New satellite tracking project has started in Southern Italy this summer. Two juvenile Short-toed Eagles were tagged with transmitters in Regional Park Gallipoli Cognato /map/. The project is being coordinated by Ugo Mellone. Maps with the tracks are available on the Regional Park Gallipoli Cognato website.
A new number of the La Plume du Circaète – 
(Fr) {rough translation} has seen the light in August 2010.
The list of contents (Fr):
Suivi / Conservation 2 »
Synthèse nationale 2009 2; Parc national des Cévennes 3; Puy-de-Dôme 6; Franche-Comté 7; Hautes-Alpes 8; Bretagne 9; Bouches-du-Rhône 9; Dangereuse capture des reptiles 10
Observations dans l’Hérault 13 »
Menaces 21 »
Tirs et électrocutions 21
International 22 »
Les circaètes en Ukraine 22; Histoire d’un circaète captif 24
Sensibilisation 26 »
Convention LPO/ONF en Isère 26; Rencontres des réseaux 27; Un réseau aigle botté 27; Un dépliant circaète ? 28; Hommage à Françoise Gérardin 28; Rapaces de France 28
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:
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.
Please visit this page to read a story of Dorsey (Iw) – 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.
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!
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…
