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Let us draw your attention to a website of the Scientific Electronic Library – eLibrary.ru. You can get actually every publication of the Russian Ornithological Journal after free registration on the site. Some of them are dedicated to Short-toed Eagle (Ru):

• Ивановский В.В., 1983 – Змееяд Circaetus gallicus в Белорусском Поозерье [Short-toed Eagle in Belarussian Poozer’e] // Тез. докл. 11-й Прибалт. орнитол. конф. Таллин: 95-98 – Рус. орнитол. журн. 2007. Том 16. Экспресс-выпуск № 389: 1594-1596. /map/

• Гуль В.Н., 2000 – Новая находка змееяда Circaetus gallicus в Себежском Поозерье (Псковская область) [New find of Short-toed Eagle in Sebezh Poozer'e (Pskov Region)] // Рус. орнитол. журн. Экспресс-выпуск 110: 9-10. /map/

• Березовиков Н.Н., Левин А.С., 2002 – О нахождении смешанной кладки змееяда Circaetus gallicus и степной пустельги Falco naumanni в Прибалхашье [Find of mixed clutch of Short-toed Eagle and Lesser Kestrel in Pribalkhashie] // Рус. орнитол. журн. Экспресс-выпуск 201: 967. /map/

A few articles of Prof. Viktor Belik (Rostov State Pedagogical University) on distribution, number and ecology of Short-toed Eagles in several different regions (Ru):

• Белик В.П., 1994 – Распространение, численность и экология змееяда в степном Подонье [Distribution, number and ecology of Short-toed Eagle in steppe Podonie] // Кавказ. орнитол. вестник, вып.6.- Ставрополь. – С.26-29. /map/

• Афанасьев В.Т., Белик В.П., 1998 – Змееяд в Сумском Полесье [Short-toed Eagle in Sumy Polesie] // Птицы бассейна Сев. Донца, вып.4-5: Мат-лы 4 и 5 конф. “Изучение и охрана птиц басс. Сев. Донца”. – Харьков. – С.45-46. /map/

• Белик В.П., Ветров В.В., Бабич М.В., Трофименко В.В., 1999 – Змееяд в Волгоградской области [Short-toed Eagle in Volgograd Region] // 3 конф. по хищным птицам Вост. Европы и Сев. Азии: Мат-лы конф., ч.2.- Ставрополь. – С.20-23. /map/

The photos were taken during an expedition of Prof. Belik in summer of 2008 in Volgograd Region.

Here we present three different authors’ texts dedicated to Short-toed Eagles of three different regions: Crimea, Belarus and Turkmenistan. They are extracts…

…from S.A. Bukreev’s book (Ru):
• Букреев С.А., 1997 – Орнитогеография и заповедное дело Туркменистана [Ornithogeography and reserve management of Turkmenistan] // М.: Центр охраны дикой природы (Biodiversity Conservation Center), 159 с.

…from Y.V. Kostin’s book (Ru):
• Костин Ю.В., 1983 – Птицы Крыма [Birds of Crimea] // М.: Наука, 240 с. /map/

…and from V.V. Ivanovski’s work (Ru):
• Ивановский В.В., 1992 – Трофические связи редких хищных птиц Белорусского Поозерья [Food chains of rare birds of prey of Belarussian Poozer'e] // Оттиск, №173, 66 с. /map/

Just one more Russian text of 20 years ago on Short-toed Eagles’ nesting in the Vetluga and the Unzha rivers interfluve /map/ is brought to your attention:

• Кузнецов А.В., 1985 – Гнездование змееяда в междуречье Унжи и Ветлуги [Nesting of Short-toed Eagle in Kostroma Region] // Орнитология. М.: Изд-во МГУ, Вып.20. 129-132 (Ru)

This article was published as the result of A. V. Kuznetsov‘s four years’ observations on a pair of the birds in the mentioned region.

If you are interested in some documents on Short-toed Eagles in Russian you should visit a website of the Working Group on Raptors of Northern Eurasia. We have told about this resource several times. The main subsection of the site is free electronic texts database, where you can raise a query for Circaetus and get the result as a list of texts dedicated to the species and also of texts with mentions of it (Ru)(En). There are 35 documents on Short-toed Eagle in all at the moment.

We would like to bring an article of Prof. Vladimir Galushin to your attention. Now he is a head of the Working Group on Raptors of Northern Eurasia and also he is a honorary member of the Russian Bird Conservation Union. The work is dedicated to the nesting of Short-toed Eagle in the Ryazan’ Region (Centre of European part of Russia) /map/:

• Галушин В.М., 1959 – Некоторые данные по гнездованию змееяда в Рязанской области [Some data on the Short-toed Eagle breeding in Ryazan' Region] // Орнитология. М.: Изд-во МГУ, Вып.2. 153-156. (Ru)

And one more text (Ru), that is an extract from his book:
• Галушин В.М., 1980 – Хищные птицы леса [Birds of Prey of Forest] // Лесная промышленность, 160 c.
…with two illustrations of V.A. Gorbatov.

This is the presentation of two old texts of the first part of XX century. One of them was written by Victor Zebe:

• Victor Zebe, Oktober 1936 – Zur biologie des Schlangenadlers – Berichte des Vereins Schlesicher Ornithologen /map/. Just read the translation of it (Fr) from German made by one of the greatest adepts in Short-toed Eagles in France – Yves Boudoint.

The second is Nikolay Gavrilenko‘s work, that is mentioned in the first one:

• Гавриленко Н.И., 1929 – Птицы Полтавщины. Змееяд [The birds of the Government of Poltava. Short-toed Eagle] // Полтава: Издание Полтавского союза охотников: 28-30 (Ru) /map/.
Download a scan of the part dedicated to all birds of prey on the Ukrainian Birds of Prey Research Centre website.

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 – (Ru).

• Г.П. Дементьев, 1951 – Змееяд (Circaetus gallicus) – Птицы Советского Союза, т.1. – М.: Сов. наука – (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.

S.M. Zhyla‘s article about nesting of Short-toed Eagle in the nothern 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:

• 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).