I. Karyakin, K.I. Knizhov, E. G. Nikolenko, O.V. Shiriaev, G. Pulikova, A. G. Kaptyonkina
{"title":"Saker Falcon in the Karatau Mountains and surrounding territories (Kazakhstan) – results of 2022 research","authors":"I. Karyakin, K.I. Knizhov, E. G. Nikolenko, O.V. Shiriaev, G. Pulikova, A. G. Kaptyonkina","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2022-45-32-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2022-45-32-83","url":null,"abstract":"Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) is one of the most threatened falcon species of Northern Eurasia, the range and the number of which has fallen catastrophically over the last four decades. One large breeding group was concentrated in the Karatau Mountains in southern Kazakhstan. Based on the results of studies in 2010 and 2022, we modeled Saker Falcon distribution in Google Earth Engine using the image classification method – Random Forest (probability + regression). The area of Saker Falcon breeding biotopes in Karatau and adjacent territories is calculated at 4222.64 km2, area of habitats – 9084.3 km2. Saker Falcon population in the study area for 2010 is estimated at 128–281 pairs, 200 pairs on average; in 2022 – 28–66, 46 pairs on average, with a decrease by 77%. The “catalyst” for the collapse of the Saker Falcon population in Karatau is a prolonged depression in the number of rodents. Pairs that survive while nesting almost exclusively feed on birds. The preserved resource is important for population recovery, and the further fate of the species will depend both on restoration of rodent populations and on the pressure of other negative factors, such as poaching and mortality on overhead power lines.","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"403 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116390036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eastern Imperial Eagle in Agricultural Lands in Kharkiv Region of Ukraine: the Results of Seventeen Years of Monitoring","authors":"S. Viter, Nikita S. Tolstyak","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-63-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-63-81","url":null,"abstract":"A study on the population of Eastern Imperial Eagle (EIE) (Aquila heliaca) in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine was begun in 2003. About 40% of the region was surveyed during this study. In 2018-2020 an EIE counting was done on our study plots covering suitable nesting habitats of the species and 78 individuals of EIE were recorded. Comparing with 2005–2012 count when 81 EIEs were recorded and the population size was estimated as 50 breeding pairs it is possible to conclude that the population nowadays is stable. However, in some local breeding groups, the number is tending to decline. For instance, in the pine forests in the valley of the Siversky Donets river, the decline is caused by habitat destruction and human disturbance during the breeding period due to woodcutting. To prevent the future decreasing, since 2016 a new legislation prohibits logging activity in woodlands of Ukraine from the 1st of April till 15th of June. On the contrary, in the agricultural area in the south and southeast of the Kharkiv region, population growth was observed. In 2018–2020 we found 29 inhabited nests of Eastern Imperial Eagles located in agricultural open lands (16 nests), in vast oak forest (1 nest), and in pine forests of the Siversky Donets river valley (12 nests). In 2019, a significant difference was found in the breeding success of pairs inhabited agricultural lands (100% successful cases) that in pine forests (40%).","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114285762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raptors ConservationPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-188-191
M. Pestov, Zhaskayrat E. Nurmukhambetov, N. Ongarbayev, A. A. Pulatov, S.M. Turmagambetov, T.S. Daribayev
{"title":"New Sighting of Bearded Vulture on the Western Chink of the Ustyurt Plateau of Kazakhstan in 2022","authors":"M. Pestov, Zhaskayrat E. Nurmukhambetov, N. Ongarbayev, A. A. Pulatov, S.M. Turmagambetov, T.S. Daribayev","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-188-191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-188-191","url":null,"abstract":"The article highlights data on the first sighting of bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus on the territory of the Ustyurt State Nature Reserve (Kazakhstan) after 2013. It has been suggested that the bearded vulture is periodically visiting from the Great Balkan Range (Western Turkmenistan) and the subspecies of the bird encountered.","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121692925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raptors ConservationPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-116-124
O. V. Andreyenkov, N. G. Andreyenkova, I. Zhimulev, I. Bogomolova, Yu. S. Ravkin, S. M. Tsybulin, Yu. O. Kashinskaya, D. A. Shtol
{"title":"Northern Hawk Owl invasions in the forest-steppe of Western Siberia","authors":"O. V. Andreyenkov, N. G. Andreyenkova, I. Zhimulev, I. Bogomolova, Yu. S. Ravkin, S. M. Tsybulin, Yu. O. Kashinskaya, D. A. Shtol","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-116-124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-116-124","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents data on the invasions of the hawk owl (Surnia ulula) into the forest-steppe of Western Siberia on the territory of the Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions, Altai Krai and Krasnoyarsk Krai territories.","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126453523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Zaytseva, B. Hoekstra, Johannes Jansen, D. Engelen, Folkert K. de Boer, Rafa Benjumea, Jasper Wehrmann, Simon Cavaillès, T. Kaasiku, Diego Jansen, Pia Fetting, Aki Aintila, W. Vansteelant
