WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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the Dam Workers Town https://goo.gl/maps/FfG323sVvfazCXWb7

wider view

PHOTO https://arabsdg.unescwa.org/sites/defau ... 14-1_0.jpg,
source: https://arabsdg.unescwa.org/en/node/3198

the Merowe DAm image capture Nov 2020 https://goo.gl/maps/SCXNehyS53yKCC7U9

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the Power Station https://goo.gl/maps/koifswkCuEShqa8P7


PHOTO https://tractebel-engie.com/files/attac ... Fig_01.jpg
source: https://tractebel-engie.be/en/reference ... ower-plant

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Our Black stork calendar can be downloaded here viewtopic.php?p=11142#p11142.

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December 19
Hello everyone

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

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=11135#p11135 and next
- 16.12.2022, Distance: 8905 km (+ 216 km in 3 days)
- SUDAN: Merowe - Northern State

NEW data:
- 19.12.2022, Distance: 9162 km (+ 257 km in 3 days)
- SUDAN: Abu Hamad - River Nile State

Waba continued to the north, stork followed the river Nile. Newest localisation is (in flight - mid-flight data) above the fields north from the town Abu Hamad - between DAL Abu Hamad farm (circle irrigated fields) to the east and one village named Kavtrah Oasis to the west.

Abu Hamad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hamad): is a town on the right bank of the Nile, north of Khartoum. It stands at the centre of the great S-shaped bend of the Nile, and from it the railway to Wadi Halfa strikes straight across the Nubian Desert, a little west of the old caravan route to Korosko.
The Battle of Abu Hamed, a part of the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan, took place near the town on 7 August 1897 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Abu_Hamed

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Waba spent the night from 17 to 18 December in the north of Merowe resevoir. Morning 18.12. continued to the northeast and north, along the course of the Nile River


Waba flew as far as the city of Nileside West and spent the night north of the city in the irrigation fields.


19.12. Waba continued east. The last position is north of the city of Abu Hamad.

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the night resting place 18./19.12 (most probably on the electricity pylon)


- in that area is a branch of the national railway network to Merowe (the railway from Abu Hamad to Wadi Halfa strikes straight across the Nubian Desert)



Railway station No10

source: https://mapio.net/pic/p-9417883/

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view on that area (Station No10) from one air-plain (the blue symbol)

source: https://mapio.net/pic/p-19723938/

photo to the right (StationNo10) - in the previous post

photo to the left

source: https://mapio.net/pic/p-9418199/

more tomorrow morning

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not far from Waba's newest localisation is street view (the second - the blue dot to the north - don't work)




STREET VIEW (you can rotating and zooming the view) https://goo.gl/maps/xCXad1uveLiejsHP7 image capture Aug 2021 by Jean-Paul Skoczylas

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Sudan wants to ‘turn the desert green’ in agricultural modernisation push
Andres Schipani in Abu Hamad January 26 2021

very nice view on the irrigated fields there - big PHOTO click (because copyright)
https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/im ... &width=700

... this massive agricultural oasis lies in the Nubian Desert in northeastern Sudan on the right bank of the Nile, in circles of grassland sprayed 22 hours a day by centre pivot irrigation systems ... Step outside each grass field, and the desert stretches to Egypt.
(source: https://www.ft.com/content/e43b4f67-c78 ... 41618e93ae,

As of 5/7/2022 - the rightmost pivots were recently installed. To the left are gold mines and villages built for those displaced by the Merowe dam. (https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/ ... 11/page-44)


Main Nile, Right Bank. Food security scheme canal near Abu Hamad

https://flic.kr/p/dW5iAH taken on November 22, 2008, © Neil Munro, UNEP - UN Environment Programme

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I knew that Marika would find something interesting about this area .
Turning the desert into an agricultural area is quite an ambitious plan, but probably unsustainable in the long run ...

Anyway Marika, thanks for the pictures and article links. Great job Marika : !