First, we have had on the ground follow up of lost signals for two of our birds:. 13039, which disappeared near Bishah, Saudi Arabia on 14 November and 13039, which disappeared near Mombasa, Kenya on 17 December. In both cases the on-the-ground teams found no sign of the birds... which is not too surprising. However, such follow up is important and we are grateful to our cooperators on the ground. We are still receiving a signal from a bird that apparently went down in eastern Ethiopia on in late November.
Second...our Omani team is on its way to Madagascar to conduct field work with the Peregrine Fund there. This work is being part-funded by the Convention on Migratory Species. In October, under the same project, Malagasy biologists were in Oman during the sooty falcon breeding season (see earlier post), and helped fit the satellite tags to falcons. Plans for the project are to fit another satellite tag to a wintering sooty falcon, conduct surveys, and collect data on sooty falcons that we catch. We are hoping to make some blog posts during the field work, so visit this site often over the next three weeks, and see what we are up to.
Third... 130393 is still alive and moving around in southern Madagascar. It is currently just south of Lake Ihotry near the west coastal town of Morombe.
Second...our Omani team is on its way to Madagascar to conduct field work with the Peregrine Fund there. This work is being part-funded by the Convention on Migratory Species. In October, under the same project, Malagasy biologists were in Oman during the sooty falcon breeding season (see earlier post), and helped fit the satellite tags to falcons. Plans for the project are to fit another satellite tag to a wintering sooty falcon, conduct surveys, and collect data on sooty falcons that we catch. We are hoping to make some blog posts during the field work, so visit this site often over the next three weeks, and see what we are up to.
Third... 130393 is still alive and moving around in southern Madagascar. It is currently just south of Lake Ihotry near the west coastal town of Morombe.
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| Movements of 130393 during 31 Jan - 9 Feb 2014 |
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