Crane Tom lost his life on the way to Ethiopia

 
 
Young crane Tom, equipped this year with a transmitter, died in Sudan on his way to the wintering grounds in Mid-Ethiopia. In that area more than 50 000 cranes, mostly from Russian territory, spend the winter, and Tom’s precisely established migration route – by the transmitter data - showed that the area isn’t strange to cranes from the North either.
Read and see Tom’s route
Read more in Päevaleht:

English translation of Päevaleht article here: LINK


 

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