Current efforts to monitor and conserve the Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca in Hungary

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Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 457-459

  Kovács, András ^a   Demeter, Iván ^b   Fatér, Imre ^a   Bagyura, János ^a   Nagy, Károly ^a   Szitta, Tamés ^c   Firmánszky, Gábor ^d   Horváth, Márton ^a  

^a MME/BirdLife Hungary   (Hungary)

^b Terra Vita   (Hungary)

^c Bukki Nemzeti Park   (Hungary)

^d Nemzeti Park Igazgatosagok Hungary   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUSTAINABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EAGLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUNGARY; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EAGLES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUNGARY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA HELIACA; AVES;

EID: 53549086665     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[460:CETMAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (13)

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3. Bagyura, J., Szitta, T., Haraszthy, L., Firmánszky, G., Viszló, L., Kovács, A., Demeter, I. and Horváth, M. 2002. Population increase of Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) in Hungary between 1980 and 2000. Aquila 107-108, 133-144.
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13. More than 70 people take part in the monitoring of the Imperial Eagle population in Hungary each year, including volunteers and national park staff. In addition, approximately 60 volunteers participated in the national surveys of electrocuted birds between 2004 and 2005. We thank these individuals for their hard and enthusiastic work on data collection. The prey species surveys were carried out by Péter Borbáth, Attila Ferencz, József Kelemen, Károly Koács, Mihály Molnár, Istvân Németh, and László Tóth. We are particularly grateful to Paola Movalli Duke for organizing the Scopello workshop and facilitating the publication of this Special Issue. We thank Chris Wernham, Jan Ove Gjershaug, and Torgeir Nygard for their useful advice on the manuscript. The LIFE-Nature Project "Conservation of the Imperial Eagle in the Carpathian Basin" was cofinanced by the European Commission's LIFE-Nature Fund and the Ministry of Environment and Water in Hungary.