New satellite tracking project has started in Southern Italy this summer. Two juvenile Short-toed Eagles were tagged with transmitters in Regional Park Gallipoli Cognato /map/. The project is being coordinated by Ugo Mellone. Maps with the tracks are available on the Regional Park Gallipoli Cognato website.
A new number of the La Plume du Circaète – 
(Fr) {rough translation} has seen the light in August 2010.
The list of contents (Fr):
Suivi / Conservation 2 »
Synthèse nationale 2009 2; Parc national des Cévennes 3; Puy-de-Dôme 6; Franche-Comté 7; Hautes-Alpes 8; Bretagne 9; Bouches-du-Rhône 9; Dangereuse capture des reptiles 10
Observations dans l’Hérault 13 »
Menaces 21 »
Tirs et électrocutions 21
International 22 »
Les circaètes en Ukraine 22; Histoire d’un circaète captif 24
Sensibilisation 26 »
Convention LPO/ONF en Isère 26; Rencontres des réseaux 27; Un réseau aigle botté 27; Un dépliant circaète ? 28; Hommage à Françoise Gérardin 28; Rapaces de France 28
These photos were taken by Miroslav Dravecký (Raptor Protection of Slovakia – RPS) during short summer expedition in Kiev /map/, Chernihiv /map/ and Zhitomir Regions in the north of Ukraine:
Photos of male Short-toed Eagles hunting in June for the females which are sitting on their nests:
Dark Short-toed Eagle female hunting from power line pylons for herself for the reason that the breeding has failed:
This is short, but fresh news from GREFA. Old pair of Short-toed Eagles continues to breed in captivity this year in the GREFA Wild Fauna Recovery Centre. They do it regularly during several years, but there is no much information available about each breeding attempt yet.
Two texts dedicated to distribution of Short-toed Eagle are brought to your attention:
• Germán M. López-Iborra, Rubén Limiñana, Diego Pavón and José E. Martínez-Pérez, 2010 – Modelling the distribution of Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) in semi-arid Mediterranean landscapes: identifying important explanatory variables and their implications for its conservation // European Journal of Wildlife Research. Original paper. Published online first (En).
• BBL project "Klimaatwijken", 2008 – A climatic atlas of European breeding birds. Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus) – (En). This document can be found on the Lokale actie page of the Natuurpunt website. The climate change theme has already been touched on our site.
The map of known breeding territories of Short-toed Eagles is published on the Home Ranges Map page. Used KMZ file can be downloaded and edited in Google Earth. Anyone may add data. Read please some simple rules of working with the file. Locations of Short-toed Eagle home ranges are marked with special semi-opaque coloured circles.