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See photos (© Sergey Domashevsky) made while ringing a young Short-toed Eagle in nest in Kiev Region (Central Ukraine) /map/ on July 27^th:

This is one more general information on the species:

• MALAFOSSE J.-P. et JOUBERT B., 2004 – Circaète Jean-le-Blanc Circaetus gallicus (Gmelin) 1788 // in Thiollay J.-M. et Bretagnolle V. (coord.), Rapaces nicheurs de France, Distribution, effectifs et conservation, Delachaux et Niestlé, Paris: pp. 60-65. (Fr).

…but, Jean-Pierre Malafosse with group of researchers had traced more than 400 cases of Short-toed Eagles breeding just till 2000 in the so-called Massif Central /map/. And their researches are continuing. Just think about it…

Bernard Joubert /map/ is an author of the “Le Circaète Jean-le-Blanc” book; see an extract from it (Fr) about the youngs’ behaviour after leaving the nests.

We would like to invite you to visit the website of Igor Karyakin: Russian Birds of Prey Researchers Club. General and some local /map/ information on Short-toed Eagle can be found there:

• Игорь Карякин, 1998 – Змееяд – Пернатые хищники Уральского региона. Соколообразные (Falconiformes) и Совообразные (Strigiformes). Пермь: Центр полевых исследований Союза охраны животных Урала / Социально-экологический союз: 180-189 – (Ru).

• Г.П. Дементьев, 1951 – Змееяд (Circaetus gallicus) – Птицы Советского Союза, т.1. – М.: Сов. наука – (Ru).

(the source is a subsection of the site: Publications)

One more general description (Ru) (composed, in this case, by Igor Karyakin) is located in the subsection titled Articles on Species.

Here you can acquaint yourself with the work on the wintering of Short-toed Eagle and Booted Eagle in Spain:

• José Enrique Martínes y José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata, 1999 – Invernada de Aguililla Calzada (Hieraaetus pennatus) y Culebrera Europea (Circaetus gallicus) en España [Wintering of Booted Eagles and Short-toed Eagles in Spain] // Ardeola 46 (1): 93-96 – (Es) (source – Ardeola website).

…and with the abstract of an article about Greek Short-toed Eagles:

• D.E. Bakaloudis, C.G. Vlachos, G.J. Holloway, 1998 – Habitat Use by Short-Toed Eagles Circaetus gallicus and Their Reptilian Prey During the Breeding Season in Dadia Forest (North-Eastern Greece) // Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 35, No. 6: 821-828 (En) /map/ (source – the JSTOR database).

S. M. Zhyla‘s article about nesting of Short-toed Eagle in the Northern part of Zhytomyr Region (North of Ukraine):

• С. М. Жила, 1999 – Про гніздування змієїда (Circaetus ferox) на півночі Житомирщини [Notes on the Short-toed Eagle breeding in the North of Zhytomyr Region] // Поліському природному заповіднику – 30 років – Збірник наукових праць, В.1: 89-93 (Uk) /map/.
– The summary (En).

Also see below an extract from the work of V. T. Afanas’ev dedicated to ecology of Short-toed Eagle and Booted Eagle in the North of Sumy Region (north-eastern Ukraine) and in the South of Bryansk Region (Russia); and just take a look at the maps to get a notion about geographical location of the both authors’ research regions:

• В. Т. Афанасьев, 1997 – К экологии змееяда и орла-карлика на севере Сумской и юге Брянской областей [Ecology of Short-toed and Booted Eagles in the North of Sumy and the South of Bryansk Regions] // Заповідна справа в Україні, 3 (2): 57-59 (Ru) /map/.
– The summary (En).

You can find here a possibility to get some information (It) about the film of Emanuele Coppola “L’Aquila dei serpenti” and to try to order it on the site. The preview file has a size near of 2.7 MB, it’s in wmv-format (source – the Natura in Diretta website). Read also about the Panda Film’s birth. The film was made with participation of Francesco Petretti /map/.

Some links to V. Ivanovski‘s works concerning Short-toed Eagle ecology in Northern Belarus /map/ (all contain summaries in English):

• В. Ивановский, 1992 – Экология гнездования змееяда в Белорусском Поозерье // Современная орнитология: 56-69. – (Ru) (translatable form) (source – website of the Working Group on Raptors and Owls of Northern Eurasia).

• В. Ивановский, 2002 – Змееяд в Северной Беларуси: настоящее и будущее // Беркут, 11 (2): 158-164. – (Ru) (translatable form).
(source – website of the Ukrainian journal of ornithology BERKUT). The summary of this work can be found on the World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls website: The Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus in Belarus (En) – sixth article. At the same time, mark the first article on the list, that is an abstract of the oral report of another researcher: Dimitris E. Bakaloudis – Aspects of the Ecology of the Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus in Dadia Soufli Forest, NE Greece (En) /map/.