Dear Marleen,
Thanks a lot for your communication. Of most interesting is how much information we may missing on our common birds. You observations on Marabou Storks is quite interesting. I have carried out some point counts observations in Mombasa last year especially with interest on House sparrow population effects on native sparrows. I realize that the indian house crows and house sparrows could be pushing most of the common birds out of the area. this could be birds birds without much alternation feeding and breeding preferences. We might have realized the lose of the pied crow in town because it is colourful and large size, but what of other smaller birds and less colourful like the Marabou? Birders are encouraged to share any birding data which can be of great help.
Thank you so much.
Best regards,
Titus Imboma
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On Sun, 1/27/13, Don Reid <donreid@africaonline.co.ke> wrote:
From: Don Reid <donreid@africaonline.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Are Marabous and Egrets and and Sacret Ibis safe
To: kenyabirdsnet@yahoogroups.com, "Titus Imboma" <timboma@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2013, 12:57 AM
Dea Titus
Have been reading about the Marabous in Nbi.
Do hope the ones you ringed are safe now.
One point of interest about Marabous which I have
run past several people with no positive comment is that we never see a Marabou
in Mombasa. There are a couple of tame ones at Haller Park but think they
were introduced. Considering the huge amounts of rubbish we have here I
wonder why that is? There are certainly lots in Lamu, not so certain about
Malindi, don't remember seeing any. In over 30 years have never seen one
in Mombasa or in its environs.
Sacred Ibis are the very numerous on dump
sites.
Marlene Reid
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:50
AM
Subject: [KENYABIRDSNET] Are Marabous and
Egrets and and Sacret Ibis safe
Hi Birders,
Happy New year. Following last years
road construction work in Nairobi a number of birds were displaced due
to lose of nesting sites( yellow-backed acacia tree) were destroyed.
More affected were the juvenile Marabou Storks. Thank to Sofi Walker (
staff at KSPES), who saved the young storks on her garden and eventually
released them safe to the wild when they attained right age to fly.
Before the birds were released she invited us to ring them with plastic
rings, orange and green. Are these birds safe? do they have a
place to nest or do they make local migration? Common birds may
not be that common every where. We can also use them to monitor both
ecological and infrastructural ( Konza City, super high ways etc)
changes within the environment. Any one out there that happens to
see these birds please let us know so that we can at least monitor their
success in the wild. A total of 20 birds were ringed. Attached are some
photos.
Best regards and Happy birding.
Titus
Imboma
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