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
Roy Dennis has said on his home page that if there are no more signals from Talisman, he will check for him in the spring at the nest he shares with Morven - which I think is the closest of all the osprey nests to Roy's home.
For the first time since I found the tracking site for the ospreys from Grand Teton NP, one of them is on the move. The juvenile, after a long stop between Austin and San Antonio, Texas, is moving south towards the Mexican border. My guess at his latest location:
Thanks SueC. The news on Talisman is a setback probably because we have been so used to good news on the sat tracked birds this year. Lets hope he is ok and returns to his nest in April.
Meanwhile 54706 is still OK in Amazonia as at 2nd Jan.
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Bassenthwaite brothers update:
12 spent the last days of the year in Gambia near the fish markets while 11 spent them near the beach in Mauritania. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Kawartha Lakes osprey 54706: no change as at 4th Jan:
Lake District pair updated:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Spey has now spent a week on the north shore of the estuary near Colicunda. Is he going to settle down?http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=224&sid=198
Rob Bierregaard has posted a New Year update on all birds - including for the first time confirmation of Sr. Bones' unusual wintering spot on a plateau in the Andes.
http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm
The juvenile from Grand Teton NP has turned back from the Mexican border and returned to his favourite spot, which I reckon is a river near Comfort, Texas.
Latest for Jukka. Last spring he started his migration at March 23rd so there is still more than two months of his summer vacation left
my photos in flickr
Kawartha Lakes osprey 54706 update as at 9th Jan : No change.
Latest on Rob Bierregarrd ospreys:
"All our Ospreys are down in much warmer places and they're all doing fine. I updated all the maps through the end of 2010. Just a couple of months before the adults head north!There are quick links to the new maps for the youngsters (interesting movements by all, including our S.C. bird, Buck) on the Migration 2010 page: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htmI've also included links to the newest maps for all the birds (scroll down to the list of all birds with links to maps and bios). Where I have indicated the latest updates, you can click to go to the newest maps."