{"id":45734,"date":"2025-03-03T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/?p=45734"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:49:49","slug":"flying-over-lake-fitri-chad-to-count-the-water-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/actualites-en\/flying-over-lake-fitri-chad-to-count-the-water-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying over Lake Fitri (Chad) to count the water birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The water birds on Lake Fitri (Chad) were counted in early February by the DFAP, with the support of the Tour du Valat and the OFB<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45451\"  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45451\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-640x424.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5565.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>La pilote Nicoline (Africain Parks) fait le plein tandis que Alexandre (Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge &#8211; Gembloux) v\u00e9rifie les cam\u00e9ras<\/span> \u00a9 Cl\u00e9mence Deschamps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The lake Fitri is a Ramsar site covering more than 195,000 hectares, and currently the third most important wintering area for Palearctic and Afro-tropical waterbirds in the Sahel. Therefore, the assessment of the wintering population is an important step in the monitoring and sustainable management of waterbirds and their habitats.<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning of the 2nd of February, the DFAP-OFB-TDV team, formed by Abakar Saleh Wachoum, Pierre Defos du Rau and Julien Birard, prepares to fly over Lake Fitri to conduct a sample count of the waterbirds. This aerial survey is made possible thanks to the support of African Parks, which is providing the aeroplane, essential for counting such a vast wetland. Innovation for this session: cameras are attached to the wing strut by Alexandre Delplanque (University of Li\u00e8ge &#8211; Gembloux): they will be used to test the feasibility of identifying and counting birds by imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Organised as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/in-action\/swm-programme\/where-we-work\/sahelian-wetlands\/fr\">RESSOURCE+ project<\/a>, coordinated by the FAO and co-financed by the EU and the FFEM, this survey will make it possible, among other things, to update waterbird population sizes and assess the sustainability of wildlife capture for food.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45447\"  class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45447 size-blog-small\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSCF5571-640x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>L&#8217;\u00e9quipe se pr\u00e9pare \u00e0 survoler le lac Fitri<\/span> \u00a9 Cl\u00e9mence Deschamps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The water birds on Lake Fitri (Chad) were counted in early February by the DFAP, with the support of the Tour du Valat and the OFB The lake Fitri is a Ramsar site covering more than 195,000 hectares, and currently the third most important wintering area for Palearctic and Afro-tropical waterbirds in the Sahel. Therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1689,"featured_media":45452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[699,296,290],"class_list":["post-45734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-en","tag-comptage-en","tag-oiseaux-deau-en","tag-sui-en","country-tchad-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45735,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45734\/revisions\/45735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}