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The Batumi Raptor Count monitors the autumn migration of more than 1 million raptors including thousands of ST Eagles along the eastern Black Sea coast in Georgia at the Batumi bottleneck /map/.

• Wouter M.G. VANSTEELANT, Jasper WEHRMANN, Dries ENGELEN, Johannes JANSEN, Brecht VERHELST, Rafa BENJUMEA, Simon CAVAILLÈS, Triin KAASIKU, Bart HOEKSTRA & Folkert de BOER, 2019 – Accounting for differential migration strategies between age groups to monitor raptor population dynamics in the eastern Black Sea flyway // Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.12773 – (En).

Also, other publications are available at the BRC site.

At this time, when Short-toed Eagles are arriving to their breeding sites in northern parts of their European and Asian areal, we would like to draw your attention to the article about Short-toed Eagle from the monograph of Dr. Alexander Abuladze:

• Abuladze A., 2013 – Materials towards a Fauna of Georgia. Is. VI. Birds of Prey of Georgia. – Tbilisi. – 218 pp.: Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus Gmelin, 1788 – P. 65-71. (En).

Heartfelt thanks to the author for sharing the text and photos of habitats! Johannes Jansen‘s review of the book can be found here.

Materials on the breeding biology of Short-toed Eagle for Alexander Abuladze‘s thesis (Ru) were collected since 1973 on a territory of Georgia and of Western Azerbaijan:

• А. В. Абуладзе, 2006 – Змееяд (Circaetus gallicus) [Raptors of Georgia. Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus)] – Хищные птицы Грузии : Дисс … канд. биол. наук. – Тбилиси. – С. 87-91 (208 с.).

You can find the full text of the thesis on a website of the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia.