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See the photo located on the Birdlife Belarus website and some links to V. Ivanovskiy’s works concerning Short-toed Eagle ecology in Nothern Belarus /map/ (all contain summaries in English):

• В. Ивановский, 1992 - Экология гнездования змееяда в Белорусском Поозерье - Современная орнитология: 56-69. - (Ru)
(source - website of the Working Group on Raptors of Northern Eurasia)

• В. Ивановский, 2002 - Змееяд в Северной Беларуси: настоящее и будущее - Беркут, 11 (2): 158-164. - (Ru)
(source - website of the Ukrainian journal of ornithology BERKUT). The summary of this work can be found on the World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls website: The Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus in Belarus (En) - sixth article. At the same time mark the first article on the list also, that is an abstract of the oral report of another researcher: Dimitris E. Bakaloudis - Aspects of the Ecology of the Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus in Dadia Soufli Forest, NE Greece (En) /map/.

Photos of young and adult, sitting and flying, alone and accompanied Short-toed Eagles on the birdpix.nl with resolution about 800×600 px.

Website about Short-toed Eagles in Gironde (France) /map/ contains different information (Fr): observations on the habits of adult birds and “circaètons”, some statistics data, photos etc. The subsections are being updated yearly. This site is filled with the original materials only.

Photos of Short-toed Eagles in the birdforum.net galleries, mostly in flight, with clear details, made by different authors. You should be registered on the BirdForum to use the search and to open full-sized (800×600 px) modes of photos.

Sergey Domashevsky’s article about Short-toed Eagle population of Kiev Region (Ukraine) /map/:

• С. В. Домашевский, 2005 - Распространение, численность и миграции змееяда (Circaetus gallicus) в Киевской области - Заповідна справа в Україні, 11 (1): 45-49 (Ru)

Its summary (En) and illustrations:

Some photos of Kiev Region’s Short-toed Eagles and their breeding places:

And a water-colour painting of flying Short-toed Eagle made by an artist Igor Zemlyanskih:

Please read the text written by Guido Premuda together with Andrea Corso dedicated to determination of Short-toed Eagle’s age and sex by plumage characters: Il piumaggio del Biancone: età, sesso e morfismo (It) which could be used as a manual for the field work.

Also the photo and a list of full texts of Premuda’s articles dedicated to Short-toed Eagle can be found here (the source is his own website - Sunbird.it):

• PREMUDA G., 2004 - Prime osservazioni della migrazione primaverile “a circuito” del Biancone, Circaetus gallicus, nelle Alpi Apuane - Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 74 (2): 119-124. - (It)

• PREMUDA G., 2004 - Osservazione di un dormitorio di Biancone, Circaetus gallicus, e considerazioni sul piumaggio degli immaturi - Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 74(1): 76-80. - (It) (translatable form)

• PREMUDA G., 2004 - La migrazione del Biancone Circaetus gallicus in Italia: stato delle conoscenze attuali. In: Atti del Convegno “Rapaci in volo verso l’Appennino” - Corpo Forestale dello Stato - Gestione ex ASFD di Lucca - Riserva Naturale Statale dell’Orecchiella, 21-24. - (It) (translatable form)

• AGOSTINI N., BAGHINO L., PANUCCIO M., PREMUDA G. & PROVENZA A., 2004 - The autumn migration strategies of adult and juvenile short-toed eagles Circaetus gallicus in the central Mediterranean - Avocetta, 28: 25-28. - (En)

• PREMUDA G., 2002 - Primi dati sulla migrazione post-riproduttiva del Biancone, Circaetus gallicus, nelle Alpi Apuane - Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 71(2): 181-186. - (It) (translatable form)

• AGOSTINI N., BAGHINO L., COLEIRO C., CORBI F. & PREMUDA G., 2002 - Circuitous autumn migration in Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus - Journal of Raptor Research., 36(2): 111-114. - (En) (translatable form)

• AGOSTINI N., BAGHINO L., PANUCCIO, M. & PREMUDA G., 2002 - A conservative strategy in migrating Short-toed Eagles Circaetus gallicus - Ardeola, 49(2): 287-291. - (En)

Few photos (resolution about 1024×768 px) made by Walter Mascarini and one variant (It) of the common popular species descriptions of Short-toed Eagle written by Angelo Battaglia. This portfolio is located on the Quaderni di birdwatching site.