Satellite Tracked Ospreys - Aug 2010-Feb 2011

This thread replaces Satellite Tracked Ospreys March-August 2010 

It has been set up to follow the Autumn 2010 migration of ospreys tracked by satellite, other than those  from Loch Garten.  Comments about the travels of Rothes, hatched at Loch Garten in 2009, should be posted on the “Tracking Rothes  and Mallachie” thread: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/lochgartenospreys/forum/t/3440.aspx

UK Organisations known to be currently tracking ospreys, and the birds involved, are as follows:

Roy Dennis, Highland Foundation for Wildlife – Scotland

Website:              http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp

Beatrice              

Adult female, hatched 2000, tagged 2008, ring Green 5B. Beatrice moved to a new nest in East Moray in Spring 2010, as her previous mate did not return from migration. On all of her tracked migrations, she has taken a stopover on the River Adour, near Dax in the Landes department of SW France.  Her wintering site is on the Guadiaro river in southern Spain, NE of Gibraltar.       

Morven               

Adult female, hatched 2003, tagged 2008, ring White PE. Morven’s nest site is near Forres, Moray (with Talisman). So far, she has only taken stopovers on spring migrations, in the Villaviciosa estuary in the Asturias region of northern Spain - http://www.riadevillaviciosa.org/ . Her wintering site is the desert coast of Mauritania, north of the capital, Nouakchott.

Nimrod                               

Adult male, hatched 2001, tagged 2008, ring Red  7J. Nimrod’s nest site is also near Forres. He tends to take a stopover, of varying length, around the Ile d’Oleron, Charente-Maritime, western France.  He winters on the Rio Cachine in Guinea Bissau.

Talisman             

Adult male, hatched 1999, tagged 2009, ring Black 6R. Talisman’s nest site is near Forres, Moray (with Morven).On both his tracked migrations, he has had a stopover at the Roxo Reservoir, Alentejo, Portugal http://www.avesdeportugal.info/sitroxo.html . He winters on the Ilha de Enu, Bijagos Islands, Guinea Bissau – not far from Rothes.

Red 8T                 

Adult male, hatched 2001, tagged 2009, ring Red 8T. Red 8T nests in Strathspey,  near the Rothiemurchus fishery. His wintering site is on the Casamanche River near Ziguinchor, southern Senegal. He doesn’t seem to do stopovers!

Rothiemurchus                

Immature male hatched 2009, ring Blue AE. Hatched on Rothiemurchus Estate, near Aviemore, Highland. On his first migration south, after a narrow escape over the Atlantic, he spent 5 weeks on the Rio Paiva, Aveiro District, Portugal. He continued safely to Africa and has since spent his time exploring Senegal.

Spey       

Juvenile Male, hatched 2010, ring Blue AS. Hatch site near Elgin, East Moray, Scotland.

 Lake District Osprey Project, Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria, England

Project website:               http://www.ospreywatch.co.uk/

Tracking reports on:        http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/

Juvenile Males, hatched 2010 - elder Chick White 12 and younger White 11

Rutland Water Osprey Project

There is no current satellite tracking, but posts may occasionally refer back to the tracking which was done from 1999-2002 - here's the link to all the records:

http://www.ospreys.org.uk/satellite.html