About a month ago Ivato made his big push north to the horn of Africa. For the last month he has been moving within a relatively narrow band around 4 degrees N, mostly in western Somalia. At times he moved so little that we feared he had died. However, on 29 April Ivato headed north and on 1 May was about 460 km north in SE Ethiopia south of the city of
Jijinga.
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| Ivato's movements during 22 April - 1 May 2014. |
The bird we marked as a juvenile in Oman in 2013 seemed also to hear the call for migration at the same time as Ivato did. On 29 April it started moving north, and currently (1 May) is on the Madagascar west coast about 100 km north of
Morondava. Like Ivato, this bird's movements over the past month have been in a limited area, but in its case it was in southern Madagascar, almost 3000 km south of Ivato's location.
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| 130393's movements during 15 April - 1 May 2014. |
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