The (now three year old) Steppe eagle we have been tracking that started its migration in early September (see last post), has now moved all the way to southern Iraq, about 130 km from the Saudi Arabian border. This bird "went missing" for some days as it crossed through Iran because during that time it did not find GSM network to download its data. Yesterday, about 100 km south of Baghdad, it came within a network and started downloading archived data. As you can see from the map below, it still needs some time to download data from Kazakhstan through Turkmenistan. So far the other Steppe eagle we are tracking has not made a move, and is still in far western Kazakhstan. Visit the blog every so often to see what is happening. Will this bird winter in Oman, like it did last year?
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| Movements of a Steppe eagle during 1 - 21 September 2017. |
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| The tracked eagle on 16 January 2017 |
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