Program of the Conference “Eagles of Palearctic: Study and Conservation”

Program International Scientific and Practical Conference

“Eagles of Palearctic: Study and Conservation” September 7-10, 2018 Location: Park-hotel "Lake Aya" Address: Nagornaya str., 1, Katun village, Altai Kray, Russia, 659635 6 September, check-in 15:00 – 19:00 Registration of participants. Time of communication 19:00 – 20:00 Dinner

7 September, 1 day 07:00 – 09:30 Time for short excursions 09:00 – 10:00 Registration of participants 10:00 Welcome address 10:30 – 12:00 Plenary session – Great Hall 10:30 – 10:55 Vladimir V. Ivanovsky “Trophic Niches of Large Birds of Prey and Adaptive Mechanisms for Their Separation in Forest-bog Complexes During the Breeding Period” 10:55 – 11:20 Andrey V. Kuznetsov “Stability of Territorial Bounds in Birds of Prey as Indicator of Their Life Strategies” 11:20 – 11:45 Todd Katzner “Demographic Risk to Eagles from Anthropogenic Causes of Death” 11:45 – 12:10 Sergey V. Bakka “The Role of Various Forms of Territorial Nature Protection in Conservation of Breeding Groups of Large Birds of Prey Under Conditions of the Center of European Russia” 12:10 – 12:30 Coffee break 12:30 – 14:00 Session 1 - Great Hall. Distribution, Status, Ecology and Conservation of Eagles.

12:30 – 13:00 Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg “Sustainable Protection of the Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina) in Germany by Purchasing Land and Managing the Reproduction Rate” 13:00 – 13:20 Dimitar Demerdzhiev “Distribution, abundance, breeding performance and habitat requirements of the Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina) in South-east Bulgaria” 13:20 – 13:40 Urmas Sellis “Genetic Determination of Migration Strategies in Large Soaring

Birds: Evidence from Hybrid Spotted Eagles” 13:40 – 14:00 Juan Manuel Pérez-García “Use of Innovative Telemetry Methods to Asses Interactions Between Wind Farms and Wildlife” 14:00 – 15:30 Lunch 15:30 – 17:10 Section 1 (continuation) – Great Hall. Distribution, Status, Ecology and Conservation of Eagles.

15:30 – 15:50 Stavros Xirouchakis “Nesting Habitat Selection and Breeding Distribution of Two Sympatric Insular Eagle Populations: The Golden Eagle and the Bonelli’s Eagle on the Island of Crete, Greece” 15:50 – 16:10 Gunnar Sein “Results of Five-year Studies of Eagles in the Peninsula of Remda in the Pskov Region, Russia ” 16:10 – 16:30 Alexander Yu. Sokolov “Representatives of the Geni of Aquila and Haliaeetus in the Nesting Fauna of the Central Black Earth Region: Current Status and Prospects for Existence” 16:30 – 16:50 Pavel M. Shukov “New Data on Distribution and Population Number of Large Birds of Prey in Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia” 16:50 – 17:10 Natalia A. Suprankova “ Rare Birds of Prey in the Usinsk Territory (Western Sayan)” 17:10 – 18:00 Coffee break & Poster session Poster session: Marie-Françoise Canevet “Conservation Status of Breeding Eagles in France” Premsagar Mestri “Survey of the Ecology and Plantation Strategy for Conservation of White Bellied Sea Eagle” Eugene M. Rakin “Rare Species of Birds of Prey in the Russian Part of Transboundary Biosphere Reserve “Bolshoy Altai” Rinur H. Bekmansurov “Results of the Colour Ringing of Large Raptors Under the Program of the Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network” Daria A. Korepova “A New Website on Feather Identification – Featherlab.ru” 18:00 – 19:20 Section 1 (continuation) – Great Hall. Distribution, Status, Ecology and Conservation of Eagles.

18:00 – 18:20 Sergey V. Vazhov “Golden Eagle in Altai Kray” 18:20 – 18:40 Igor V. Fefelov “Autumn Migration of Eagles in the South Baikal Migratory Pass: Dynamics for 30 Years” 18:40 – 19:00 Kordian Bartoszuk “Research Support System and Dataloggers by “Aquila” Company” 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner

8 September, 2 day 07:00 – 09:30 Time for short excursions.

09:40 – 11:20 Session 3 – Small Hall. II 09:40 – 11:30 Section 1 (continuation) – International meeting on conservation of Great Hall. Distribution, Status, Ecology and Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis).

