From 1 to 1500 have increased the Red-breasted Geese wintering in Coastal Dobrudzha for a period of just one week. This is the information submitted by our field team of BSPB working in NE Bulgaria. The numbers of the Greater White-fronted Geese has also increased and now the species numbers about 5,000 birds. The […]
The rare for our country species – Velvet Scotter has been spotted today by a field team of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds in the SPA “Durankulak Lake. photo Valentin Katrandzhiev/Velver Scotter In 2015 the species has been listed in IUCN Red List as Vulnerable due to a general population decline […]
A single Red-breasted Goose was observed during the weekend in Durankulak Lake. Although the team of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds working in the area was not lucky to see huge flocks of wintering geese, Coastal Dobrudzha offered other interesting observations. Among them are those of six White-headed Ducks, Red-breasted Divers, Red-crested […]
The first significant numbers of the vulnerable Red-breasted Goose have already arrived in their wintering quarters in South-east Romania. During the first for the season 2018/2019 international coordinated count carried out at the end of November were counted 5993 individuals. The simultaneous counts were carried out in all six project sites – Delta Dunari-Razim-Sinoe Complex, […]
Over 5000 white-fronted geese were observed in Svishtov region in Bulgaria. The team did the observation believes that their number are likely reduced due to foggy weather and bad visibility. The observation is the first of the season monitoring of wintering wild geese in the country. During the weekend three teams of the Bulgarian Society […]
On October 10, 2018, a meeting was held by the Government of the Republic of Kalmykia to discuss restriction of the hunting of waterfowl in the spring of 2019 and creation of resting safety zones in places of concentration of rare bird species on the territory of the Kumo-Manych depression. The meeting was attended by […]
Two international experts on waterbirds conservation and ecology shared experience with their Bulgarian counterparts during a three-day seminar to be held in Burgas on 1 and 2 October 2018. The meeting in the seaside city was the first of three to be held in three of the key range countries of the Red-breasted goose flyway […]
From April 15 to end of May, ornithologists from the ACBK and North Kazakhstan State University have monitored the spring migration of the geese in the Kostanay region and Northern Kazakhstan and made control raids to check compliance with the ban on spring hunting of waterfowl, which has been introduced since 2017 in Kazakhstan. The […]
Our Project has received special attention in attempt to promote the conservation of the Red-breasted Goose and the efforts to boost its protection along the flyway. The EU LIFE Program has featured the project and its activities on their website. More you can see here
On February 19, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kalmykia hosted a meeting with hunters on the issues of opening spring hunting in the Republic. The meeting was also attended by the director of the state reserve “Black Lands” Bataar Ubushaev, who addressed the audience stressing on the ethics […]
The highest number of wintering Red-breasted Geese in Coastal Dobrudzha was registered only in the last days of January. At that time, 5844 Red-breasted Geese – a globally threatened species and 2303 Greater White-fronted Gsse – were observed during the regular observation of the wintering birds in the region of Natura 2000 sites – Durankulak […]
Lesser White-fronted Goose and a Bean Goose have been observed in Bourgas lakes in the last days of January, during the regular monitoring of birds in the wetlands of Bourgas by a team of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB). photo Nicky Petkov/www.NaturePhotos.eu/Lesser White-fronted Goose Both species of geese are very rare […]
