tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44983878897539993292024-03-16T01:09:01.258+00:00Northern Bald IbisConservation of the last viable wild population in the worldSEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-41726603764738758692018-06-14T01:01:00.001+01:002018-06-14T01:01:04.548+01:00Birds of Morocco: Stone-curlew كروانImadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05395535189714954664noreply@blogger.com74tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-52092877315504866652015-11-21T11:21:00.000+00:002015-12-02T11:30:08.275+00:00Record breeding success for Critically Endangered Northern Bald Ibis
By Shaun Hurrell, Fri, 20/11/2015 - 07:00
Read it on http://www.birdlife.org
The Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita has had an eventful and turbulent relationship with humans that has resulted in a graph of its population decline that matches its iconic red down-curved beak.
But latest breeding successes resulting from work of BirdLife Partners and the SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com106tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-23431543987175999472015-05-27T10:51:00.000+01:002015-05-27T12:07:59.766+01:00NBI situation in Siria
Read it at http://www.ibtimes.com/
A rare bird in Syria is at risk of extinction after Palmyra, one of the country’s most ancient cities, was captured by the Islamic State group earlier this month, BBC reported, citing experts. The bird, called the northern bald ibis, was declared extinct in Syria over 70 years ago until seven of them were found near the city of Palmyra in 2002.
Despite beingJorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11798879076978750701noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-35308186170801789952015-01-31T12:07:00.000+00:002015-05-27T12:07:24.285+01:002014 breeding season results: New record
As a regular task of the wardens employed by BirdLife in coordination with Souss Massa National park, monitoring of the colonies is essential to evaluate the evolution of the population
Regular
monitoring of the population produced the following results:
SMNP
TAMRI
SMNP & TAMRI
Site A
Site F
Site E
Total
Pairs
SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-31811194936678251042014-03-21T14:48:00.000+00:002014-08-27T11:49:10.596+01:00Ibis gets royal visit
By Claire Thompson, Fri, 21/03/2014 - 10:14HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco recently visited Souss Massa National Park, Morocco, home to the largest remaining wild population of Northern Bald Ibis.Accompanied by representatives from SEO/BirdLife (BirdLife in Spain), GREPOM (BirdLife in Morocco), and key staff from the National Park, the Prince visited the cliffs where the colonies of this SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-58269828404290821122014-02-21T09:27:00.000+00:002014-02-21T12:31:23.329+00:00Still some hope for Eastern NBI population
From Chris Bowden, RSPB
Our trusted fieldworker in Ethiopian highlands, Yilma Abebe, with some RSPB support, managed to spend three days at the site where the relict Syrian birds mainly overwintered - and reported this week that three adult northern bald ibis! These included the female Zenobia who had previously been paired to Odeinat (who disappeared over a year ago in Saudi Arabia). SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-78248542331050701972014-01-16T12:37:00.001+00:002014-01-16T14:06:27.659+00:00NBI shows why birds fly in V
Many bird species have developped refined
flying strategies drawing an almost perfect V in flight. It has been traditionally
assumed that this tactic minimizes energy costs, but until now, there was
not enough scientific evidence to explain how it works.
A team from Austria, Germany
and United Kingdom
has shown how NBI individuals have developed a range of phasing strategies in
SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-74762191483948829982013-09-30T16:10:00.000+01:002013-12-09T10:09:31.919+00:00NBI at Sidi Kaouki
A dozen NBI has been spotted by the coast of Sidi Kaouki, South of Essaouira during several weeks last February. Sylvie Brignon, provided us the information and the pictures.
This is the biggest group recorded outside the known breeding and wintering area around Massa and Tamri.
Photo, Sylvie Brignon
The furthermost location of Aylal has been by the CommuneSEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-91567467119397231522013-08-28T12:55:00.000+01:002013-09-02T12:43:44.741+01:002013 breeding results
I. Introduction:
In the framework of the National Species Action Plan for Northern Bald Ibis, Geronticus eremita, prepared in 2008 by HCEFLCD (High Commission for Water and Forest and Fight against Desertification) with its partners, monitoring NBI is one of the main aspects to follow population dynamics. Collected data are essential to take any decision to manage the last viable NBI SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com95tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-3347093936596281392013-08-15T11:49:00.000+01:002013-09-12T11:56:47.136+01:00Kelaynack flies south
(from BirdLife Community)
Following a successful breeding season for the semi-wild Northern Bald Ibis population at Birecik, Turkey, six of the birds were released as part of trial re-introductions work in late July. A dedicated team first caught up all the birds for the annual ringing/check of the birds at the Birecik ‘Kelaynak’ breeding station run by the Turkish Ministry of Nature SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-87278234164760719182013-06-23T08:27:00.000+01:002013-06-24T10:01:02.411+01:00NBI and people
Teo Todorov took this beautiful picture of some NBI searching for food in the southern part of Souss Massa National Park in April, 2009.
This kind of sights is easy to observe in SMNP and surroundings, where NBI frequent cultures, fallows and pasture lands, not far from people.
SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-53079893581969714312013-06-01T11:05:00.000+01:002013-07-25T11:30:55.499+01:00Breeding finish at Tamri
Aylal has left the colony on May 15th.
It has been around Tamri since the beginning of February.
It’s installed in the central part of SMNP.
The colonies in the Park have still chicks due to the gap between nesting in Tamri and in Massa.
