For the second time in two years, one of
Israel's neighbors claims to have intercepted a spy bird deployed by Israel.
Not a satellite or drone. An actual bird.
Sudanese officials have bagged a vulture
tagged with an Israeli GPS chip, labeled with “Israel Nature Service”
and “Hebrew University, Jerusalem,” Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Sudan is located south of Israel on the Red Sea,
bording Egypt and Ethiopia.
In January, 2011, it was Saudi Arabia that caught an Israeli
"spy" vulture, though that one was afiliated with Tel Aviv
University. A month earlier, Egyptian officials had claimed Israeli agents had
somehow provoked sharks to attack swimmers off the Egyptian coast.
Relations between Israel and Sudan have been
tense since an airstrike destroyed a weapons manufacturing compound in Khartoum
in October. Though Sudan blamed Israel, the Jewish state neither confirmed nor
denied responsibility for the bombing.
In fact, Israeli conservation officials often
tag wild birds that visit Israel as part of their migration paths with GPS
chips for ornithological study. The vulture caught in Sudan is capable of
flying 600km a day. “This is a young vulture that was tagged, along with
100 others, in October. He has two wing bands and a German-made GPS chip,”
said Ohad Hazofe, an ecologist with the Israel Nature and Parks
Authority.
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