130393 moved across the Red Sea and was first detected in Africa early on 6 November. At 1400 on that day it was near the Sudanese town of Kassala. 13034 also made the jump across the Red Sea and was first detected in Africa at about noon on 7 November, near the coast and near some islands that appear that they might hold breeding sooty falcons (Is there anyone out there that knows about the islands of southern Sudan, and can give us information? Maybe the PERSGA guys?). Its last location was near the town of Afflanda, Sudan.
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| 130393 and 130394 cross the Red Sea into Sudan. |
130395 probably started its migration on 5 November. At 13:32 on 7 November it was located in the middle of the Rub' Al Khali in southern Saudi Arabia.
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| Locations of 130395 up to 7 November |
130397 probably initiated migration on the 7th of November. By early 8 November it was located in the far northeastern corner of Yemen, near the Saudi Arabian border town of Al Kharkir.
We expect to hear from 130396 that it has started to migrate. Its last location was still on the breeding grounds.
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| Movements of 130397 up to 8 November. |
The most recent published info on Sudan come from the 2002 surveys by Shobrak who in the 32003 report to PERSGA reports that "the species occur on all island visited (Shobrak et al. 2002b). This seems (I could not get yet the original 2002 paper) to include the Suakin archipelago and the Mukawwar Islands.
ReplyDeleteBirdLife IBA includes the species also in the Khor Arba'at IBA (1999) quoting Nikolaus (1983, 1984).
Moore & Balzarotti visted the Suakin archipelago in 1976 (mid - May end of June) and described the SF as 'present in many of the off shore islands, but no nest located'. Before that Fiedler(1964) located 8-10 pairs in the Fandjira reef, which i could not locate on a map.
In relation to the Fandjira Reef location... Walter 1979 locates this on a map (pg 20), then in a table as being "Red Sea, north of Port Sudan", but I can't find in on any maps either
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