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
Unknown said: Jukka reached Lake Lagdo in Cameroon at 15:00 yesterday 22.11.2010. http://www.luomus.fi/info/maps/saaksi_jukka_2010_syksy.php
Jukka reached Lake Lagdo in Cameroon at 15:00 yesterday 22.11.2010.
http://www.luomus.fi/info/maps/saaksi_jukka_2010_syksy.php
Thanks Alan wonder if this is where he will settle now.
Margobird
Map of Jukkas wintering place. Latest plots in same area as last year:
Thanks, Alan. (and auntie, & SueC) How wonderful it is that we can see where these birds go on their amazing journeys.
Kawartha Lakes update:
54706 No change. Still in same area as at 23rd November.http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Update on Jukka:
22 Nov–Jukka has stayed at the delta of the Benoue river that runs into the southeast end of the Lagdo reservoirhttp://www.luomus.fi/info/maps/saaksi_jukka_2010_talvi.php
Update on the Bassenthwaite pair. 12 is in Senegal and little bro 11 is still in Mauritania:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/5211521005/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Thanks, Alan - it looks like 12 can't decide which type of habitat suits him best, and wants to try them all.
Roy Dennis osprey pages updated including roost sites:http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/
About Spey......
This report (which takes a long time to open) is very technical, but contains some interesting info about the Office du Niger irrigation scheme in Section 11. Lagoons like the one Spey is frequenting, are formed of the waste water which has passed right through the scheme, and are stagnant - it doesn't sound too appealing, but clearly it must contain fish!
and guess what, there's another US tracking project. I was looking through a site about tracking sea turtles, which had been linked to the LOTL blog, when I unexpectedly spotted this, about ospreys from Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Sue C Oh that is a great find. I know that there have been west coast tracking projects before but for some reason the results are not available. There was also a tracking project for Ohio ospreys but those pages have sadly disappeared.
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