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The events in Syria fill us with great sadness and grief. In spite of the crisis, the local team has continued to monitor the ibis, and has reported the sad news that only one of the Northern Bald Ibis has returned to the breeding site at Palmyra this spring. Unfortunately, there are no signs of any more birds so far returning from their migration to Ethiopia. The returning female Zenobia&SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-63302210776945224872013-04-14T13:07:00.000+01:002013-05-17T13:41:40.951+01:00Sexual dimorphism
As in most waders, sexes in NBI are similar in plumage, although males are generally larger than females. For instance, males have slightly longer wings than females (403-420 vs. 390-408 mm). As with other ibises that breed in colonies, males have also longer beaks.
Photo Brian Stone
Babbitt et al. (2007) made an analysis of sexual dimorphism in ibises. Using all 16 species SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-47344237145679546852013-04-01T08:56:00.000+01:002013-07-09T09:11:28.580+01:00NBI and people
Northern Bald Ibis have had an important role in human culture. In addition to the religious and symbolic meaning for ancient Egyptians, in other places where it has existed has also been considered in many senses, as in Algeria. This is probably due to the behaviour of the species, which could be quite tame to people.
In Souss Massa National Park, coexistence between NBI and people has beenSEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-59268836201393532602013-03-31T12:53:00.000+01:002013-06-26T14:03:48.553+01:00Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation renews its engagement to NBI conservation
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, which is the species champion for Northern Bald Ibis, has renewed its conmitment towards the conservation of one of the most endangered birds in the world.
PA2MF has been funding mainly the wardens' expenditures (salaries and equipment), as well as other functioning costs. This is essential to the monitoring and surveillance in the colonies, and allow us SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-51828118090981768692013-02-26T07:00:00.000+00:002013-05-08T12:26:16.252+01:00Akh: NBI from Ancient Egypt
A couple of recent articles on NBI from Ancient Egypt, from the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
Janák, Jíří. (2013). Northern Bald Ibis (Akh-Bird). UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 1(1). nelc_uee_8788.
Three different kinds of ibis species are attested from ancient Egypt: the sacred ibis, the glossy ibis, and the northern bald ibis. Pictorial representations of the latter bird—easily SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-13524968490520484492013-01-12T12:51:00.000+00:002013-02-11T16:11:59.200+00:00NBI at Boujdour
Although young NBI records are not extremely rare in the Atlantic Sahara, specially in Boujdor, every single sighting is very important to understand the behaviour of the species.
Recently, Hugues Dufourny reported to http://www.go-south.org/ the sighting of one sub-adult bald ibis at Boujdour, on December 27th.
On the pictures (©Véronique Buchet) we can observe the kind of habitat on the SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-8499986560963609292013-01-01T19:17:00.000+00:002013-06-26T14:04:33.646+01:002012 breeding season results
2012 breeding season finished with uneven results in Souss Massa National Park and Tamri regarding breeding success.
Monitoring takes place thanks to the seven wardens that are permanently on place, supported by Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
While in the protected area results were quite usual, similar to previous year, in Tamri we have recorded a failure on breeding success. Thus, inSEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-6591580569210782852012-12-04T14:15:00.001+00:002013-02-11T12:51:27.889+00:00AEWA NBI WG on AEWA site
An article on the first meeting of the AEWA Northern Bald Ibis International Working Group is available on AEWA's website
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The first meeting of the AEWA Northern Bald Ibis International Working Group will take place at the Jazan University in Jazan, Saudi Arabia on Monday the 19th to Thursday the 22nd of November 2012 at the kind invitation of the Saudi Wildlife Authority and Jazan University.
After convening the Working Group in 2011 as foreseen in the AEWA International Single Species Action PlanSEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-33300887359868719662012-10-23T00:00:00.000+01:002012-10-23T08:57:59.695+01:00Aylal, again at Tamri
Aylal, which was based in the Douira area since
April, has been making trips eastwards, sometimes up to 18 kilometres inland.
Occasionally there was also a shift to the south to the Souss-Massa National Park limits.
On October 19th, however, in the morning, it
moved northwards, stopping at Cape
Ghir and finishing at Tamri
area, where it has been spending last days.
Aylal carries a GPS SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-25476374371552330472012-10-12T07:11:00.000+01:002013-12-09T12:01:57.065+00:00US Fish and Wildlife Service supports NBI
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded Northern Bald Ibis conservation project with US$24,821 through its Wildlife Without Borders programme.
This is one of only twelve selected for funding, out of one hundred proposals received.
Those funds will be used to improve knowledge about movements of NBI as well as for improving breeding habitat and roosts, as well as trying to attrack birds SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-88694709421222759292012-10-07T10:39:00.000+01:002013-05-08T12:25:45.462+01:00Northern Bald Ibis in Ancient Egypt
In 1989, Gunter Dreyer discovered in a tomb at Abydos, 300 miles south of Cairo, ivory or bone tablets some 5,400 years old, that reveal one of the oldest known stage of the hieroglyphic writing. Those small plates, about three centimeters squared, were probably used as labels to show the origin and content of boxes and containers. Among more than 200 pieces, one represents, apparently, a SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4498387889753999329.post-54779598760613726022012-10-02T00:00:00.000+01:002012-10-08T08:04:51.385+01:00Untagged NBI in Spain
As a result of the recent sight of an untagged NBI in Manchester (UK) it's worth to remember other non-ringed birds that have been spotted in the last decade. On http://rarebirdspain.net there's information on those records in Spain.
Sightings of NBI in Spain are extremely rare during 20th century. The only known observation of this species was in Doñana, Southern Spain, SEO/BirdLife Morocco Programmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09060542977392357006noreply@blogger.com0