Winter spatial distribution of threatened acridivorous avian predators: Implications for their conservation in a changing landscape

The Montagu's Harrier (MH) and the Lesser Kestrel (LK) are two threatened raptors overwintering in the Sahel. To ensure their conservation, it is essential to gain better knowledge on their winter ecology in order to predict their spatial distribution and estimate their respective population sizes. Combining information on raptors, their prey and habitats, collected over the 2009e2013 period in a 17,000 km 2