Marabou Stork in SmithfieldThis bird was spotted in Smithfield at the town dumps by a farmer, Willie Swanepoel, when passing by. He contacted Carmel Rickard, a local resident. The lines were set on fire and I went out to have a look.
The tag identifies the bird as S64 - it frequented the area of Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape a few months ago and was apparently ringed in Swaziland.
It was a first for the area as far as could be established at present.
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In the mean time it was established that S64 was ringed in Swaziland by the research team of Prof Ara Monadjem. It was ringed in Sept/Oct 2007.
The same bird was observed at the town dumps in Oudtshoorn by Reinderd Visser and caused a stir amongst Western Cape birders to get it on their Western Cape lists.
It was still perching on the same post early this morning (12.03.2008)
Another snippet has arrived:
S64 was tagged on: 2007/07/02 at
Coordinates: 2612S3152E Location: Hlane Province: Swaziland;
This bird travelled 1257kms in 194 days (Swaziland to Oudtshoorn)
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