Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite
Ostrich
By: B.-U. Meyburg, J.M. Mendelsohn, D. H. Ellis, D.G. Smith, C. Meyburg, and A.C. Kemp
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Abstract
An adult female Wahlberg's Eagle from northern Namibia was tracked by satellite ovcr a total distance of 8816 km and located 104 times between 11 February and 4 November 1994. It migrated on an almost due north heading to northern Cameroon, north-eastern Nigeria and western Chad through the rain forest belt of the Congo and Zaire after the breeding season. The total trans-equatorial distance between the breeding and non-breeding ranges was 3520 km. During the non-breeding season the bird ranged over a large area (ca. 60 000 km2) for about six weeks (29 April - 14 June) in these three countries in a rather nomadic pattern covering a minimum distance of 1256 km. During two further months (14 June - 14 August) it restricted its movements to an area of about 50002 km near Maiduguri in the Sudan savannah of north-eastern Nigeria. The return migration took about two weeks longer than that to the north, which took about a month.
Suggested Citation
Meyburg, B., Mendelsohn, J., Ellis, D.H., Smith, D., Meyburg, C., and Kemp, A., 1995, Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite: Ostrich, v. 66, no. 4, p. 135-140, https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1995.9632720.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite |
| Series title | Ostrich |
| DOI | 10.1080/00306525.1995.9632720 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication Date | October 06, 2010 |
| Year Published | 1995 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| First page | 135 |
| Last page | 140 |
| Country | Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Namibia, Nigeria, Zaire |