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New website for the program “Birds of Moscow and Moscow Region”
The program “Birds of Moscow and Moscow Region” has a new website. We recommend adding it to the “favourites” on your computer: http://www.birdsmoscow.net.ru
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The first episode of the video story “The Adventures of Birds in Russia” by Khakass director Yuri Kurochka
Read MoreIncredible hovering kestrel
Incredible footage of a kestrel demonstrating its famous hover control, keeping its head perfectly still whilst seeming to float on the air to look for prey.
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Peregrine falcon reproduction on the building of Moscow State University
Red Data Book peregrine falcon chicks were born at Moscow State University, living on the thirtieth floor of a high-rise building since 2005
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New film shines light on Golden Eagles
A new documentary film takes viewers into the field in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming as a team of researchers studying Golden Eagles works to study and protect the birds.
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“At the golden eagle's nest”, or to the question of the expression “hope dies last”
Back in 2002, when I was only 56 years old, I built an artificial nesting site for the most powerful eagle in the northern Palearctic, the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), on a huge raised bog. Time flew by like a courier train, and the eagles nested in other nests, but I continued to believe and wait, periodically updating this building.
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Worrying about the eagles
I am not only an “enemy of progressive mankind” (that part of it that, according to “gray” schemes, with the support of the authorities, builds up camp sites and cottages on the shores of Lake Baikal), but also an ornithologist. The main object of my research is the birds of prey of Cisbaikalia, primarily eagles.
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Peregrine Falcon ringing on the roof of the Uralsin Bank in Ufa — 2022
On June 10, 2022, the planned banding of the Peregrine Falcon chicks took place at the Ufa office of Uralsib Bank. The ornithologists of the Ufa Birds Atlas project, a veterinarian, curators, as well as invited journalists and photographers took part in the process.
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Ecological festival for bird lovers in the village of Divnoye
The ecological festival “People and Birds” will be held in the village of Divnoye (Stavropol Kray) in the first half of September 2022.
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