{"id":15438,"date":"2015-03-26T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/2015\/03\/26\/owls-as-traffic-victims\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:13:42","slug":"owls-as-traffic-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/en\/owls-as-traffic-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls as traffic victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During March 2015, members of the Milvus Group performed several field works in the western parts of the country, while we recorded also \u201croad kill\u201d bird victims along a busy main road.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kep3-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kep3.jpg\" alt=\"kep3\" class=\"wp-image-7432\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p>Because finding the bodies of small size bird species is difficult, we were focused only on the medium and large size species.<\/p><p>The studied road section is located along the E671 European main road which was divided into two parts, namely a section between Arad and Chi\u0219ineu-Cri\u0219, respectively between Chi\u0219ineu-Cri\u0219 and Oradea.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kep8-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milvus.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kep8.jpg\" alt=\"kep8\" class=\"wp-image-7436\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p>The first survey was undertaken between 11th and 12th March on Chi\u0219ineu-Cri\u0219-Arad road section and the second on 20th and 21st March on Chi\u0219ineu-Cri\u0219 and Oradea section.<\/p><p>Along the first section a number of 7, while along the second road section 5 corps (totally 12) of Barn Owl (<em>Tyto alba<\/em>) were found, killed by traffic causalities.<\/p><p>On transect between Chi\u0219ineu-Cri\u0219 and Arad 7 Long-eared Owls were also found (<em>Asio otus<\/em>) were also found killed by&nbsp;collisions with cars.<\/p><p>Certainly the number of dead birds may be much higher along the surveyed road, as we found only the fresh or relatively fresh carcasses and only next to the roadside, not the corpses which are old and are in poor condition drifted far from the road.<\/p><p>The traffic causalities are mostly limited to two well-defined road sections, one a few kilometres south to Salonta and the other south to Chi\u0219ineu-Cri\u0219, straight roads where there are no settlements and the cars can travel with high speeds.<\/p><p>Although we believe that these number of dead owls are alarming high, unfortunately it is very hard or almost impossible to find an operative solution to overcome this effective losses caused by traffic.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure 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