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
Perhaps strong winds are blowing them off course.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Yes, I figured there was a problem with both these Canadian birds a few days ago, but didn't like to say so as there's been no announcement on the site. If you "Update the Map" to get the previous two/four weeks' positions, and zoom in, it becomes more evident.
95050 was over the the same area of the Caribbean, N of Aruba where there seem to be no islands to rest on, from 18th - 21st and then the signals stop.
54706 after an extraordinary course across Latin America, seems to have flown out to sea off Guyana - and has been over (or perhaps on) the sea, again with no islands in sight and now hundreds of miles from land, since the 18th. It doesn't look good for either of them.
Elsewhere, Rob Bierregaard fears another bird, Neale, has been lost on the crossing from the D.R. and the Finns are concerned about some strange signals from Jukka - though in the latter case, it looks like the problem is with the transmitter.
Thanks Sue. Yes, have since seen an updated map. It is really weird behaviour on the part of 54706.
Edited to add Kelloggs just confirmed over on Ospreys that I was right about the possibility of strong winds causing problems. Apparently Hurricane Richard has been blowing through there.
Alwys sad to read that ospreys are lost Sue C and I just hope that Jukka's transmitter is the problem.
Margobird
margobird said: Alwys sad to read that ospreys are lost Sue C and I just hope that Jukka's transmitter is the problem.
I think it is a problem with Jukka's transmitter. How else could he be in two places at one time?
Mind you there is a story where someone was tracking a fish of some sort when it "jumped" out of the river and trekked across country to an house. The fish was later recovered from the house which was owned by a poacher!
Tiger Signature
Some good news about Jukka, at any rate. The non-GPS positions were correct - it seems that early on the 24th he decided for some reason to call off his crossing of the Sahara, and spent 2 days flying back to the coast where he is now installed at what looks like a good fishing spot:
Thanks SueC . I was holding back on posting about Jukka but his instinct told him it was not wise to cross the desert at this time. It will be interesting to see if he remains on the coast or has another attempt at crossing the desert. Not sure what is happening with the Kawartha Lakes pair. There does not seem to be any blog about them anywhere but it does not look good on the map.
Unknown said: Thanks SueC . I was holding back on posting about Jukka but his instinct told him it was not wise to cross the desert at this time. It will be interesting to see if he remains on the coast or has another attempt at crossing the desert. Not sure what is happening with the Kawartha Lakes pair. There does not seem to be any blog about them anywhere but it does not look good on the map.
Alan I take it you do know about the fans group on Facebook for the Kawartha pair? It is always morth asking there.
Thanks Tiger, I had forgotten about Facebook.
Meanwhile and update on the Bassenthwaite pair. 12 settled but 11 moving about again. Over Dakar at one point:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Thanks Alan. That building they are speculating about is the Pikine Hospital. The larger area around it is the renowned Camp Thiaroye, the site of a massacre in 1944. It was the subject of a 1988 film.