Field signs. Medium-sized birds of prey. All white plumage (locations, mostly in the head and neck - yellow), mahovye black. Is also a large wedge-shaped tail and bare "person", covered with yellow skin. Young brown. Weight 1,8-2,5 kg, the length of 60-75 cm, wing 48,0-52,0 cm, the magnitude of 155-180 cm (Ryabitsev, 2001). Distribution. Africa, southern Europe and Asia. Several dozen pairs remained in the Caucasus, the kochevkah found in Predkavkaze and extremely rare - in the Altai (Böhme et al, 1998). Registered rare zalety to the Urals and Western Siberia to the middle taiga (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |