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Egyptian Geese in Amoseli National Park

Egyptian Geese in Amoseli National Park

August 14, 2017December 23, 2019 Thomas Suresh Anand 2 Comments

The swamps of Amboseli attract many species of birds to the national park. In fact many of them are full time residents of the park. And one species found in large numbers at the water’s edge feeding on the fresh grass shoots is the Egyptian Goose. This time, we saw a flock of Goslings along […]

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Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

Shot Egyptian vulture leads conservationists to bizarre black-market for bird parts

July 4, 2014December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 5 Comments

Around 11 AM on Thursday, 27 February 2014, Angoulou Enika was lying hidden in the tall grass on the side of a large water hole in the Sahel region of Niger. He was staying as quiet as he could while aiming his custom-made rifle at an Egyptian vulture which had landed nearby to drink from […]

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Arrested ‘spy’ stork killed and eaten after release in Egypt

Arrested ‘spy’ stork killed and eaten after release in Egypt

September 13, 2013December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 2 Comments

The stork that was detained by Egyptian police on suspicion of spying has been killed and eaten, days after its release. Police detained the stork after a man saw a tag on it and caught it, suspecting it was a spying device. The stork had been tagged by zoologists to track its migration. According to […]

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Egypt is the Worst Place to Be a Migratory Bird – Shocking Video

Egypt is the Worst Place to Be a Migratory Bird – Shocking Video

July 22, 2013December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 12 Comments

Next month the killing will begin in earnest. August marks the start of the annual migration of millions of birds from their European breeding areas to their wintering grounds in Africa. Many will fly across the eastern Mediterranean towards Egypt, where they will land, exhausted, on a coast along which hundreds of kilometres of trappers’ […]

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