Lesser Spotted Eagle
Considering the area of Latvia, how small it is, the country could be named as the Land of Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina). Latvia has the highest density of nesting lesser spotted eagles in the world. According to ornithologists about 20 percent of world’s and about 24 percent of Europe’s lesser spotted eagle population is nesting here in Latvia. In the beginning of the 21st century the size of the population was about 5000 pairs.
The lesser spotted eagle is one of the bird species we are paying for our wealth - among their enemies is intense, chemicalized agriculture, they don’t live well together with forestry, escpecially in the springtime.
In 2007, when preparing the new edition of IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, it was considered to list the lesser spotted eagle there mainly because of processes taking place in Latvia where the population of lesser spotted eagle has shrunk by 20 percent since the very end of 20th century.
But anyway - Latvia still is the Land of Lesser Spotted Eagle and the most possibility to see the eagle is right here!
Links and More Information
- Kaspars Funts (Funtaputni) - thanks for the information
- Photo by Jānis Stomers
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