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This is the presentation of two old texts of the first part of the XX century. One of them was written by Viktor Zebe:

• Viktor Zebe, Oktober 1936 – Zur biologie des Schlangenadlers [Biology of the Short-toed Eagle] – Berichte des Vereins Schlesicher Ornithologen /map/. Just read the translation of it (Fr) from German made by one of the greatest adepts in Short-toed Eagles in France – Yves Boudoint.

The second is Nikolay Gavrilenko‘s work, that is mentioned in the first one:

• Гавриленко Н.И., 1929 – Птицы Полтавщины. Змееяд [The birds of the Government of Poltava. Short-toed Eagle] // Полтава: Издание Полтавского союза охотников: 28-30 (Ru) /map/.
Just download a scan of the part dedicated to all birds of prey on the Ukrainian Birds of Prey Research Centre website.

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 have transformed some articles from the Sunbird.it (see the post Guido Premuda’s works) into the form that is suitable for the machine translation:

• PREMUDA G., 2002 – Primi dati sulla migrazione post-riproduttiva del Biancone, Circaetus gallicus, nelle Alpi Apuane [Autumn migration of Short-toed Eagle in the Apuane Alps] // Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 71(2): 181-186. (It).

• AGOSTINI N., BAGHINO L., COLEIRO C., CORBI F. & PREMUDA G., 2002 – Circuitous autumn migration in Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus // Journal of Raptor Research., 36(2): 111-114. (En).

• PREMUDA G., 2004 – La migrazione del Biancone Circaetus gallicus in Italia: stato delle conoscenze attuali [The Short-toed Eagle migration in Italy: current state of knowledge]. In: Atti del Convegno “Rapaci in volo verso l’Appennino” // Corpo Forestale dello Stato – Gestione ex ASFD di Lucca – Riserva Naturale Statale dell’Orecchiella, 21-24. (It).

• PREMUDA G., 2004 – Osservazione di un dormitorio di Biancone, Circaetus gallicus, e considerazioni sul piumaggio degli immaturi [Observation of a roost composed of seven individuals of Short-toed Eagle and notes about plumage of immatures] // Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 74(1): 76-80. (It).

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).

Presentation of complete information on Short-toed Eagle located on the Oiseaux.net. Have a look at photos from some photographers and read one more generic description (Fr) of the species and presentation of Bernard Joubert‘s book. Also we would like to direct your attention to a part of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (Fr) dedicated to Short-toed Eagle (in the form of scans) and to the photos selection particularly.