by M. McGrady, A. Spalton, F. AlLamki, B. Meyburg
It took a while, but 183 seems to have finally started its migration. Just to remind you, 183 is a 5 yr old Steppe eagle that we caught in Salalah, Oman in January 2019. It spent the summer of 2019 in western Kazakhstan, then during winter of 2019-20 settled at a rubbish dump in central Saudi Arabia. The rather large number of tagged eagles that either wintered at that rubbish dump or passed through lead us to visit the site. What we found was the largest winter aggregation of Steppe eagles in the world... between 4.5 and 9% of the total world population. You can read about that site in the free issue of Sandgrouse (click here), the journal of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.
183 is the last of the Steppe eagles we are tracking to start migration this spring. Some are already on the summering locatons. More about that later... Below is a map of the movements of 183 since 1 December 2019. Bon voyage!
It took a while, but 183 seems to have finally started its migration. Just to remind you, 183 is a 5 yr old Steppe eagle that we caught in Salalah, Oman in January 2019. It spent the summer of 2019 in western Kazakhstan, then during winter of 2019-20 settled at a rubbish dump in central Saudi Arabia. The rather large number of tagged eagles that either wintered at that rubbish dump or passed through lead us to visit the site. What we found was the largest winter aggregation of Steppe eagles in the world... between 4.5 and 9% of the total world population. You can read about that site in the free issue of Sandgrouse (click here), the journal of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East.
183 is the last of the Steppe eagles we are tracking to start migration this spring. Some are already on the summering locatons. More about that later... Below is a map of the movements of 183 since 1 December 2019. Bon voyage!
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| Movements of a 5 yr old Steppe eagle that wintered near Shaqrah, Saudi Arabia during 2019-20. |
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