Common wintering of black kites (Milvus migrans migrans) in Greece, and new data on their wintering elsewhere in Europe

Slovak Raptor Journal

Hynek Matušík¹  Ivan Literák²  Haralambos Alivizatos³  David Horal⁴ 

[1] 68713 Březolupy 324, Czech Republic.;Corresponding authorDepartment of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Palackého tř. 1, 61242 Brno, Czech Republic.;Hellenic Bird Ringing Center, PO Box 4265, 102 10 Athens, Greece.;Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Regional Office Brno, Kotlářská 51, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic.

关键词: Black kite;    Milvus migrans;    wintering;    migration;    Europe;   

DOI  :  10.1515/srj-2017-0001

学科分类：动物科学

来源: Ochrana Dravcov na Slovensku / Raptor Protection of Slovakia

【 摘 要 】

Black kites of the nominal subspecies Milvus migrans migrans breed in the Western Palearctic and in Central Asia, while the European population is relatively small. The birds winter mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Until 2000 winter observations of black kites were rare in Greece, and also within the tri-point border area of Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. At that time regular wintering of black kites started there. These data and evidence from recent local literature as well as from a number of unpublished data obtained throughout European countries and reviewed in this paper corroborate the impression that numbers of black kites wintering in Europe and the whole Mediterranean area including Turkey are increasing. The reasons considered are climate warming in the area and some negative changes in sub-Saharan Africa in the traditional wintering grounds of black kites. Notes about the wintering of black/red kite hybrids are also added.

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