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The main topic of the meeting – bird monitoring programs in Romania – was complemented with other interesting topics, both in the field of avifauna (migration, conservation) and other taxonomic groups (invertebrates), as well as with a new section dedicated to a direction that is also starting to gain momentum in Romania: urban atlases.
As in 2024, this year's edition also saw the presentation of the Life for Falcons Project, detailing one of the direct conservation actions for the population of the Saker falcon in southern Romania. Judit Veres-Szászka showed those present the results of the study on bird mortality caused by electrocution on medium-voltage power lines in Dobrogea, Romania, and how the plan to isolate 300 poles, considered the most dangerous for birds, was implemented in collaboration with the company Rețele Electrice România. In 2025, the SOR team from the Life for Falcons project will conduct a new field monitoring to assess the impact of installing 1000 insulating sheaths in reducing mortality by electrocution.
The messages conveyed by the various presentations were complex. In the case of Common Bird Monitoring, there are no good news, the decline of the monitored species is maintained and even amplified. Many of the aquatic species that winter in the Danube Delta have increased their numbers, and results recorded in LIFE projects clearly show the need to continue conservation actions until the populations of endangered or vulnerable species, such as the Saker falcon, the Red-necked goose or the Dalmatian pelican become stable.
And the general conclusion is as clearly as possible: without the continuous monitoring data collected by biologists and passionate volunteers, all this information would have remained unknown.
Photos: SOR
