WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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Photo Olivier Morice 1/2009 https://goo.gl/maps/jQmDH5AEqVxhPxqC9


more pictures of the Nuri Pyramids:
Santiago Cordero 1/2014 https://goo.gl/maps/jf4NCATCr34zvv4d7

Street View – apr 2017 https://goo.gl/maps/EjcaC98p4iJxEUaC6

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November 15
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Birdmap update for WABA https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1

Previous data: (viewtopic.php?p=10916#p10916 and next)
- 12.11.2022, Distance: 7442 km (+ 28 km)
- SUDAN: Karima - Northern State

NEW data (update in the very late evening):
- 14.11.2022, Distance: 7451 km (+ 9 km in 2 days)
- SUDAN: Karima - Northern State
names: Kareima, Karemah, Karima, Karêmah, Kuraymah - on the google map we see Kuraymah Barkal
on the opposite site is Nuri

Waba stayed in the same area



more Adriána as always

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Waba rests in the same place

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and the third day moves in the same place

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Birdmap update for WABA https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=10936#p10936
- 14.11.2022, Distance: 7451 km (+ 9 km in 2 days)
- SUDAN: Karima - Northern State

NEW data: (update in the very late evening)
- 15.11.2022, Distance: 7462 km (+ 11 km )
- SUDAN: Karima - Northern State
names: Kareima, Karemah, Karima, Karêmah, Kuraymah - on the google map we see Kuraymah Barkal
on the opposite site is Nuri

Waba stayed in the same area

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Today's flight is determined by burgundy arrows


Waba rested a little further south than in previous days

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November 16
Hello everyone


Birdmap update for WABA https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=10936#p10936
- 15.11.2022, Distance: 7462 km (+ 11 km)
- SUDAN: Karima - Northern State

NEW data: (update 16.11.in the midday)
- 15.11.2022, Distance: 7510 km (+ 48 km)
- SUDAN: Karima - Northern State
names: Kareima, Karemah, Karima, Karêmah, Kuraymah - on the google map we see Kuraymah Barkal
on the opposite site is Nuri

Waba stayed in the same area. Waba flew north, made a trip to Merowe Reservoir and returned.

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some PHOTOS of the dam already here viewtopic.php?p=10774#p10774

Cut off the first long river, China recreates miracles in Africa
Seetao 2022-08-16
The Merowe Dam is the largest hydropower project in Africa and is known as Sudan's "Three Gorges Project"
https://www.seetao.com/details/176654.html - interesting reading and photos

The course of the Nile in northern Sudan follows a contorted path through bedrocks, creating the Great Bend. Few years ago, the satellite images showed a fertile strip of land with villages, where paleochannels of the river hosted many fields with cultivations and archaeological sites. Now, a huge part of this valley is under the waters of Merowe Dam reservoir. Comparing the images of the region before and after the dam gates were closed, we can see that the reservoir created itself through flooding the paleochannels.
source: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. (2010). Merowe Dam and the inundation of paleochannels of the Nile. - https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.4911.pdf

Waba's trip to the dam and back - parallel to the west bank of the Nile

The Nile downstream the Merowe Dam, Sudan

https://flic.kr/p/QnMBAV - Taken in July 2014 by Peter Prokosch, resp. big PHOTO https://farm1.staticflickr.com/502/3175 ... 94a2_b.jpg (source: https://www.grida.no/resources/1692)

next wider view on that area
Merowe Dam, Nile River, Republic of the Sudan (NASA, International Space Station Science, 10/05/10)

https://flic.kr/p/8MVU12 Taken on October 5, 2010 by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Waba visited the Merove Dam area

"The Merowe Dam, also known as Merowe High Dam, Merowe Multi-Purpose Hydro Project or Hamdab Dam, is a large dam near Merowe Town in northern Sudan, about 350 kilometres (220 mi) north of the capital Khartoum. Its dimensions make it the largest contemporary hydropower project in Africa. It is situated on the river Nile, close to and inundating the 4th Cataract where the river divides into multiple smaller branches with large islands in between. Merowe is a city about 40 kilometres (25 mi) downstream from the construction site at Hamdab. The main purpose for building the dam was the generation of electricity. " (mapio net)