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These scenes of life in Short-toed Eagles’ nest were fixed by Bernard Joubert in Haute-Loire /map/ this year:

Area: southern Auvergne. Altitude: 870 m above sea level. Tree: pine Pinus sylvestris. Height: 6 meters.

The egg was laid near the 8^th of April, the hatching happened around the 24^th of May. The young bird took off the 30^th of July, early afternoon. He was 67 days old. It was the twelfth succesful take-off in this site in 14 years.
The first visit – very discreet-happened when the chick was 10 days old. Between the 21^th of June and the 30^th of July, nine observatory sessions (circa 30 hours). Here is a photografic summary.

Bernard Joubert

Among other articles of the Modern Study of Raptors and Owls (Materials of ІІІ International Scientific Conference «Birds of prey of Ukraine», Kryvyi Rih, 24–25 October 2008) you can find the following:

• Письменный К.А., 2008 – Гнездование змееяда (Circaetus gallicus (Gm.) в Киевской области и проблемы его адаптации к хозяйственной деятельности человека [Breeding of the Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus (Gm.) in Kyiv Region /map/ and problems of its adaptation to human economic activity] // Новітні дослідження соколоподібних та сов. Матеріали ІІІ Міжнародної наукової конференції «Хижі птахи України», м. Кривий Ріг, 24−25 жовтня 2008 р. − Кривий Ріг: 307−311. (Ru).

Please check these links out and enjoy the variety of Short-toed Eagles photos.

The last one, moulting but beautiful light Short-toed Eagle can be seen here with a lot of other interesting photos of them.

Liguria is a region of north-western Italy /map/. The chronicle of the Biancone Days including the Biancone Day 2009 report (It) can be found on the LiguriaBirding.net website. Number of observed Short-toed Eagles is recorded in tables on the report pages. And here view please some photos of Short-toed Eagle.

Some data on spring arrival of Short-toed Eagles to Ukraine is available now on the map. The first dates are: 28^th and 29^th (in display flight) of March – observations of Sergey Domashevsky in Mizhrichynskyi Regional Landscape Park /map/ (Chernihiv Region); 4^th of April – observations of Konstantin Pismennyi (Kiev Region /map/, in display flight), Maxim Gavrilyuk and Nikolay Borisenko (Cherkasy Region). Also you can see the comparative data of the records in Bulgaria – observations of Dimitar Ragyov near Plovdiv.

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This is a picture with dates of the first meetings and numbers of registered Short-toed Eagles for different regions of France. The information was received through French Circaetus network, was treated by Bernard Joubert and can still be complemented. You can also see a map of Short-toed Eagles’ arrival at France in 2009 year (just click on the blue markers for details):

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