Green Week

Our story begins in the hours of a fog -filled Sunday morning. A beautiful valley with old houses, a deep silence, punctuated somehow by the peasantry daily life routine and…

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The African “Kestrel express” departed – the spring migration of satellite-tagged Red-footed and Amur Falcons has started

IMG_3733The birds tagged with satellite transmitters in Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, and Romania spent the winter in Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zambia. At some points all of the tagged seven birds stayed in a 200-kiometre-diameter circle in Botswana, and then they spread out to an area of about 1.000.000 square kilometers (approximately four times larger territory than Romania). (more…)

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White Stork webcam – 2015

Dragi prieteni, După numeroase teste, avem marea plăcere să vă anunțăm că proiectul camerei web de la Dumbrăvioara este funcțional! Astfel, iubitorii de păsări pot urmări online, 24 din 24 ore, într-un format HD,  cuibul de barză albă. Avem și o serie de noutăți pentru voi! Am schimbat locul de monitorizare, imaginile pe care le puteți observa sunt dintr-un cuib aflat la intrarea în localitatea Dumbrăvioara. Vezi pe hartă: (more…)

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Milvus scholarship 2015

“Milvus Group” Bird and Nature Protection Association is launching the Milvus scholarship dedicated for student researchers interested in biology, ecology or nature conservation for year 2015-2016 Our main objective is…

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Conservation of the European Roller (Coracias garrulus) in the Carpathian Basin (LIFE13/NAT/HU/000081)

angol logoThe aim of the project ˮConservation of the European Roller in the Carpathian Basin” (LIFE13/NAT/HU/000081) is to strengthen the European Roller population of the Carpathian Basin and to ensure the long term conservation status of the species in the area. (more…)

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In February, Milvus Group have been started the project “Building BlueGreen infrastructure in Central-Eastern Europe: from pilot projects to regional action”

The project is co-financed by Michael Otto Stiftung. In 2014 the local water management authority plans to execute a project to increase flood security along the lower parts of the…

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The sad ending of a White-tailed Eagle from Poland

The White-tailed Eagle as a chick
The White-tailed Eagle as a chick (Photo: Eagle Conservation Committee)
Last year in the middle of December Paweł Mirski contacted us from the polish Eagle Conservation Committee (Komitet Ochrony Orłów). He asked us to search a White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) which was tagged with a satellite transmitter in Poland, and had, during winter wandering, flown to the western border of Romania. For three days the transmitter sent data from the same spot, near Dorobanți (Arad county), which suggested that the birds died or the transmitter had fallen of. (more…)

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