Israel is one of the most important bird migration bottlenecks in the world. Twice a year, when the call of warmer climes springs nature into action, an estimated 500 million birds make their spectacular odyssey: amongst them, the entire global populations of Lesser Spotted Eagles (~100,000) and Levant Sparrowhawks (~60,000), the entire European population of […]
Tag: stork
All-Women ‘Army’ Protecting Rare Bird in India
On a cloudy day in July, in a remote village in northeastern India, Charu Das excitedly imitates the awkward movements of a stork with her hands. In a few months, the greater adjutant stork—called hargilla, which means “swallower of bones” in Sanskrit—will descend on this hamlet, situated in Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley, to breed in large […]
Arrested ‘spy’ stork killed and eaten after release in Egypt
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 […]
Egypt’s ‘spying’ stork and other incidents of animal espionage
A swan has been detained in Egypt on suspicion of being a spy. Except it looks – in pictures released by the Egyptian authorities, who kept referring to it as a “swan” – like a stork. Perhaps it was wearing a disguise. The bird, allegedly working for the French government, was captured in a heroic […]
Cigüeñas y Tuyuyúes
Me olvidé de compartir estas dos fotos que las tenía editadas en otra carpeta, las fotos son de nuestra visita a la Unidad de conservación Cambyretá y se transpapelaron cuando hice el backup de los archivos; me pareció simpática la actitud de las dos Cigüeñas del primer plano ya que estaban atentas en todo momento […]