Archive for March, 2006


Igor Karyakin’s web project

Monday, March 27th, 2006 / No Comments

We would like to invite you to visit the website of Igor Karyakin: Russian Birds of Prey Researchers Club. General and some local /map/ information on Short-toed Eagle can be found there:

• Игорь Карякин, 1998 – Змееяд – Пернатые хищники Уральского региона. Соколообразные (Falconiformes) и Совообразные (Strigiformes). Пермь: Центр полевых исследований Союза охраны животных Урала / Социально-экологический союз: 180-189 – Short-toed Eagle. file (Ru).

• Г.П. Дементьев, 1951 – Змееяд (Circaetus gallicus) – Птицы Советского Союза, т.1. – М.: Сов. наука – Short-toed Eagle. file (Ru).

(the source is a subsection of the site: Publications)

One more general description (Ru) (composed, in this case, by Igor Karyakin) is located in the subsection titled Articles on Species.

 

Fotonatura.org gallery

Monday, March 27th, 2006 / No Comments
Short-toed Eagle. Fotonatura.org search results for Culebrera

Here you can find some selection of photos of Short-toed Eagles on Fotonatura.org gallery. Birds are close (even very close) and distant, sitting and flying. Single and companion portraits are represented on the site with a lot of comments (Es) on them. Resolution of the images is about 600×400 px. The content of this gallery is being updated quite often, just check it from time to time.

 

Wintering in Spain and habitat in Greece

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 / No Comments

Here you can acquaint yourself with the work on the wintering of Short-toed Eagle and Booted Eagle in Spain:

• José Enrique Martínes y José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata, 1999 – Invernada de Aguililla Calzada (Hieraaetus pennatus) y Culebrera Europea (Circaetus gallicus) en España // Ardeola 46(1): 93-96 – Short-toed Eagle. file (Es)
(source – Ardeola website).

…and with abstract of the article about the Greek Short-toed Eagles:

D.E. Bakaloudis, C.G. Vlachos, G.J. Holloway, 1998 – Habitat Use by Short-Toed Eagles Circaetus gallicus and Their Reptilian Prey During the Breeding Season in Dadia Forest (North-Eastern Greece) // Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 35, No. 6: 821-828 (En) /map/
(source – the JSTOR database).

 

Short-toed Eagle in the North of Ukraine

Saturday, March 11th, 2006 / No Comments

S.M. Zhyla‘s article about nesting of Short-toed Eagle in the Northern part of the Zhytomir Region (North of Ukraine):

• С.М. Жила, 1999 – Про гніздування змієїда (Circaetus ferox) на півночі Житомирщини // Поліському природному заповіднику – 30 років – Збірник наукових праць, В.1: 89-93. (Uk)
- The summary (En).

Also see below an extract from the work of V.T. Afanas’ev dedicated to ecology of Short-toed Eagle and Booted Eagle in the North of the Sumy Region (north-eastern Ukraine) and in the South of the Bryansk Region (Russia); and just take a look at the map to get a notion about geographical location of both authors’ research regions:

Short-toed Eagle. Regions location

• В.Т. Афанасьев, 1997 – К экологии змееяда и орла-карлика на севере Сумской и юге Брянской областей // Заповідна справа в Україні, 3 (2): 57-59. (Ru)
- The summary (En).