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Project LIFE Energy as implemented in thirteen SPAs (Special Protection Areas) in the period of 1st September 2014 - 31st December 2019 and was aimed at protecting the ten priority bird species. Project pages are currently updated only on an occasional basis.

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A worldwide catastrophe is underway among an extraordinary group of birds — the marathon migrants we know as shorebirds. Numbers of some species are falling so quickly that many biologists fear an imminent planet-wide wave of extinctions.

By John W. Fitzpatrick and Nathan R. Senner

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Sunday, 06 August 2017 20:11

Bird Academy presents - Bird ringing

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Origins of bird ringing reach back to the 18th century. First such tagged birds were swallows, when ornithologists tried to prove that they migrate South, with the help of a piece of twine. Foundations of systematic ringing were laid a hudred years ago by Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen, who started to tag starlings nesting in his nest boxes.

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Thursday, 27 July 2017 10:17

Bird Academy presents the largest owl

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The Eurasian eagle-owls (Bubo bubo) are the largest owls living in Slovakia – their wing-span reaches 160 - 180 cm.

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Wednesday, 02 August 2017 10:17

Bird Academy presents - adoptions

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One of the most common questions we are frequently asked is whether birds do abandon their nestlings after their contact with people. With the exception of vultures, sense of smell does not play as important role for most of birds of prey, as it does for some mammals.

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