Meet Phoenice, the White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) chick that was fitted with a GPS transmitter last week, during the Waterbird Satellite Tracking Camp organized by AOS with the participation of students from Albania, Serbia and Montenegro as well as colleagues from the Center for Protection and Research of birds of Montenegro (CZIP) and Bird Protection …

The spring monitoring of the Egyptian Vulture (𝘕𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴) in the Balkans has revealed the same number of occupied territories as in 2019 – 51, while the number of pairs is 45 (vs 46 in 2019). The number of occupied territories in Albania is eight where five territories are occupied by pairs and three others …

“𝐕𝐣𝐨𝐬𝐚 / 𝐀𝐨𝐨𝐬”, our Egyptian vulture, baptized by this name and equipped with satellite transmitters in 2015, is now only a few kilometres away from its territory, lying in two countries, southeast Albania and northwestern Greece. Vjosa has so far traversed over 7,000 𝗸𝗺 in 10 different countries (Chad, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudy …

AOS organized a two–days visit into the areas inhabited by the last Egyptian vultures (EV) in Albania (currently the local population consists of less than 10 pairs). The main activities during this visit were birdwatching and agro-tourism involving key representatives from decision making institutions with the aim to use this as a unique and special …