SPOTTED EAGLE STUDIES, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Aquila clanga, A. pomarina and A. hastata
Dear colleagues,
From 16-18 September 2005 an International Meeting on Research and Conservation of Spotted Eagles (Aquila clanga, A. pomarina, A. hastata) was hosted by the Biebrza National Park (NE Poland) and jointly organized by the Biebrza National Park, KOO, the Polish Eagle Committee, and WWGBP, the World Working Group on Birds of Prey (website: www.Raptors-International.de).
The Greater Spotted Eagle (GSE) is a globally threatened species breeding from eastern Poland to China and wintering from Europe and Africa across the Middle East to Japan and south to the Malay Archipelago and Sumatra. It has been studied comparatively little. The Biebrza valley in NE Poland holds the westernmost population of the species, which has been monitored here for 30 years.
A preliminary workshop on the Greater and the closely related Lesser Spotted Eagle (LSE) on 14-18 November 1996 in Kemeri in Latvia was convened to draft European Action Plans for both species, published in 2001 by the Office of the Official Publications of the European Communities in Luxembourg.
(online versions: http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/nature/nature_conservation/focus_wild_birds/species_birds_directive/birdactionplan/action_5.pdf
& http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/nature/nature_conservation/focus_wild_birds/species_birds_directive/birdactionplan/action_6.pdf)
This recent meeting in the Biebrza valley brought together some 50 specialists from various countries to promote the study and conservation of both the GSE and the LSE.
All events (poster sessions, lectures) were held in the main office building of the Biebrza National Park in Osowiec. The National Park financially supported speakers from ex-Soviet Union countries while WWGBP sponsored the attendance of Slovak participants.
WWGBP (website: www.Raptors-International.de) will publish the Proceedings of this international meeting under the title "SPOTTED EAGLE STUDIES", following the format of the Proceedings of the World Conferences (e.g. Raptors Worldwide, see www.Raptors-International.de for more information) and of other WWGBP meetings.
We invite all authors of scientific contributions to this meeting to submit their manuscripts as soon as possible. We also invite other ornithologists who would like to contribute to send papers.
We will publish original research reports and review articles about the three spotted eagles species (Aquila clanga, A. pomarina, A. hastata). Papers on all aspects of the biology and conservation are welcome, including breeding biology, taxonomy, food habits, migration, wintering etc.
Manuscripts will be considered on the understanding that they have not been published, submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts are subject to peer review for evaluation of their significance and soundness. Please let me know as soon as possible if you will send a manuscript.
The Proceedings we intend to publish are independend of those edited by Tadeusz Mizera & Bernd Meyburg and published by the Biebrza National Park. Theses Proceedings are entirely in Polish. The Proceedings we are preparing now will be in English with some few papers perhaps in German. Therefore, if you should already have sent a manuscript to Tadeusz, please send it again to us.
Please send contributions by email to: WWGBP@... and robin.chancellor@....
With kind regards,
Bernd Meyburg
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Prof. Dr. Bernd-U. Meyburg
Chairman, World Working Group
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