Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Order of the Badge of Honor
Working Group on Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia named after V. M. Galushin

Dear Colleagues!

We invite you to participate in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Adaptations of Raptors to Modern Challenges," dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Zoology, the 80th birthday and 50th anniversary of the scientific work of Vladimir Valentinovich Ivanovsky, Professor of the Department, Doctor of Biological Sciences of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, and Honorary Ecologist of Belarus.

The conference will be held at the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Order of the Badge of Honor, in Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus, on December 16–18, 2026.

The main topics of the conference:

Dynamics of the population of birds of prey and owls.
Nesting ecology of birds of prey and owls.
Trophic relationships of birds of prey and owls.
Ways and methods for protecting birds of prey and owls.

The conference proceedings will be published as a separate publication and in an electronic collection, which will be posted on the Academy's website, www.vsavm.by.

To participate in the conference, in person or in absentia, please send the following documents to the organizing committee by email at ivanovski@tut.by no later than September 30, 2026:

APPLICATION. Please title the file with the author's last name;
ARTICLE, formatted according to the requirements. Please title the file with the first author's last name.

Articles that do not meet the formatting requirements or the scientific level of the conference, or those submitted after September 30, 2026, will not be considered or published.

Dowldoad firts infirmation letter (in Russian):