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 …

Raptors primarily use soaring-gliding flight which exploits thermals and ridge lifts over land
to reduce energetic costs. However during migration, these birds often have to cross water …

The flight behaviour of Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus was studied at a major migration
bottleneck, the Strait of Gibraltar in southernmost Spain, during the autumns of 2004 to 2007 …

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 …

Flying over the open sea is energetically costly for terrestrial birds. Despite this, over-water
journeys of many birds, sometimes hundreds of kilometres long, are uncovered by bio …

A vast number of raptors migrates between the Western Palearctic and Africa every autumn.
Species and/or populations ofmigratory raptors that choose to cross theMediterranean Sea …

Abstract From 2014 to 2020, 32 black kites from various European countries were tagged
with telemetry devices and tracked to study their spatiotemporal behaviour. Eleven birds …

Abstract The European population of Black Kites of the nominate subspecies Milvus migrans
migrans (Boddaert, 1783) is estimated at 81,200–109,000 pairs. The birds winter in Africa …

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

Separate routes: autumn migration 0f juvenile and adult European Honey-buzzards Pernis
apivorus 7 a synthesis.—The paper prescnts a synthesis on autumn migration 0f European …