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A quick question.....where will these youngsters migrate to? And is there a lot known (posted info somewhere????) as to the conditions where they will spend their winter season? Wooded, forrested area?......Seaside area???????....How has the weather been this year in their targeted migratory area (s)? Dry, rainy? Does anyone know where I can get some information? Thank you.

Jo, do you have the slightest idea why birds prefer Sudan?

I have never been there, myself. It must have attractions that I don't yet know about. Sorry, I can't help!

Hi alli, I forgot to say hello to you yesterdy :blush:

I missed it yesterday, but this morning I had the opportunity to watch a similar scene - wing exercises (S8), then only two chicks in the nest. With the utmost probabilty this was no maiden flight, because every now and then a wing tip or tail tip was visible. I post some pictures and a video later. Maybe Macko has recorded the "big moment" yesterday?

Maybe it has something to do with the earth rotation?
And the winds , which are from a different side from the north of the earth to the south?


the only thing I know, is that the storks from Germany find something like a pool of grashoppers in the Sudan. But ospreys?

The Sudd (Arabic سد, sad, "barrier"), also known as the Bahr al Jabal, As Sudd or Al Sudd, is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile. The word “sudd” is derived from the Arabic word “sadd”, meaning “block.” The term has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat. The area which the swamp covers is one of the world's largest wetlands and the largest freshwater wetland in the Nile basin.

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Its size is highly variable, averaging over 30,000 square kilometers. During the wet season it may extend to over 130,000 km², depending on the inflowing waters, with the discharge from Lake Victoria being the main control factor of flood levels and area inundation.

Sudd was designated as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on 5 June 2006.

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The Sudd provides food and water to large populations of migrating birds, with more than 400 species of bird found here including Shoebills, Great White Pelicans, and Black Crowned Cranes. As the surrounding landscape is a large swathe of dry Sahel across Africa the swamp is also a haven for migrating animals, especially antelopes such as the endangered Nile Lechwe, Tiang, Reedbuck, and the world's largest population of White-eared Kob, estimated at around 1.2 million – animal populations comparable to Tanzania's better-known Serengeti National Park. Meanwhile the shallow water is frequented by crocodiles and hippopotami. In more upland areas the Sudd has been known as a historic habitat for the endangered Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus; however, this canid may be extirpated in the region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudd

Hi, Cara!
Actually I'd like to see real pictures in avatars, but its up to every one...
So your real avatar is fine! I have to find for me also some... if find some time.

We with Latvian colleague Janis are going to look after the nest site and if we are lucky, one of parents could get transmitter - sorry for this additional disturbing (we really know that any additional device on bird makes not much happier it), but only so we could see where they travel and what places might be dangerous.
From other side we want to know about the transmitters impact, it is only possible if we look together and express the results. If something will be not well, we can improve our activity in the future. Hope you all understand! At the moment we do our best.

I agree, Cara, don't change your avatar on our account, you have such pretty plumage anyway!

I think the best thing about this osprey cam is that it puts a face (and wings) on the creatures who are so impacted by human affairs - pollution, habitat loss, climate change and sheer carelessness. I've only been watching here for a couple months but I've sent numerous emails with the link to other people, so they will see the beauty, grace and humility of these small creatures that only want to survive.

And the guys who climbed up the tree to set the nest and camera, then climbed up again to ring the chicks - they are heroes! And all the people who support them and even we who watch at home on our computers, expanding the message that we humans are not just spoiling our earth, we're spoiling it for every living thing and we have to work to change that.

How boring life would be without so many creatures of the air, land and sea, so beautifully going about the business of living - it would be a great tragedy to lose any of them, and it is a tragedy that we have already lost some, forever.

Okay you get the picture, I'm done preaching for the night.


Hi Urmas! Great work so far! Thank you!

They are so beautiful even though they blend in so beautifully to a bunch of old sticks.


Don't you just wonder what the danger is? Maybe a WTE stealing a fish from Madis or...