HoverOverUs • Short-toed-Eagle

• 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 out site.

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.

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.

Thanks to Igor Karyakin we have now pulications of the Raptors Conservation bulletin. These articles are dedicated to Short-toed Eagles or include mentions of them. The whole collection is divided into two PDFs by geographical regions:

• RAPTORS CONSERVATION. 2005-2008 – Collection of articles with mentions of Short-toed Eagle in Kazakhstan – (Ru)(En) – 4.8 MB.

• RAPTORS CONSERVATION. 2005-2009 – Collection of articles with mentions of Short-toed Eagle in Russia – (Ru)(En) – 14 MB.

Almost every article is bilingual, but some of them have English summary only, such as this one about Short-toed Eagle distribution in Nizhny Novgorod Region /map/:

• Бакка С.В., Киселёва Н.Ю., 2009 – Распространение и численность змееяда в Нижегородской области, Россия [Distribution and number of the Short-Toed Eagle in the N. Novgorod District (Region), Russia] // Пернатые хищники и их охрана – Raptors Conservation, 17. C. 121-124 (Ru).

This is just a small gallery of photos taken in 2008 in the national park "Smolenskoe Poozerje" /map/. The Short-toed Eagle nest was found by Marina Sidenko and was visited several times by her and her friends.

Read please another interview about Short-toed Eagle for the European Raptors website. This one is given by Bernard Joubert. While answering questions of Markus Jais he tells about current situation with French population of Short-toed Eagles, their short- and long-term perspectives in the country, their present and future.

The final report for the Rufford Small Grants Foundation has been made by Sameh Darawshi as a result of his three years’ work on Short-toed Eagles in the Judean Slopes, Israel /map/:

• Sameh Darawshi, 2009 – The ecology of the Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) in the Judean Slopes, Israel. Graduate Thesis Research report to R.S.G with Additional Aspects of Conservation and Education between Three Continents: 17 p. – (En).

The Wiley InterScience website database allows to find full texts or abstracts of articles dedicated to Short-toed Eagle. Here are two of 12 articles from the actual search results:

• 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/ – the abstract was mentioned before.

• ANTONIO-ROMÁN. MUÑOZ, BERT TOXOPEUS, JAVIER ELORRIAGA, JUAN-MIGUEL GONZALEZ, BEATRIZ YÁÑEZ, 2010 – First record of a communal roost of Short-toed Eagles Circaetus gallicus // Ibis, Vol. 152, No. 1: 173-175. – (En).

MEDRAPTORS – Mediterranean Raptor Migration Network. There is a list of different publications on the site with a new one on migrating Short-toed Eagles. Nicolantonio Agostini and Ugo Mellone are among its co-authors:

• Agostini N., Panuccio M., Lucia G., Liuzzi C., Amato P., Provenza A., Gustin M. & Mellone U., 2009 – Evidence for age-dependent migration strategies in the Short-toed Eagle // British Birds 102(9): 506-508. – (En).