22.07.2010 Unfavorable nesting season for the Saker Falcon in Bulgaria Unfavorable nesting season of the Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) account this year's monitoring of the species. As is known, in the last five years with the help of several sponsors, including the BBC and LIFE+ Programme of the European Union, BSPB conducted detailed monitoring of places of habitation of the Saker Falcon in the country, including areas where the species is bred before.
Serial studies during the breeding season of 2010 showed alarming results. Saker Falcon was found in 19 areas (33 observations, although this may not be definitive data), but only in 8 cases the birds are showing signs of likely breeding. On one of the places the couple has been subjected to attacks by other raptors, which are the competitors. For other couples the partners have filed their prey on each other in the air, or both birds are hunted together.
However, for the first time in five years BSPB experts have not registered more serious signs of breeding of the species in the country, for example - carry prey to the breeding site, as has been observed in previous years. In some habitats where the nesting pairs were likely to nest in 2009, this year had seen a single hunting falcons. The species was found as in totally new areas and some old localities where it was not seen for years - some of these places were monitored female birds with pronounced territorial behavior. This dynamics may be due to both human effects and a very rainy spring and summer, which directly and indirectly affect the availability and affordability of food for birds.
Even more alarming is the state of Saker Falcon in Hungary, which is the country with one of the most significant populations of the species in Europe. Thanks to the successful protection of wild birds, including the provision of artificial nests, Hungary was one of very few countries in the world with sustainable growth of the population of endangered Saker Falcon. According to data of the Hungarian Ornithological Society (BirdLife International partner in the country) 2010 is the worst year for the last 30 years. Dozens of couples are not raised offspring - some have left their nesting areas and in many nests eggs are not hatched, in others the juvenile birds are even abandoned. The most likely cause of this disaster is difficult to find food because the long lasting spring torrential rain, storms and cold weather.
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