Abu Dhabi: "Yasmeena", a greater Flamingo will help humans with new information on flamingo's migratory routes stretching from the UAE to Kazakhstan.
She was tagged by the Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi (EAD) yesterday at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve as part of its work to track and monitor birds.
Some among the nine flamingos tagged by the EAD since 1995 have flown to Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and provided new insights into their adventurous journey, an official told Gulf News.
The tracking programme is not meant for getting any new information on the behaviour of the birds but their migratory routes and stopover sites only, Dr Salim Javed, head of EAD's Bird Programme and Manager of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring, said. The EAD, the first organisation in the Gulf region to satellite tag flamingos since 2005 has successfully tagged 15 flamingos in the UAE, of which nine are still being tracked.
One of these birds, named ‘Sindibad' by EAD, was the first bird to cross the Arabian Gulf stopping along the way at key wetland sites and is currently in Khor Al Beidah in Umm Al Quwain and continues to be tracked by EAD experts.
GPS transmitters
In 2005, five flamingos were captured and marked with plastic rings and satellite transmitters. The capture and tagging was done at the Abu Dhabi Al Wathba Wetland Reserve by the EAD, which also manages the Reserve. Inspired by the success of the programme, the agency has expanded it to cover migratory birds of prey such as the Osprey and Sooty falcon.
The EAD now has a better understanding of where these birds go to feed and where they were migrating from. Birds were tagged with GPS transmitters in November 2005, January 2007, and December 2009. Four flamingos were tagged in Dubai in 2009. Three birds were also tagged in Bul Syayeef area in January 2010.
Satellite tagged birds have successfully migrated north to their potential breeding or summering areas in Iran and Kazakhstan
Regular locations from one of the flamingos' satellite tagged in Al Wathba in 2007 helped EAD discover a new breeding colony of flamingos in April 2009 in Abu Dhabi's Mussafah Channel.
By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/tagged-flamingo-to-show-bird-s-migratory-routes-1.738162
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Tagged flamingo to show bird's migratory routes
Abu Dhabi: "Yasmeena", a greater Flamingo will help humans with new information on flamingo's migratory routes stretching from the UAE to Kazakhstan.
She was tagged by the Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi (EAD) yesterday at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve as part of its work to track and monitor birds.
Some among the nine flamingos tagged by the EAD since 1995 have flown to Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and provided new insights into their adventurous journey, an official told Gulf News.
The tracking programme is not meant for getting any new information on the behaviour of the birds but their migratory routes and stopover sites only, Dr Salim Javed, head of EAD's Bird Programme and Manager of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring, said. The EAD, the first organisation in the Gulf region to satellite tag flamingos since 2005 has successfully tagged 15 flamingos in the UAE, of which nine are still being tracked.
One of these birds, named ‘Sindibad' by EAD, was the first bird to cross the Arabian Gulf stopping along the way at key wetland sites and is currently in Khor Al Beidah in Umm Al Quwain and continues to be tracked by EAD experts.
GPS transmitters
In 2005, five flamingos were captured and marked with plastic rings and satellite transmitters. The capture and tagging was done at the Abu Dhabi Al Wathba Wetland Reserve by the EAD, which also manages the Reserve. Inspired by the success of the programme, the agency has expanded it to cover migratory birds of prey such as the Osprey and Sooty falcon.
The EAD now has a better understanding of where these birds go to feed and where they were migrating from. Birds were tagged with GPS transmitters in November 2005, January 2007, and December 2009. Four flamingos were tagged in Dubai in 2009. Three birds were also tagged in Bul Syayeef area in January 2010.
Satellite tagged birds have successfully migrated north to their potential breeding or summering areas in Iran and Kazakhstan
Regular locations from one of the flamingos' satellite tagged in Al Wathba in 2007 helped EAD discover a new breeding colony of flamingos in April 2009 in Abu Dhabi's Mussafah Channel.
