Please download and read a new article of Richard Frèze:
• Richard Frèze, 2008 - Étude de la population de Circaètes sur le massif de la Sainte-Baume et les collines environnantes - 
(Fr).
And also enjoy please some pictures from it:
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Current number of the La Plume du Circaète (Fr) can be downloaded now in two variants: of 1.6 MB - or of 5 MB - PDF file. New materials on Short-toed Eagles of France are collected in it. Heartfelt thanks to Renaud Nadal for placing the version with full-sized images on our site.
The list of contents (Fr):
This text about nesting Short-toed Eagles in the environs of Marseille as an example of the species adaptation to urbanization is offered by Richard Frèze:
• Richard Frèze, 2008 - Un Circaète aux portes de Marseille (Fr). Also you have a possibility to open pdf-file of the article, view map, /map/ and photos.
New personal site of famous French researcher, Yves Boudoint /map/, has been created. Among the sections there are many different photos of Short-toed Eagles, old and relatively new texts (Fr) and presentations of materials on CD and DVD dedicated to the birds. The site’s content tells its own story.
Next issue of the La Plume du Circaète composite brochure has been released in September 2007 - (Fr). In comparison with the previous one, which was printed on 12 pages, this issue is bigger, it consists of 16 pages of text and different images.
Please see the list of contents (Fr):
For the first time we present such weighty material as a 28 minutes film on the site. The video was made by Françoise Gérardin in Gironde /map/ in August, 2003 by digital video-camera from the special hiding-place at a distance of 23 metres from rather low situated Short-toed Eagle’s nest. Please read the introduction (En) written by the film’s author. Some single frames of the film are presented below.
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Besides, you can download the video (.avi) file and subtitles (Fr):
- Jean-le-Blanc au pays des sorcières. The subtitles (heartfelt thanks to Yves) can be used for the machine translation, if you need it.
One of works of the oldest Short-toed Eagles researcher in France - Yves Boudoint /map/ - is represented below. This text describes some interesting details of biology of the species and includes notes on some traditional and untraditional methods of study:
• Yves Boudoint, 1953 - Etude de la biologie du Circaète Jean-le-Blanc - Alauda, 21 : 86-112 (Fr)
There are two short notes describing cases of Short-toed Eagles’ successful breeding in captivity in 2006 year on two different sites:
• Reintroducida un Aguila culebrera nacida en cautividad - Enviado por: GREFA el Sabado, 15 de Julio de 2006 - 02:43 CET (Es)
• Un circaète Jean-Le-Blanc nait en captivité - Agence France-Presse; Lourdes, France, Le jeudi 15 juin 2006 (Fr)
In 2002 Jean-Pierre Malafosse /map/ and Bernard Joubert /map/ managed to unionize French Short-toed Eagle lovers. We would like to point to in a sense the composite work that is known by the name La Plume du Circaète - (Fr) and was realized in 2003 by the agency of the Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (source - LPO Mission Rapaces page). Now the second pdf-file - La Plume du Circaète #4 - (Fr) is available there.
This is the presentation of two old texts of the first part of XX century. One of them was written by Victor Zebe:
• Victor Zebe, Oktober 1936 - Zur biologie des Schlangenadlers - Berichte des Vereins Schlesicher Ornithologen /map/. Just read the translation of it (Fr) from German made by one of the greatest adepts in Short-toed Eagles in France - Yves Boudoint.
The second is Nikolay Gavrilenko’s work, that is mentioned in the first one:
• Гавриленко Н. И., 1929 - Птицы Полтавщины. Змееяд (The birds of the Government of Poltava. Short-toed Eagle) - Полтава: Издание Полтавского союза охотников: 28-30 (Ru) /map/
Download a scan of the part dedicated to all birds of prey on the Ukrainian Birds of Prey Research Centre website.