Rare Birds in Spain Blog

El comité revisando la tabla de citas aceptadas y pendientes The RC reviewing the table of pending and accepted records El fin de semana del 23-25.10.2009 se efectuó la reunión anual del CR/SEO-BirdLife en el albergue de Beire, Navarra. El objetivo principal de la reunión era el de resolver en directo citas difíciles o que estaban pendientes de decisión para preparar el informe 2007 de rarezas, ya en prensa en Ardeola. Asímismo se discutieron temas de funcionamiento interno y otros pormenores apuntados en una reunión previa de secretarios celebrada en junio 2009. El comité en plena reunión The RC during the work session Pese a la intensidad del trabajo, con una jornada ininterrumpida de 9 a 01 horas del sábado... pudimos compartir una cena con diversos ornitólogos navarros el viernes 23 en la cual pudimos poner rostro a esas direcciones de correo electrónico que todos tenemos y resolver algunas de las frecuentes dudas que nuestro trabajo volutario genera así como, de paso, comentar la...

Sad news. The managers of the Hungarian LIFE project on Saker Falcon sent us this message with details on the death of the travelling Saker Piros. A sad end for perhaps the most outstanding travel ever recorded for such species. 'A few days ago - following of my request - an international team of biologists working with monk seals in Mauritania found the body of Piros on a peninsula on the northern part of the country (see 20.77100 -17.04467). When first seen, Piros seemed exhausted but the colleagues could not help her. She spent 8 days in the area before her signals disappeared. There is no explanation for her death since apparently there is plenty of food around: shorebirds, gulls and probably passerine migrants too. Nevertheless, the possibility of getting too tired after crossing the desert and not being able to hunt is not excluded. Further possibilities are: secondary poisoning (a large number of ships have been dismantled and sank in the area), some kind of disease...