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Life of Short-toed Eagles in photos by Bernard Joubert

Feb 19, 2017 / Comment

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!

Moments of life

During these 20 years, while we have been following the Short-toed Eagles, we could obtain numerous pictures taken in ideal conditions, some of which we later published, however, I never played with the thought seriously that I should take advantage of it since photography is very laborious and has little use in conservation.

Nevertheless, in 2010, I decided that I would give it a try at a nest site where I could do it without any disturbance. In January, I built a hide, which I dug in the ground about twenty metres from the nest. I made a frame of beech and covered it with smaller pine branches. This nest site seemed to attract this particular pair, they visited it during last autumn several times.

I made myself comfortable in the hide in the first days of March, not knowing how remarkable moments and wonderful events of the everyday life I would experience soon.

I used a quite mediocre Nikon camera with 110 mm equivalent focus length*, but still I could record their whole breeding cycle except incubation without being noticed by them.

I would like to share a few pictures…

Bernard Joubert

* – also, photos taken with Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 are included.

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La Plume du Circaète n° 12

Jun 11, 2016 / Comment

This year’s issue of the bulletin La Plume du Circaète is currently available – (Fr) {rough translation}. The list of contents is in English (En) this time, thanks to Ferenc and Gábor Papp:

PROTECTION AND STUDY

p.2

· Observations of 2cy STEs in Europe

p.3

· Experiments with artificial nests for STEs

p.4

· Feeding group of STEs in Minervois

p.5

· Unusual start of migration

p.6

· Preliminary data on the Short-toed Eagle in the suburbs of Marseille

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· A Short-toed Eagle trying to bath?

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· STE monitoring in Haute-Province in the Alps

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· Protection of a nesting habitat in Vendée

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· Setting up a STE network in Gard

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· Visual performance of the Short-toed Eagle

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· Bad luck for one, good luck for another

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· Life of the STE in pictures

p.25

· Reflections on flying on thermals

p.27

· Data on skipping breeding in Haute Loire – What is the value of observation?

p.28

· About prey and feeding

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· Note on post-breeding migration at the monitoring site of Eyne in 2015

INTERNATIONAL

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· First nesting of the STE in Suisse

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· Individual variations in summering areas among immature STEs

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· Influence of geographical and climatic factors on the migration of the STE

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· Seminar in Grosetto, Italy

CONNECTION AND EVENTS

p.39

· The STE flyer is finally available

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· 4th Short-toed Eagle meeting

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¹Joint work, En-Summaries, Fr-Bulletins, Photos /

Short-toed Eagles in Flanders (Belgium)

May 31, 2016 / Comment

The following extended descriptions of observations of Short-toed Eagles in Flanders /map/ (the nothern portion of Belgium) are available on the Natuurpunt website (Nl):

• Wouter FAVEYTS, 2010 – 2010: een superjaar voor Slangenarend in Vlaanderen [2010 – a bumper year for Short-toed Eagle in Flanders] // Natuur.oriolus, 76(4): pp. 132-134. – . The article contains English and French summaries.

…and other texts:

• Dominique VERBELEN, 2014 – Slangenarend Jacobus zorgt voor spektakel in de Kalkense Meersen [Short-toed Eagle makes a show in Kalkense Meersen] // www.natuurpunt.be.

• Han LAGRING, Gerald DRIESSENS, 2015 – Slangenarend op bedevaart in Groot Schietveld [Short-toed Eagle on a pilgrimage in Groot Schietveld] // www.natuurpunt.be.

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En-Summaries, Flanders, Fr, Nl, Photos /

Short-toed Eagles in Isère. Reviews and galleries

Mar 20, 2016 / Comment

A lot of information about observations and data on the current state of Short-toed Eagle population in the Isère Department /map/ are available on the LPO Mission rapaces and Faune Isère sites. Foremost, the following article by Françoise Chevalier deserves a particular attention:

• Françoise CHEVALIER, 2014 – Quatorze ans de recherche et de suivi des couples de circaète Jean-le-Blanc Circaetus gallicus dans le sud-est du département de l’Isère [Fourteen years of research and monitoring of Short-toed Eagle in the southeast of the Isère Department] // Le Bièvre, tome 26: pp. 26-33. – (Fr).

Also, please refer to the latest annual review:

• Françoise CHEVALIER, 2015 – Circaète Jean-le-Blanc Circaetus gallicus. Etude et suivis en Isère (38). Bilan 2015 [Short-toed Eagle. Research and monitoring in Isère. Summary for 2015] : 4 p. – (Fr).

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Big galleries, CHEVALIER Françoise, Fr-Articles, Fr-Misc, Isère, Maps /

Aging and sexing of ST Eagles in the nature

Dec 7, 2015 / Comment

Returning to the important topic of correct identification of differently aged Short-toed Eagles in the nature, Gábor Papp has tried to briefly describe the main characters of juvenile, 2, 3 and 4 cy eagles, and also visual differences between adult males and females. His description are illustrated with the corresponding images. Here is two versions of the text, Hungarian and English ones:

• Gábor PAPP, 2015 – A kígyászölyv kor és ivarhatározása – segédlet a terepi megfigyelések minőségének javításához [Ageing and sexing of the Short-toed Eagle – an aid to improve the quality of field observations in Hungary] // short-toed-eagle.net – (Hu), (En).

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¹Our docs, En-Articles, Hu, Hungary, PAPP Gábor, Photos /

Data on Short-toed Eagle in new birding DBs

Oct 28, 2015 / Comment

Circaetus gallicus by Oksana Raldugina on uabirds.org

The new birding database has been created this year for collecting pictures, geographical locations and other data of observations from Ukrainian birdwatchers. Among information on other species, it contains details of new records of Short-toed Eagles in various regions of Ukraine. The site has been made by Askar Isabekov and Andrew Simon as an analog of the well-known project for Kazakhstan that has already existed for 10 years. One more similar website is dedicated to Siberian birds. There is not any record of Short-toed Eagle on the last one yet; nevertheless, even isolated observations made at the edge of the species range would be of the great interest for ST Eagle researchers.

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Big galleries, En-Misc, ISABEKOV Askar, Kazakhstan, Maps, Online DB, Ru-Misc, Russia, SIMON Andrew, Ukraine /

Fresh papers on ST Eagles by Guido Premuda

Aug 24, 2015 / Comment

Several new works on Short-toed Eagle have been published and included in Guido Premuda‘s Bibliography (Sunbird.it) this year:

• Premuda G., 2015 – La migrazione dei rapaci sulle Alpi Apuane: campo Biancone marzo 2015 [The migration of birds of prey in the Apuan Alps /map/: March Short-toed Eagle camp 2015]. Infomigrans 34-2015. – (It).

• Premuda G. & Belosi A., 2015 – Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus population increase in Italy: hypothesis of root causes // Avocetta 39: 13-17. – (En).

• Premuda G., Belosi A., Viviani F. & Franchini M., 2015 – Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus population monitoring at the Apuane Alps migration watch-site (Tuscany) // Avocetta 39: 5-12. – (En).

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Apuan Alps, En-Articles, It-Misc, PREMUDA Guido /