As every year, the LIFE FALKON team was busy monitoring the population of Lesser Kestrels nesting in the Po Plain during the spring and summer months...
YOUNG LESSER KESTRELS EQUIPPED WITH GPS: follow them on animal tracker!
31 JULY 2023
In July 2023, eight young lesser kestrels were equipped with new-generation GPS/GSM and released at the LIFE FALKON tower of Minerbio/Baricella (BO). A similar research had already been carried out in 2021, but the novelty is...
On the 21st of August the LIFE FALKON team headed to Sweden for the 14th European Ornithologists Union – EOU Conference. The venue of the conference was the prestigious Biology Department of Lund University, renowned for its research on bird migration...
LIFE FALKON at the 21st Italian Ornithology Conference
9 SEPTEMBER 2023
From 5 to 9 September 2023, the 21st Italian Ornithology Conference was held at the University of Insubria in Varese. The LIFE FALKON project was among the protagonists of the event, with eight oral contributions and one poster...
As every year, in 2023 the LIFE FALKON team downloaded new migration tracks of adult Lesser Kestrels from different study areas of the project. Here is a glimpse of them in this beautiful map: the different individuals are indicated with...
THE LIFE FALKON NESTBOXES: year by year more lesser kestrel in the safe
30 SEPTEMBER 2023
At the end of the 2023 season we can announce it: lesser kestrels like the LIFE FALKON nest boxes more and more every year! We are now in the third year from the installation of the nest boxes in northern Italy and Greece, and every year the...
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