The nominal subspecies of the Black Kite is a summer resident in Europe and Asia that
winters mostly in western Africa, although numbers of birds wintering in the Mediterranean …

Knowledge about migratory connectivity, the degree to which individuals from the same
breeding site migrate to the same wintering site, is essential to understand processes …

Abstract The Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) is a summer visitor in northern,
eastern, and central Europe. Some birds, mostly juveniles and adult females, winter in the …

Delayed maturity and low reproductive rate make raptors naturally sensitive to high mortality
rates, yet a wide variety of human-related threats negatively affect their population dynamics …

Migratory raptors rarely fly over stretches of water larger than 25 km, although different
species undertake water crossings of varying lengths, depending mainly on their wing …

Although there is a general understanding of Montagu's harriers migration routes and
wintering areas, detailed information on the species' migration is still lacking. However …

Illegal hunting is a widespread problem in the Maltese Islands. As well as having a
significant impact on the islands' breeding birds, the illegal hunting of migratory birds has a …

During their migratory journey en route to Africa, European birds face a barrier: the
Mediterranean Sea. Differently from the majority of birds, Accipitriformes use mostly soaring …

Michele Panuccio, Nicolantonio Agostini, Giuseppe Lucia, Ugo Mellone, Stephen Wilson,
Jack Ashton-Booth, Gianpasquale Chiatante, and Simone Todisco (2010) Local weather …

Raptor migration rarely involves long-distance movements across open oceans. One
exception occurs along the East-Asian Oceanic Flyway. We collected migration data at two …