| Esperanza is confirming now that she has reached her wintering headquarters area in Mauritania, while Espartero is in Chad. |
Esperanza is in his first area of wintering, and is fixed to the area of Guidimaka definitively, to the south of Mauritania. In this zone also there are other black storks that they have been marked in different European countries within the project "Flying Over Natura 2000". Check it at [Link ] |
 Esperanza is in the same area that Belgian black storks Mathilde, Dany from France and Julien and Lou from Luxemburg.
According to our Czech colleague Miroslav Bobek, the black storks can remain settled in certain areas until the resources are exhausted, later moving to other suitable sites. [Link]
The movements made by Esperanza in the surroundings of the river basin of the Senegal river would be explicable because she "looks for" a good place where to be based.
Espartero is surprising everyone in the project in his travel towards the east of Africa. This week is had displaced from Niger to North point of Cameroon, to be located now in the heart of Chad. He is to the south of the Fitri Lake, in an opened savannah landscape, closely together of the Wildlife Reserve of l'Aboutelfan. This reserve has a surface of 110,000 has, and lodge species of great mammals like antelopes, hippopotamus and buffalos. Espartero is in an area of the Sahel where another black stork, Varis, coming from Latvia, also is. The project is really giving the most interesting information about this enigmatic and exciting specie. |
