A female eagle has landed Russian scientists with a hefty bill after being fitted with a device to track her migration path roamed to Kazakhstan that pinged messages back to the research team. The Russian scientists were monitoring 13 birds in their routes from Siberia when one of the steppe eagles, named Min, flew to an area without mobile coverage in the country. She stayed in Kazakhstan almost four months before flying a circuitous route to land in Iran. Had the GPS location messages been sent from Kazakhstan, the charges would reportedly have been tiny in comparison. "We cannot let the eagles stop broadcasting - this is a very important study with interesting results,” the centre's statement said.

Source: Daily Mirror October 26, 2019 00:11 UTC