6 September 2023
The migration spectacle on the Strait of Gibraltar remains to be underway as 1000’s of birds stretch their wings and fly to Africa. They will see their purpose from the European facet however generally the wind is a brutal wall that stops their crossing. On 4 September the wind was proper they usually didn’t should flap. 1000’s glided south to Morocco.
Among the many flocks had been lots of of white storks (Ciconia ciconia), seen on this tweet from Inglorious Bustards.
I am not crying you are crying!
Shifting energy of #FlywayBirding y´day
569 White Stork cruised out to Africa simply above us! 570 European Honey Buzzards, as 222 Booted Eagles, rising numbers of Quick-toed Eagles & 274 European Bee-eaters dodged migrating Pallid & Frequent Swifts! pic.twitter.com/OxrulL3BZ2
— Inglorious Bustards (@Otis_inglorius) September 5, 2023
The storks making the crossing had nested in Western Europe and are heading for Sub-Saharan Africa for the winter.
Fifty years in the past white storks had been extinct in most of Western Europe and this spectacle on the Straits died with the absent birds. Reintroduction packages within the late twentieth century introduced them again to a rising inhabitants of now 224,000 to 247,000 European white storks.
For individuals who lived by means of the lean years, their tears on the Straits are tears of pleasure.
(credit are within the captions together with hyperlinks to the sources)
