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| Aquila pomarina |
CL Brehm, 1831 |
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Family: Accipitridae |
Order: Falconiformes |
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Lesser spotted eagle |
Aigle pomarin |
Įguila pomerana |
Schreiadler |
| Migration: intercontinental |
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avoids large bodies of water |
Migratory; highly dependent on soaring and thus thermals, avoiding large bodies of water. C European birds
leave around mid-Sept; European birds migrate over Bosporus, Israel and Suez, where well studied, but
migration in Africa little understood. A satellite-tracked juvenile covered 6000 km from Latvia to Sudan in
barely a month, remaining there for over 6 weeks, before continuing to Kenya. Few birds cross sea from Italy
and S Greece to N Africa. Adults arrive at breeding grounds in Apr. Race hastata apparently not
migratory. (del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds), 1994)
- digitised by GROMS, after del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (1994) - www.hbw.com,
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| Regions: East Asia, Europe, North Asia, South & Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West & Central
Asia |
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| (Last update: 05.03.04 by E.Heuel) |