WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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the changing area


However, our euphoria and new hopes were undercut by the reality of the new face of Affad, which we found in November 2018. Industrial farms, perfectly visible today even on satellite images, are being established in many parts of Sudan, previously beyond the reach of traditional agriculture. Unfortunately, also the river terraces in Affad were divided into plots, plowed with bulldozers, and the picturesque dunes - transported away by trucks. Our pitches ceased to exist in just a few weeks, despite marking them with metal poles and assuring us of their safety. Also for Affad, 2018 was a breakthrough - we lost that part of the archaeological heritage that is usually not visible. It is not marked by ruins covered with hieroglyphs or even stone mounds of graves.

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(PHOTO https://archeosudan.org/wp-content/uplo ... 80x960.jpg, source: https://archeosudan.org/2018-rok-przelomu/)

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

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=11063#p11063 and next
- 03.12.2022, Distance: 8451 km (+ 58 km in 3 day)
- SUDAN: Goshabi - Affat, Northern State

NEW data:
- 04.12.2022, Distance: 8478 km km (+ 27 km)
- SUDAN: Goshabi - Affat, Northern State

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Waba is located near the well-known archaeological site Affad 23. A few interesting facts about him:
The archaeozoological and geomorphological data published thus far (Osypinski, Osypinska, and Gautier 2011;Osypinska and Osypinski 2016) from sites in the southeastern zone of the Affad Basin (AFD23, AFD111, and AFD24) have pointed to the exploitation of periodically flooded riparian forests during the Late Pleistocene, with their characteristic mammalian species, primarily hippopotamus, kob antelope, cane rat, and buffalo, as well as crocodile and fish, mainly catfish. There were also animals such as chlorocebus, oribi, and dik-dik associated, albeit indirectly, with the flood zone, which inhabited an area of wooded grasslands (Table 1). ...
more info https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 016-9220-4





https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... /figures/2

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https://archeosudan.org/sezon-wykopalis ... ien-2017/#

Animal Exploitation and Behaviour of the Latest Middle Stone Age Societies in the Middle Nile Valley: Archaeozoological and Taphonomic Analysis of Late Pleistocene Fauna from the Affad Basin, Sudan

https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... /figures/3

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December 07
Hello everyone

Birdmap update for WABA https://birdmap.5dvision.ee/EN/2022/aut ... =0&speed=1
(yesterday - very late evening)

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=11078#p11078 and next
- 04.12.2022, Distance: 8478 km (+ 27 km)
- SUDAN: Goshabi - Affat, Northern State

NEW data:
- 07.12.2022, Distance: 8539 km (+ 61 km in 3 days)
- SUDAN: Goshabi - Affat, Northern State

Waba made a trip to Nizeiza, but most of the lines are in the area of circular irrigated fields. Our stork has its main localisation on the island El Fung, where Waba searches for food on the eastern side of the island (shallow areas) and spends the night not far north of this place on the coast of the Nile.



(there are some differences in local names on the maps)

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Dr. Marta Osypinska - archaeological project Affad 23:
Graduated from the Institute of Archeology of the University of Warsaw. She wrote her diploma and doctoral theses (2009) under the supervision of the founder of the Polish School of Archaeozoology, prof. dr hab. Alicja Lasota-Moskalewska, at the Department of Bioarchaeology. Since 2007, he has been an employee of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he is an assistant professor in the Laboratory of Bio- and Archaeometry and in the Group for the Research of Prehistory of Africa. Since 2000, he has been continuously conducting archaeological research in Sudan (Southern Dongola Reach Survey, Banganarti, Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project - IV Cataract on the Nile, El-Zuma, Stara Dongola, Selib) and Egypt (Berenik, Nabta Playa). Currently, he is the only archaeozoologist working in Sudan, who is engaged in the research of domestic animals in historical times (Kingdoms of Nubia: Kush, Meroe, Makuria). since 2010 In the second year, he also studies the field of African paleontology with leading experts in this field: prof. Achilles Gautier and Wim Van Neer. Author of numerous speeches and publications on the history of animal use, their economic importance in the development of the Nubian kingdoms, and animal iconography in the Sudan and Egypt.
https://www.ncn.gov.pl/finansowanie-nau ... /osypinska
Photo Marta Osypińska

Mesosoic inselbergs - landscape of the Affad Basin northern fringe

https://archeosudan.org/en/

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there are more photos

photo 1
https://goo.gl/maps/GjgoKGTauq15J1v89 image capture Feb 2022 by محمد التاج

photo 2
https://goo.gl/maps/3AkQnJAFHLW8PddDA image capture Feb 2022 by حمد التاج

little wider view on that area

PHOTO https://goo.gl/maps/sdrRfHJtHCFaXPxM6 image capture Feb 2022 by محمد التاج

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photos of the Ganetti area


PHOTO https://goo.gl/maps/sWcBdc2Su32hdyjeA image capture Jul 2022 by mnaan hafeez


PHOTO https://goo.gl/maps/JR298VcwphrwLQ5i6 image capture Jul 2022 by mnaan hafeez