{"id":24500,"date":"2020-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/?p=24500"},"modified":"2020-03-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T23:00:00","slug":"faia-has-crossed-gibraltar-straight-towards-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/?p=24500","title":{"rendered":"FAIA HAS CROSSED THE GIBRALTAR STRAIGHT TOWARDS SPAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, prenuptial migration has started !<\/p>\n<p>Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4vultures.org\/life-projects\/rupis\/\">LIFE Rupis project<\/a>, we can follow the movements of three Egyptian vultures from the Douro, all tagged with GPS transmitters.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is Faia and she is now on her way back to Spain : she decided to cross the Gibraltar straight yesterday, March 9th 2020. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/faia.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Faia (c) VCF\" class=\"imagecache-largeur largeur\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;Faia (c) VCF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Faia is a female Egyptian vulture who was captured at the Escalhao additional feeding site in <strong>June 2017<\/strong>. She was successfully bred in the Agueda valley, by the Spanish side of the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/faia.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Faia (c) VCF\" class=\"imagecache-largeur largeur\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;Faia (c) VCF<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She left the Douro canyon on <strong>September 6th 2019<\/strong>. She flew over the Gibraltar straight towards Morocco on <strong>September 9th<\/strong> and made good progress southwards.<\/p>\n<p>As happened during the previous years, she was lost when leaving Morocco and entering Algeria because she flew over a desert area outside GSM coverage. There had been no more signal since mid-September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>As the GSM coverage is fragmented in the desert, it is usual to be without news from the birds for a few days, a few weeks or even a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Faia reappeared in Mali, right South of the Mauritanian border.<\/p>\n<p>In all, she wintered <strong>6 months<\/strong> in Mali where food is abundant and there is little human disturbance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On March 4th<\/strong>, the VCF team noticed Faia was on her way back home to her nesting site. She was in Morocco on <strong>March 5th<\/strong> where she spent a few days before crossing the Gibraltar straight on <strong>March 9th<\/strong> to go to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>She is progressing well and the VCF continues to monitor her movements until she comes back to the Douro area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s hope she will reach her nesting site safely and breed successfully ! <\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Egyptian vultures are ready to fly back to Europe ! You can follow the movements of a few tagged birds by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4vultures.org\/our-work\/monitoring\/egyptian-vulture-online-maps\/\">online VCF public maps.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/faia-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"imagecache-largeur largeur\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/ https:\/\/www.4vultures.org\/egyptian-vulture-faia-is-the-first-life-rupis-bird-to-safely-cross-the-strait-of-gibraltar-on-her-way-back-home-this-spring\/\">https:\/\/www.4vultures.org\/egyptian-vulture-faia-is-the-first-life-rupis-bird-to-safely-cross-the-strait-of-gibraltar-on-her-way-back-home-this-spring\/ <\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, prenuptial migration has started !<\/p>\n<p>Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4vultures.org\/life-projects\/rupis\/\">LIFE Rupis project<\/a>, we can follow the movements of three Egyptian vultures from the Douro, all tagged with GPS transmitters.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is Faia and she is now on her way back to Spain : she decided to cross the Gibraltar straight yesterday, March 9th 2020. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/preprod-cna.lpo.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/faia.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Faia (c) VCF\" class=\"imagecache-largeur largeur\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;Faia (c) VCF<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autres-informations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cna.lpo.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}