Conservation of Eagles.

09:40 – 10:00 Igor V. Karyakin “Status of the 09:40 – 10:00 David Horal “First Year Steppe Eagle in the World: "White Spots" in Dispersion of White-tailed Sea Eagles from Distribution, Population Status, Ecology and Central Threats”

Europe,

Based

on

GPS/GSM

Vasiliy

G.

Pchelintsev

Telemetry”

10:00 – 10:20 Igor V. Karyakin “Steppe Eagle 10:00

–

10:20

“Tracking the White-tailed Eagle Movements

in the European Part of Russia”

by Means of GPS/GSM-transmitters” 10:20 – 10:40 Elvira G. Nikolenko “The 10:20 – 10:40 Eugene A. Bragin “Dynamics Results of Long-term Monitoring of the Steppe of Population Numbers and Biology of the Eagle in the Altai-Sayan Region”

White-tailed Eagle in Steppe Forests of the Tobol-Ishim Interfluve, Kazakhstan”

10:40 – 11:00 Oleg A. Goroshko “Population 10:40 – 11:00 Saiko Shiraki “Trend of WhiteStatus and the Conservation of the Steppe tailed Eagles Breeding in Japan During the Eagle in the Daurian Steppe” 11:00

–

11:20

“Distribution

of

Andrey the

Past Quarter-century” V.

Steppe

Kazakhstan”

Kovalenko 11:00 – 11:20 Eugene R. Potapov “Long-term Eagle

in Monitoring of the Steller’s Sea Eagles at the Northern Sea of Okhotsk: What Did We Learn? ”

11:20 – 12:00 Coffee break 12:00 – 14:00 Session 3 – Small Hall. II 12:00 – 14:00 Section 2 – Great Hall. I International meeting on conservation of International Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) work Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis).

group meeting

12:00 – 12:20 Dau Lal Bohra “Human Impact 12:00 – 12:20 Miroslav V. Babushkin on Steppe Eagle and other Birds of Prey in “Modern researches of Osprey in Russia” North-West Rajasthan, India” 12:20 – 12:40 Noam Weiss “How Fast Does 12:20 – 12:45 Pertti Saurola “Finnish Ospreys the Steppe Eagle Population Decline?: Survey 1971–2017: Conservation and Research” Results from Eilat, Israel” 12:40 – 13:00 Michael McGrady “Annual 12:45 – 13:10 Urmas Sellis “Osprey in Movements of Two Steppe Eagles, and Their Estonia and Latvia: Overview”

Use of Rubbish Dumps in Arabia During the Winter” 13:00 – 13:20 Igor V. Karyakin and/or 13:10 – 13:30 Mohamed I. Habib “Breeding Márton Horváth “Migrations of Juvenile Status of Ospreys in Egypt (Red Sea) from Steppe Eagles According to Ringing and 2012 to 2018” Tracking by GPS/GSM-trackers” 13:20 – 13:30 Ilya E. Smelansky “Strategy of 13:30 – 13:50 Luís Palma “The Portuguese the Steppe Eagle Conservation in the Russian Osprey Reintroduction Project: Achievements, Federation and International Action Plan”

Lessons and Perspectives”

13:30 – 14:00 Round table - Small Hall.

“Preparation of the International Action Plan

for the Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis)” 14:00 – 15:30 Lunch 15:30 – 17:30 Section 2 – Great Hall. I 15:30 – 17:30 Section 4 – Great Hall. VIII. International Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) work International Conference on the Conservation group meeting.

of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca)

15:30 – 15:50 Vladimir V. Ivanovsky “On 15:30 – 15:35 Márton Horváth “Opening of Relations of the Osprey and the White-tailed the meeting” Eagle in Northern Belarus”

15:35 – 15:55 Matthias Schmidt and/or David

15:50 – 16:15 Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg “The Horal “Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) Annual Cycle of German Adult Ospreys – on its most north-west distribution edge” Studies in the Breeding and Wintering Areas as 15:55 – 16:15 Márton Horváth “Population Well as During Migration Since 1995 by dynamics and dietary changes of the Eastern Means of Satellite Telemetry” 16:15

–

16:35

Vasiliy

Imperial Eagle in Hungary” G.

