WABA, hatched 2022, streamed nest in Karula NP

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

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=11160#p11160 and next
- 19.12.2022, Distance: 9162 km (+ 257 km in 3 days)
- SUDAN: Abu Hamad - River Nile State

NEW data:
- 20.12.2022, Distance: 9181 km (+ 19 km)
- SUDAN: Abu Hamad - River Nile State

Waba flew after night resting on irrigated field (not far from the area of the circle fields) to the south. The path-line is above the town Abu Hamad. Stork has the newest lines near the village Singerab Al Ghireib East in area of the stream and than not far to the east there. I am not sure what kind of stream it is, it seems to be not perennial (year-round).

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from the irrigated fields area closer to the Nile


the pivot irrigation there (19.12 + night 19.12/20.12)

PHOTOhttps://goo.gl/maps/PnqBeMosQoTGK9NFA by Mohamed Omer, image capture Feb 2022

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Waba's path line is very near this place - Khihela: Main pump station

PHOTO https://mapio.net/images-p/22409789.jpg (source https://mapio.net/pic/p-22409789/)

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Waba's newest birdmap localisation is near Singerab Al Ghireib East and this photo is from the other site the Nile river - from the Singerab Al Ghireib West

PHOTO https://goo.gl/maps/ywRYhXbWF5Hizrx78 image capture Dec 2022 by مصعب يس

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I found the name - that stream area is Wadi Al Sheikh (btw. this name is also used in other places)


zoomed view - snip (source: https://www.mogratarchaeology.com/sites ... -Karte.pdf)

reading About Mograt Island and history (Morgat is the largest island in the Nile, belongs to the administration of the Abu Hamed Locality. The booming town of Abu Hamed is located on the northern mainland bank of the Nile) https://www.mogratarchaeology.com/en/ab ... rat-island

btw. on more photos from there (mapio.net) is the name Mathias Ritter (physical geography, author of this map above) - member of the field team 2008 and 2014

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

Previous data: viewtopic.php?p=11168#p11168 and next
- 20.12.2022, Distance: 9181 km (+ 19 km)
- SUDAN: Abu Hamad - River Nile State

NEW data:
- 21.12.2022, Distance: 9308 km (+ 127 km)
- SUDAN: Al Baqer - Khartoum State

Waba flew for night resting not far to the NW. In the morning our stork searched for food in yesterday's place near the village Singerab Al Ghireib East in area of the stream - Wadi Al Sheikh. Waba continued to the south along the river Nile. Mid-flight data are in the area of the 5th Cataract.

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The last position is near the town of Al Baqer

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Cataracts of the Nile

As the Egyptians travelled up the Nile (south in general direction), they came upon a series of nearly impossible to traverse rapids. These rapids were called cataracts.

All of them are distributed along the so-called Great Bend, a section of the Nile where the river veers sharply off-course before turning back towards the Mediterranean. The Great Bend and the cataracts are caused by tectonic uplift, which pushes the Nile off-course along the Nubian Swell, an area of Africa that is extremely geological active.
(https://www.allthingsnature.org/what-ar ... e-nile.htm) or e.g. here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataracts_of_the_Nile

The six cataracts of the Nile (map): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataracts ... _today.png

Another photo of the area the 5th cataract

Created: 30 December 2011 By Fdevillard - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p ... d=25269177

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Shereik area


big PHOTO https://mapio.net/images-p/12049443.jpg https://mapio.net/pic/p-12049443/


big PHOTO https://mapio.net/images-p/12049323.jpg https://mapio.net/pic/p-12049323/

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The government plans to construct more dams in the Main Nile: The Kajbar dam, The Dal dam and the Shereik dam and also the Dagash, Morgat, Shirri and Sabaloka dams are mentioned as future dam projects in the Main Nile.
Proposed dams in the Nile basin (not only in Sudan): https://www.fao.org/3/an529e/an529e.pdf

Sudan plans to build the Shereik Dam on the Nile River at the 5 th Nile cataract
(https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... iver_Sudan)
... the Fifth Cataract is under threat from the plans of construction of the Al-Shereik dam
(https://www.upf.edu/web/cases/current-p ... /maximized)

maybe the newest info (2017): People in northern Sudan submitted a memorandum rejecting the construction of large-scale dams to the Sudanese Parliament on Sunday.


https://archive.internationalrivers.org ... ms_web.jpg)
source: source: https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-new ... scale-dams

2021: Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok abolished plans to build the Dal and Kajbar dams along the Nile River near the border with Egypt after protests from local communities. (source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/20 ... an-culture - the Shereik Dam isn't mentioned here.)