Videos
Videos · 01. Mai 2022
I would like to recommend this important video to you, for which I have recorded some contributions with the camera. Through the perspective of the Eleonora’s Falcon, a migratory bird of prey that visits the Akrotiri Peninsula every summer to breed, the documentary highlights the importance of this natural area and tells the story of the challenges it faces. Director – Producer: Madelaine Westwood - Nutshell Productions/GAFI The creation of this documentary was supported by the RSPB...
Videos · 02. März 2021
The second video shows you my pictures, which were taken during the observation of the blue-racks during the feeding of the chicks in the brood-cave. In the second part of the video then another breeding site, where the first flights of the young birds when leaving the brood-cave. The Mulberry Tree, standing next to the crumbling building, was the meeting place for young and old, also of other bird species.
Videos · 25. Februar 2021
I just put together a new video with footage from 2015 to 2017. At that time still recorded with the Canon EOS 1D Mark 4 and the EOS 5D MK2. Later also RAW video recordings with the 5D MK3 in conjunction with the Magic Lantern software. My pictures were all taken at Paphos Area, on the road to Nata and on the rocks on the Xeros River to Asprokremmos Dam.
Videos · 16. Januar 2021
during the Corona Lockdowns you do not have many possibilities to observe the migratory birds at their usual passage points. In recent weeks, I have been more concerned with the "aliens" so named by many, i.e. the African giant worshippers, who in all colours we have abundantly in our garden on the flowering plants and in the butterfly bush.
Videos · 04. Januar 2021
The EU project "LIFE with Vultures", which is managed by BirdLife Cyprus and the Game and Fauna Service, is primarily designed to protect this bird species, which is at home in Cyprus. The griffon vulture population in Cyprus urgently needs this protection, as birds repeatedly decimate the group through poisoned food and also through shootings. 2020 I was invited to observe a nest with young bird and to document this breeding with photo and video. At the end of August 2020, the young griffon...
Videos · 03. Januar 2021
Kostis is a young griffon vulture, born 2020 in Cyprus. Thefootage were taken during the monitoring of the nest as part of the EU project - LIFE with Vultures - which was created to protect griffon vultures in Cyprus. The video shows the behaviour of the young Kostis at the nesting site in the last weeks before his first flight. The changing distance of the cameras to the nest is approx. 120 to 150 m. The video can be found on my YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/o0UhdgOBo8M
Videos · 21. Dezember 2020
Kostis had to spend a few more rainy days in the protection of the veterinary station before the release could be carried out. Goose vultures observe with their sharp gaze everything that moves around them. Also in nature, griffon vultures find their food only through their sharp eyes, which can distinguish non-moving carcasses from moving carcasses. Contrary to the usual assumptions, griffon vultures cannot perceive a smell of carrion, as the sense of smell is not particularly pronounced in...
Videos · 23. Juni 2020
It goes wildly confused at the brood-bird - main road. In addition to the Roller, the magpies, Collared pigeons and Cyprus Wheatear can be seen, along with large flight troops with Jackdaw, who move with their young birds from the spring through the surroundings. There are no young blue-racks yet to be seen, the alto-birds are on the road with food every 15 minutes. With a small rat as fodder, a blue-crack arrived today at the breeding cave.