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Tõnn, our young greater spotted eagle from western Estonia, is looking for a wintering place and arrived in France on October 26th. The greater urge to migrate has obviously passed, and now there's time to calmly look around. When the weather isn't favorable for flying, then Tõnn dines on French mouse meat in the pastures and fields. The last data from November 8th puts Tõnn 200 km from the German border. Tõnn has spent the last four days in about one square kilometer of field. It looks like this on the Google map:

We get the same sort of picture if we enlarge the map below. Each location is a "sitting point," or, in other words, where the bird did not fly during the time period. Tõnn is no longer under the watch of our German colleagues, but French eagle conservationists are showing interest in him. Our French colleagues tell us that greater spotted eagles have wintered in their country during the past twenty years. So perhaps the place is in Tõnn's genes…
Tõnn's journey from Estonia to France's Haute-Marne region can be seen on the map below:

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