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Just one more annual overview of Short-toed Snake Eagle monitoring in the Cévennes National Park /map/ and Lozère for 2016:

• Jean-Pierre et Isabelle MALAFOSSE, 2016 – Le Circaète Jean-le-Blanc, résultats pour 2016. Suivi des Rapaces forestiers en Lozère et dans le Parc National des Cévennes [Short-toed Eagle, results for 2016. Monitoring of Raptors in Lozère and in the Cévennes National Park], rapport interne C.R.B.P.O./ P.N.C.: 10 p. – (Fr), (En) {rough translation}.

Great thanks to Jean-Pierre and Isabelle for sharing this, to Ferenc and Gábor Papp for their kind help in the translation of the text to English!

Marina Sidenko prepared this brief report about nesting of Short-toed Eagle pair on an artificial platform (Ru) {rough translation} in 2015. The platform was one out of 63 built in the national park "Smolenskoe Poozerje" /map/ in 2012.

These amazing pictures and text were published in the latest La Plume du Circaète. Few of them were included in the previous galleries of Bernard Joubert on our site. Then, several new photos taken in March 2016 have been added and described by the author. Many thanks to him for sharing the pictures and especially for detailed comments on them, also to Ferenc and Gábor Papp for their kind help in the translation!

Here is the next annual gallery of pictures taken in Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy Regions of Northern Ukraine in 2016. Short-toed Eagles of local pairs monitored during more than 10 years are captured in them. All the birds are indicated in captions by a letter and a year of the first representation in photo galleries on our site, starting with A11 – the old, very striped and dark-spotted, rather small but aggressive female living in the Mizhrichynskyi Nature Park /map/.

Two more texts dedicated to Short-toed Eagles were published in Russian Ornithological Journal (Русский орнитологический журнал) (Ru):

• М. П. Ильюх, 2014 – Змееяд Circaetus gallicus в Предкавказье [Short-toed Eagle in the North Caucasus] // Русский орнитологический журнал, Том 23, Экспресс-выпуск 1056: 3113-3115. The first publication: Ильюх М.П., 2001 – Змееяд в Предкавказье // Актуальные проблемы изучения и охраны птиц Восточной Европы и Северной Азии. Казань: 271-272. Please, have a look at Viktor Belik’s article dedicated to the North Caucasus as well.

• А. Б. Жданко, 2016 – Находка гнезда змееяда Circaetus gallicus у Таш-Кумыра в Джалал-Абадской области (Киргизия) [Discovery of the Short-toed Eagle nest in the vicinity of Tash-Kumyr in Djalal-Abad Region (Kyrgyzstan)] // Русский орнитологический журнал, Том 25, Экспресс-выпуск 1345: 3709-3714. /map/.

After Langeac (2004), Nadaillac (2008), and Florac (2012) the 4^th Circaetus meeting took place in Roquefixade (the Ariège Department), on October 8^th and 9^th, 2016. Forty naturalists involved in the monitoring of the species, found themselves there at the invitation of Nature Midi-Pyrénées and LPO Mission Rapaces, to share their experience of the studies. The total number of the meeting participants was about fifty. The program illustrated the diversity of birders’ approaches within their means and goals.

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Results of a comparative study of using foraging resources by Short-toed Eagles and Long-legged Buzzards in the Judean Foothills /map/ are reported in the following fresh article of Guilad Friedemann & others:

• Guilad FRIEDEMANN, Yossi LESHEM, Lior KEREM, Boaz SHACHAM, Avi BAR-MASSADA, Krystaal M. MCCLAIN, Gil BOHRER & Ido IZHAKI, 2016 – Multidimensional differentiation in foraging resource use during breeding of two sympatric top predators // Scientific Reports 6. doi:10.1038 / srep35031 – ; the Supplementary information – (En).