Migración e invernada del Halcón de Eleonora (Falco eleonorae Gené, 1839; falconidae): ¿qué hemos aprendido con el seguimiento por satélite?

Resumen

In recent years, satellite tracking has enabled to get new important insights into several aspects of bird's migration, one of the most unknown aspects of birds' ecology. In the last years, we have studied the migration and wintering of satellite tracked Eleonora's falcons (Falco eleonorae Gen, 1839) tagged during the breeding season at Balearic and Columbretes Islands. In autumn, Eleonora's falcons migrated following inland routes along Africa. Birds arrived into Africa flying over the Mediterranean Sea directly from the breeding colonies, and then crossed the Sahara Desert, the Sahel region,