Pchelintsev 16:15 – 16:35 Tomas Veselovsky “Status and

“Territorial Links of the Osprey in the North- Trend of the Imperial Eagle in Slovakia” West of Russia”

16:35 – 16:55 Dimitar Demerdzhiev “Long-

16:35 – 16:55 Miroslav V. Babushkin term Population Survey of the Eastern Imperial “Autumn Migration Behaviour of Ospreys Eagle (Aquila heliaca) in Thracian Eco-region Inhabiting the North-West of Russia”

(Bulgaria and Turkey)”

16:55 – 17:15 Denis A. Kitel “Intraspeciefic 16:55 – 17:15 Márton Horváth “Breeding Relationship, Ecology and Chronology of the Population Surveys of Eastern Imperial Eagles Breeding, Food Composition and Seasonal and Steppe Eagles in Central Anatolia” Movement of Ospreys from Northern Belarus”

17:15 – 17:35 Dobromir Dobrev “The First

17:15 – 17:35 Igor V. Karyakin “Osprey in the Anti Poison Dog Unit in Bulgaria to Secure the Altai-Sayan region”

Eagle and Vulture Populations Persistence”

17:35 – 18:00 Coffee break & Poster session Poster session: Deak Gabor “Use of search dogs to reduce the poisoning of Eastern Imperial Eagles in Hungary” Istvan Ham “The causes of the disappearance of one of the last pairs of EIE in Serbia” Tibor Juhász “Occurrence of non-breeding birds in active and future territories” 18:00 – 19:00 Round table – Small Hall. 18:00 – 19:00 Section 4 (continuation) – Round table on the osprey (Pandion haliaetus).

Great Hall. VIII. International Conference on the Conservation of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) 18:00 – 18:20 Igor V. Karyakin “Distribution and Population Status of the Imperial Eagle in Russia and Kazakhstan” 18:20 – 18:40 Rinur Bekmansurov “Results of Monitoring of Imperial Eagle Breeding in the Republic of Tatarstan from 2012 to 2018” 18:40 – 19:00 Eugene A. Bragin “Features of Spatial Distribution and Population Number of the Imperial Eagle in the Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan”

19:30 – 23:00 A friendly dinner at the restaurant of the Park-hotel Lake Aya 9 September, 3 day 07:00 – 09:30 Time for short excursions.

09:40 – 11:40 Small Hall. International 09:40 – 11:40 Section 4 (continuation) – Scientific

and

Applicative

“Molecular

Genetic

Analysis

Workshop Great Hall. VIII. International Conference on in

Research: Basic and Practical Aspects”.

Raptors the Conservation of the Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca)

09:40 – 09:50 Alexey M. Kulikov “Opening of 09:40 the seminar”

–

10:00

Bernd-Ulrich

Meyburg

“Satellite tracking of adult and immature

09:50 – 10:15 Alexey M. Kulikov “Evolution Eastern Imperial Eagles (Aquila heliaca)” of birds of prey: methods for evaluating the 10:00 – 10:20 Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg “Postefficiency of selection by sequences of fledging dependent behaviour, Dispersion and molecular markers”

Migration of young Eastern Imperial Eagles

10:15 – 10:40 Dmitry M. Schepetov “DNA- (Aquila heliaca) from Slovakia as revealed by based Approach to Wildlife Conservation: GPS Satellite Telemetry” What Can and Can't be Done”

10:20 – 10:40 Márton Horváth “Juvenile

10:40 – 11:00 Lyudmila S. Zinevich “Sex dispersal movements of Eastern Imperial

determination and other routine PCR assays in Eagles in the resident populations” 10:40 – 11:00 Stoycho Stoychev “Dispersal

research of raptors”

11:00 – 11:20 Luis Palma “Population and mortality of Eastern Imperial eagles from Processes of Genetic Divergence in Palearctic Bulgaria» Buzzards

During

the

Late

Pleistocene: 11:00 – 11:20 Mikhail V. Korepov “Studying

Advance Report”

of Migrations and Wintering Sites of Imperial

11:20 – 11:40 Natalia G. Andreenenkova Eagle from Volga Region Using GPS/GSM“Phylogeography of a Black Kite Based on trackers” Polymorphism of the Mitochondrial Gene 11:20 Cytochrome B” 11:40

–

–

11:40

Elvira

G.

