An Osprey bird from the Scottish Borders that was thought to be dead in Portugal has been spotted again in Morocco.
BBC News tracked the bird’s journey from Scotland, to Portugal to Morocco now where the GPS tracker revealed the bird’s location at the Khnifiss Wildlife Sanctuary in the North African country.
The bird initially astounded Conversation Without Borders (CWB) experts when he boarded two container ships in late September.
On Friday morning, he landed on the roof of a fruit factory in Portugal between Nazaré and Péniche.
After a while, there was no trace of his whereabouts and worries grew that he might have run into some high-voltage pylons nearby.
Experts believed he must have passed away by Saturday afternoon, according to the BBC. The local police joined the hunt for him in an unsuccessful attempt to find the bird.
Luckily, his GPS tracker restarted on Sunday morning, indicating that he was at the Khnifiss Biological Reserve in Morocco.
The migrating bird flapped his wings for a solid 36 hours, which according to CWB’s founder, Sasha Dench, is “just amazing for a young osprey to do.”
One of Scotland’s best wildlife resurgence tales involves ospreys. There are currently about 250 pairs nationwide of this bird, which was once thought to be extinct as a breeding bird in the British Isles in 1916.
Ospreys are known for migrating to Africa regularly each September.
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