This is the third time we bring to your attention GREFA and their successes in breeding and following release of Short-toed Eagles.
The second thing is an appearance of the Observado.org website as a global version of Waarneming.nl we told about before. Please take a look at the ‘About this species’ right column menu there.
Circa33 des Circaètes en Gironde - Yves Forget’s website about Short-toed Eagles of Gironde /map/, is updated now. New photos by the site author, by Françoise Gérardin and other observers are added and can be viewed right on the front page. If you want to know who made the photo you are viewing, you should just right click on it.
Enjoy new series of Vincenzo Rizzo Pinna’s videos. These clips show moments of Short-toed Eagles’ life during the breeding season of 2008. Like previous ones they are about the Eagles of the Maremma Regional Park /map/. Some of them are made by infrared camera.
Photos of different aged Short-toed Eagle chicks are made by Jean-Pierre Malafosse and are published now by courtesy of the author.
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They can be helpful to reseachers for estimated determination of the chicks’ age.
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.
These photos of Short-toed Eagle chick (© Konstantin Pismennyi) were made on a territory of Mezhrechenskiy Regional Landscape Park /map/. The chick was 6-7 weeks old. The whole population of Short-toed Eagles is estimated now as about 10 territorial pairs.
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You can read more about birds of prey of Mezhrechenskiy Park on a website of Ukrainian Birds of Prey Research Centre. The information is prepared by Sergey Domashevsky there.
By Amir Balaban. Language Hebrew, but who needs to listen when you have what to see…
enjoy the link
Sameh
Date: 30th April 2008
Time: 18:50
Species: Short-toed Eagle
Location: Jews Gate Bird Observatory, Gibraltar
Rings: Two colour rings on left leg, Green over Red
Details: The bird was migrating north, seen arriving over the Straits of Gibraltar from Africa, then being mobbed by the resident pair of Ravens and many Yellow-legged Gulls. The bird passed low overhead before continuing northwards into Spain.
I’m interested to know when and where the bird was ringed and any further information you can supply.
La Retuerta is situated in the central part of the Ebro valley, east of Zaragoza, in northeastern Spain. The extreme climatic conditions of the area have produced a vegetation similar to that of the North-African steppes. This climate can be summarized as follows: large annual range of minimum and maximum temperatures, oscillating from -10 oC to more than +40 oC; frequent frost in spring; prevailing winds from the NW and the SE (cold and warm, respectively), both with great desiccating power; low annual rainfall (200-400 mm); water deficit over 300 mm.
Heartful thanks to Javier Blasco-Zumeta for few fullsized illustrations to his information sheet! They are represented below:
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