Unlocking the puzzle: Russian bird that flew 5700km landed at Makongeni police station, Kenya

Titus Imboma an Ornithologist and Research scientist at National Museum of Kenya (NMK)

• Information on the bird’s ring read, ‘AA 22 17 MOSKVA’ and was ringed in Russia
• The Steppe Eagle landed right at the gate of Makongeni Police Station, along Jogoo Road on January 22, 2015,

The information on the bird’s ring read, ‘AA 22 17 MOSKVA’ and was ringed in Russia

For the past two years, Corporal Gladys Gathogo has taken keen interest in birds. This was never the case before, but her experience with a strange bird believed to have come from Russia changed all this.