World Migratory Bird Day is tomorrow! For more than ten years now, World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) has raised awareness about the need for conservation of migratory birds and their habitats, about the threats they face, their ecological importance, and about the need for international cooperation to conserve them. Every year people across the planet take action and organize public events such as bird festivals, education programmes, exhibitions and bird-watching excursions to celebrate WMBD. Although the main day for the international celebrations is 10 May, but activities can also be undertaken at any time of the year when the regional peak of migrations is best.
The Steppe Eagles we have been tracking from Oman have been "celebrating" WMBD for some time now, as they make their own migrations. Below is a map of their movements since they have left Oman. Currently, one is in far western Kazakhstan and the other was in northern Turkmenistan when it was last heard on 22 April. We may not hear from the bird last heard in Turkmenistan for a while because its transmitter uploads data via the GSM network, and it is likely that there will be no network in many of the places it might visit this summer. We'll have to see. When it does find a network, it will dump the archived data, and fill in the gaps.
Anyway, Happy WMBD!
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| Northward migration of two Steppe eagles fitted with transmitters in Oman in early 2017. |
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