A new short report about summering immature Short-toed Eagles in Africa has been published. We express our gratitude to Ugo Mellone for placing the PDF version of it on his website:
• Ugo Mellone, Beatriz Yáñez, Rubén Limiñana, A.-Román Muñoz, Diego Pavón, J.-Miguel González, Vicente Urios & Miguel Ferrer, 2011 – Summer staging areas of non-breeding Short-toed Snake Eagles Circaetus gallicus // Bird Study, iFirst: 1-6. – 
(En).
Konstantin Pismennyi
Shot in: Kiev Region /map/, Mizhrichynskyi Park /map/, Sumy Polissya /map/
Results of SEO/BirdLife monitoring programme for 2009-2010 is available on the Sociedad Española de Ornitología website – (Es). Census of Short-toed Eagle population in Spain brought new and unexpected data. About 10380 (!) real territories of Short-toed Eagles (pages 28 and 32) were counted. The numbers are much higher than they had been known before.
Thanks to the editor of Strepet journal, Viktor Belik, we can bring your attention to 2 detailed articles dedicated to Short-toed Eagles in Turkmenistan and in the North Caucasus which are published in the latest issue of the journal:
• В. П. Белик, 2010 – Змееяд на Северном Кавказе [Short-toed Eagle in the North Caucasus] // Стрепет. Т.8 − Вып. 2 − С. 34–59. – (Ru) {rough translation}.
• Н. Н. Ефименко, 2010 – Змееяд в Туркменистане: распространение, гнездовая экология, современная численность и охрана [Short-toed Eagle in Turkmenistan: distribution, breeding ecology, current numbers and conservation] // Стрепет. Т.8 − Вып. 2 − С. 60–85. – (Ru) {rough translation}.
Thanks to István Béres and Márton Horváth we are presenting here M. Sc. Thesis on the Short-toed Eagle population in the Zemplén Mountains /map/. This is results of 25 years’ monitoring work:
• István BÉRES, 2007 – A Kígyászölyv (Circaetus gallicus) viselkedési és fészkelési szokásai a Zempléni-hegységben [Behaviour and breeding habits of the Short-toed Eagle in the Zemplén-mountains] – M.Sc.Thesis – Debrecen: 56 p. – (Hu) {rough translation}.
A report for 2010 on Short-toed Eagle in the Isère Department /map/ can be found on the www.faune-isere.org:
• Françoise Chevalier, 2010 – Etude du Circaète Jean-le-Blanc Circaetus gallicus en Isère. Bilan 2010 [Research of the Short-toed Eagle in Isère. Summary for 2010] : 5 p. – (Fr).
It also contains data on the breeding success for period of 2005-2010.
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: