WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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Re: WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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Morning 29.10. Waba continued south around the coast to the southernmost tip of the Sinai Peninsula, where storklet decided to fly across the Gulf of Suez over the Shadwan Island.

Shadwan Island
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Re: WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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October 30
Hello everyone :-)

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

Previous data: (viewtopic.php?p=10744#p10744 and next)
- 29.10.2022 (mid-flight data), Distance: 5857 km ( + 136 km)
- EGYPT: Gulf of Suez (direction Hurghada - a city in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt)

NEW data:
- 29.10.2022, Distance: 6002 km (+ 145 km) - whole day: 281 km
- EGYPT: to the west from the city El Qoseir (a city in eastern Egypt, located on the Red Sea coast), Red Sea Governnorate
(above the Eastern Desert)

Waba crossed the Gulf of Suez :-). It seems our juvenile stork flies to Ethiopia - we will see, fingers crossed!

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Re: WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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continuation
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desert forest
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Re: WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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birdmap update for 31.10.

NO new data
Last data: 29.10. - viewtopic.php?p=10759#p10759
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Re: WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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November 01
Hello everyone :-)

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

Previous data: (viewtopic.php?p=10759#p10759 and next)
- 29.10.2022, Distance: 6002 km (+ 145 km) - whole day: 281 km
- EGYPT: to the west from the city El Qoseir (a city in eastern Egypt, located on the Red Sea coast), Red Sea Governnorate

NEW data:
- 01.11.2022 (mid-flight), Distance: 6910 km (+ 908 km) in two and a half days
- SUDAN: Merowe Dam - Northern State

Waba flew further south through Egypt and Sudan.

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continuation

Waba continued south through the territory of Egypt. The night of 30.10. on 31.10. spent in the mountains of the Al Shalateen desert, in the governorate Al-Bahr al-Ahmar, located between the Nile River and the Red Sea.


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Al Shalateen Desert
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Re: WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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continuation

31.10. Waba continued further south and rested for the night in a small mountain in Sudan, north of the city of Abu Hamad.

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continuation

1.11. Waba continued south-west, past the Nile River and the Merowe Reservoir and stopped (foraging?) at the Merowe Dam.
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Merowe Dam
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(I always worry when the last known location is near power poles - power lines)

the newest localisation is not far from that view on the Dam Workers Town (more to the right/east)
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The Merowe Dam on the Nile in Dar al-Manasir, Nubia - northern Sudan
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