August 31st, 2010 / No Comments
These photos were taken by Miroslav Dravecký (Raptor Protection of Slovakia – RPS) during short summer expedition in Kiev /map/, Chernigov /map/ and Zhitomir Regions in the north of Ukraine:
August 28th, 2010 / No Comments
Photos of male Short-toed Eagles hunting in June for the females which are sitting on their nests:
Dark Short-toed Eagle female hunting from power line pylons for herself for the reason that the breeding has failed:
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July 31st, 2010 / 3 Comments
This is short, but fresh news from GREFA. Old pair of Short-toed Eagles continues to breed in captivity this year in the GREFA Wild Fauna Recovery Centre. They do it regularly during several years, but there is no much information available about each breeding attempt yet.
July 29th, 2010 / No Comments
Two texts dedicated to distribution of Short-toed Eagle are brought to your attention:
• Germán M. López-Iborra, Rubén Limiñana, Diego Pavón and José E. Martínez-Pérez, 2010 – Modelling the distribution of Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) in semi-arid Mediterranean landscapes: identifying important explanatory variables and their implications for its conservation // European Journal of Wildlife Research. Original paper. Published online first (En).
• BBL project "Klimaatwijken", 2008 – A climatic atlas of European breeding birds. Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) –
(En). This document can be found on the Lokale actie page of the Natuurpunt website. The climate change theme has already been touched on our site.
June 28th, 2010 / No Comments
The map of known breeding territories of Short-toed Eagles is published on the Home Ranges Map page. Used KMZ file can be downloaded and edited in Google Earth. Anyone may add data. Read please some simple rules of working with the file. Locations of Short-toed Eagle home ranges are marked with special semiopaque coloured circles.
June 20th, 2010 / No Comments
Please visit this page to read a story of Dorsey – Short-toed Eagle, which was ringed by Sameh Darawshi in Israel /map/, was captured in Sudan and then was photographed in Israel again. The story is in Hebrew, but you may use Google Translate, for example, to English.
May 31st, 2010 / No Comments
We would like to present a work of Georgiy Petrovich Dementiev published in 1932 in Ornothologische Monatsberichte:
• G. Dementiew, 1932 – Bemerkungen über die geographische Variation des Schlangenadlers [Comments about the geographic variations of Short-toed Eagles] // Ornothologische Monatsberichte, Bd.40, № 6, S.172-173. (De).
This work was dedicated to geographical variations of Short-toed Eagle. The Circaetus gallicus heptneri subspecies was described in the article. It is more often considered now as a clinal variation, but however the article is still of interest and therefore it has been translated to English and to Russian with help of our friends.
May 29th, 2010 / No Comments
This is just a message of Vincenzo Rizzo Pinna from Maremma Regional Park /map/: the first Short-toed Eagle chick hatched in the Park on May 22d in the observer’s estimation. In the video we can see the first moment when the chick was left alone in the nest for about 20 minutes. Thank you for the fresh news, Vincenzo!
April 30th, 2010 / Comments Off
A projected model of the plumage changing for Short-toed Eagle has been made by me for discussion and rectification by comments from the practising observers. This aims to make easier field recognizing of different ages of Short-toed Eagles for birdwatchers.
April 17th, 2010 / No Comments
Just a little notice: to make easier communication between Short-toed Eagle watchers and researchers a special contact group has been established under the name of CGCG – Circaetus gallicus contact group. Visit please this page for further information…