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Dear Circaetus gallicus lovers and researchers! Let us, please, invite you to contribute your photos (info@short-toed-eagle.net) of the Eagles of age and sex known for certain. These photos will be inserted into the special gallery which has been created on initiative of Francesco Petretti. We aim to make something like an online handbook to help to describe differences between sexes and ages of Short-toed Eagle and finally to make their field identification easier. Each contributed photo should be supplied with information, examples of which can already be seen below each inserted image.

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).

Vincenzo Rizzo Pinna continues to make videos in Maremma Regional Park /map/. Please enjoy new scenes of Short-toed Eagle’s live in the nests controlled by Vincenzo this year. Both these videos were taken on June 29^th. Also, have a look at new photos uploaded recently.

Also you can enjoy all videos uploaded by Vincenzo Rizzo Pinna directly on YouTube.

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}.