Sooty Falcons in Tanzania

Two of our sooty falcons are now in southern Tanzania فحل Fahal is about 250 km from the coast, and ديماني Daymani is located between Lake Malawi and Lake Rukwa.  If they keep up this pace they will arrive in Madagascar a full month before birds from last year.

Locations of two sooty falcons in late November 2014.

It doesn't look so good for our other tagged birds.  عويسي Owaisi was last heard on 6 November in southern Ethiopia.   قبس Qabas, جناح, Janah and Ivato are all sending static signals from southern Ethiopia-northern Kenya.  We are hoping that colleagues in these areas might help us find the tags/birds and determine the fate of the birds. Without trying to speculate, most of our birds/tags have gone "missing" in East Africa.  The only bird whose fate is precisely known is one that was shot in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010.