The bird is not a spy. It is an informant to a biologist studying the habitat.

If this is what politics looks like in Sudan, it is a little rough around the edges. I think the message is anti-Israeli. Why do these countries always have to play politics with antisemitism? Like feeding the masses and providing shelter and health care. Aren't there sincere and profound social issues they should be focused on rather than propagating war. The poor bird.

....The bird (click here) also wore an ankle label reading "Hebrew University Jerusalem," "Israel Nature Service" and the contact details of an Israeli avian ecologist.The ecologist, Ohad Hatzofe of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, has rejected the Sudanese government claims -- saying the vulture, which can fly up to 600 kilometers in a single day, was tagged with GPS equipment to study its migration pattern.

"The Sudanese accusations are untrue," Hatzofe told CNN. "The GPS gear on these vultures can only tell us where the birds are, nothing else."...