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 from Rob Bierregaard, Thatch still on the move:
"Everyone but our Delaware Osprey, Thatch, seems to have settled down for the duration. Thatch, on the other hand, is still keeping me at work making maps. He left home 86 days ago and as of the 28th he was still migrating, now south of the equator and the Amazon River, and even a bit south of Belle, who seems to have found a spot to her liking about 10 days before Thatch arrived in the neighborhood. Like Belle, he flew by some really interesting geographical features, which I've highlighted in his new maps.http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/bierregaard/migration10.htm
Kawartha Lakes osprey 54706 seems settled:
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Thanks for the updates Alan.
Margobird
Bassenthwaite latest: 12 moves north into Gambia. 11 is now south of Nouakchott in Mauritania:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Thanks Alan. You couldn't exactly call either of them settled, could you?
Sandy, They certainly dont seem settled. Perhaps too much competition in the areas they have explored.
Kawartha Lakes osprey 54706 does seem settled as at 30th Nov
I've tried mapping where the US/Canadian ospreys are located (you can tell I'm snowed in!). Had to guess their exact whereabouts in some cases.
Spey & Beatrice on the move
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=199&sid=198
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=213&sid=86
Thanks Vespa Crabro. Spey is now further south than any of the other UK tracked ospreys. It will be interesting to see where he is heading. Cant blame him though as temp in Banjul today is 36c.
Thanks for that update, Mark, and as Alan says Spey is furthest from home of all the currently tracked UK birds. Not sure whether it's a record for all historically tracked osprey - will check when I've got more time.
Alan: Don't know about 36c, 6c would do me at the moment - not been above 0c for days and minus double figures last night!
Had a look through the records, but couldn't find an example of a tracked UK osprey reaching as far south in Africa as Spey currently has. One of the translocated Rutland birds - green 01(00) probably got closest. In fact their migration paths are similar in a number of respects, see http://www.ospreys.org.uk/satresultsT01.html
It will be interesting to see if Spey takes a similar route as 01(00) to reach the coast of West Africa.