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Sakers prefer wooded steppes, steppes, grazed grasslands with susliks. In Hungary, earlier they bred on rocks in mountains, on cavities or grassy ledges of cliffs, or in raven nests (Saker just like other falcons do not build their own nest). Nowadays, there is not a single pair breeding in mountains in Hungary. They like nest sites with a safe approaching possibility and that offers a good outlook on the territory. In the lowland nests of Imperial or White-tailed Eagles are the preferred choices, but they also breed regularly in buzzard, crow and Goshawk nests. Raven population has increased significantly from the ‘80ies and they have started to breed on pylons of high-voltage power lines in the lowland. Sakers have adapted this new nesting strategy and they are using such raven nests in increasing number. Due to this new strategy Sakers now occupies areas where nesting possibilities were limited to them.
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