What do you think the “strange big black bird” that had “two rings on its legs and a phone-like tracking device manufactured in Columbia” was? Whatever it was it was killed by hunters in Nigeria, it had the following inscription, I assume on one or both of the rings: “9287963- Reseng Meseuom.hom @ Sweden,” and it made the internet.
G Spotted Eagle.
Black Stork.
But the information is obviously garbled: “Meseuom” looks like it should have been “Museum”, for example.
I’ll keep my eye out for a followup article and will post it here if I find it.
Let’s hope it isn’t Pirsu:
http://birdmap.5dvision.ee/index.php?lang=en