1. Occurrence of Red Kites Milvus milvus in Serbia based on birds tracked by telemetry devices
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Ivan Literak, Rainer Raab, Stanislav Vyhnal, Jochen Steindl, and Péter Spakovszky
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060201 languages & linguistics ,biology ,Ecology (disciplines) ,05 social sciences ,Zoology ,Milvus milvus ,030206 dentistry ,biology.organism_classification ,migration ,vagrancy ,poisoning ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Geography ,QL1-991 ,raptor ,Telemetry ,0602 languages and literature ,Animal Science and Zoology ,milvus milvus - Abstract
A total of 13 Red Kites Milvus milvus fitted with GPS/GSM telemetry loggers in central Europe were tracked in Serbia from 10 July 2014 until 31 March 2018. These birds remained in Serbia for 138 days (counted as number of one bird/one day stays). Red Kites occurred mostly in the Vojvodina Province (NW Serbia). They were registered most often in April and October, which corresponded to their spring and autumn migrations. It is possible that Red Kites occur in Serbia more often than formerly, and this could in future result in this threatened European raptor’s more frequently wintering and breeding within the country.
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- 2018