Eagles and storks

Today was an wonderful day of migration, here at Olympus mountain. More than 100 Short-toed Snake Eagles, 50 white storks and two beautiful Imperial Eagles passed in few hours.

Finches

Yestarday over the watchpoint here at Olympus mountain hundreds of finches migrated in flock comprised in an average of 2-25 individuals. On the picture below one of them.

The migration is going on

Today a flock of 9 White Storks passed over the watchpoint soaring very high, at least 1300 m above the sea level. Few raptors...

News from Mount Olympus

At last, today the migration has started. About 100 Short-toed Snake Eagles, 20 White Storks and a Griffon Vulture flying along the white slopes of the mountains. Bad weather but amazing migration.

Spring migration

Yesterday we started observations at Mount Olympus in order to check the spring migration of Short-toed Snake Eagles through the Eastern Mediterranean. Up to now very few birds, snow and cold weather...

Sicily, January 2010

Our friends from Ragusa, Sicily, sent us a picture made during our fieldwork in January. We made more than one thousand km of line transects in the whole island and we observed hundreds of wintering raptors mostly kestrels and common buzzards but also marsh and hen harriers, sparrowhawks, peregrine falcons, booted eagles, black kites and lesser kestrels. We wish to thank all the people who supported us during the research in particular LIPU (BirdLife Italy) of Alcamo and Gela, the Natutal Reserve of Gela Lake (Biviere), Antonino Provenza, Paolo Amato, Emilio Giudice, Peppe Campo, Antonino Duchi and Renzo Ientile.

New paper reprints

On our website we added the reprints of the following papers:

Panuccio M. & Canale E. 2003. Osservazioni sui movimenti post-riproduttivi del Nibbio bruno, Milvus migrans, nel Lazio (Central Italy). Rivista italiana di Ornitologia, 73(2): 180-182.

Agostini N. & Panuccio M. 2003. How do Accipitriformes behave during autumn migration at the Circeo promontory? Rivista italiana di Ornitologia, 73(2): 165- 167.

Agostini N. & Panuccio M. 2003. Analysis of the spring migration of Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus) and Marsh Harriers (Circus aeruginosus) at two sites of Central Italy. Avocetta, 27: 203-205.

Agostini N., Logozzo D. & Melotto S. 1994. The flocking behaviour of migrating honey buzzards. Suppl. Bollettino di Zoologia :63.