Dos águilas imperiales ibéricas marcadas para seguimiento en Palencia

SEO/BirdLife has marked two Iberian imperial eagles with remote tracking devices in Palencia to advance in the knowledge of their movements throughout the year, and to find out if they contribute to a greater expansion of their occupied area. Large birds of prey face numerous conservation problems, especially in their early years of life. Current remote monitoring devices help identify these problems in species as iconic as the Iberian imperial eagle in their new distribution areas.
The Iberian imperial eagle has recently colonized the province of Palencia and the marked specimens are part of the distribution limit in Spain. The new markings will also contribute to understanding how this iconic bird continues to expand.
The environmental organization, within The Migra Program, had the collaboration of the Junta de Castilla y León and the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) for the marking of two imperial eagle specimens in the province of Palencia. Their objective is to advance and deepen the knowledge of the biology of one of the most emblematic and representative species of Spanish birds.
The imperial eagle is a threatened species and assessed as «endangered» in the Red Book of Birds of Spain, is well distributed in Central and Eastern Europe, but in the western part of the continent, it has its main concentration point in Spain. In addition, it does not extend throughout the territory, but is limited to the northwest quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula, so the new markings will contribute to advancing the knowledge of the species, its threats, and the identification of «black spots» or areas where greater conservation efforts must be made for the population to continue growing and improve its unfavorable conservation status.
III Atlas of Birds in Reproductive Season in Spain
As indicated in the III Atlas of Birds in Reproductive Season in Spain, it is an endemic species of the Iberian Peninsula that currently is distributed in the southwest quadrant of the peninsula, especially in the communities of Castilla y León, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, and Andalucía.
Its largest breeding populations are associated with mountain systems and grasslands of the central and southern Iberian Peninsula (Montes de Toledo, Sierra Morena, Central System, and Extremadura sierras) and the enclaves in southern Andalucía (Doñana and La Janda), although it is increasingly present in the lowlands of both plateaus, where it has expanded in recent years.