?
For White-tailed Eagle eggs it takes about 38 days to hatch, chicken eggs have a 21 day incubation period - very similar things happen in the eggs of eagles and chickens.
Chicken Embryo Development. Published by Poultry CRC, November 2013. Created by AXS Biomedical Animation Studio Inc.
Female of the imperial eagle called Petényi found poisoned yesterday. Female has been ringed in 2013 in Hungarian Mátra mountains. Poisoned also foxes and 3 common buzzards.
From 2012 until now there have been poisoned in SVK together 44 rare raptors (public amenity value of 120.000 eur!)
Info on the White-tailed Sea Eagle population development in the Baltic Sea area/Mortality factors and risk analysis (2011). See WtE Database doc. # 112 viewtopic.php?f=46&t=233&start=100
Young White-tailed Eagle in the Gostynin-Wloclawek nature reserve, Poland. By Andreas Weith (Own work)
[CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Do you want to know more about Dr. Madis and wildlife veterinary care in Estonia? Info here viewtopic.php?f=63&t=510
US: A telephone lineman brought back New York's bald eagles
About 53 years ago, Tom Rauber saw the last pair of bald eagles in New York state. Amazing story about an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist and a species brought back from the brink of extinction. Read the article by Gwendolyn Craig here http://auburnpub.com/news/local/remembe ... 98c71.html
See also doc. #261: Evaluation of the impact of the White-tailed Eagle and Imperial Eagle on the Great Bustard through tagging of all three species with GPS loggers in Central Europe viewtopic.php?f=46&t=233&p=537978&hilit ... rd#p537978
Re: Talk about
Posted: April 9th, 2018, 9:34 pm
by Biker
At that location "Fiener Bruch", (It is quite near to my home location ) probably is the following not a current problem for other reasons.
Fact is: where number of WTE increases, not only great bustards are endangered, LSE are also displaced.
Re: Talk about
Posted: April 10th, 2018, 5:34 pm
by maertha
Biker, I'm not sure I understand what you meant by “at Fiener Bruch probably is the following not a current problem for other reasons”. Could you please explain it a little more?
Re: Talk about
Posted: April 11th, 2018, 3:15 am
by Biker
A bird population that almost does not exist anymore for many reasons can' t be displaced anymore by another species which number increases.
Otherwise it is unfortunately so: the more WtEs, all the less LSE, (they will be displaced)
Re: Talk about
Posted: April 11th, 2018, 5:35 pm
by maertha
Thanks for explaining you point of view!
Re: Talk about
Posted: April 12th, 2018, 5:03 pm
by maertha
Update: Multi-Camera View 2018
Urmas Lett created this feature some years ago. Click on the link or the screenshot below to see at a glance what´s happening at all monitored places. Click any of the thumbnail images to view the corresponding camera. http://pontu.eenet.ee/
) probably is the following not a current problem for other reasons.