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
I am inclined to agree re a stopover because that is the normal trend as we know it. But...ospreys have a knack for knocking us off stride just when we thought we were getting to know them. Perhaps Jukka is about to do just that :)
Wait and see time again :)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
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:
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:
I agree with you Sue, that Jukka will resume migration in the coming days - I'd be stunned if he remained on the coast of Libya all Winter.
Laho is an osprey that I'm not familiar with so thanks for pointing out the similarities in their behavior - fascinating stuff. I believe that Laho was only tracked for the one migration so his unusual backtracking manoeuvre could have been to reach a familiar stopping-off point that he had overshot slightly.
Now that we know that Jukka has made an almost identical move we can assume that this is a deliberate strategy by the two of them. There must be a reason for them to do this, it may be weather related or possibly knowing the difficulty of the journey ahead they simply decided to fill up a bit more before tackling it.
Whatever the reason it must be worth their while in using the energy in going back northwards for a stopover, that in itself is extremely unusual.
Thatch makes it to Venezuela despite being swept up in hurricane Tomas:http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/bierregaard/maps%202010/Thatch-2010.htm
Good morning Alan and thanks for the news about Thatch. He must have a really rough journey.
Margobird
Just got home from Finnish Osprey Foundation’s event where prof. Saurola mentioned Jukka briefly in his speech and he suggested that Jukka might stay in Libya but of course time will tell :) Isn’t it just great how these magnificent birds are so unpredictable!
my photos in flickr
Unknown said: Just got home from Finnish Osprey Foundation’s event where prof. Saurola mentioned Jukka briefly in his speech and he suggested that Jukka might stay in Libya but of course time will tell :) Isn’t it just great how these magnificent birds are so unpredictable!
Hiya Auntie! How wonderful for you to see Prof. Saurola in person. I would be quite surprised if Jukka stayed put and didn't eventually make tracks to his usual wintering grounds. But, as you say, time will tell. And how very boring life would be if ospreys were predictable ... some of us would be out of a "job"! LOL
Enjoy the rest of your Saturday :)
Sounds great auntie, lucky you :)
Perhaps Prof. Saurola has had a text message from Jukka telling him he might stay put! :)
Kawartha Lakes ospreys:
The map has now been updated with the correct position for 54706 as at 05.11.2010. No signals from 95050 since 21.10.2010 so either the transmitter has failed or the bird has perished.
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Is Jukka heading towards Sahara? Or just wandering around?
Thanks Auntie. This is a most interesting migration. I wonder what he will do next?