One of the most impressive and unforeseen bird observations in Europe over the last few years occurred in June, in Greece. A Black Heron Egretta ardesiaca was seen in Valti,...
The weekly communication through skype with the Fourth Grade pupils of the 2nd Primary School of Pigadia in Karpathos, within the Seabird LIFE Project, resulted in...
The Attica Group and the Hellenic Ornithological Society have joined forces for the protection of seabirds in Greek seas.
Since summer 2011, the Attica Group has been supporting...
As in previous years, during the summer 2011, the LIFE Project's mobile exhibition for seabirds will embark on a journey to the islands of the North Aegean. The...
Volunteers and staff members of the Hellenic Ornithological Society were surprised with the record of a new bird species for Greece on Antikythira: the Western Olivaceous Warbler...
Birdwatchers -members of the Hellenic Ornithological Society- woke up at dawn on a Sunday morning in order to see the new bird species for Greece: the Pallas’s Warbler...
The Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii is a medium-sized wader that breeds in steppe and semi-steppe areas from the highlands of eastern Turkey to central Asia. After...
During this last spring, within the LIFE project framework (2009-2012), HOS fieldwork teams completed the second national Audouin’s Gull(Larus audouinii) population census....
This year was not a good one in the Northern Aegean Sea neither for the Mediterranean Shag, nor for the fishermen. An algal bloom, which started at the end of 2009, now, at the...
In an effort to demonstrate the importance of the Aegean Sea for birds, irrelevant of national border lines, the two BirdLife1 partners in Greece and Turkey, the Hellenic...
The Hellenic Rarities Committee, at its December 2009 meeting, decided to extend the committee membership for another five years.
It was also decided to add two new...
Abstract
Dretakis Michalis, Nikos Probonas, Kostas Papaconstantinou, Theodoros Kominos and George Handrinos
Since the publication of “The Birds of Greece” in 1997,...
