Abstract
Summary Meyburg, B.-U., Mendelsohn, J. M., Ellis, D. H., Smith, D.G., Meyburg, C. & Kemp, A.C. 1995. Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite. Ostrich 66: 135–140. An adult female Wahlberg's Eagle from northern Namibia was tracked by satellite over a total distance of 8816 km and located 104 times between 11 February and 4 November 1994. It migrated on an almost due north heading to northern Cameroon, north-eastern Nigeria and western Chad through the rain forest belt of the Congo and Zaire after the breeding season. The total trans-equatorial distance between the breeding and non-breeding ranges was 3520 km. During the non-breeding season the bird ranged over a large area (ca. 60 000 km') for about six weeks (29 April – 14 June) in these three countries in a rather nomadic pattern covering a minimum distance of 1256 km. During two further months (14 June – 14 August) it restricted its movements to an area of about 5000 km2 near Maiduguri in the Sudan savannah of no...
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