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
➡️ 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
📣LIFE SOS Pygargus field season has started!
On 31 March we tagged our first Montagu's harrier in Castro Verde, with the help of LPN!🦅
Early tagging will inform us on breeding success and habitat use.
#RubricaNCTC #LIFESOSPygargus #LIFEProgramme #RedeNatura2000 #Circuspygargus #tartaranhãocaçador
The event brought together nearly 50 participants, including representatives from academia, environmental consultants, and engineers from public electricity companies. ⚡🦅
#Uzbekistan #SteppeBirds #Powerlines
🎓 Yesterday, we carried out our first joint initiative with the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan: a workshop on power lines and birds, with a special focus on the issue on bustard collision with powerlines.
#Uzbekistan #SteppeBirds #Bustards #Powerlines
Today we signed a formal collaboration with the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan aiming to develop joint research on Bustard ecology and impacts of powerlines 👏
Meeting one of the survey teams today to follow up on monitoring mortality caused by the high-tension power line 🦅⚡
#Uzbekistan #Powerlines #SteppeBirdConservation
Black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
Pin-tailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata)
🛰️ 🐦⬛In recent weeks, we have been capturing and fitting GPS taggs to pin-tailed and black-bellied Sandgrouse in Extremadura, Spain.
➡️ If you would like to learn more about this project, you can read the article our team members contributed to!
wilder.pt/historias/em...
#sandgrouse #steppebirds
🌱 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
We have now crossed our study area in the desert, to start surveying the Houbara Bustard tomorrow morning
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
📣Our team will soon be heading to Uzbekistan!
There, we will meet with local partners, follow the progress of a local power line project, take part in houbara surveys, and deliver a workshop on bird–power line interactions. 🐦⚡
👀 Stay tuned, we will be sharing daily updates from the field!
The project LIFE SOS Pygargus is now on eBird! 🦅
Learn how citizen science can help us protect this species and contribute to its conservation.
ebird.org/region/PT/po...
New paper in Ecology & Evolution! Little bustards & calandra larks avoided powerlines up to 1 km; other species unaffected. Species-specific impacts are key for conservation.
#Conservation #Birds #Powerlines
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our research on little bustards in Kyrgyzstan just made national news! 📰 Discover how studying the thriving Central Asian populations can inform efforts to save this declining species in the Iberian Peninsula, where numbers have dropped alarmingly in recent decades.
www.publico.pt/2025/07/29/a...
📢 NEW PAPER ALERT 📢 We studied among- and within-individual variation on little bustard migration in Iberia and created a new toolkit to rapidly group movement data into distinct strategies/classes. Read more here:
doi.org/10.1186/s404...
🎙️ 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
open.spotify.com/episode/5RGl...
Our researcher João Gameiro has made a online seminar (in portuguese) about the hen harrier population in Portugal. Interesting insights into Circus phylogeny, hen harrier ecology and the results of the first ever national survey in the country! 🦅
youtu.be/nhrf4wWWZmw?...
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 team was present at ICPSB 2025! João Paulo Silva gave a plenary on steppe birds & power lines, while our ECR shared their work on the ecology, tagging & conservation of steppe birds! A week full of inspiring discussions and new collaborations! #SteppeBirds2025
Steppe Birds MOVE – is our group at BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO, from Uni Porto! Our research focuses on the movement ecology of threatened #grasslandbirds #LittleBustard Pin-tail and Black-bellied #Sandgrouse #MontagusHarrier
Stay tuned for our news!
#steppebirds #ornithology #movementecology
