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Résumé :
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A total of 47 species of birds of prey and owls have occurred in Hungary since the beginning of ornithological data collection. The systematic monitoring of birds of prey in Hungary started in the late 1970s by MME/BirdLife Hungary. Since then a nation-wide monitoring network has developed, which presently includes more than 30 organisations and around 250-300 active members. The co-ordination of national monitoring of diurnal raptors and owls has been hosted by the Raptor Conservation Group and the Monitoring Centre of MME/BirdLife Hungary for decades, with a steady increase in the capacity and participation of state nature conservation bodies, especially national park directorates. Today, the population parameters of 12 birds of prey and two owl priority species are monitored annually in a nation-wide hierarchical monitoring network, while data about all other raptor species are regularly gathered regionally and locally. The coverage of the monitoring compared to the national range of threatened raptor species is usually between 60-80%, but in flagship species it often exceeds 80%. However, only broad estimations are available on the population size and trend of more widespread species, which forms one of the most important knowledge gaps regarding raptors in Hungary.
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