{"id":5323,"date":"2020-03-06T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2025-01-14T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:19:37","slug":"flamme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/flamme\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamme (KF6) in The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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Wonderful news: Flamme<\/em> (KF6) has been spotted, for the first time since being released in 2017, by Chris Wood and Joanna Dailey in The Gambia on March 2! Born to a family of three chicks in southern Norway, he weighed in at 1480g just before release. Which made us believe that Flamme<\/em> was probably a male since they usually weigh less than 1.5kg, while females are generally heavier. The results of a DNA analysis to determine the sex of this bird unfortunately turned out to be inconclusive.<\/p>\r\n

So is Flamme<\/em> a boy or a girl? From the nice photos taken by Chris and Joanna, the jury is still out. While his wide, dark bib is more typically female, at times males can also have one. A photo showing a fairly pale underwing and a relatively small head suggests that the bird could be male. This question is relevant since males are more philopatric than females. So if Flamme<\/em> is a male and safely returns from migration, the probability would be higher that we may see him again in Switzerland in the coming few weeks or months.<\/p>\r\n

\"Osprey<\/a>It is anyway extraordinary that Flamme<\/em> is the third Osprey from the Swiss project to be discovered in sub-Saharan Africa wintering grounds, after a male<\/a> from 2016 was photographed (with his blue ring just illegible) in Senegal in December of that year, and then Fus\u00e9e<\/em> (PR9)<\/a>, another male from 2016, was identified four times in that same country during the winter of 2018-19.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5MO3H-flamme","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balbuzards.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}