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
ChloeB said: Let us hope Thatch survives Hurricane Tomas!
Let us hope Thatch survives Hurricane Tomas!
Good morning ChloeB and I second your thoughts about Thatch.
Margobird
Morning Margobird. I think we could do all with some good news for a change.
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
ChloeB said: Morning Margobird. I think we could do all with some good news for a change.
I thought we had just had some. Belle's flight really is amazing.
Tiger Signature
Yes indeed we have Tiger. What incredible speed!
Sorry Belle I was concentrating too much on thoughts of Thatch flying into the teeth of a hurricane and wasn't paying enough attention to your amazing achievement.
Kawartha Lakes ospreys. We have an explanation from BSC:
"When the database was originally set up (for Bald Eagles in the Great Lakes region) we never thought we'd be dealing with latitude values south of the equator. The database thinks that the locations are supposed to be in the northern hemisphere, when in actual fact they are in the southern. Tha...t's why bird 54706 appears to be heading northeast, when in fact it should be heading southeast."
"More from BSC......For the other bird, I just checked the database, and 21 October is the most recent record. There could be a malfunction with the transmitter, or the bird may have perished (hopefully not!). We've had cases where a transmitter blinked off for several months, then mysteriously blinked back on again. ... We'll have to wait and keep our fingers crossed."
Jukka very tightly in the same area in Libya. Is this a pit-stop or is he planning to stay here? Looking at SueC's link few posts earlier this seems quite a nice area
my photos in flickr
Thanks Auntie,
Jukka seems quite settled and looks a good place to winter without crossing the desert.
Meanwhile Erika latest movements south of Qaddura in Sudan:
Good morning auntie and thanks for the update on Jukka, had been wondering how he was getting on. Seens to be in a good place so perhaps he will stay there.
Personally, I reckon Jukka is just on a belated stopover, & that he will continue to his usual wintering site in Cameroon in the next few days. I think it would be unprecedented for a tracked osprey to make a permanent change of wintering site? I know Beatrice roamed around last winter, but that was because of floods in the area - and she went back to her original location this autumn.
There is an earlier example of a Finnish osprey turning back from the Sahara to have a stopover on the coast - Laho in 2003:
Unknown said: Personally, I reckon Jukka is just on a belated stopover, & that he will continue to his usual wintering site in Cameroon in the next few days. I think it would be unprecedented for a tracked osprey to make a permanent change of wintering site? I know Beatrice roamed around last winter, but that was because of floods in the area - and she went back to her original location this autumn. There is an earlier example of a Finnish osprey turning back from the Sahara to have a stopover on the coast - Laho in 2003:
It is unprecedented for a tracked osprey to make a permanent change of wintering site. I have followed a lot of the tracked birds and I have never known it to happen. That said it does not mean that it could not happen.
Must say this is a great thread. So many erudite contributions.