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Short-toed Eagle breeding in Kiev Region

May 26, 2009 / No Comments

Among other articles of the Modern Study of Raptors and Owls (Materials of ІІІ International Scientific Conference «Birds of prey of Ukraine», Kryvyi Rih, 24–25 October 2008) you can find the following:

Short-toed Eagle. Kiev Region. August 2008Письменный К.А., 2008 – Гнездование змееяда (Circaetus gallicus (Gm.) в Киевской области и проблемы его адаптации к хозяйственной деятельности человека [Breeding of the Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus (Gm.) in Kyiv Region /map/ and problems of its adaptation to human economic activity] // Новітні дослідження соколоподібних та сов. Матеріали ІІІ Міжнародної наукової конференції «Хижі птахи України», м. Кривий Ріг, 24−25 жовтня 2008 р. − Кривий Ріг: 307−311. (Ru).

 

Some data on their arrival at Ukraine

Apr 6, 2009 / No Comments
Short-toed Eagle's Festoon flight in pictures

Some data on spring arrival of Short-toed Eagles to Ukraine is available now on the map. The first dates are: 28th and 29th (in display flight) of March – observations of Sergey Domashevsky in Mizhrichynskyi Regional Landscape Park /map/ (Chernihiv Region); 4th of April – observations of Konstantin Pismennyi (Kiev Region /map/, in display flight), Maxim Gavrilyuk and Nikolay Borisenko (Cherkasy Region). Also you can see the comparative data of the records in Bulgaria – observations of Dimitar Ragyov near Plovdiv.

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Short-toed Eagles’ arrival at Italy in 2009

Mar 23, 2009 / No Comments

Places of the first observations. Map by data of Francesco Petretti
The first Short-toed Eagles in Italy were observed on the 26th and 27th of February in Tuscany. Most pairs are now displaying in my Maremma – Tolfa hills study area /map/. A pair of Short-toed Eagle has been breeding in one nesting territory for 37 years (since 1973) and all the territories I checked which were occupied in 2008 have one pair starting to display.

On the 15th of March I joined a group of hundreds of birdwatchers and ornithologists spotting Short-toed Eagles migrating over Arenzano (Genua, Liguria) in North-West Italy: more than 250 specimens were observed on Sunday. A flock consisted of 20 birds.

Il Biancone (Circaetus gallicus) in Maremma. Video by Vincenzo Rizzo Pinna

This is a new video by Vincenzo Rizzo Pinna made already in spring of 2009. Thanks to Vincenzo for the link!

 

Short-toed Eagles’ arrival at France in 2009

Mar 19, 2009 / 2 Comments

This is a picture with dates of the first meetings and numbers of registered Short-toed Eagles for different regions of France. The information was received through French Circaetus network, was treated by Bernard Joubert and can still be complemented. You can also see a map of Short-toed Eagles’ arrival at France in 2009 year (just click on the blue markers for details):

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Publications of the Russian Ornithological Journal

Mar 9, 2009 / No Comments

Let us draw your attention to a website of the Scientific Electronic Library – eLibrary.ru. You can get actually every publication of the Russian Ornithological Journal after free registration on the site. Some of them are dedicated to Short-toed Eagle (Ru):

Ивановский В.В., 1983 – Змееяд Circaetus gallicus в Белорусском Поозерье [Short-toed Eagle in Belarussian Poozer’e] // Тез. докл. 11-й Прибалт. орнитол. конф. Таллин: 95-98 – Рус. орнитол. журн. 2007. Том 16. Экспресс-выпуск № 389: 1594-1596. /map/.

• Гуль В.Н., 2000 – Новая находка змееяда Circaetus gallicus в Себежском Поозерье (Псковская область) [New find of Short-toed Eagle in Sebezh Poozer’e (Pskov Region)] // Рус. орнитол. журн. Экспресс-выпуск 110: 9-10. /map/.

Березовиков Н.Н., Левин А.С., 2002 – О нахождении смешанной кладки змееяда Circaetus gallicus и степной пустельги Falco naumanni в Прибалхашье [Find of mixed clutch of Short-toed Eagle and Lesser Kestrel in Pribalkhashie] // Рус. орнитол. журн. Экспресс-выпуск 201: 967. /map/.