Nikolenko

“Migrations of Juvenile Imperial Eagles in the

12:00

Lyudmila

Zinevich Volga-Ural

S.

and

Altai-Sayan

Regions

“Population Structure of the Imperial Eagle in According to Tracking of GPS/GSM-trackers” Russia”

11:40 – 11:45 Márton Horváth «Closing of the meeting»

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break 12:30 – 14:00 (continuation) – Small Hall. 12:30 – 14:00 Section 5 – Great Hall.

International

Scientific

and

Applicative International workshop “Raptors and Energy

Workshop “Molecular Genetic Analysis in Infrastructure”.

Raptors

Research:

Basic

and

Practical 12:30 – 12:35 Todd Katzner “Bird of Prey and

Aspects”.

Energy – Introduction”

12:30 – 12:50 Alexandra V. Nechaeva 12:35 – 13:00 Todd Katzner “Eagle Flight “Diversity of Gyrfalcon and Saker Falcon Behavior and Risk from Wind Energy” Based

on

Morphological

and

Genetic 13:00 – 13:20 Tricia A. Miller “Assessing

Characteristics”

Risk to Birds from Industrial Wind Energy

12:50 – 13:10 Darja N. Rozhkova “Molecular Development via Paired Resource Selection Genetic Support of the Recovery of the Saker Models” Falcon population in the Altai-Sayan Region”

13:20 – 13:40 Manuela Huso “Estimating

13:10 – 13:30 Svetlana Yu. Kapustina Numbers of Fatalities of Eagles and Other “Dynamics of steppe regions in Pleistocene Large Raptors at Wind Energy Facilities or and Holocene on the example of molecular Along Power Lines” genetic variability of terrestrial squirrels in 13:40 – 14:00 Igor E. Shkradyuk “How to Mongolia”

Reduce the Mortality of Birds from Power

13:30 – 14:00 Alexey M. Kulikov “Closing of Facilities?” the seminar” 14:00 – 15:30 Lunch 15:30 – 17:00 Small Hall. Interregional 15:30 – 17:00 Section 5 (continuation) –

Ornithological Meeting “Important Bird Areas Great Hall. International workshop “Raptors of Russia and Voluntary Forest Certification and Energy Infrastructure”.

(FSC-certification)” 15:30 – 15:40 Igor V. Karyakin "Opening of 15:30 – 15:50 Richard E. Harness “Eagles the seminar"

and Power Lines: Electrocution and Collision

15:40 – 16:00 Sergey V. Bakka "Regional Risk” Important

Bird

Areas:

Development

of 15:50 – 16:10 Oleg A. Goroshko “Solving the

Criteria, Problems of IBARs Allocation and Problem of the Death of Birds of Prey on Their Integration into the Special Protected Power Lines in the Eastern Transbaikalia” Areas System – Nizhny Novgorod Experience"

16:10 – 16:30 Henrietta I. Pulikova “Death of

16:00 – 16:20 Konstantin N. Kobyakov Eagles on Power Lines in Kazakhstan: an "Conservation management

of -

Raptors problems

during and

forest Overview of the Current State of the Problem” possible

mechanisms"

16:30 – 17:00 Round table – Great Hall.

16:20 – 17:00 Round table – Small Hall. Round table "Raptors and energy - what to do Round table "IBAs of Siberia and Problems of to minimize the negative impact of the Their Protection".

developing energy complex on birds?".

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break & Poster session Poster session: Charles C. R. Hansen “The Effect of a Bottleneck on Genomic Variation: a Study of the WhiteTailed Eagle in Iceland” Saiko Shiraki “Estimatioin of origin of White-tailed Eagles that Collide with Wind Turbines During the Wintering Period in Hokkaido, Japan” Stanislav A. Stryukov “Genetic Differentiation and Polymorphism of the Volga Population of Eastern Imperial Eagle According to Mitochondrial DNA Analysis” 17:30 – 19:00 Adoption of the resolution. The closing of the conference – Great Hall.

19:30 – 20:30 Dinner

10 September, 4 day, field 08:00 – 23:00 Field trip to the Kansk Steppe Depression (Ust-Kansky dist., Republic of Altai).

06:30 – 10:30 – travel time (200 km by bus) 10:30 – 12:00 – Master class on the search for nests of eagles.

12:00 – 12:30 – Field lunch.

12:30 – 17:30 – Observation of birds of prey.

17:30 – 19:00 – Dinner in the traditional Altai aile (cafe in Ust-Kan).

19:00 – 23:00 – time on the way back to Park-hotel "Lake Aya"