By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/tagged-flamingo-to-show-bird-s-migratory-routes-1.738162
She was tagged by the Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi (EAD) yesterday at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve as part of its work to track and monitor birds.
Some among the nine flamingos tagged by the EAD since 1995 have flown to Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and provided new insights into their adventurous journey, an official told Gulf News.
The tracking programme is not meant for getting any new information on the behaviour of the birds but their migratory routes and stopover sites only, Dr Salim Javed, head of EAD's Bird Programme and Manager of Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring, said. The EAD, the first organisation in the Gulf region to satellite tag flamingos since 2005 has successfully tagged 15 flamingos in the UAE, of which nine are still being tracked.
One of these birds, named ‘Sindibad' by EAD, was the first bird to cross the Arabian Gulf stopping along the way at key wetland sites and is currently in Khor Al Beidah in Umm Al Quwain and continues to be tracked by EAD experts.
GPS transmitters
In 2005, five flamingos were captured and marked with plastic rings and satellite transmitters. The capture and tagging was done at the Abu Dhabi Al Wathba Wetland Reserve by the EAD, which also manages the Reserve. Inspired by the success of the programme, the agency has expanded it to cover migratory birds of prey such as the Osprey and Sooty falcon.
The EAD now has a better understanding of where these birds go to feed and where they were migrating from. Birds were tagged with GPS transmitters in November 2005, January 2007, and December 2009. Four flamingos were tagged in Dubai in 2009. Three birds were also tagged in Bul Syayeef area in January 2010.
Satellite tagged birds have successfully migrated north to their potential breeding or summering areas in Iran and Kazakhstan
Regular locations from one of the flamingos' satellite tagged in Al Wathba in 2007 helped EAD discover a new breeding colony of flamingos in April 2009 in Abu Dhabi's Mussafah Channel.
By Binsal Abdul Kader, Staff Reporter
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/tagged-flamingo-to-show-bird-s-migratory-routes-1.738162
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Critically endangered whale tagged for first time
Only about 130 western gray whales left
December 2010: One of the world's most endangered whales has been successfully tagged is now being followed off the coast of Russia's Sakhalin Island.
There are only about 130 western gray whales left, and they are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with perhaps only about 33 mature and reproductively active females. Their feeding grounds in the Russian Far East are known but details of their migration routes and breeding grounds are not.
'We wanted to take no chances'
This is the first time an individual from the Western gray whale population has been tagged and tracked using telemetry.
‘Tremendous care was taken to select a healthy adult male,' says Greg Donovan, head of science for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), who co-ordinated the project. ‘Although the risks associated with such tagging are minimal, we wanted to take absolutely no chances with females or young animals. The information we expect to get from this study is vital to international conservation efforts to preserve this population, as is the collaboration between governments, international organisations, international scientists, industry and other stakeholders.'
The tagged whale, known as Flex, has been seen regularly in the Sakhalin area in summer since it was photographed as a calf in 1997. The team has been following its movements via satellite with data beamed from the transmitting tag.
‘Not a lot is known about western gray whales, so finding out where they migrate to breed and calve will be a tremendous step forward,' says Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, who led the tagging part of the opration and has pioneered the use of satellites to track whales since the 1970s.
'This will help us to protect the whales'
‘Finding the migration routes and winter grounds of this critically endangered population will allow range states to develop or improve effective measures to protect the whales,' says Vyatcheslav Rozhnov, deputy director of the A.N. Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPEE RAS), who led the scientific expedition.
December 2010: One of the world's most endangered whales has been successfully tagged is now being followed off the coast of Russia's Sakhalin Island.
There are only about 130 western gray whales left, and they are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with perhaps only about 33 mature and reproductively active females. Their feeding grounds in the Russian Far East are known but details of their migration routes and breeding grounds are not.
'We wanted to take no chances'
This is the first time an individual from the Western gray whale population has been tagged and tracked using telemetry.
