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Résumé :
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Owing to its great latitudinal extension and environmental heterogeneity, Italy hosts a relatively large number of birds of prey. Considering both diurnal and nocturnal species, 47 taxa are known to occur regularly in the country, 31 of which breed here, while two have gone extinct as breeders (Table 1). Furthermore, twice a year Italy is reached by a large number of migrants on their way between Europe and Africa. Big concentrations of migrating raptors occur in some important bottlenecks (e.g. Marettimo Island, Messina Strait, Monte Conero Promontory, Monte Beigua).[GRAPHICS].
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