Bonelli's Eagle Cam - 2011

The Cam is high up and you can see The river Duoro flowing underneath!
There are already two eggs in the nest!
The cam sound is good - prepare to turn it down

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Follow this Link for the Cam

Be aware that this nest is in Spain - so it is 8hrs before Vancouver (or will be when everyone's clocks go forward)

The nest is in the Northern Autonomous communities of Spain - Castilla y León
Map


More Info Here

The numbers of Bonelli have suffered a decline in recent years - taking it from the "Of special Interest" Classification - to "Vulnerable"

This decline has been worse in the Castile and Leon area than in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula.
It has suffered a drop of 80% since 1970. But they have passed a 'Plan of Conservation' in 2006.
There are many reasons for this decline - but it is feared that the electrification of the area is the chief culprit!! Made worse by a deterioration in it's habitat - and diseases of it's chief prey - rabbits and hares!

It is all fully explained at the Cam website - but in Spanish!!

The Bonelli's Eagle (Aquila fasciata) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. It breeds in southern Europe, Africa both north and south of the Sahara Desert and across southern Asia to Indonesia. It is usually a resident breeder which lays 1-3 eggs in a tree or crag nest.

The Bonelli's Eagle is a species of wooded, often hilly, country with some open areas. The African race prefers savannah, forest edges, cultivation, and scrub, provided there are some large trees; this is not a species of very open or densely forested habitats.


The Head (click for bigger)

This is a small to medium - sized eagle at 55–65 cm in length. The upperparts are dark brown, and the underside is white with dark streaks. The wings are relatively short and rounded. The long tail is grey on top and white below and has a single broad black terminal band. The feet and eyes are yellow.

The Bonelli's Eagle takes a wide range of live prey, all taken alive. It usually hunts from cover by a quick dash from inside a tree, but it will also catch prey by quartering hill slopes like other eagles, or make a stoop from a soaring position. Most prey is taken on the ground.


An Adult Bonelli (click for bigger)

This eagle takes large prey items, usually mammals or birds. Mammals up to the size of a hare are regularly taken, and birds up to guineafowl size. The Bonelli's Eagle is usually silent except in display and near the nest. Its fluted klu-kluklu-kluee call is less shrill than that of its near relatives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieraaetus_fasciatus

March16, 2011

Breeding season has begun Bonelli's Eagle :





The camera does not transmit 100 X 100, but does not draw as much noise as last year, Nor do we know the date of commissioning ...

Castor...Wonderful scaps of the two new eggs!! I have asked Pat to start a new thread for us for this cam.

Do we have a link for the cam? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place but I don't see one.

March18, 2011

Thanks Mary, but I do not have time, I will continue reporting on this place,, :hello:

Relay parents, are quite similar. Local time: 10:00.

March19, 2011

Local time: 12:47.

Eggs have been a few minutes to air. Arrival of the parent and contiue with the incubation.

:hello: Wonderful pictures, Castor! Thank you.

Not getting real good reception but I tried.

Current local time: 1:35:17 pm - Date: Saturday 19 March 2011