Color rings provide key data on #Montagusharriers beyond transmitters, like tracking dispersal, survival, and site fidelity, all critical for conservation. 🦅

📷If you spot or photograph one, check for rings and report to LIFE SOS Pygargus. Avoid disturbance during nesting.

#Steppebirdconservation

🌱 Spring is here in the desert, and Ferula plants are coming out this year!

#Uzbekistan #Steppebirdconservation

Carrying out Houbara bustard surveys with opportunities to admire wild desert tulips! 🌷

#Uzbekistan #Houbarabustard #steppebirdconservation

➡️ Today starts the 4th Portuguese National Survey of the #littlebustard, coordinated by our group and with the collaboration of LPN, SPEA, EDIA and volunteers. Until May 17, observers will be on the field recording all little bustards they can hear or see.

#birdsurveys #steppebirdconservation

After the capture, GPS tagging, and photo documentation for later age determination, comes the best part: the release.

#littlebustard #steppebirds #steppebirdconservation #agriculturallandscapes

First day in the desert!

We have been setting up cameras to asses the duration of florencency of the hawkeye devices fit on the power-lines to prevent bird colisions. 🦅📸

#uzbekistan #powerline #ecology #steppebirdconservation

Meeting one of the survey teams today to follow up on monitoring mortality caused by the high-tension power line 🦅⚡

#Uzbekistan #Powerlines #SteppeBirdConservation

Last week we were at ISA's open day welcoming future students and explaining them why we put #GPS on the prettiest of #birds! 🦅

#SteppeBirdConservation

🎙️ Our PI, João Paulo Silva, recently joined a podcast (in Portuguese) to talk about our latest research on #littlebustard #ecology in Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries.
Check it out to learn more about our ongoing projects!
#steppebirdconservation

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