I only realized today that we had not posted anything for a while. Sorry.
Well, its a bit of good news and (apparent) bad news. Here's the bad news.
143581 has gone missing. It last transmitted on 4 February from a location just north of Ibra. We waited some time hoping that we would get some transmission, but nothing yet. The Environment Society of Oman sent one of their field biologists to investigate, but found nothing (which isn't entirely surprising), So, we hope to mount a bigger effort in the near future to try to find out what happened. Below is a map of the bird's movements between 30 January and 4 February.
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| Movement of 143581 during 30 January - 4 February 2015 |
The good news is that 143580 appears to be doing fine. Since the end of January it has moved north and has been moving regularly between the Muscat municipal rubbish dump at Al Multaqa and the Al Amerat area of Muscat. In Al Amerat it has been perching frequently on the high voltage powerline pylons. In recent days it has been spending some time near Al Hajar in Wadi Aday.
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| Movement of 143580 during 30 January - 19 February 2015. |
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