‘Tremendous care was taken to select a healthy adult male,' says Greg Donovan, head of science for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), who co-ordinated the project. ‘Although the risks associated with such tagging are minimal, we wanted to take absolutely no chances with females or young animals. The information we expect to get from this study is vital to international conservation efforts to preserve this population, as is the collaboration between governments, international organisations, international scientists, industry and other stakeholders.'
The tagged whale, known as Flex, has been seen regularly in the Sakhalin area in summer since it was photographed as a calf in 1997. The team has been following its movements via satellite with data beamed from the transmitting tag.
‘Not a lot is known about western gray whales, so finding out where they migrate to breed and calve will be a tremendous step forward,' says Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, who led the tagging part of the opration and has pioneered the use of satellites to track whales since the 1970s.
'This will help us to protect the whales'
‘Finding the migration routes and winter grounds of this critically endangered population will allow range states to develop or improve effective measures to protect the whales,' says Vyatcheslav Rozhnov, deputy director of the A.N. Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPEE RAS), who led the scientific expedition.
Critically endangered whale tagged for first time
Only about 130 western gray whales left
December 2010: One of the world's most endangered whales has been successfully tagged is now being followed off the coast of Russia's Sakhalin Island.
There are only about 130 western gray whales left, and they are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with perhaps only about 33 mature and reproductively active females. Their feeding grounds in the Russian Far East are known but details of their migration routes and breeding grounds are not.
'We wanted to take no chances'
This is the first time an individual from the Western gray whale population has been tagged and tracked using telemetry.
‘Tremendous care was taken to select a healthy adult male,' says Greg Donovan, head of science for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), who co-ordinated the project. ‘Although the risks associated with such tagging are minimal, we wanted to take absolutely no chances with females or young animals. The information we expect to get from this study is vital to international conservation efforts to preserve this population, as is the collaboration between governments, international organisations, international scientists, industry and other stakeholders.'
The tagged whale, known as Flex, has been seen regularly in the Sakhalin area in summer since it was photographed as a calf in 1997. The team has been following its movements via satellite with data beamed from the transmitting tag.
‘Not a lot is known about western gray whales, so finding out where they migrate to breed and calve will be a tremendous step forward,' says Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, who led the tagging part of the opration and has pioneered the use of satellites to track whales since the 1970s.
'This will help us to protect the whales'
‘Finding the migration routes and winter grounds of this critically endangered population will allow range states to develop or improve effective measures to protect the whales,' says Vyatcheslav Rozhnov, deputy director of the A.N. Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPEE RAS), who led the scientific expedition.
December 2010: One of the world's most endangered whales has been successfully tagged is now being followed off the coast of Russia's Sakhalin Island.
There are only about 130 western gray whales left, and they are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with perhaps only about 33 mature and reproductively active females. Their feeding grounds in the Russian Far East are known but details of their migration routes and breeding grounds are not.
'We wanted to take no chances'
This is the first time an individual from the Western gray whale population has been tagged and tracked using telemetry.
‘Tremendous care was taken to select a healthy adult male,' says Greg Donovan, head of science for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), who co-ordinated the project. ‘Although the risks associated with such tagging are minimal, we wanted to take absolutely no chances with females or young animals. The information we expect to get from this study is vital to international conservation efforts to preserve this population, as is the collaboration between governments, international organisations, international scientists, industry and other stakeholders.'
The tagged whale, known as Flex, has been seen regularly in the Sakhalin area in summer since it was photographed as a calf in 1997. The team has been following its movements via satellite with data beamed from the transmitting tag.
‘Not a lot is known about western gray whales, so finding out where they migrate to breed and calve will be a tremendous step forward,' says Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, who led the tagging part of the opration and has pioneered the use of satellites to track whales since the 1970s.
'This will help us to protect the whales'
‘Finding the migration routes and winter grounds of this critically endangered population will allow range states to develop or improve effective measures to protect the whales,' says Vyatcheslav Rozhnov, deputy director of the A.N. Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPEE RAS), who led the scientific expedition.
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