This is a general description of what the three birds we fitted with transmitters at Al Jahra have done, and what is their current situation. Soon we will post more details about each bird. This is just a start.
6488 (transmitter number) is a Greater spotted eagle that was caught on 15 January 2020. It stayed at Al Jahra until it started to migrate. It migrated to northwestern Kazakhstan, and spent its summer wandering very widely in northwestern Kazakhstan and southern Russia. It is currently in an area of lakes and rivers SW of the town of Turgay, Kazakhstan. It has been there for a couple of weeks, and it could start migrating at any time. Below is a map showing its locations since it was tagged.
6487 is a Steppe eagle that was fitted with a transmitter on 4 March 2020. Upon release it immediately left Kuwait, and wandered extensively in north-central Saudi Arabia and Iraq before migration north to southern Russia via a route west of the Caspian Sea. It spent the summer wandering in Russia and western Kazakhstan. It started to move in the direction of the wintering areas in August, spent some time in southern Russia, just north of the Caucasus until 12 September, when it started its autumn 2020 migration. Below is a map showing its locations since it was tagged. See our earlier blog post https://kuwaiteagles.blogspot.com/2020/09/steppe-eagle-6487-has-started-to-migrate.html about the start of this bird's migration.
6492 was a juvenile Greater spotted eagle that was caught at Al Jahra on 8 March. It spent the rest of the winter there, and then started on migration on 17 April. Sadly, it apparently died just west of Tehran, were had an unmoving signal for some days that eventually ceased. Below is a map of its movements.
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