site.btaTransmitters Attached to Red-Breasted Geese Allow Tracking During Migration
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104 ENVIRONMENT - BIRDS - MIGRATION
Transmitters Attached
to Red-Breasted Geese
Allow Tracking During Migration
Dobrich, Northeastern Bulgaria, October 4 (BTA) - As migratory birds have begun their epic journey to the south, people will be able to enjoy the sight of their amazing passage during the European Bird Days, October 5-6, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) said.
Nature lovers in the geographical region of Dobroudja in Northeastern Bulgaria are eagerly awaiting a particular species of winged migrants from the Siberian tundra: the globally endangered red-breasted geese, which are already in Kazakhstan and are headed for their winter home, Lake Shabla and Lake Dourankoulak in Dobroudja. Their 6,000 km journey is being tracked by means of satellite and GPS transmitters which BSPB attached to 10 of them this past spring, expert Nikolai Petkov told BTA.
Conservationists and institutions in Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are implementing a project to protect red-breasted geese during their annual migration. The project is using 2,558,000 euro in funding under the LIFE Programme of the European Commission.
The transmitters make it possible to track the migration of pairs of geese, whose members, as it turns out, do not travel together all the time, BSPB said.
The Shabla-Dourankoulak Lake Complex is of international importance according to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. The largest number of red-breasted geese were spotted there in 2013. Back then, 90 per cent of the world population of that species spent the winter in the seaside part of Dobroudja. The morning sight of 56,000 birds taking flight in the space of 45 to 90 minutes was extraordinary, Petkov recalled.
Patrols are being put together to welcome the birds as they arrive in the Shabla-Dourankoulak Lake Complex. The local people are being advised to protect the birds. ZH/VE//
LN1905NW.104
104 ENVIRONMENT - BIRDS - MIGRATION
Transmitters Attached
to Red-Breasted Geese
Allow Tracking During Migration
Dobrich, Northeastern Bulgaria, October 4 (BTA) - As migratory birds have begun their epic journey to the south, people will be able to enjoy the sight of their amazing passage during the European Bird Days, October 5-6, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) said.
Nature lovers in the geographical region of Dobroudja in Northeastern Bulgaria are eagerly awaiting a particular species of winged migrants from the Siberian tundra: the globally endangered red-breasted geese, which are already in Kazakhstan and are headed for their winter home, Lake Shabla and Lake Dourankoulak in Dobroudja. Their 6,000 km journey is being tracked by means of satellite and GPS transmitters which BSPB attached to 10 of them this past spring, expert Nikolai Petkov told BTA.
Conservationists and institutions in Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are implementing a project to protect red-breasted geese during their annual migration. The project is using 2,558,000 euro in funding under the LIFE Programme of the European Commission.
The transmitters make it possible to track the migration of pairs of geese, whose members, as it turns out, do not travel together all the time, BSPB said.
The Shabla-Dourankoulak Lake Complex is of international importance according to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. The largest number of red-breasted geese were spotted there in 2013. Back then, 90 per cent of the world population of that species spent the winter in the seaside part of Dobroudja. The morning sight of 56,000 birds taking flight in the space of 45 to 90 minutes was extraordinary, Petkov recalled.
Patrols are being put together to welcome the birds as they arrive in the Shabla-Dourankoulak Lake Complex. The local people are being advised to protect the birds. ZH/VE//
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