Jaipur: Two Egyptian vultures, ringed and GPS-tagged by the Russian Raptor Research and Conservation Network (RRRCN) in the Karatau mountains in Kazak.
Jaipur: A steppe eagle named Kenjyk, which was on a winter sojourn and tagged in Central Kazakhstan in 2018, is suspected to have been hunted by nomadic tribe Bawaria near Bissau in Jhunjhunu district.
Residues were found in the last satellite location of the bird, though researchers have not recovered the Global System Monitoring (GSM) tracking device.
After receiving an e-mail from scientist Elvira Nikolenko on February 20, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) member Dau Lal Bohra started investigation to find the cause of mortality. The scientists received the last signal on Januray 24 at 11.08 am. The copy of the email in possession of TOI reads, “We are not sure that it died, possibily the tracker was broken.” However, when Bohra reached the spot after tracking satellite location provided by the scientists, he found residues of the steppe eagle in the area. He said, “At the same location, we found residue including both wings and feathers dug inside a pi