Konstantin Pismennyi
Shot in: Kiev Region /map/, Mizhrichynskyi Park /map/, Sumy Polissya /map/
This story is published on the Infos Étang de Berre website:
• René Coste, 2010 – Le sauvetage de «Balthazar», le circaète blessé, les amoureux des beaux oiseaux et, un vent de colère [Salvation of «Balthazar» – a wounded Short-toed Eagle] – 
(Fr).
It has reminded me a story of «Jeanne» – an invalid young Short-toed Eagle, which had been found at the nesting site with a broken right wing in 2008. A short article about the bird was written by me and was kindly translated by Bernard Joubert for its publication in the 8th issue of La Plume du Circaète. The eagle had lived 2 years and finally died on August 5th 2010 in the Odessa Zoo.
Veterinarians made the post-mortem examination, which showed not only a reason of the death – the bad condition of the bird’s digestive system, but also that «Jeanne» had actually been a male. My mistake in determination of the bird’s sex had been made because of several reasons:
These old short texts have been found recently on the Net:
• Bas van Balen, A. R. Compost, 1989 – Overlooked evidence of the Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus on Java // Kukila. Vol. 4 – No 1-2 – P. 44-46. – (En) /map/;
• Wolfgang Rowold & Harald Weidener, 1999 – Beobachtung eines Schlangenadlers (Circaetus gallicus (Gmel.,1788)) in Marienmünster, Krs. Höxter [Observation of the Short-toed Eagle in Marienmünster] // Egge-Weser. Bd. 12. – S. 61. – (De) /map/.
And a work on flight properties of Palearctic Eagles, where Short-toed Eagle is one of the research objects:
• Kirmse W., 1998 – Morphometric features characterizing Flight Properties of Palearctic Eagles // Holarctic Birds of Prey. – P. 339-348. – (En).
These photos were taken in the national park "Smolenskoe Poozerje" /map/ by Marina Sidenko in 2009-2010 years. Two Short-toed Eagles’ nests were found there at the same nesting site. Many thanks to Marina for the comments on every picture!
Intraspecies communication and contest behaviour
For 3 hours, the 24th March 2010, I am the witness of a specific behavior between a male and an intruding female. The scene takes place on a nest, two weeks before the laying-date. At first, the male “marks” his site ostensibly. An unknown female, interested by the nest appears …
Bernard Joubert, Haute-Loire /map/
One more work from Spain. This M. Sc. Thesis by Aidin Niamir is published on the GEM MSc website (the Academic Output section):
• Aidin Niamir, March 2009 – Distribution modelling of the Short-toed Eagle in relation to potential food availability – M.Sc.Thesis: 75 p. – (En).
This paper is available now on a section of Publications in scientific journals of the University of Granada website:
• Gil-Sánchez J.M., Pleguezuelos J.M., 2001 – Prey and prey-size selection by the Short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) during the breeding season in Granada (south-eastern Spain) // Journal of Zoology (Lond.), 255 (1): 131-137. – (En) /map/.
…and an abstract of next one is placed on a website of Ardea – the official scientific journal of the Netherlands Ornithologists’ Union:
• Pavón D., Limiñana R., Urios V., Izquierdo A., Yáñez B., Ferrer M. & de la Vega A., 2010 – Autumn migration of juvenile Short-toed Eagles Circaetus gallicus from southeastern Spain // Ardea, 98 (1). P. 113–117. (En) /map/.