"Urdaibai" osprey in Somone Lagoon Reserve

Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:08

Urdaibai left a year ago on his journey to Africa, across the extensive Iberian Peninsula from the north to the south and flying over the  Straits of Gibraltar to warmer climes to spend the winter there. In an effort to find suitable lands that provide food, in recent months it has flown Guinea Bissau, Gambia and Senegal following the coastline.

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With the help of GPS tracking technology, emitting an accurate indication of where Urdaibai is in every hour, we know that in the last days it is flying over the Somone Reserve, in Senegal. This reserve was created in 1999 with the aim of increasing the protection of the habitat. Somone reserve consists almost entirely of a lake connected to the sea. In this area you can see more than 150 species of birds.

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Different types of frigate birds, pelicans and flamingos are part of the birds that can be observed in the lake Somone, besides the large number of European Ospreys who meet annually to spend the winter there.

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It is early to know whether it will remain in this place any longer but it seems an ideal place because it is an area with large numbers of fish and dense mangroves, always connected to the sea, which means it does not dry out in the dry season in Senegal, which is our winter months. 

 

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