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Project News
News and announcements from the EBA
Speedy Migrator!
Sachokchin has arrived at her wintering site in Shaanxi Province of China, after a journey lasting less than a week! Through our satellite tracking program, we
Public Outrage Over Poaching Of Migratory Birds
Last April, we reported our finding that one of our tracked bustards, Songuul’, had been poisoned as part of the trade in illegal wild
Fall Migration Begins
Mendee is the first of the bustards we monitor to make a southward movement this fall – she’s moved about 100 km southeast from her main breeding
Spreading News Of Bustards
We’ve continued to spread news about our research findings through academic presentations at the Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife Management and Society for Conservation Biology
What Our Bustards Did This Summer
Each of our tagged female bustards spent the summer in her own way. Mendee spent her summer months extensively exploring mountainous areas and clearings adjacent to her
Half-Way Home
The bustards we are monitoring have made it to the Bayannur Oasis in Inner Mongolia—half-way from their wintering site in China to their breeding
Support For Satellite Transmissions
We’re grateful to a donor via the Great Bustard Group for financial support which allows us to continue receiving data from transmitters attached to wild
Sharing Research Findings
Over the winter months we have been sharing our research findings with the conservation community, at such venues as The Wildlife Society annual meeting, Student Conference
Bustards In Winter
Master’s student U. Tovshin is embarking on an adventure to determine how many Great Bustards tough out the Mongolian winter – where average low