From: birdatlas <tzbirdatlas@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 2010-02-19 18:52
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Sightings from recent Sunbird tour
just a quick note re Abdim's Stork.
 
there are around 30,000 at Ndutu at the moment (last weekend) and their usual wintering grounds (in significant numbers) are, as we know from sat tagged studies and frequent visits, Shinyanga Region to the south of Lake Victoria. For many their return migration takes them east of the Crater Highlands north through the Rift Valley.
 
Neil
 
----- Original Message -----
From: David Fisher
To: Kenya Birds
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 3:48 AM
Subject: [KENYABIRDSNET] Sightings from recent Sunbird tour

 

From 13 Jan to 3 February I led a Sunbird tour to Kenya in the company of Edwin Selempo.   Here is a summary of some of our more interesting sightings (both negative and positive):

 

No sign of any White Pelicans at Lake Nakuru, and bird numbers generally very low there.

One African Darter resident at Hunter’s Lodge.

c.500 Abdim’s Storks at Lake Jipe (none seen anywhere else).

One 1st-year Egyptian Vulture on the Magadi Road (c.20 km before the lake)

David Fisher

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