{"id":452,"date":"2026-09-16T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/?p=452"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:37:50","slug":"the-23rd-national-raptor-census-completed-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/2026\/09\/16\/the-23rd-national-raptor-census-completed-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"The 23rd national raptor census completed in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January 2026, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mme.hu\/en\">Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (MME)<\/a> \u2014 in cooperation with national park directorates and other nature conservation organizations \u2014 organized the 23rd annual census of raptors wintering in Hungary. Conservation organizations and experts from neighboring countries also joined the survey, marking the ninth time they have participated since 2018. This effort resulted in a winter raptor map of the Carpathian Basin, based on observations of 2,552 eagles and 320 falcons, totaling 23,165 raptors across 17 species.<br>Observations were carried out by 635 ornithologists from Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia and Romania. Surveys in the Northern Great Plain were conducted by experts as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/kerecsensolyom.hu\">LIFE SakerRoads<\/a> project (LIFE21\/NAT\/HU\/101074704) \u2014 supported by the European Union and the Hungarian state, among others \u2014 which aims to protect the Saker Falcon (<em>Falco cherrug<\/em>).<br>Six <a href=\"https:\/\/mme.hu\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-03\/Eaglecount2026_map_FEKETESAS.jpg\">Greater Spotted Eagles<\/a> were recorded (compared to nine in <a href=\"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/2026\/09\/12\/2025-national-bird-of-prey-census\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"438\">2025<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2026, the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (MME) \u2014 in cooperation with national park directorates and other nature conservation organizations \u2014 organized the 23rd annual census of raptors wintering in Hungary. Conservation organizations and experts from neighboring countries also joined the survey, marking the ninth time they have participated since 2018. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,62,37,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparrow.up.poznan.pl\/life\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}