400K migratory birds spotted resting in Egypt due to quality of climate: official

CAIRO – 31 May 2022: More than 400 thousand soaring birds were spotted from the monitoring point of Mount Galala resting in Egypt due to the quality of climate, according to  the director of the Migratory Soaring Birds Project at the Egyptian Ministry of Environment Dr. Osama el-Gebali.

According to Dr. Gebali, the project has developed a number of sites for bird migration paths in Egypt, especially wind farms, and Mount Galala was a new monitoring point that was added.

El-Gabali explained that Egypt, due to its intermediate location between the countries of Africa, Asia and Europe, in addition to the quality of its climate, is considered “the safest resting place, and this reflects the quality of the ecosystems.”

"The site of the sewage plant in Sharm El-Sheikh has been developed and the model has been generalized in Hurghada, the Red Sea, Ain Sukhna and Suez, in cooperation with the General Energy Authority, the Ministry of Electricity and some private sector companies,” he added.

There are five sites that form the main paths for migratory birds. Bird migration in the Red Sea is the second largest bird path in the world, and the five paths gather in the bottleneck area, at a time through which more than 500,000 birds pass through.