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
2 heading south, 1 heading north and 6 on the runway to take off:
http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/Bierregaard/migration10.htm
Lake District birds routes to Africa:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
Unknown said: Lake District birds routes to Africa: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ospreywatch/
This is turning out to be an amazing adventure. Are they now going to hug the coast of Africa and fish in the Atlantic Ocean?
Tiger Signature
Update from Bassenthwaite:
Sandy Thanks for the update. That is a move I did not want to see.
Just looked in to see how they were progressing to be confronted with this. Not good news at all for poor chick 12! After such an amazing journey I hope it makes it through...though it doesn't look at all promising :(
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data
I know the report sounds pessimistic, but is that mainly because the Lake Dist team don't know that it's pretty normal to go across the desert at this point? Compare 12's current position with the routes of Rothes (green), Mallachie (mauve) and Nethy (blue):
Roy Dennis' adult birds also usually follow this route - and often fly over the Atlas mountains too.
There is one juvenile bird which completed the journey from Rutland to west Africa without a stopover and that was 01 (00). It shows that it is possible to succeed without a stopover. See http://www.ospreys.org.uk/satresultsT01.html
I agree SueC. The route that 12 is taking is well within the normal paths of some of last years migrating birds. No need to worry at this stage.
Unknown said: I agree SueC. The route that 12 is taking is well within the normal paths of some of last years migrating birds. No need to worry at this stage.
Yes but has 12 eaten since leaving Bassenthwaite?