{"title":"Thirteen Years of Counting Raptor Migration in Batumi: Observations and Their Importance for Raptor Conservation in Russia","authors":"O. Zaytseva, B. Hoekstra, Johannes Jansen, D. Engelen, Folkert K. de Boer, Rafa Benjumea, Jasper Wehrmann, Simon Cavaillès, T. Kaasiku, Diego Jansen, Pia Fetting, Aki Aintila, W. Vansteelant","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-10-42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-10-42","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2008 Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) project has been monitoring autumn migration of birds of prey in the eastern African-Palearctic flyway in southwest Georgia on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. Every autumn this flyway is used by a significant proportion of the global population of such raptor species as Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus), Montagu’s Harrier (Circus pygargus), Pallid Harrier (C. macrourus) and Marsh Harrier (C. aeruginosus). At least 1% of the global population of 10 raptor species migrates through the Batumi flyway. Batumi Raptor Count is of vital importance for the development of ecotourism in the region, creating an economic, political, and social foundation for raptor conservation and contributing to a reduction of widespread illegal hunting. The project also works to introduce ecology and conservation into local schools and higher education programs. This manuscript’s aim is to summarise the 13 years of the BRC. It contains a detailed description of a typical migration season in one of the most important bottlenecks for raptor migration globally. The current manuscript is loosely based on the publication in British Birds summarising the history of the BRC (Hoekstra et al., 2020). The main difference, apart from publishing it in Russian, is in taking into account the data obtained in 2021 and emphasising the importance of the autumn migration monitoring in Batumi for the conservation and research of the Russian raptor populations.","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124963045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raptors ConservationPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-297-300
Maxim A. Korolkov, Mikhail M. Shahkin
{"title":"The First Documented Death of a White-Tailed Sea Eagle on the Territory of the Ulyanovsk Wind Farm, Russia","authors":"Maxim A. Korolkov, Mikhail M. Shahkin","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-297-300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-297-300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125611413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wintering Birds of Prey in the Kharkiv Region (Eastern Ukraine)","authors":"S. Viter","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-43-70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-43-70","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124036517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Pestov, Nurlan V. Ongarbayev, I. Smelansky, D. Denisov
{"title":"Deaths of Birds of Prey on Overhead Power Lines Made of Aerial Bundled Cables in Western Kazakhstan","authors":"M. Pestov, Nurlan V. Ongarbayev, I. Smelansky, D. Denisov","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-52-62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2020-40-52-62","url":null,"abstract":"Medium-capacity (6–20kV) overhead power lines made of aerial bundled cables (ABC) were inspected to identify deaths of birds of prey in western Kazakhstan in summer 2017 (Aktobe Province) and autumn2019 (Mangystau Province). The results show that the use of ABC in itself does not completely prevent deaths of birds. Birds die from electrocution caused by contact with lightning overvoltage protectors. The level of hazard to the birds depends on the design of such protectors. The conclusion was made that the safety of birds should be ensured when designing overhead power lines, including ABC lines. It is recommended to use primarily the lightning overvoltage protectors that ensure safety of birds.","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134582412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raptors ConservationPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-260-263
Valeri V. Yurko, Polesye State Radiation-Ecological Reserve
{"title":"Manifestation of Commensalism Behavior in a Male Kestrel towards Juvenile Red-Footed Falcons, Belarus","authors":"Valeri V. Yurko, Polesye State Radiation-Ecological Reserve","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-260-263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2019-39-260-263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125805917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Karyakin, K.I. Knizhov, E. G. Nikolenko, O.V. Shiriaev, G. Pulikova, A. G. Kaptyonkina
{"title":"Egyptian Vulture in the Karatau Mountains and Adjacent Territories, Kazakhstan","authors":"I. Karyakin, K.I. Knizhov, E. G. Nikolenko, O.V. Shiriaev, G. Pulikova, A. G. Kaptyonkina","doi":"10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-96-187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19074/1814-8654-2022-44-96-187","url":null,"abstract":"Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) is a globally threatened species. The northernmost limit of its breeding range is located in Kazakhstan and is fragmented into three large enclaves. The Karatau range is one such enclave. It was previously assumed that a small number of Egyptian Vultures nested here; however, research showed the fallacy of such ideas in 2010. In 2022, Karatau was surveyed in more detail to detect Egyptian Vultures. Based on the results of studies in 2010 and 2022, we modeled Egyptian Vulture distribution in Google Earth Engine using the image classification method — Random Forest (probability + regression) and calculated its possible abundance in Karatau utilizing several methods, including Distance Sampling. The area of Egyptian Vulture breeding biotopes is calculated to be 10,378.85 km2, habitat area – 34,576.8 km2. The Egyptian Vulture population in Karatau for 2022 is estimated at 171–298 breeding pairs (average of 278 breeding pairs), and 43–74 successful pairs (average of 69 successful pairs) (91 breeding territories are known). Based on obtained data and publications analysis, we assume that the Karatau Egyptian Vulture population is stable despite deterioration in habitat quality and reduction in breeding success of the species in recent years.","PeriodicalId":330422,"journal":{"name":"Raptors Conservation","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121880715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}