Interesting or Unusual Behaviour

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A sad end to a beautiful bird, but the benefits of 20 years worth of tracking this bird are just incredible...

Notice how its migratory routes may vary from year to year, but that it always chooses to stick to land and, at no point does it ever cross large expanses of water...

This map shows the movement of an Eagle over a twenty year period . It had the tracker fitted in Russia and it finally died twenty years later in the Valley of the Child in Saudi Arabia.It is very interesting to see just how far this Eagle travelled over its twenty years of life and the great distances it travelled crossing many countries . Also what is interesting to note is the way in which it avoided crossing the sea .You can clearly see where it took the longest route just to stay flying over land.Many many species of birds spend their whole lives flying over the sea but one thing is for sure and that is that this Eagle certainly avoided crossing the sea.

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Very interesting indeed

It’s amazing how their GPS system works and they know exactly where to fly


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Twenty years :shock: Sounds like a reasonable life span for an eagle -O-

An eagle which has seen a piece of the world from up there, impressive O/\ Also interesting to see, that it did not always follow the same route. No doubt that it did not like the seas lol

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It also didn't seem to like Iran! lol


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Right! lol


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Flutterby wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:30 am It also didn't seem to like Iran! lol
I wonder why lol


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Excellent story, Flutts! :ty:


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This is cool: mating display of a red-crested korhaan

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It does have a red crest lol lol \O


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Re: Interesting or Unusual Behaviour

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:-0 What a hoot O\/ , although some human courtship rituals are equally, uhm...uhm...eye-roll-worthy :O^ :O^

Also find the migration entry astonishing ^Q^ ^Q^ Thanks for posting both :ty: :ty:


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