Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection
Abstract The article deals with trends in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo ) population in Czechia and the interplay between legal regulation of hunting and nature protection. In the early 20th century, the eagle-owl population in Bohemia decreased to an estimated 20 nesting pairs, and the populat...
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crdegruyter:10.2478/srj-2020-0003 2024-05-19T07:27:21+00:00 Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection Andreska, Jan Andreska, Dominik 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/srj-2020-0003 https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/srj-2020-0003 en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Raptor Journal volume 14, issue 1, page 29-44 ISSN 2644-5247 journal-article 2020 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.2478/srj-2020-0003 2024-05-02T06:51:42Z Abstract The article deals with trends in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo ) population in Czechia and the interplay between legal regulation of hunting and nature protection. In the early 20th century, the eagle-owl population in Bohemia decreased to an estimated 20 nesting pairs, and the population in Moravia and Silesia was subsequently estimated to be similarly low. In previous centuries, eagle-owls had been persecuted as pest animals; additionally, their chicks were picked from nests to be kept by hunters for the eagle-owl lure hunting method (“výrovka” in Czech), where they were used as live bait to attract corvids and birds of prey, which were subsequently killed by shooting. As soon as the state of the eagle-owl population was established in the 1900s, the effort to save the autochthonous eagle-owl population commenced. Nevertheless, when eagle-owls became legally protected from killing in the 1930s, the eagle-owl lure hunting method was not prohibited. The intensified use of this hunting method in the 1950s was accompanied by serious decline in the populations of birds of prey in the Czech countryside, when tens of thousands of Eurasian sparrowhawks ( Accipiter nisus ), northern goshawks ( Accipiter gentilis ), common buzzards ( Buteo buteo ) and rough-legged buzzards ( B. lagopus ) were killed on a yearly basis. The usage of eagle-owl chicks in lure hunting was criticised by ornithologists concerned with the conservation of birds of prey. The eagle-owl thus became a subject of more general debate on the role of predators in nature, and this debate (albeit regarding other predator species) has continued to the present-day. As the eagle-owl population has been growing steadily following the prohibition of its killing in the 1930s, its story may serve as an example of the need for effective legal protection of predators to ensure their survival in the intensively exploited central-European environment. The article examines the successful preserving of the eagle-owl in the Czech countryside, from its low ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Accipiter gentilis eurasian eagle-owl De Gruyter Raptor Journal 14 1 29 44 |
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Abstract The article deals with trends in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo ) population in Czechia and the interplay between legal regulation of hunting and nature protection. In the early 20th century, the eagle-owl population in Bohemia decreased to an estimated 20 nesting pairs, and the population in Moravia and Silesia was subsequently estimated to be similarly low. In previous centuries, eagle-owls had been persecuted as pest animals; additionally, their chicks were picked from nests to be kept by hunters for the eagle-owl lure hunting method (“výrovka” in Czech), where they were used as live bait to attract corvids and birds of prey, which were subsequently killed by shooting. As soon as the state of the eagle-owl population was established in the 1900s, the effort to save the autochthonous eagle-owl population commenced. Nevertheless, when eagle-owls became legally protected from killing in the 1930s, the eagle-owl lure hunting method was not prohibited. The intensified use of this hunting method in the 1950s was accompanied by serious decline in the populations of birds of prey in the Czech countryside, when tens of thousands of Eurasian sparrowhawks ( Accipiter nisus ), northern goshawks ( Accipiter gentilis ), common buzzards ( Buteo buteo ) and rough-legged buzzards ( B. lagopus ) were killed on a yearly basis. The usage of eagle-owl chicks in lure hunting was criticised by ornithologists concerned with the conservation of birds of prey. The eagle-owl thus became a subject of more general debate on the role of predators in nature, and this debate (albeit regarding other predator species) has continued to the present-day. As the eagle-owl population has been growing steadily following the prohibition of its killing in the 1930s, its story may serve as an example of the need for effective legal protection of predators to ensure their survival in the intensively exploited central-European environment. The article examines the successful preserving of the eagle-owl in the Czech countryside, from its low ... |
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Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection |
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Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection |
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Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection |
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Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection |
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Changes in the Eurasian eagle-owl ( Bubo bubo) population in Czechia and their association with legal protection |
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changes in the eurasian eagle-owl ( bubo bubo) population in czechia and their association with legal protection |
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