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Titre :	Description of the Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus breeding cycle at two sites in SW Slovenia during the years 2010 and 2011
Auteurs :	Peter Krecic, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Acrocephalus (32(148-49) JUN 2011)
Article en page(s) :	53-66
Résumé :	The Short-toed Eagle Circaetus gallicus is a rare and endangered species in Slovenia, with its breeding population estimated at 9-20 pairs in 2011. Owing to the modest data on its confirmed breeding in Slovenia, the author of the present article decided to search for nests of this raptor as well as to gather as much information as possible on its breeding cycle at two sites in SW Slovenia. In 2010 and 2011 he thus carried out, in the vicinity of Grisko polje (UTM VL16) and on the southern margins of the Vipava Valley (UTM VL17), several field visits, arranged according to different parts of the day and of the Shorttoed Eagle's breeding season (with a total of 83 observation hours in 2010 and 49 hours in 2011). At both sites, he found one Short-toed Eagle's active nest in each season, in both cases built inside a forest, on a steep slope, at the very top of a flat Austrian Pine Pinus nigra canopy,

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