Eagles Migration
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Where do our eagles spend the winter?
Text: Urmas Sellis
Map: Google Earth
Translation: Liis
Our three transmitter-equipped eagles are spending the winter in places so widely apart that it is difficult to show them on the same map:
Greater spotted eagle Tõnn, known to everybody, spends the second winter of his life in Spain, in the El Hondo wetlands. Since he doesn’t move around much, we can assume that things are to his liking there – enough food and not too much disturbance. There is some information about Tõnn’s wintering area on the web site of our Spanish colleagues.
A second greater spotted eagle, who was caught last autumn near Tõnn’s hatching place, has found a warm place for the winter some 3000 km eastwards – on the southern coast of Turkey, in the delta of the Göksü river. Because the DNA sample is not yet analysed the bird is still known as NoName (Nimetu), and we don’t know if he (or she) is related to Tõnn.
Osprey Erika, travelling with her backpack since 2007, chose a new wintering place this year and is now in Sudan, near the Ad Damazin dam, in the middle reaches of the Blue Nile river, not far from the Ethiopian border.
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