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RECORDING OF THE SPRING MIGRATION OF SOARING BIRDS THROUGH GEBEL EL ZEIT, EASTERN DESERT, EGYPT

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Herpetology and Ornithology

Abstract

Egypt is an important pass for the soaring birds' migration, as it is situated on the mainland connection between the Eurasian and African landmasses that connects breeding grounds in Eurasia with wintering zones in Africa. In the current study, the spring migration of soaring birds was studied along a narrow corridor “bottleneck site" located within the Red Sea/Rift Valley bird migration flyway, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Over a period of four weeks from April 19th to 17th of May 2019, 89949 soaring birds of 27 species were counted during an eight-hour daily observation window. In total, 47511 raptors of 24 species were recorded. The most common were the group of Levant sparrowhawk “Accipter brevipes", European honey buzzard “Pernis apivorus", and Northern steppe buzzard “Buteo buteo vulpinus" forming 33.16%, 32.08%, and 24.91% of all raptors, respectively; while combined black kite “Milvus migrans", lesser spotted eagle “Aquila pomarine", steppe eagle “Aquila nipalensis", short-toed eagle “Circaetus gallicus", booted eagle “Aquila pennata", and Egyptian vulture “Neophron percnopterus" recorded more than 6% of the raptor assemblage. In addition, 15 greater spotted eagle “Aquila clanga", 6 pallid harrier “Circus macrourus", and 5 Eurasian griffon vulture “Gyps fulvus" were recorded during the observations. Other soaring birds were recorded during the study-time, the most common were: 36700 white stork “Ciconia Ciconia", 4230 great white pelican “Pelecanus onocrotalus", and 1500 black stork “Ciconia nigra".

DOI

10.21608/ejz.2020.49156.1043

Keywords

Greater spotted eagle, Gulf of Suez, Rift valley/Red Sea flyway, Steppe eagle, White stork

Authors

First Name

Saber

Last Name

Riad

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Affiliation

Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

saberiad60@azhar.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-8663-8862

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

El-Mongy

MiddleName

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Affiliation

BEANIT for Heritage and Environment Company, Red Sea, Egypt

Email

mmongy75@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdullah

MiddleName

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Affiliation

BEANIT for Heritage and Environment Company, Red Sea, Egypt

Email

ahmed.tpa@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

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First Name

El-Sayed

Last Name

Abdel-Halim

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

BEANIT for Heritage and Environment Company, Red Sea, Egypt

Email

sayed_halim@hotmail.com

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Volume

75

Article Issue

75

Related Issue

25359

Issue Date

2021-06-01

Receive Date

2020-11-08

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

14

Page End

24

Print ISSN

1110-6344

Online ISSN

2682-3160

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https://ejz.journals.ekb.eg/article_133411.html

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Original Research Papers

Type Code

684

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Zoology

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https://ejz.journals.ekb.eg/

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Created At

22 Jan 2023