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This time fossil remains of an ancient species of Circaetus were found in the vicinity of the Varshets town (Northwestern Bulgaria) /map/. This species had lived in SE Europe about 2.2-2.4 millions of years ago:

• Z. Boev, 2015 – An Early Pleistocene Snake Eagle, Circaetus haemusensis sp. n. (Aves, Accipitriformes) from Varshets, Northwestern Bulgaria // Acta zool. bulg., 67 (1): pp. 127-138. – (En).

The current article, like the prevous one, is represented on a website of the journal Acta zoologica bulgarica.

Many thanks to Guilad Friedemann for kind information about a new project of the KKL Fund – HD Web camera at a nest of Short-toed Eagle in Israel /map/. The online stream and a brief description of the project are available in Hebrew now, the English translation will appear soon. Besides, you can find texts about Guilad’s research in English and in Hebrew, view current data on observations of STE in the country and enjoy a video recently recorded with the installed camera; more clips are also listed on this page now. So help you Google Translate!

UPD May 1^st, 2015: the Facebook community has been created for uploading and watching video clips made with the camera.

The following detailed article dedicated to ecological and ethological aspects of biology of Short-toed Eagle had been published 35 years ago. The text addresses a variety of topics and can be of great interest to anyone who is studying the species. It is printed on 87 pages, has many beautiful pictures and includes data on distribution and conservation of STE on the Italian Peninsula:

• Silvio BRUNO, Fabio PERCO, 1980 – Considerazioni ecologiche ed etologiche sul Biancone (Circaetus gallicus) [Ecological and ethological considerations on Short-toed Eagle] // Natura bresciana, vol. 17: pp. 124-210. – (It).

The article is available on the Museo di Scienze webpage.

Please, see the next annual review of monitoring of Short-toed Eagle in the Alpes de Haute-Provence /map/ prepared by Cédric Arnaud with the participation of local observers:

• Cédric ARNAUD, 2014 – Suivi du Circaète Jean-le-blanc dans les Alpes de Haute-Provence. Résultats du suivi pour l’année 2014 [Monitoring of Short-toed Eagle in the Alpes de Haute-Provence. Results for 2014]: 13 p. – (Fr) {rough translation}.

The list of contents (Fr): Inventaires – 2; Reproduction – 4; Régime alimentaire – 7; Migration et dates d’arrivée/départ – 8; Interventions d’information, de sensibilisation et échanges – 8; Centre de soins de la faune sauvage 04-05 Aquila – 9; Campagne de suivi 2014 – 10; Observations particulières – 10; Campagne de suivi et objectifs 2015 – 11; Bases de données en ligne – 11; Participants – 12; Rendez-vous pour le suivi 2015 – 13.

Observations of Short-toed Eagles in Northern Ukraine in 2014 which deserve to be noted:

• K. PISMENNYI, 2015 – Data on breeding of Short-toed Eagle in Northern Ukraine – , XLS file with formulas – ; Replacement of the biggest 14 flight feathers – ; Some short notes on Short-toed Eagles in Northern Ukraine in 2014 // short-toed-eagle.net (En).

From the 10^th to the 12^th of September 2015 the Conference on the Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) will be held in the Museum of Natural History of Maremma, Grosseto, Italy /map/.

Original contributions on the morphology, behaviour, general ecology, conservation and distribution of the Short-toed Eagle are welcome. The Conference will be anticipated by a workshop on the 10^th of September on conservation projects of raptors in the Mediterranean.

The communication could be presented either in Italian or English, French and Spanish languages and will be published in Acta of the Museum of Natural History of Maremma. The deadline for the subscription is 30^th June 2015.

For further information, application form and instructions to the authors please contact:

› subscription:
Ms. Paola Mariotti – segreteria@museonaturalemaremma.it

› scientific contributions:
Prof. Francesco Petretti – okapia.studium@virgilio.it

Among a lot of videos of Short-toed Eagles published on the Web during the last several years some short films deserve special attention. For example, this one was made by Claudio Borghini in collaboration with Assuntino Amici, Luigi Marozza and Massimiliano Proietti in 2013. The researchers used an automatic camera having wide-angle lens and placed in immediate proximity to an aerie of Short-toed Eagles. The nest had been found in the Regional Park of Castelli Romani /map/ for the first time ever. It is evident that the method of monitoring nests using automatic cameras is becoming increasingly popular.