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Results from winter supplementary feeding of the Imperial Eagles in Sakar
Between November and March, a BSPB team regularly fed five pairs of Imperial eagles in the Sakar Special Protection Area. The supplementary feeding takes place between December and March and aims to keep breeding pairs in their territories throughout the year, attract...
BSPB’s experts are guest-editors in the special edition of Diversity Journal
© Rashis Rashid/Science for Nature Foundation Dr. Vladimir Dobrev, Dr. Dobromir Dobre and Dr. Dimitar Demerdzhiev from the Bulgarian Society for the protection of birds have been invited as guest editors in the international peer reviewed journal Diversity, with...
Life for Falcons on Nature, Hunting, Fishing exhibition in Plovdiv
Zeleni Balkani team, part of the project Life for Falcons (LIFE20 NAT/BG/001162), and local volunteers took part of the fair Nature, Hunting, Fishing 2022. They told the guests of the fair about the Saker falcon, threats and problems which it is facing, and about the...
Start of the activities for identifying Saker falcon pairs and their territories
Field teams of BSPB and Green Balkans have started with the first stage of the spring patrols for identifying nesting pairs of Saker falcons in some of the protected areas of the project Life for Falcons. They aim to gather data about the potential nesting territories...
Оbserve online two White stork nests in the village of Yarlovo, Bulgaria
And this year, the two cameras installed in the nests of White storks in the Samokov villages of Yarlovo and Dragushinovo will transmit in real-time. Anyone can invite them to their home through the BSPB's YouTube channel. For the first time, we will observe another...
The National Olympiad in Ornithology will be held again in Bulgaria
© Svetoslav Spasov After a 13-year break, the National Ornithology Olympiad of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) is back! The Olympiad aims to arouse interest in birds and nature in as many young people as possible. Students from 5th to 8th...
The Pelican Way of LIFE project is among the finalists for the prestigious Natura 2000 award
The international project “Conservation of the Dalmatian pelican along the Black-Sea Mediterranean Flyway” (“Pelican Way of LIFE”), in which the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and the Persina Nature Park Directorate are the partners for Bulgaria,...
The breeding season for Dalmatian pelicans has started in Bulgaria
© Svilen Cheshmedziev For the seventh year in a row, the breeding season for Dalmatian pelicans in the Persina Nature Park has started. In mid-February, during the regular monitoring of the marshes on Persin Island, a team of the Bulgarian Society for the Protection...
Mass mortality of Dalmatian pelicans observed in Greece due to Avian influenza
Photo: Alexandrou / SPP ARCHIVE The dalmatian pelican population is severely affected by an avian influenza outbreak that is currently in progress at the Prespa National Park in Greece, in the Lesser Prespa Lake Dalmatian pelican colony that is the largest colony of...
Aid for Tuzlovski Lagoon National Nature Park in Ukraine.
Dear Friends, we are launching a fundraising campaign to help our partners in the Tuzlovski Lagoon National Nature Park in Ukraine. Our goal is to provide funds for basic necessities, medicines and equipment needed in this difficult time. The park management is one of...
Over 500 000 Greater White-fronted geese counted in February
Coordinated counting of the wintering geese in Ukraine, South-Eastern Romania and Bulgaria took place in the mid-February. Experts and volunteers of the project "Safe Flight joined forces and visited the most significant for the conservation of the wintering geese...
All presentations from the saltwater wetlands international webinar are already available in favour of the public
Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation (BBF), Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania (PPNEA) organised an international webinar Conservation and sustainable use of saltwater wetlands in the...