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Born in Khakassia, the steppe eagle named Min “let in the world “of Novosibirsk ornithologists. A bird, together with its attached GPS sensor, unexpectedly migrated to Iran and doesn’t send from there cheap SMS with the coordinates of your stay.
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Coordinator Alisa Bogomolova said that their organization is monitoring displacement 13 birds, and the “ravager” Ming devastated the entire annual budget, Allocated to all controlled birds.
Eagles with GPS sensors move with regular SIM cards of one from Russian operators. Scientists have calculated the approximate annual cost budget knowing the places that birds usually visit. Orlitsa Ming just destroyed the system, and now we need a new approach in budgeting.
According to ornithologists, eagles usually spend summer in Russia or Kazakhstan, and winter in Saudi Arabia, India or Pakistan. This year, the connection with Ming was interrupted, and for some reason the eagle headed to Iran. What attracted her there, ornithologists could not to explain.
In Iran, SMS messages including roaming cost 49 rubles, but due to a technical malfunction, Ming “shoots” them several hundred at day.
Upset ornithologists were forced to launch the action “Zakin to an eagle on a mobile phone! “so that any sympathizer could replenish” bird ” balance, and the funds will be distributed among all eagles participating in the project.
By the way, recently it became known that the mobile operator Megafon entered in position and promised scientists to write off the accumulated debt, as well as develop a special plan for such cases.
Earlier, an Australian ornithologist made an unusual statement: feathered predators know how to use fire.
Andrey Vetrov
Iran Birds Russia
