As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Saturday 15 February 2014

New web tool designed to help migratory birds gets lift-off





This new tool will provide developers with access to information on the distribution of soaring bird species along the Rift Valley / Red Sea flyway.

February: A new web tool that will help protect migratory soaring birds along the Rift Valley/Red Sea Flyway has been launched by the BirdLife UNDP/GEF Migratory Soaring Birds project. The tool has been designed to provide developers, planning authorities and other interested stakeholders access to information on the distribution of soaring bird species along the Rift Valley/Red Sea flyway.

This information can help to inform decisions on the safe siting of new developments, such as wind farms, ensuring that negative impacts on this important migration route are minimised.The Rift Valley/Red Sea Flyway hosts the migration of over two million soaring birds through the region, with soaring birds in huge flocks numbering tens of thousands migrating from wintering grounds in Africa to breeding grounds in Europe and Central Asia and vice versa along the second biggest Flyway in the world for soaring birds.




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