Short review of the Short-toed Eagle specialists meeting which was held in Florac, centre of Cévennes National Park /map/ (Lozère, France), on October 13-14:
• 3e Rencontre Circaète : Florac, 13 et 14 Octobre 2012 (Fr). Heartfelt thanks to Renaud Nadal for sharing this! The meeting was successful. Let’s wish the organizers to maintain this good tradition in the future!
This number of the La Plume du Circaète – 
(Fr) {rough translation} has seen the light in September 2012.
The list of contents (Fr):
Suivi / Conservation 2 »
Synthèse nationale 2011 2; Parc national des Cévennes 3; Hautes-Alpes 6
Etude des comportements 7 »
Un être agissant 7
Relations interspécifiques 9 »
Observations dans les Cévennes 9; Observations en Haute-Loire 11
International 13 »
Caratéritiques de la migration 13; Minimisation des risques migratoires 13; Suivi de juvéniles en migration 14; Hivernage au Sénégal 15
Sensibilisation 16 »
Rencontres rapaces 16; Plume du circaète 16
This article is available now on a website of the Ukrainian journal of ornithology «Berkut». The authors studied Short-toed Eagle in Vitebsk Region /map/ in 1981–2010:
• Vladimir Ivanovsky, Dmitry Shamovich, 2011 – Ecology of Short-toed Eagle in Belarussian Poozerie // Berkut. 20 (1-2): P. 81-89. – (En).
Adult Short-toed Eagle female was equipped with a GPS-GSM logger in the southern part of Lublin Province /map/ (south-eastern Poland) this year. She started the autumn migration quite early. Detailed information is available on the Lublin Ornithology Society site. The migration map can be viewed here. Please note: each red point on the map is provided with a detailed comment.
The 13th and 14th October 2012 will be held the 3rd French national Short-toed Eagle meeting in Florac (Lozère) – centre of the Cévennes National Park /map/.
This gathering of French specialists will be open to any foreign colleagues who want to participate.
Program
Saturday 13th oct / from 9h30 until evening : indoor conferences.
Sunday 14th oct / outdoor visit : on the high limestone plateaux on the Lozère Causses.
Conference subjects
The Circaetus gallicus specialists’ meeting is planned to be held this year in Florac /map/. Please view the informational letter prepared by Bernard Joubert, Jean-Pierre Malafosse and Renaud Nadal: (Fr).
Such, already traditional, meetings are important for establishing closer contacts between the Short-toed Eagle watchers from different regions of France and also of other countries belonging to the range of this magnificient bird.
Two more articles on migration of Short-toed Eagles came out this year:
• Mellone U., Klaassen R.H.G., García-Ripollés C., Limiñana R., López-López P., Pavón D., Strandberg R., Urios V., Vardakis M., Alerstam T., 2012 – Interspecific comparison of the performance of soaring migrants in relation to morphology, meteorological conditions and migration strategies // PLoS ONE 7(7): e39833. doi:10.1371 / journal.pone.0039833 – (En).
• Frédéric Jiguet, Damien Chevallier, François Baillon, Julien Ventroux & Pascal Cavallin, 2012 – Sub-Saharan staging areas of a first-summer Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus // Bird Study, 59(1): 102-104. (En).
The first one is based on comparative data concerning Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Egyptian Vulture and Short-toed Eagle.