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
Thanks SueC. It does look like the wrong photo. It is interesting to note that Rothiemurchus was very near that area on 16.10.09.
Bassenthwaite ospreys look like they are heading for a Gibraltar crossing to Africa. 11 is near Lisbon and 12 is near Cadiz. They are both making excellent progress:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/4956031167/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Alan Those two ospreys must be the two fastest juveniles ever tracked. They should really consider a stopover before heading into Africa.
Tiger Signature
These two are amazing aren't they? Not just the speed of their progress but that their paths are almost converging now.
I really hope they do take a break but won't be in the least bit surprised if they don't!
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
Thanks for the update, Alan. I agree they are making remarkable progress but I'm not sure that they are headed in that direction. 11 seems to be hugging the coast so might well continue in the same vein all the way to Gibraltar, but 12 seems to heading off over the ocean on a more Westerly heading - it's a long sea crossing from there. Typically, his last point seems to be very close to the coast so I hope we don't have to wait too long to see what he does next.
I agree with Tiger, the Bassenthwaite juveniles need to discover the stopover before tackling Africa - especially 12, who only left the nest eight days ago and can't have devoted any real time to fishing. It looks to me as if he is close to Huelva, which was one of the two release sites in the Spanish osprey translocation project, and is now a breeding site for the second year - perhaps that will tempt him.
11's route down the Portuguese coast has been very similar to Rothiemurchus last year, so he may not go all the way to Gibraltar.
Roys individual birds data has been updated:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/
Both Lake District juveniles now in Africa:
http://www.roydennis.org/index.asp?id=11
Unknown said: Link to the Kawartha Lakes ospreys tracking map: http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
Link to the Kawartha Lakes ospreys tracking map:
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/research/speciesatrisk/ospr/index.jsp?targetpg=ospreytracker
One of these birds is on the move.
Say hello to Spey:
http://www.roydennis.org/osprey/index.asp?id=198