Do you guess the hidden wonders of Nature?
The game, loved by young and old, was the delight of a multiplication event within the Learning Humanity from Animals (LEHUA) project. In fact, next year, the Milvus Group and…
Saving a bear cub from a snare
On November 22, at around 4 AM, we have received a phone call from one of the gamekeepers with whom we work in the brown bear conservation and research project. A bear cub was ‘stuck’ in a backyard fence in the village of Iliesi (near the town of Sovata, in the mountainous model area of our program). The extremely agitated mother and the other cub were nearby in the forest, under the cover of a thick undergrowth. Our vet, DVM Levente Borka-Vitális (more…)
Another season ended in the Chituc Ringing Camp!
The fourth year of ringing on Chituc Spit ended with 10547 marked birds. After 91 days of ringing, we caught 87 species, five of which were new additions to the camps list: Gadwall (Anas strepera), Collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola), Gray-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus), Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) and (more…)
Gathering of thousands of falcons, a show to remember!
In Eastern Romania, Vrancea County, near Ciorăști commune, on the border with Buzău County, there is a special site where annually, an extraordinary ornithological event takes place. Red-footed Falcons roost here in significant numbers, before starting the autumn migration to the wintering quarters in Angola, Namibia and Botswana.
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New species for the Romanian fauna: Red-flanked bluetail
Red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus) breeds in undisturbed spruce forests of the Siberian taiga, but it also has some small isolated populations in Eastern Finland.
It is a long-distance migrant, winters in SE Asia, thus its a very rare vagrant in Europe.
On 17th October, an adult female was caprtured and ringed in the Milvus Group’s Chituc Ringing Camp which is the first confirmed record of the species in Romania. (more…)
The storks from Dumbrăvioara have more and more friends!
This is demonstrated by the Dumbrăvioara webcam statistics: between 15 March – 20 August, 34 977 watched the nests events! Totally, almost 230 500 sessions. The most popular day was…
Results of the 9th International “Milvus” Nature Photography Contest
Location: Tg. Mureș – Romania
Judging date: 12th of August 2017
Members of the jury: Tamás András AFIAP – RO, president of jury Kerekes István EFIAP/d2 – HU Dan Dinu AFIAP, PhotoLife – RO
138 photographers sent 693 pictures from 13 countries General – landscapes, plants, fungi: 167 photos Animals: 226 photos Romanian nature: 300 photos
THE WINNERS
The Grand Prize (First place winner of the competition)
Dorin Bofan /Romania – Lenga Tree during storm
How can bear hair help to protect the species?
As one of the main threats to far-roaming brown bears is the degradation, fragmentation and loss of suitable habitats, one of the goals of the project ‘Brown bear conservation and research in a model area in Romania’ is to conserve the bears’ habitat. In the area where the project operates, the most significant threat in this sense in the nearby future will be posed by the planned Tg. Mures-Iasi-Ungheni highway. This development will cut through Romania’s Eastern Carpathians and adjacent foothills, all prime bear habitats. (more…)
The week of outdoor adventures! The Milvus environmental education summer camp
Six days full of events, excursions and games. What was common in all the activities? Nature. 31 children of various ages attended the 11th environmental education Milvus camp, organized this year in Mitrești, Mureș County. The adventures, carefully organized, carried them through the nearby forests and hills, raised their curiosity upon crafts – visits to a blacksmith and a farmer; motivated them to aspire to more, by climbing courageously to 15 m to see a real Lesser Spotted Eagle nest (thank you SALVAMONT MUREȘ); reconnected them to nature by capturing and ringing several bird species. (more…)
Help, Snake! – Popular posters for locals
Panic, fear, horror, myths … and the end is often the same, a crushed reptilian body. Why do we always get there? Simply, because of ignorance. We are not aware, that these beings are mostly harmless, occasionally only lizards without legs. Moreover, we do not know how to behave with venomous species. This series is targeting the communities of different localities and regions, in order to present and popularize these species, and to introduce a fair behavior towards these reptiles, both for the sake of their and our own safety. We hope the next encounters will be more peaceful! (more…)
Remarkable results in the WESTERN PLAINS OF ROMANIA! The Saker Falcon numbers are increasing!
The nesting population of the Saker Falcon is growing in the Western Plain, as a result we managed to ring 45 chicks in 13 out of the 17 nests where sakers successfully bred in 2017.
This is very good news for the species, which experienced in Romania a long period of decline! In 2011 there was only one known breeding pair, but last year there were already 12! (more…)
Common position
Transparency in decision making about large carnivores, real and timely payment of damages, correct use of intervention quota, exclusively to solve problematic cases with bears, and the development and application…
A rare phenomenon and a happy case!
Three years ago, two Lesser Spotted Eagle chicks were ringed in the same nest in Harghita County). This is a rare case, because in this species the oldest nestling tends…
LEHUA – Learning Humanity from Animals
What can we learn from animals? Have you ever asked yourselves this question? We are fully convinced that teaching materials, whether for the formal or non-formal learning systems, can be…
Chituc Ringing Camp will be up and running in 2017 as well!
Milvus Group Association organized in 2014-2016 an annual ringing camp for studying the migration dynamics of passerine species that cross through the Chituc sandbank. In the first three years of…
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