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
Update on Spey: Settled into a daily routine:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
Good stuff, Alan. It's always a little concerning when there hasn't been an update for 10 days, especially when they're in an unusual area.
Post on the wall of the Facebook site of the Canadian birds.
I know, I know our hearts are in our throats.... I contacted BSC and unfortunately the two transmitter experts are out of town - I hope we hear something soon... say a little prayer!
Tiger Signature
Latest for Jukka. Still in the same area
my photos in flickr
Thanks Auntie. Jukka now seems to be taking a stopover, which he didn't really do on his way south this time. Perhaps at some level, the approach to the Sahara triggered the thought that he wasn't carrying as much body fat as usual for the desert crossing - so he retreated to the coast to feed up.
I found some info about Abu Kammash the place where he's staying - it seems the name means "a good place for fishing".
Roy has updated the pages for individual birds with a new sub heading winter 2010/2011. Data is updated to 31.10.2010:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/
As feared US osprey Neale has been lost in the hurricane in the Carribean. It just shows how lucky we have been that all our UK and European ospreys with transmitters have survived the autumn migraton:http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm
Unknown said: As feared US osprey Neale has been lost in the hurricane in the Carribean. It just shows how lucky we have been that all our UK and European ospreys with transmitters have survived the autumn migraton:http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm
One dreads to think how many ospreys were killed. There will be a lot of missing ospreys come the spring.
However Belle made it from Martha's Vineyard to South America in SEVEN DAYS . Wow that must be some kind of record. That makes even Nimrod at his best look slow. See Belle
Good morning Alan and it is sad news about Neale although not unexpected. We have been lucky that UK and Eropean ospreys with transmitters have made a safe journey.
Margobird
Let us hope Thatch survives Hurricane Tomas!
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data